Observability
Vector: sinks in detail (destinations, batches, buffers and retries)
Send Vector events: Loki, Elasticsearch, S3, Kafka, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Datadog, HTTP and vector sinks; encoding, batches, compression, memory and …
Guides & insights
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Cloud computing
Compute on AWS: EC2, Auto Scaling, Lambda and containers
Choose and use AWS compute services: EC2 instances (types, AMIs, EBS, user data, purchasing models), Auto Scaling groups behind a load balancer, Lambda fu…
Cloud computing
Storage on AWS: S3, EBS, EFS and backup
Store data on AWS: Amazon S3 (buckets, storage classes, versioning, lifecycle, encryption, policies and public access blocking), EBS volumes, EFS file sys…
Cloud computing
Controlling your AWS costs: pricing models, budgets and optimization
Understand and optimize the AWS bill: cost drivers (compute, storage, data transfer), Cost Explorer, Budgets, cost allocation tags, Savings Plans, Spot in…
Proxy & networking
The Traefik API: inspecting configuration and securing the dashboard
Use Traefik's REST API to inspect routers, services, middlewares and entrypoints, expose it securely with api@internal, and use it in verification scripts.
Observability
OpenTelemetry semantic conventions (semconv): naming telemetry
Understand and apply OpenTelemetry semantic conventions: resource, HTTP, database, messaging and GenAI attributes, span and metric names, units, stability…
Observability
Profiles, OpenTelemetry's fourth signal: continuous profiling and correlation with traces
Understand OpenTelemetry's new profile signal: continuous profiling, flame graphs, data model and OTLP, the eBPF profiler donated by Elastic, support in t…
DevOps
End-to-end CI/CD (3/5): artifacts, registries and environments
Deliver continuously: immutable, versioned artifacts, image and package registries, promoting the same artifact across environments, per-environment confi…
Observability
Elasticsearch ingestion: Bulk API, ingest pipelines, enrich and reindex
Ingest and transform data in Elasticsearch: Bulk API, ingest pipelines and processors (grok, dissect, date, geoip, user_agent, script), simulate, error ha…
Observability
Snapshot Lifecycle Management: automated backups, restore and disaster recovery
Protect Elasticsearch data: snapshot repositories (S3, GCS, Azure, file system), SLM policies with retention, partial or full restore, restore tests and a…
Observability
Cross-cluster search and cross-cluster replication: multi-cluster Elasticsearch architectures
Design multi-cluster Elasticsearch architectures: remote clusters, cross-cluster search, cross-cluster replication for disaster recovery and data locality…
Observability
Advanced logs with OpenPipeline: processing, masking, buckets and retention
Manage logs in Dynatrace with OpenPipeline: ingestion, routing, DQL processing (parsing, enrichment), sensitive data masking, metric and event extraction,…
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