Telemetry Pipeline Insights & Observability Best Practices
Compute & Storage Should Be Decoupled for Log Management at Scale
Originally published at The New Stack Most log management solutions store log data in a database and enable search by storing an index of the data. As the database grows in size, so does the index management cost. On a small scale, this isn’t problematic. But when dealing with large-scale deployments, organizations end up using … Read more
Getting Started with the Apica PaaS Community Edition
If you’ve been looking for an inexpensive way to run your own observability stack while maintaining complete control over your data and its security, look no further. The Apica PaaS Community Edition is officially live! With the Apica PaaS Community Edition, you can: Self-host your observability stack on a cloud provider of your choice – … Read more
How AIOps helps in Application Monitoring
There’s no one-size-fits-all approach regarding application monitoring, especially for companies using applications in various cloud environments. Companies are rapidly investing in microservices, mobile apps, data science programs, data ops, etc. Subsequently, they’re also integrating monitoring tools to improve domain-centric monitoring abilities. AIOps tools help streamline the use of monitoring applications. It allows companies that need … Read more
How to stream AWS CloudWatch logs to Apica
AWS CloudWatch is an observability and monitoring service that provides you with actionable insights to monitor your applications, stay on top of performance changes, and optimize resource utilization while providing a centralized view of operational health. AWS CloudWatch collects operational data of your AWS resources, applications, and services running on AWS and on-prem servers in … Read more
Deploying Apica on K3s using a Helm Chart
We’re huge fans of Helm Charts and the simplicity they bring to complex application deployments on Kubernetes and MicroK8s. We showed you how you could use Helm Charts to deploy Apica on MicroK8s in a previous post. As a follow-up to that article, we’d like to show you how Helm Charts are equally helpful in deploying complex … Read more
How to Debug Microservices in the Cloud
The growth in information architecture has urged many IT technologies to adopt cloud services and grow over time. Microservices have been the frontrunner in this regard and have grown exponentially in their popularity for designing diverse applications to be independently deployable services. Trivia: In a survey by O’Reilly, over 50% of respondents said that more … Read more
Common Use Cases for Observability With AIOps
“We Can’t Build Tomorrow Using Yesterday’s Tools“ Scott McDonald IT infrastructures have been evolving constantly and rapidly, along with Big Data. Businesses worldwide are moving from predictable and static physical systems to intuitive software resources that can reconfigure and adapt based on consumer behaviors. This evolution brings a rise in the demand for dynamic technology … Read more
Jenkins Log Analysis with Apica
Sync.Pool — an essential for Go applications
Apica’s observability stack is predominantly written in Go. As a team, we love the simplicity of the language and the tooling that comes with it. Go has a built-in garbage collector, making it easy to write programs without worrying about memory for the most part. However, as you would expect, nothing comes for free. There … Read more
Run your favorite Helm Chart using MicroK8s in 5 minutes
Helm is a Kubernetes package manager that helps you find, share, and use software built for Kubernetes. With Helm Charts, you can bundle Kubernetes deployments into a single package you can install by running a single command. At Apica, we use Helm Charts regularly. One of our favorite Helm Charts is Apica – the same Helm … Read more
Top Kubernetes Health Metrics You Must Monitor
Kubernetes is one of the most popular choices for container management and automation today. A highly efficient Kubernetes setup generates innumerable new metrics every day, making monitoring cluster health quite challenging. You might find yourself sifting through several different metrics without being entirely sure which ones are the most insightful and warrant utmost attention. As daunting a … Read more
Cloudformation vs. Terraform: Which is better?
Building and managing cloud infrastructure manually can be quite the task; even more challenging when you’re operating as a distributed team. With everyone pushing multiple (and often concurrent) changes and updates, it can be tricky to properly provision, configure or deploy resources and applications when needed or track and fix errors on the fly. It … Read more
