Logstash plays an extremely important role in any ELK-based data pipeline but is still considered as one of the main pain points in the stack. Like any piece of software, Logstash has a lot of nooks and crannies that need to be mastered to be able to log with confidence. One super-important nook and cranny is the Logstash configuration file (not the software’s configuration file (/etc/logstash/logstash.yml), but the .conf file responsible for your data pipeline).

I started the new GuardianDevOps service to share my expertise with other engineers. I was thrilled to find an internal problem to work on as the inaugural session! Only a single day after I decided to start this service, a Blue Matador customer noticed some repetitive alerts from our agent heartbeat. I was excited to join the fray with Keilan, one of our talented engineers, and fix the problem for our customers.

More than 1.55 million room nights are reserved on the Booking.com platform every day. It’s a staggering amount of traffic, and not surprisingly, the Amsterdam-based travel e-commerce company has a lot of knowledge to share about handling metrics at scale.

Network architecture is one of the more complicated aspects of many Kubernetes installations. The Kubernetes networking model itself demands certain network features but allows for some flexibility regarding the implementation. As a result, various projects have been released to address specific environments and requirements.

Integrations enable you to unlock the full power of Mattermost by extending the platform to make your team even more productive. Customizing Mattermost this way enables privacy-conscious organizations to collaborate even more effectively, saving time and money without compromising on security.

Since load balancers are active devices that can be included in the design of a WAN, the question arises: Should we adapt our monitoring scheme to include something that could be called Load Balancer Monitoring? To answer this question we can assume that WAN monitoring is based on the following fact: the behaviour of communication links directly affects the performance of applications and therefore the entire platform.

If you’re part of an IT Ops or NOC team, or if you manage one, you know that overwhelming IT noise is your #1 enemy. Not only does it flood your teams with false-positives, but it also buries critical root-cause events and it makes it hard to proactively detect expensive P1 and P0 outages.

As a change agent in a healthcare organization, it’s likely that you’re eager to give your antiquated paging system the boots and to replace it with a more updated, efficient, HIPAA-compliant clinical communications platform. However, convincing the rest of the organization isn’t always easy. It’s normal to get resistance from your care team whenever you introduce new processes or technologies.

When people talk about web analytics, you immediately think of Google Analytics. But there is life beyond Google Analytics. There are many web analytics tools that currently exist on the web and many that are emerging daily. Knowing how to combine these tools well is key to a good web analytics strategy that allows us to understand what happens on our website and how our users act.

I am a proud lazy programmer. This means that if I can automate a task, I will absolutely do it. Especially if it means I can avoid doing the same thing more than once. Luckily, as an engineer, my laziness is an asset - because this week, it led me to write an HTML scraper for our Changelog, just so I wouldn’t have to manually update the Changelog feed on our new app homepage (btw, have you seen our new app homepage? It’s pretty sweet).