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 …
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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 …
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 …
Quick intro to Apache Kafka
What is Apache Kafka Official definition of Apache Kafka is distributed streaming platform, which starts to make sense only after reading at least few chapters …
Quick intro to RabbitMQ
RabbitMQ is an example of full blown Message Queue that somehow remained simple to use. Unlike ZeroMQ, which is embeddable into the services that use it, RabbitMQ …
Quick intro to Windows containers
It finally happened. With release of Windows Server 2016 you can run Docker containers with Windows inside. There’s no Virtual Machine hiding somewhere in order for that …
Quick intro to docker-compose
What is docker-compose Like docker itself allows managing single container, docker-compose makes it easy to control not just one, but all containers that make distributed app. …
3 ways to dockerize existing Node.js app
Imagine you have Node.js app you would like to run from within Docker container. Maybe you want to check if it still works on ‘another’ …
Quick intro to Docker
What’s Docker. On the surface Docker looks like another virtual machine (VM). Just pick Ubuntu image with hello-world app inside, type docker run ubuntu hello-world in your terminal of choice, …