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 …
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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 …
Creating collectd data source in JavaScript
Exec Plugin In the variety of collectd plugins there’s one ‘to rule them all’. If due to some course of events all collectd plugins except for …
Quick intro to Graphite
What is Graphite Graphite is an app that does three things: It receives monitoring data from other agents, saves it efficiently into the database, and displays data as graphs …
Quick intro to rrdtool
I mentioned in previous post that collectd uses rrdtool for saving its data by default. It results .rrd file for each metric, which later can be rendered using very …