Observability
Other log sources and queues: syslog, Fluent Bit, Kafka, Redis
Written version of the video lessons: collect syslog, Fluent Bit and other sources, then insert a queue (Kafka, Redis, RabbitMQ) between collection and in…
Guides & insights
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Observability
Logstash in production: persistent queues, DLQ and multiple pipelines
Make Logstash reliable in production: persistent queue, dead letter queue, multiple pipelines and pipeline-to-pipeline, tuning workers and the JVM.
Observability
Message Queues in Dynatrace
Monitor Kafka, RabbitMQ and other brokers, and link producers and consumers.
Observability
Logstash: role, pipeline concept and installation
Written version of the video lessons: what Logstash is for, how a pipeline works (inputs, filters, outputs, queue, workers) and how to install it.
Cloud computing
Azure storage: storage accounts, Blob, Files, disks and redundancy
Store data on Azure: storage accounts, Blob (hot, cool, archive tiers, lifecycle), Files, Queue and Table, managed disks, LRS, ZRS and GRS redundancy opti…
Observability
OpenTelemetry Collector: connectors, extensions and observing the Collector
Go further with the Collector: connectors (spanmetrics, servicegraph, count, routing, failover), extensions (health_check, pprof, zpages, file_storage, au…
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
Mimir: the read path (query-frontend, querier, store-gateway and caches)
How Mimir answers a PromQL query: query-frontend splitting and caching, queue, queriers, store-gateway, index-headers and memcached caches.
Observability
OpenTelemetry Collector: exporters (sending telemetry to backends)
Configure OpenTelemetry Collector exporters: OTLP gRPC/HTTP, Prometheus, prometheusremotewrite, Loki, debug, file, load balancing, TLS, authentication, re…
Observability
Logstash best practices: pipelines, performance, reliability and monitoring
Logstash best practices: multiple pipelines, dissect rather than grok, conditionals, persistent queue, dead letter queue, workers/batch settings, JVM, sec…
Observability
Beats best practices: Filebeat, Metricbeat and reliable collection
Beats best practices: filestream, modules, processors, disk queues, secure outputs, ILM and templates, resource limits, monitoring and configuration manag…
Proxy & networking
Mastering ACLs in HAProxy: the complete guide
A complete guide to HAProxy ACLs: learn how to configure smart routing, IP-based access control, geolocation, and header and User-Agent analysis to secure…
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