Telemetry Pipeline Insights & Observability Best Practices
How to Forward AWS CloudWatch Logs to Apica
AWS CloudWatch Logs provides a comprehensive solution for monitoring, storing, and accessing log files generated by various sources such as Amazon EC2 instances, AWS CloudTrail, and Route 53. It offers a centralized and scalable service that allows you to consolidate logs from multiple systems, applications, and AWS services into a single location. With CloudWatch Logs, … Read more
How to Deploy Apica EKS on AWS using Custom AMI
The Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) has integrated support for EC2 Launch Templates and custom AMIs to enhance the configuration and customization options for Amazon EC2 instances managed as Kubernetes nodes by EKS. Additionally, These features can be combined to allow for easy managed node provisioning and lifecycle management, while still accommodating varying levels of … Read more
How to Forward AWS ECS logs to Apica using AWS FireLens
AWS Firelens functions as a log routing agent exclusively designed for containers that operate within Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS). As a reminder, applications on ECS are executed as Docker containers. Additionally, with the Fargate launch type, ECS manages a serverless infrastructure that can run these containers seamlessly. You can effortlessly route your container logs … Read more
Data Fabric: Why, What, and How
Configuring AWS Elasticsearch Service with Apica
Configure AWS CloudWatch and X-Ray with Apica
How to configure Amazon Athena to your Apica Account
Amazon Athena is a powerful interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL queries. apica.io supports Amazon Athena services for AWS directly as data sources, which means you can quickly set up and start using Athena to analyze your data. Setting up your AWS Account Setting up … Read more
Understanding OpenTelemetry: The Complete Guide
If you’re a DevOps engineer, IT personnel, or developer, you’re likely very familiar with telemetry data. After all, it’s what provides you with valuable insights into an application’s health and performance. Although technology providers offer agents to gather telemetry data, relying on these agents may lead to vendor lock-in. Enter OpenTelemetry, which provides a vendor-neutral … Read more
Do You Need a Full RPA for Automation?
Anyone who has ever needed to work on spreadsheets is thankful for automation. Nothing is as dull as copying and pasting information a thousand times. Businesses today use automation for everything from payroll to report generation, and they often turn to a robotic process automation (RPA) system to help. RPAs are versatile, valuable tools that … Read more
Top 5 DevOps Challenges and how Apica solves them
According to DevOps Global Market Report 2022 by Research and Markets, the DevOps market is projected to hit a staggering $20.53 billion by 2026, with a CAGR of 23.08% that’s set to blow the competition out of the water. DevOps has become an essential practice in modern software development, but with its growing importance comes … Read more
Kubernetes Monitoring: Best Practices, Metrics and Tools
Kubernetes monitoring is crucial as it adds yet another level of complexity to the already complex IT infrastructures. When implementing Kubernetes, it is essential to keep track of various smaller parts, including the hosts, the Kubernetes platform, containers, and containerized applications, which all require monitoring. The process of monitoring a tool like Kubernetes can be challenging due … Read more
Apica’s Infinite Scale Capabilities
It is quite difficult to acquire useful insights for businesses when dealing with massive amounts of data generated by systems. The challenge is compounded when trying to do this on a large scale while also bringing together data from various sources that are scattered and distinct. This process is crucial to ensure that customers, employees, … Read more
