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There are many different ways to run a Kubernetes cluster, from setting everything up manually to using a lightweight distribution like K3s. K3s is a Kubernetes distribution built for IoT and edge computing and is excellent for running on low-powered devices like Raspberry Pis. However, you aren’t limited to running it on low-powered hardware; it can be used for anything from a Homelab up to a Production cluster.

One of Cribl Stream’s selling points is the reduction of ingested log volume, which helps our customers control costs and improve system performance. This can be accomplished in two ways – either by eliminating duplicate or unnecessary fields and null values within the events, or controlling the number of specific events that actually get sent to the destinations through strategic filtering.

When looking for a highly scalable time series database, there are a number of criteria to investigate and evaluate. First up, it’s always a good idea to consider open source software. It’s more likely to have gone through comprehensive troubleshooting, it’s typically more reliable as it has more timely and widespread peer-review, it better guarantees technology independence, it’s easier to find engineers who are familiar with it and it has great security.

Despite all the attention cloud systems and enterprise cloud migrations receive, legacy software still plays an active role throughout enterprises. In many cases, critical business processes supported by legacy applications are just too crucial to core business functionality to risk migration.

UAC stands for “User Account Control”. This is a field of software management that isolates the operating system’s core components from potentially damaging changes. It refers to the level of access that in Unix-like systems is called “root” and in Windows systems is known as Administrator privileges. User Account Control was initially rolled out as part of Windows Vista to allow only admin accounts to give and take away these permissions.

Welcome to the second post in a series of “Implementing Microservices on AWS with the Twelve-factor App”. In the first post, we covered the areas around the codebase, configuration, code packaging, code builds, and stateless processes. This article will go through the remaining areas for best practices in microservices. Let’s start the discussion with Port mapping!

The OpenTelemetry members at observIQ are excited to add Microsoft IIS metric monitoring support to OpenTelemetry! You can now easily monitor your IIS web servers with the oIQ OpenTelemetry Collector. You can add the IIS metric receiver to any OpenTelemetry collector. This post demonstrates just one configuration for shipping metrics with OpenTelemetry components. This configuration and many other observIQ OpenTelemetry configurations are available in the oIQ Opentelemetry Collector.

FoundationDB is a distributed NoSQL database designed to support fully ACID transactions. FoundationDB uses an unbundled architecture that consists of an in-memory transaction management system, a distributed storage system, and a built-in distributed configuration system. This enables developers using FoundationDB to manage and configure each part of their database layer separately to ensure desired scalability, high-availability, and fault tolerance.

StatusGator is a status data platform: We ingest data from almost 2,000 services by extracting and normalizing their official, public status page information. To monitor a service, you simply search through our list of thousands and its added to your dashboard. From there, you can filter to specific components of a service, such as products or regions. Now, you can subscribe to the same service more than once on a single StatusGator dashboard. What does this mean in practice?