Cloud computing
Identities and access on OVHcloud: account, IAM, OpenStack users and keys
Secure access to OVHcloud: two-factor authentication on the account, OVHcloud IAM (identities, policies), OpenStack users and roles, OVHcloud API keys, S3…
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Cloud computing
IAM on Google Cloud: roles, service accounts and organization policies
Manage access on Google Cloud: principals, basic, predefined and custom roles, IAM bindings, service accounts and their keys, Workload Identity Federation…
Cloud computing
IAM: identities, roles and policies on AWS
Secure access to AWS with IAM: users, groups, roles and JSON policies, permission evaluation, MFA, IAM Identity Center for humans, roles for applications,…
Observability
Dynatrace security and governance: advanced IAM, policies, SSO, audit and data protection
Secure and govern Dynatrace: SSO and SCIM, groups, IAM policies with conditions, security contexts and buckets, audit logs, data masking and privacy, Appl…
Observability
VictoriaMetrics: why and how, from single node to cluster
What VictoriaMetrics brings compared with Prometheus alone, its components (single-node, vmagent, vmalert, vminsert/vmselect/vmstorage cluster) and its st…
Observability
Ingesting metrics into VictoriaMetrics: scraping, vmagent and remote write
All the ways to feed VictoriaMetrics: remote write from Prometheus, built-in scraping, vmagent and its disk buffer, relabeling, stream aggregation, and ot…
Observability
VictoriaMetrics cluster: vminsert, vmselect, vmstorage and multi-tenancy
The VictoriaMetrics cluster architecture: the roles of vminsert, vmselect and vmstorage, data distribution and replication, multi-tenant URLs, sizing and …
Observability
Operating VictoriaMetrics: vmalert, backups, Kubernetes and monitoring
Evaluate rules and alerts with vmalert, back up with vmbackup, deploy on Kubernetes with the operator and the Helm stack, and monitor VictoriaMetrics.
Observability
Thanos, Grafana Mimir or VictoriaMetrics: which long-term storage for Prometheus?
Detailed comparison of three long-term storage solutions for Prometheus: architecture, storage, high availability, multi-tenancy, downsampling, costs, ope…
Observability
VictoriaMetrics best practices
Production checklist for VictoriaMetrics: sizing, retention, high availability, vmagent, cardinality, backups and monitoring.
Observability
Dynatrace: managing permissions (IAM, groups, policies and boundaries)
Manage access in Dynatrace: the IAM model (users, groups, policies, boundaries), default policies, writing statements, API tokens and least-privilege best…
Observability
Prometheus vs VictoriaMetrics: metrics scalability
Why choose VictoriaMetrics as an alternative to Prometheus for long-term storage and high performance?
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