Using Consul for Service Discovery
Imagine your distributed app has two kinds of services: web and db. Both of them are replicated for higher availability, live on different hosts, go …
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Using Consul Key-Value Store for Service Configuration
How do you usually configure an app? Over the decades our industry came up with multiple approaches, like providing command line arguments, various config files, registry settings …
Persistent data in Docker volumes
As Docker containers supposed to be small, single process and easy replaceable instances, it’s not particularly clear how persistent data fits into that picture. Imagine you have …
Multi-host Docker network without Swarm
Docker has several types of networks, but one of them is particularly interesting. Overlay network can span across hosts boundaries, so your web application container …
Visualize Elasticsearch data with Kibana
Today we’ll take a look at the last component of Elastic’s ELK stack – Kibana. Even though Logstash does a great job of processing logs and other …
Processing logs with Logstash
Last time we talked out about Elaticsearch – a hybrid of NoSQL database and a search engine. Today we’ll continue with Elastic’s ELK stack and …
Quick intro to Elasticsearch
So far we’ve been dealing with name-value kind of monitoring data. However, what works well for numeric readings isn’t necessarily useful for textual data. In …
Tracking application events in Graphite
I don’t know if that’s a coincidence or not, but drastic changes in application metrics usually happen soon after a product upgrade was made. In fact, whenever …
Scraping application metrics with Prometheus
There’re two conceptually different approaches in collecting application metrics. There’s PUSH approach, when metrics storage sits somewhere and waits until metrics source pushes some data …
Building dashboards with Grafana
Even though Graphite does very decent job in displaying individual metrics graphs, its dashboards support is quite limited. Of cause, we could take its powerful Render URL API and …