For this Black Friday, Sematext wishes you: Now seriously, applications tend to generate a lot more logs on Black Friday, and they also tend to break down more – making those logs even more precious. If you’re using the Elastic Stack for log management, in this post we’ll share some tips and tricks to prepare you for this extra traffic.

Apache Zookeeper is a great tool used by many popular tools. Your Kafka uses Zookeeper, your HDFS uses it, your SolrCloud uses it, and your ClickHouse may also be using it. No matter where you are using Apache Zookeeper, it is usually a crucial piece of the infrastructure and it needs to be reliable and fast.

No matter how well-designed, flashy, or useful your application is for your target users, they may not take kindly to it being slow or, even worse, crashing once in a while. You will lose customers and revenue as a result. The solution is definitely not to add additional features to the application to bring back users. Instead, it’s as simple as paying close attention to the health of the servers where your application is hosted.

PostgreSQL is an open-source relational database management system that’s been utilized in continuous development and production for 30 years now. Nearly all the big tech companies use PostgreSQL, as it is one of the most reliable, battle-tested relational database systems today. PostgreSQL is a critical point in your infrastructure, as it stores all of your data. This makes visibility mandatory, which in turn means you have to understand how logging works in PostgreSQL.