Observability
Installing Grafana Tempo (Docker Compose, binary and Helm)
Install Grafana Tempo: the tempo.yaml configuration, Docker Compose with Grafana and Prometheus, OTLP ports, checks, and installing the binary and the Hel…
Guides & insights
A library for curious minds
Observability
Installing Grafana Loki (Docker Compose, binary and Helm)
Install and validate Grafana Loki: minimal configuration, Docker Compose with Grafana and Alloy, binary installation, Helm chart, push API, logcli and che…
Observability
Installing and configuring CrowdSec: packages, Docker, acquisition
Install CrowdSec with packages or Docker, understand its files, declare the logs to read, enroll the console and deploy several servers.
Observability
Installing OpenSearch and OpenSearch Dashboards
Install OpenSearch with Docker Compose or the archive: initial password, vm.max_map_count, demo certificates and JVM memory, with the errors encountered o…
Observability
Installing OpenObserve and ingesting your first data
Install OpenObserve with Docker Compose or the binary, configure it with its ZO_* variables, send JSON and query it with SQL. Ingestion pitfalls, tested o…
Observability
Installing Bindplane: server, BDOT Collector and OpAMP connection
Install the Bindplane server (Docker Compose, Linux, Kubernetes), connect BDOT collectors via OpAMP on Linux, Docker and Kubernetes, and use the CLI.
Observability
Installing Zabbix and monitoring your first host
Install Zabbix with Docker Compose (server, PostgreSQL, web interface), install agent 2 on a Linux server, declare the host and apply a template.
Observability
SigNoz: architecture and installation
SigNoz components (OpenTelemetry collector, ClickHouse, query service, interface, alerts), installation with Docker Compose and Helm, and collecting Kuber…
Containers
Docker: overview, architecture and first steps
Discover Docker: containers vs virtual machines, client/daemon/registry architecture, images and layers, essential commands, Dockerfile, volumes, networks…
Proxy & networking
Traefik: overview, architecture and first deployment
Discover Traefik: a cloud-native reverse proxy and load balancer, entrypoints, routers, services, middlewares, providers, static and dynamic configuration…
Observability
Thanos Sidecar: attaching Thanos to Prometheus and uploading to object storage
Set up Thanos Sidecar: Prometheus settings (external labels, 2h blocks), objstore configuration, Docker Compose with MinIO, checking uploaded blocks.
Containers
Docker cheat sheet: the essential commands
A practical guide gathering all the essential commands to handle images, containers, volumes and Docker Compose day to day.
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