Monitoring

How To Implement Distributed Tracing with Jaeger on Kubernetes — step-by-step Kubernetes tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Implement Distributed Tracing with Jaeger on Kubernetes

In this tutorial, we will deploy a very small distributed application to a Kubernetes cluster and simulate a performance lag using a sleep function in our code. To find the root cause of this issue and to trace each event, we will use Jaeger. With distributed tracing enabled, we’ll see how easy it is to observe the behavior of Services and pinpoint issues.

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How To Install Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (Elastic Stack) on CentOS 7 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (Elastic Stack) on CentOS 7

In this tutorial for CentOS 7, you will learn how to install all of the components of the Elastic Stack, a collection of open-source software produced by Elastic which allows you to search, analyze, and visualize logs generated from any source in any format, a practice known as centralized logging. You will install and configure the search engine Elasticsearch, the Kibana dashboard interface, and data processing component Logstash, in addition to the Filebeat data shipper.

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How To Configure StatsD to Collect Arbitrary Stats for Graphite on Ubuntu 14.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Configure StatsD to Collect Arbitrary Stats for Graphite on Ubuntu 14.04

StatsD is a statistics collection daemon that can be configured to collect arbitrary statistics from applications. It is extremely flexible and allows you to use Graphite in a much more powerful way. In this guide, we’ll discuss how to install and configure StatsD to collect and send metrics to Graphite. We will be doing this on an Ubuntu 14.04 server.

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How To Install and Secure Grafana on Ubuntu 22.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install and Secure Grafana on Ubuntu 22.04

Grafana is an open-source data visualization and monitoring tool that integrates with complex data sources like Prometheus and ElasticSearch. Grafana lets you create alerts, notifications, and ad-hoc filters for your data while also making collaboration with your teammates easier through built-in sharing features. In this tutorial, you will install Grafana and secure it with an SSL certificate and an Nginx reverse proxy. You will also set up GitHub authentication.

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