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 […]
Docker Security: Using Docker Secrets with Swarm
This post shows how to use Docker Secrets in Docker Swarm mode. For our example we’ll show how to use Docker Secrets to encrypt and safely store tokens used by Sematext Docker Agent for shipping Docker metrics and logs. Before […]
Sematext @ CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Berlin
On March 29-30, Cloud NativeCon + KubeCon – Berlin, Germany brings together almost 1500 developers, architects, technical leaders, CIOs, CTOs, and analysts from open source cloud native communities – all under a single roof. Come and learn about Fluentd, Kubernetes, […]
2016 Year in Review: Monitoring and Logging Highlights
2017 is almost here and, like last year, we thought we’d share how 2016 went for us. We remain committed to be your “one-stop shop” for all things Elasticsearch and Solr: from Consulting, Production Support, and Training, to complementing that […]
Making Elasticsearch in Docker Swarm Elastic
Running Elasticsearch in Docker containers sounds like a natural fit – both technologies promise elasticity. However, running a truly elastic Elasticsearch cluster on Docker Swarm became somewhat difficult with Docker 1.12 in Swarm mode. Why? Since Elasticsearch gave up on […]