What fun is network observability if you can’t share what you see? That’s why we’ve added public link sharing to the Kentik platform. One of the greater missions of network observability is to break the boundaries of conventional monitoring. At Kentik, we focused our initial efforts on making complex infrastructure problems easy to visualize, understand and resolve. Now we’re tackling a follow-up mandate: to democratize network observability.
This is the first part of a multi-part post focusing (mostly) on front end search and Command Palettes. If you are not familiar with Command Palettes, they are a power-user's dream: a universal overlay on your webpage that's triggered with a key shortcut (usually Command + K) and allows your users not only to search the content but also perform actions on your website. The goal here is to "keep the user's hands on the keyboard" (and away from the mouse), when using your application.
HAProxy is one of the most popular software around when it comes to load balancers and reverse proxies. When you’re using it for these purposes, it’s especially important to monitor for both availability and performance, which will impact your SLI and SLOs. In this post, we’ll talk about the main HAProxy metrics you should monitor and the best monitoring tools you can use to measure them.
A summary is a metric type in Prometheus that can be used to monitor latencies (or other distributions like request sizes). For example, when you monitor a REST endpoint you can use a summary and configure it to provide the 95th percentile of the latency. If that percentile is 120ms that means that 95% of the calls were faster than 120ms, and 5% were slower. Summary metrics are implemented in the Prometheus client libraries, like client_golang or client_java.
A monolithic architecture is one of the oldest architectures used for making software and applications for various companies. In layman's terms, Monolith means everything in a single box. Monolithic software is supposed to be self-contained, and its components are interrelated and interdependent. When it comes to monoliths, updating a single component or rolling out a new feature is difficult. Suppose any program component needs an update.
Brand awareness is a life-line for a small business. This means that customers recognize and trust the company. You don’t have to spend thousands on a marketing campaign to get noticed in the world. Instead, entrepreneurs and business owners need to focus on the details and make use of the internet. Consistently using the following seven tips will help a business make their way in the world.
In today’s world, there’s no lack of monitoring data. In fact, the amount of data DevOps and SRE teams are dealing with on a daily basis can be confusing and overwhelming. Often, the problem is threefold.
In any organization, the IT operations teams bear the responsibility of providing reliable cloud services to users that are increasingly distributed, working from home, the office, or elsewhere. As a result, IT professionals are looking for solutions to achieve visibility of the user’s network from end to end to quickly identify and resolve bottlenecks and ensure maximum productivity and ROI of their cloud applications.
Since joining Cribl in July, I’ve had frequent conversations with Federal teams about observability data they collect from networks and systems, and how they use and retain this data in their SIEM tool(s). Cribl LogStream’s ability to route, shape, reduce, enrich, and replay data can play an invaluable role for Federal Agencies. Over several blogs, we will walk through the power that we bring to these requirements.
