Whether you’re a DevOps, SRE, or just a data driven individual, you’re probably addicted to dashboards and metrics. We look at our metrics to see how our system is doing, whether on the infrastructure, the application or the business level. We trust our metrics to show us the status of our system and where it misbehaves. But do our metrics show us what really happened? You’d be … [Read more...] about Phantom Metrics: Why Your Monitoring Dashboard May Be Lying to You
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Perf8: Performance metrics for Python
We're building this neat service in Python to ingest data in Elasticsearch from various sources (MySQL, Network Drive, AWS, etc.) for Enterprise Search.Sucking data from a third-party service to Elasticsearch is usually an I/O-bound activity. Your code sits on opened sockets and passes data from one end to the other. That's a great use case for an asynchronous application in … [Read more...] about Perf8: Performance metrics for Python
Analyze your application’s AWS service metrics with Elastic Observability
The transition to distributed applications is in full swing, driven mainly by our need to be “always-on” as consumers and fast-paced businesses. That need is driving deployments to have more complex requirements along with the ability to be globally diverse and rapidly innovate.Cloud is becoming the de facto deployment option for today’s applications. Many cloud deployments … [Read more...] about Analyze your application’s AWS service metrics with Elastic Observability
Improving DevOps Performance with DORA Metrics
Everyone in the software industry is in a race to become more agile. We all want to improve the performance of our software development lifecycle (SLDC). But how do you actually do that? If you want to improve your performance, first determine what KPI you’d like to improve.DORA metrics offer a good set of KPIs to track and improve. It started as a research by the DevOps … [Read more...] about Improving DevOps Performance with DORA Metrics
Announcing Logz.io Alert Manager for Metrics Monitoring
Logz.io alerts are a critical capability for our customers monitoring their production environment. By keeping a watchful eye for data that indicates an issue – like spiking memory metrics or 3xx-4xx response codes – alerting quickly notifies engineers that something is going wrong. Setting an actionable alert to immediately notify engineers of oncoming problems can be the … [Read more...] about Announcing Logz.io Alert Manager for Metrics Monitoring
GCP Integrations for Metrics with Logz.io
Logz.io has dedicated itself to encouraging and supporting cloud-native development. That has meant doubling down on support for AWS and Azure, but also increasing our tie-ins with Google Cloud Platform – GCP. Recently, our team added dozens of new integrations for metrics covering the gamut of products in the GCP ecosystem. GCP MetricsGoogle Cloud comprises many services that … [Read more...] about GCP Integrations for Metrics with Logz.io
Shipping AWS EC2 Metrics to Logz.io
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (a.k.a., EC2), is no doubt the core current computing infrastructure. It sits at the heart of AWS, the main kind of structure for housing virtual machines and containers for development and operations. Applying standards of observability with EC2 logs and obviously EC2 metrics (or any kind of AWS metrics for that matter) will inform you on if you … [Read more...] about Shipping AWS EC2 Metrics to Logz.io
Collecting Metrics from Windows Kubernetes Nodes in AKS
Windows applications constitute a large portion of the services and applications that run in many organizations. When moving to a Kubernetes-based architecture, there is a need to support these as well. Up until April 2020, the lack of container support within the Windows operating system left Linux container images as the only viable option for Kubernetes container deployment. … [Read more...] about Collecting Metrics from Windows Kubernetes Nodes in AKS