Monitoring Kafka is a tricky task. As you can see in the first chapter, Kafka Key Metrics to Monitor, the setup, tuning, and operations of Kafka require deep insights into performance metrics such as consumer lag, I/O utilization, garbage collection […]
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 […]
Better Observability with New Container Agents
Why a New Docker Agent? If you liked Sematext Docker Agent you’ll love our new agent for Docker monitoring that provides you with even more insight into your Docker, Kubernetes, and Swarm clusters. Because of its power, small footprint, and ease […]
Docker Container Monitoring with Sematext
Everyone’s infrastructure is growing – today mostly in the container space. As we learned in Part 1 of this series – Docker Container Monitoring and Management Challenges, monitoring for containers is different from traditional server monitoring. In Part 2 we had […]
Docker Container Monitoring Open Source Tools
In Part 1: Docker Container monitoring and management Challenges – we discussed why container monitoring is challenging, especially in the context of orchestration tools. In Part 2 we described Top 10 Container Metrics to Monitor. Next, let’s have a look at examples […]
Docker Container Performance Metrics to Monitor
In Part 1 we’ve described what makes monitoring container environments challenging. Because each container typically runs a single process, has its own environment, utilizes virtual networks, or has various methods of managing storage. Traditional monitoring solutions take metrics from each server […]
Docker Container Monitoring and Management Challenges
Organizations that adopt container orchestration tools for application deployment face a new maintenance challenge. Orchestration tools like Kubernetes or Docker Swarm are designed to decide to which host a container should be deployed and potentially do that on an ongoing […]
Monitoring Elasticsearch with Sematext
As shown in Elasticsearch Key Metrics, the setup, tuning, and operations of Elasticsearch require deep insights into the performance metrics such as index rate, query rate, query latency, merge times, and many more. Sematext provides an excellent alternative to other Elasticsearch monitoring […]