When managing cloud-native applications, it’s essential to have end-to-end visibility into what’s happening at any given time. This is especially true because of the distributed and dynamic nature of cloud-native apps, which are often deployed using ephemeral technologies like containers […]
Kafka Open Source Monitoring Tools
Open source software adoption continues to grow within enterprises (even for legacy applications), beyond just startups and born-in-the-cloud software. In this second part of our Kafka monitoring series (see the first part discussing Kafka metrics to monitor), we’ll take a look […]
Kafka Metrics to Monitor
As the first part of a three-part series on Apache Kafka monitoring, this article explores which Kafka metrics are important to monitor and why. When monitoring Kafka, it’s important to also monitor ZooKeeper as Kafka depends on it. The second part will cover […]
Elasticsearch Open Source Monitoring Tools
This article is the second of a three-part series of articles about Elasticsearch monitoring. In the first article, we put together an Elasticsearch guide, covering how Elasticsearch works and why the setup and tuning of Elasticsearch require a good knowledge of […]
Top 10 Elasticsearch Metrics to Monitor
This article is part 2 of a four-part series of articles about Elasticsearch monitoring. In this part, we’re going to look at Elasticsearch’s capabilities and potential use cases. We’re also going to discuss a brief tutorial on what it takes […]
4 Best Practices for Choosing your DevOps Tools
By Chris Tozzi If you google “DevOps tools,” you’ll see a dizzying litany of software applications, all promising to simplify your life as a DevOps engineer. This can be an intimidating experience — not only because there are so many […]
Best Practices for Hybrid Cloud Management
By Eric Bruno One of the unintended side-effects of the public cloud is the enablement of a platform-agnostic cloud architecture. This means that it’s now easier than ever to mix offerings from multiple vendors (cloud vendors in this case) to […]
5 Benefits to Run Elastic Stack in the Cloud
By Chris Riley What is the Elastic Stack? Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana — the trio better known as Elastic Stack (or ELK, if you prefer a term that is now going out of style), make up a powerful set of […]
APM vs. Log Management: How Logging and Monitoring are Different & Why…
By Chris Tozzi APM or Log Management? If you deploy and manage an application, these are the two key techniques available to you for helping to ensure that the application meets availability and performance expectations. One of them is application […]