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Searching through endless Visio diagrams and Excel sheets is like looking for a needle in a haystack. The struggle is real when it comes to manual server discovery.

Picture a bustling control room at a major aerospace company, where engineers and executives monitor aircraft performance, analyze flight data, and make critical decisions in real-time. In this dynamic environment, the ability to harness the power of real-time analytics becomes paramount. This is where InfluxDB 3.0, the latest version of InfluxData’s time series database, delivers an innovative edge to organizations with time-critical analytics needs.

The term "Infrastructure" encompasses various components, including hardware, software, networks, servers, databases, and more. Collectively, these components form the foundation for an organization's digital services and operations. However, the intricate nature of these systems also introduces challenges related to performance bottlenecks, potential faults, security vulnerabilities, and the ever-present need for scalability.

Have you ever heard the phrase, “Better safe than sorry”? That’s the mentality you should have when considering your organization’s network. From performance optimization to data management, you should have eyes on every single aspect of your IT infrastructure to keep it running as smoothly as possible. Here are seven free network monitoring solutions that give you the tools to optimize your network environment and support your operational needs.

Traditional software development and infrastructure management module for production and service has been overtaken by the quicker-paced delivery of services and applications, DevOps. This outperformance by DevOps in response to the traditional approach has led to numerous organizations making DevOps a fundamental part of the company.

Operators take a real-world operations team’s knowledge, wisdom, and expertise, and codify it into a computer program that helps operating complex server applications like databases, messaging systems, or web applications. Operators provide implementations for operating applications that are testable and thus more reliable at runtime.

So far in this series, we’ve walked through key etcd metrics and tools you can use to monitor etcd metrics and logs. In this post, we’ll show you how you can monitor etcd with Datadog, including how to: But first, we’ll show you how to set up and configure the Datadog Agent and Cluster Agent to send etcd monitoring data to your Datadog account.

In Part 1 of this series, we looked at how etcd works and the role it plays in managing the state of a Kubernetes cluster. We also explored key etcd metrics you should monitor to ensure the health and performance of your etcd cluster. In this post, we’ll show you how you can use tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and etcdctl to collect and visualize etcd metrics. We’ll also show you how to collect etcd logs that provide context for those metrics.

Etcd is a distributed key-value data store that provides highly available, durable storage for distributed applications. In Kubernetes, etcd functions as part of the control plane, storing data about the actual and desired state of the resources in a cluster. Kubernetes controllers use etcd’s data to reconcile the cluster’s actual state to its desired state. This series focuses on monitoring etcd in Kubernetes.