Telemetry Pipeline Insights & Observability Best Practices
No-Index Log Management at S3 Scale
Database indexes are invaluable for information systems with low throughput, low latency, and high consistency requirements. Both compute, and disk space is required for creating indexes along with any required operational overheads. Often, resource, time, and cost to maintain indexing far outweighs the performance objectives of the log management tool itself. apica.io offers a unique … Read more
Firelens demystified
AWS Firelens is a log routing agent for Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) containers. Applications on ECS run as docker containers. Containers can be run on a serverless infrastructure that is managed by ECS using the Fargate launch type. For more control over the infrastructure, containers can be hosted on a cluster of Amazon Elastic Compute … Read more
Understanding log formats and protocols – Part 1
Introduction In this multi-part series, we are going to explore log formats and protocols for sending them: two of the most fundamental pieces of any logging system. In Part 1, we will go over log formats and how metadata is encoded. Very little has changed as far as these core fundamental pieces are concerned, even … Read more
Need For Search
We are all accustomed to search. We search to find answers. In the log analytics world, those answers have improved customer retention, aided better decisions. But the search is a tedious process. Well, what if we don’t have to search, what if the information has arranged in such a way that we can discover it. … Read more
Log Visualization – Musings – Part 1
Searching through logs becomes ineffective when unknown unknown abound and data volume grows. Log visualization is key to help navigate large data volume. In most modern screens, one can easily display 50-100 lines of text comfortably for viewing at a time. Anything more gets hard to read. This is what we call as the “50-100” … Read more
Apica Insights Powers Kubernetes Observability with Its 1.2 Software Release
Apica, Creator of Apica Insights: a complete observability platform for monitoring, log aggregation, and analytics with infinite storage scale, has released General Availability of Apica Insights 1.2. Apica’s 1.2 release brings self-service observability on the Kubernetes platform along with many unique features built for Kubernetes environments and workloads Apica is making Kubernetes observability zero-configuration, zero-click. We empower developers and administrators to help keep … Read more
An Alternative to Micro Focus Sitescope
Change is never easy, but a necessity as legacy software can’t keep up with the current needs or demand. Case in point is what we are seeing with solutions like HP/Micro Focus SiteScope, though a great product for years, it has had issues along with very limited new development as the solution exchanged hands from … Read more
Apica is now a CNCF member
The Apica team is super excited to join CNCF. The Cloud-native computing foundation is a great community of cloud builders and projects that is shaping how the enterprise cloud of the future looks like.
apica.io is officially GA
apica.io is officially GA Apica officially is now GA, See our press release – https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/Apica-log-insights-the-only-s3-powered-log-aggregation-and-analysis-solution-301002188.html A great milestone for the team. Stay tuned for more updates.
Log Analytics finally got wings!
Right, a few months ago, few of us came together with one mission: To give log analytics its much-desired wings. BTW It’s not just AWS S3; you can use any S3 compatible store. Logging is cumbersome, so we built the Apica platform to bring easy logging to the masses. A platform that is so easy … Read more
The race to “zero” is on
Object storage does away with the tree-like hierarchical file system of NAS and replaces it with a flat structure in which all objects have a unique identifier, with rich metadata that allows indexing, search, and analytics. Object-based storage is becoming the de-facto data at rest option for unstructured data. Here is a quick cost comparison … Read more
Switch from LoadRunner to a New Performance Testing Software
With the continued growth of applications being used in and out of an organization, getting a firm grasp on the performance of these devices and its impact on your environment is important. With this shift in applications everywhere enterprises need to do their due diligence in testing complex modern applications at scale, often and at … Read more
