Telemetry Pipeline Insights & Observability Best Practices
How to Instrument a Legacy Mule App with OpenTelemetry
In the previous article, we talked about Distributed Tracing with MuleSoft APIs using OpenTelemetry. In this post, we’ll go through the process of integrating Distributed Tracing with MuleSoft APIs using OpenTelemetry via a proxy server. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how we can instrument a legacy mule app with open telemetry without … Read more
Distributed Tracing with MuleSoft APIs using OpenTelemetry
Distributed tracing enhances observability by providing detailed insights into the performance, behavior, and dependencies of your distributed system. It empowers you to proactively identify and resolve issues, optimize performance, and deliver a reliable and high-performing application. That being said, distributed tracing via OpenTelemetry enhances observability by providing a detailed understanding of your application’s performance, facilitating … Read more
Data Centralization Challenges and Opportunities with AIOps
Data Centralization emerges as a necessity in the cloud world now that data is omnipresent. Gone are the days when different teams had to rely on document sharing and wait till the data gets to them. With AIOps, data can be centralized and teams can have access to it in near real-time. This is a … Read more
Centralized Observability: What, Why, and How?
Centralized Observability may not be a buzzword but its practicality and importance can’t be denied. Let’s see why is that. As DevOps and IT teams recognize the importance of Observability, it becomes a critical component to monitor the stack and ensure data reliability. That being said, enterprises are rapidly embracing modern data stacks to harness … Read more
Scaling Prometheus with Thanos for Long-Term Data
Prometheus, developed by SoundCloud, is a powerful open-source system for service monitoring and time series data storage. It collects metrics from configured targets, evaluates rule expressions, presents results, and triggers alerts based on defined conditions. Thanos, on the other hand, is a collection of components designed to create a highly available metric system with limitless … Read more
Why Observability is Better with a Storage-less Architecture
In today’s data-driven world, the need for comprehensive observability has never been greater. Organizations rely on observability to gain insights into their systems’ and applications’ performance, availability, and behavior. However, the traditional approach to observability, which involves ingesting, processing, and storing massive amounts of data, is becoming increasingly challenging and expensive. This article explores the … Read more
Top 10 Log Management Tools in 2023
Log Management tools are crucial for the security and performance of your IT infrastructure. With the right log management system, you can quickly detect and respond to any anomaly or performance issue. Presently, there are numerous log management platforms. Each with its own unique set of features and benefits. While most of these platforms offer … Read more
Mainframe Observability: How Apica Does it
Mainframe Observability may be a niche term for the general crowd but Mainframe, in and of itself is not. From countless references in espionage movies to the perpetual discussions in online forums, Mainframes have always been the talk of the town. And for good reason, let’s see how. If in recent memory, you’ve traveled, made … Read more
Prometheus Node Exporter: All You Need to Know
The Prometheus Node Exporter serves a crucial purpose in cloud-native monitoring. It acts as a connecting bridge between third-party applications and the Prometheus server, enabling the exposure of data as metrics. For starters, Prometheus is a widely-used monitoring tool that employs a pull-based methodology to collect metrics from hosts and applications. As one of the … Read more
Prometheus vs Thanos: Uncovering the Nuances
Thanos and Prometheus are highly robust systems that offer fast and dependable monitoring capabilities. But what makes each system different? Prometheus is a time-series database and monitoring tool created by SoundCloud in 2012. It allows users to store collected metrics data as well as generate alerts when certain conditions are met. Prometheus also offers a … Read more
How to configure log forwarding from Syslog-ng to Apica
Syslog-ng is a freely available and open-source interpretation of the Syslog protocol. It functions as an improved log daemon and offers extensive support for various input and output techniques, including Syslog, unstructured text, queueing, SQL, and NoSQL. In addition to that, it is also a log management tool that enhances the effectiveness of your SIEM … Read more
