Why You Can't Afford to Ignore Distributed Tracing for Observability
Observability is a hot topic, but not a lot of people know what it truly means. Everyone reads about monitoring vs. observability these days, and I have had the chance to experience what I think is the main concept behind this...
The Developer's Guide to Not Losing the Metrics You Need
Gathering and storing metrics is one of the many parallel tasks a developer must do through the production cycle. Since you never know when an adverse event might occur, you have the metric you need to debug a problem when and...
How to Use the Open Source TICK Stack to Spin Up a Modern Monitoring System for Your Application and Infrastructure
Our applications speak, and time series is one of their languages. DevOps, cloud computing and containers have changed how we write and run our applications. This post shows what InfluxData and the community is building to provide a modern and flexible...
Monitoring Kubernetes Architecture
There are two important points you need to think about when monitoring a Kubernetes architecture. One is about the underlying resources, the bare metal Kubernetes is running on. The second is related to every service, ingress, and pod that you deployed....
Percona Live Dublin recap
On September 26, 2017 I was a speaker at Percona Live in Dublin. It was a huge event with more than 140 speakerscovering tracks about MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, MyRocks and use cases about how to successfully build or manage large databases...
OpenTracing: An Open Standard for Distributed Tracing
Logs help you understand what your application is doing. Most every application generates its own logs for the server that hosts it. But in a modern distributed system and in a microservices environment, logs are just not enough. We can use...