Jaeger is a popular distributed tracing project hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). In the Elastic APM 7.6.0 release we added support for ingesting Jaeger traces directly into the Elastic Stack. Elasticsearch has long been a primary storage backend for Jaeger. Due to its fast search capabilities and horizontal scalability, Elasticsearch makes an excellent choice for storing and searching trace data, along with other observability data such as logs, metrics, and uptime data.

This guide is focused on how to log in Python using the built-in support for logging. It introduces various concepts that are relevant to understanding Python logging, discusses the corresponding logging APIs in Python and how to use them, and presents best practices and performance considerations for using these APIs.

The Elastic Cloud console gives you a single place to create and manage your deployments, view billing information, and stay informed about new releases. It provides an easy and intuitive user interface (UI) for common management and administrative tasks. While a management UI is great, many organizations also want an API to automate common tasks and workflows, especially for managing their deployments.

Version 2.0 of the HAProxy Data Plane API brings some exciting enhancements that unlock the power of HAProxy’s flexible configuration and its runtime capabilities. The HAProxy Data Plane API, which lets you manage your HAProxy configuration dynamically using HTTP RESTful commands, has marked a major milestone with the release of version 2.0. This release emphasizes the runtime aspects of HAProxy, giving you the ability to manage map files, stick tables, peers, DNS resolvers and more.

Here is an overview of the features & fixes we released over the last month.

TL;DR: yes, API Gateway can replace what a Load Balancer would usually provide, with a simpler interface and many more features on top of it. The downside is that it doesn’t come cheap. Load balancers have been one of the most common ways to expose a backend API to the public or even to an internal/private audience. API Gateways seem to provide the same functionality: map and connect HTTP requests to a backend service. So, are they the same or are there any differences?

We are thrilled to announce that we have just raised a $2.25M seed round. This round is led by Accel and some great founders — including current and former executives from Vercel (formerly Zeit), Instana, Twilio and many more. Welcome, on board! Active monitoring and end-to-end testing have been silos with different tools and platforms. Modern DevOps demands a change. We firmly believe that Checkly sits at the intersection of these distinct market trends.