Observability
Beats: Filebeat, Metricbeat, Winlogbeat and their configuration
Written version of the video lessons: role of each Beat, configuration structure, inputs, modules, processors, outputs and the setup command.
Guides & insights
A library for curious minds
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.
Systems & Linux
Networking on Linux: configuration, diagnosis, firewall and SSH
Configure and troubleshoot Linux networking: ip, ss, netplan and NetworkManager, DNS, layered diagnosis with ping, dig, curl, tcpdump, nftables, ufw and f…
Observability
Bindplane configurations: sources, processors, destinations and versions
Build Bindplane configurations: sources, processors and destinations, the pipeline editor, snapshots, versions, drafts, comparison and rollback.
Observability
Bindplane in production: high availability, security, Kubernetes and configuration as code
Operate Bindplane in production: active-active servers, PostgreSQL and event bus, TLS for OpAMP, collector high availability, Kubernetes, CLI, Terraform a…
Observability
Configuration as Code with Monaco: tokens, OAuth, projects and CI/CD
Manage Dynatrace configuration as code with Monaco: API tokens and OAuth clients, manifest, projects and configurations, download, deploy, Docker image an…
Observability
Installing Jaeger v2: all-in-one, configuration and storage
Run Jaeger v2 as all-in-one, understand its configuration file (jaeger_storage and jaeger_query extensions, OTLP pipelines), the ports and the available s…
Observability
Fluent Bit: pipeline, configuration and essential plugins
Fluent Bit concepts (inputs, parsers, filters, tags and match, buffer, outputs), YAML configuration, and the must-have plugins: tail, systemd, kubernetes,…
Observability
Mimir: multi-tenancy, limits and runtime configuration
Isolate teams in Mimir: tenants and the X-Scope-OrgID header, gateway authentication, ingestion and query limits, hot per-tenant overrides and shuffle sha…
Proxy & networking
Anatomy of HAProxy configuration, clustering and high availability
Understand the structure of an haproxy.cfg file: the global, defaults, frontend (high performance), backend and peers sections, and configure a highly ava…
Observability
Grafana Alloy: Syntax and Configuration (Alloy Language: River)
As part of a Grafana training or observability training, master the declarative syntax of Grafana Alloy (River language), learn alloy configuration, varia…
Proxy & networking
HAProxy: a detailed guide to configuration directives
A complete exploration of HAProxy's essential directives: from bind to http-check, learn how to configure your load balancer precisely.
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