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The customer success department at Honeycomb features a number of different roles dedicated to helping our customers succeed in every step of their observability journey. The work we do ranges from support engineers who provide timely assistance to customers, to customer architects who dive deep into the technical stuff, to product training who educate folks on features old and new.

During our March Cribl User Group livestream, Cribl’s own Eugene Katz covered some of the updates we made to our documentation on Architectural Considerations for deploying Cribl Stream. Topics included our guidelines for determining the ideal number of worker nodes, accounting for throughput variability, and preparing for system failure. The full video has more information on these and other things to consider when determining the right balance between cost and risk for your organization.

The term index is quite overloaded in the tech world. If you asked most developers what an index is, they might tell you it commonly refers to a data structure in a relational database (RDBMS) that is associated with a table, which improves the speed of data retrieval operations. But what is an Elasticsearch® index?

Kyndryl is the world’s largest provider of IT infrastructure services, serving thousands of enterprise customers in more than 60 countries. The company has 4,400 customers, including 75 of the Fortune 100. The company designs, builds, manages, and modernizes the complex, mission-critical information systems that the world depends on every day. Kyndryl was formed when IBM spun off its Global Technology Services division in 2021.

In recent months, we have been working on improving the performance of Grafana Mimir, the open source, horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant TSDB for long-term storage of your metrics.

Engineers are increasingly embracing open-source server monitoring tools for their flexibility and cost-effectiveness. These tools offer functionality without the need for additional investments. In this article, we'll explore the top open-source server monitoring tools: Graphite, Grafana, ELK Stack, and Nagios. These actively maintained tools have thriving communities. Let's delve into their features and benefits.