This is the third blog in our series on Monitoring Essentials. To learn more, check out these posts on Phantom Metrics and Expensive Metrics.Dashboards are powerful tools for monitoring and troubleshooting your system. Too often, however, we run into an incident, jump to the dashboard, just to find ourselves drowning in endless data and unable to find what we need. This could … [Read more...] about Why You Can’t Find Anything in Your Monitoring Dashboards
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FinOps Observability: Monitoring Kubernetes Cost
With the current financial climate, cost reduction is top of mind for everyone. IT is one of the biggest cost centers in organizations, and understanding what drives those costs is critical. Many simply don’t understand the cost of their Kubernetes workloads, or even have observability into basic units of cost. This is where FinOps comes into play, and organizations are … [Read more...] about FinOps Observability: Monitoring Kubernetes Cost
Best Practices for MongoDB Monitoring with Prometheus
The MongoDB document-oriented database is one of the most popular database tools available today. Developed as an open-source project, MongoDB is highly scalable and can be set up in your environment in just a few simple steps.When running and managing databases, monitoring is a key requirement. In this article, we’ll review monitoring MongoDB using Prometheus, and provide a … [Read more...] about Best Practices for MongoDB Monitoring with Prometheus
It’s time for government to move beyond monitoring and into observability
When thinking about holistic end-to-end observability, it can help to start with what you already have. Many government agencies are already strategically ingesting and storing logs — a key component of observability. More than a year and a half after the release of M-21-31, US government agencies continue to work through the logging maturity models outlined in the memorandum. … [Read more...] about It’s time for government to move beyond monitoring and into observability
Is Kubernetes Monitoring Flawed? | Logz.io
Kubernetes has come a long way, but the current state of Kubernetes open source monitoring is in need of improvement. This is in part due to the issues related to an unnecessary volume of data related to that monitoring.For example, a 3-node Kubernetes cluster with Prometheus will ship around 40,000 active series by default. Do we really need all that data? Some of the issues … [Read more...] about Is Kubernetes Monitoring Flawed? | Logz.io
Best Practices for Kubernetes Monitoring with Prometheus
Kubernetes has clearly established itself as one of the most influential technologies in the cloud applications and DevOps space. Its powerful flexibility and scalability have inarguably made it the most popular container orchestration platform in modern software development, helping teams manage hundreds of containers efficiently.However, Kubernetes and the applications … [Read more...] about Best Practices for Kubernetes Monitoring with Prometheus
Guide to AWS Monitoring with Prometheus and Logz.io
Prometheus is a widely utilized time-series database for monitoring the health and performance of AWS infrastructure. With its ecosystem of data collection, storage, alerting, and analysis capabilities, among others, the open source tool set offers a complete package of monitoring solutions. Prometheus is ideal for scraping metrics from cloud-native services, storing the data … [Read more...] about Guide to AWS Monitoring with Prometheus and Logz.io
Phantom Metrics: Why Your Monitoring Dashboard May Be Lying to You
Whether you’re a DevOps, SRE, or just a data driven individual, you’re probably addicted to dashboards and metrics. We look at our metrics to see how our system is doing, whether on the infrastructure, the application or the business level. We trust our metrics to show us the status of our system and where it misbehaves. But do our metrics show us what really happened? You’d be … [Read more...] about Phantom Metrics: Why Your Monitoring Dashboard May Be Lying to You
Performing Real User Monitoring (RUM) with Elastic APM
Sorry if I lured you into the mood of having a sip of a wonderful cocktail made with rum and you realized that the RUM I’m talking about is not the rum you are craving. But, be assured that Elastic RUM is equally wonderful! Let’s take a sip! I do want to warn you that it will take a bit of time to go through the amount of detail I will cover in this blog.What is RUM?Elastic … [Read more...] about Performing Real User Monitoring (RUM) with Elastic APM
Zen and the Art of Kubernetes Monitoring
The way to solve the conflict between human values and technological needs is not to run away from technology. That’s impossible. The way to resolve the conflict is to break down the barriers of dualistic thought that prevent a real understanding of what technology is – not an exploitation of nature, but a fusion of nature and the human spirit into a new kind of creation that … [Read more...] about Zen and the Art of Kubernetes Monitoring