Monitoring

In the previous three parts of our OpenTracing series, we provided an Overview of OpenTracing, explaining what OpenTracing is and does, how it works and what it aims to achieve, we looked at Zipkin – a popular open-source distributed tracer […]

In the previous two parts of OpenTracing series, we provided a good OpenTracing overview, explaining what OpenTracing is and does, how it works and what it aims to achieve and looked at Zipkin – a popular open-source distributed tracer.  In this blog post, we will look at Jaeger, […]

In part one of the OpenTracing blog series we provided a good OpenTracing overview, explaining what OpenTracing is and does, how it works and what it aims to achieve. One of the key aspects of OpenTracing is that it is vendor neutral, and […]

What was traditionally known as just Monitoring has clearly been going through a renaissance over the last few years. The industry as a whole is finally moving away from having Monitoring and Logging silos – something we’ve been doing and “preaching” for […]

What can you do with a couple of IoT devices, Node.js, Elasticsearch, and MQTT?  You can put together your own Internet of Things setup for measuring air pollution, like I have.  In this blog post, I’ll share all the details […]

Enterprises without DevOps teams and culture typically experience long applications deployment cycles. Once developers make a new release the operations team needs to deploy it to one of the existing or new servers. This often takes a long time (up […]

Kubernetes is a really hot topic at the moment. All major cloud providers adopted it as a solution for deploying cloud native apps. Just a few weeks ago, AWS at reInvent introduced EKS (Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes) which […]

Every modern organization depends on software, and where there is software there are metrics and logs and, one would hope, monitoring of these two critically important types of data. Operations teams have traditionally used two separate sets of tools – […]

Last updated on Jan 15, 2018 People love Splunk. But not its price. So people are always on a lookout for a good Splunk alternative. Many of those people migrated from Splunk to ELK Stack or Hosted ELK Stack solutions […]