Six months in the making, Write-Ahead Logging (WAL) for the remote_write API was one of the enhancements we included in the Prometheus 2.8 release on March 12. It’s a change intended to safeguard client metrics in the face of any network issues.
To keep you up-to-date with the latest anomaly detection news, we keep a list of companies that suffer major glitches. Here’s who made headlines in March.
This week we have a number of articles from the Grafana Labs blog we’d like to share, plus a new panel plugin and other updates. Also, take a look at our upcoming events. If you’re going to be attending any of them, please come and say hello!
Over the years the adoption of Elasticsearch and its ecosystem of tools positioned them as the leaders in the time series data management and analysis market. With strong search capabilities, great analytical engine, Kibana as the flexible frontend and a number of data shippers enable building of end to end data processing pipeline using components designed to work with each other. Very simple setup and configuration resulted in high adoption rates and the whole stack gaining more and more users.
Logstash plays an extremely important role in any ELK-based data pipeline but is still considered as one of the main pain points in the stack. Like any piece of software, Logstash has a lot of nooks and crannies that need to be mastered to be able to log with confidence. One super-important nook and cranny is the Logstash configuration file (not the software’s configuration file (/etc/logstash/logstash.yml), but the .conf file responsible for your data pipeline).
More than 1.55 million room nights are reserved on the Booking.com platform every day. It’s a staggering amount of traffic, and not surprisingly, the Amsterdam-based travel e-commerce company has a lot of knowledge to share about handling metrics at scale.
When people talk about web analytics, you immediately think of Google Analytics. But there is life beyond Google Analytics. There are many web analytics tools that currently exist on the web and many that are emerging daily. Knowing how to combine these tools well is key to a good web analytics strategy that allows us to understand what happens on our website and how our users act.
