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Tips for Monitoring Kubernetes Applications

Aug 23, 2024 By Vaibhav Thakur In MetricFire

Monitoring is the most important aspect of infrastructure operations. Effective monitoring strategies help optimize infrastructure usage, improve planning, and resolve incidents quickly. While monitoring preceded DevOps, DevOps has further transformed the software development process to the extent that monitoring also has to evolve.

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Monitoring Kubernetes with Hosted Graphite by MetricFire

Aug 23, 2024 By Madhur Ahuja In MetricFire

In this article, we will be looking into Kubernetes monitoring with Graphite and Grafana. Specifically, we will look at how your whole Kubernetes set-up can be centrally monitored through Hosted Graphite and Hosted Grafana dashboards. This will allow Kubernetes Administrators to centrally manage all of their Kubernetes clusters without setting up any additional infrastructure for monitoring.

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Python API with Kubernetes and Docker - Part I

Aug 23, 2024 By Aymen Eralabs In MetricFire

Docker is one of the most popular containerization technologies. It is a simple-to-use, developer-friendly tool and has advantages over other similar technologies that make using it smooth and easy. Since its first open-source release in March 2013, Docker has gained attention from developers and ops engineers. According to Docker Inc., Docker users have downloaded over 105 billion containers and 'dockerized' 5.8 million containers on Docker Hub. The project has over 32K stars on GitHub.

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Python API with Kubernetes and Docker - Part II

Aug 23, 2024 By Aymen Eralabs In MetricFire

In part I of this tutorial, we developed a Python API and used Docker and Docker Compose to containerize the application and create a development environment. In part II, we will learn more about Docker and Docker Compose and how to deploy the same app to a GKE cluster.

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Monitoring a K8s Cluster with MetricFire

Aug 23, 2024 By Lauren Barnes In MetricFire

Kubernetes (K8s) is a popular container orchestration solution, but monitoring its performance can be quite challenging. Luckily, there's a solution that makes it easier - MetricFire. It's a cloud-based monitoring and visualization platform that provides comprehensive metrics, alerts, and dashboards for K8s clusters. The platform offers amazing cloud-based monitoring and visualization services that can make the K8s monitoring seamless.

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Tips for Monitoring Kubernetes Applications Test

Aug 23, 2024 By MetricFire Blogger In MetricFire

Monitoring is the most important aspect of infrastructure operations. Effective monitoring strategies help optimize infrastructure usage, improve planning, and resolve incidents easily. While monitoring preceded DevOps, DevOps has further transformed the software development process to the extent that monitoring has to evolve as well.

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Introduction to Monitoring Kubernetes

Aug 23, 2024 By MetricFire Blogger In MetricFire

The growing adoption of microservices architecture also drives the adoption of containers to package, distribute and run the microservices. This requires orchestrators to handle the availability, performance, and deployments of those containers on the server. However, the entire setup around microservices, containerization, and orchestrators complicates logging and monitoring since various distributed and diversified applications interact with each other.

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Strategies for Efficient Log Management in Large-Scale Kubernetes Clusters

Aug 23, 2024 By VictoriaMetrics In VictoriaMetrics

Aliaksandr Valialkin, #VictoriaMetrics CTO present "Strategies for Efficient hashtag#LogManagement in Large-Scale hashtag#Kubernetes Clusters" at hashtag#FrOSCon. Large #Kubernetes clusters can generate significant volumes of logs, especially when housing thousands of running pods. This may demand substantial CPU, RAM, disk IO, and disk space for storing and querying large log volumes. In this talk, we will look into different strategies of storing those logs in #ElasticSearch, Grafana Loki and #VictoriaLogs and examine how we can save 10x or more on infrastructure costs.

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Using K8S But Not Overhauling Your Devops Processes

Aug 22, 2024 By Lindsey Rogerson In MetricFire

Kubernetes is now the industry standard for cloud-based organizations. Slowly, many enterprises and mid-level companies are adopting it as the default platform for managing their applications. But we all know Kubernetes adoption has its challenges, as well as its associated costs. How do we decide when and what to migrate to Kubernetes? Does migrating to Kubernetes mean overhauling all DevOps processes? Adopting K8S should not lead to an overhaul of your DevOps process - it should complement it.

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How to monitor your Kubernetes metrics server

Aug 22, 2024 By Nick Campion In MetricFire

In this article, we will examine a Kubernetes metrics server and its uses. We will also learn how to set one up and use it to monitor Kubernetes metrics. Finally, we will explore using Hosted Graphite by MetricFire to monitor Kubernetes metrics. To easily get started with monitoring Kubernetes clusters, check out our tutorial on using the Telegraf agent as a Daemonset to forward node/pod metrics to a data source and use that data to create custom dashboards and alerts.

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