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OpenTracing eBook: Distributed Tracing's Emerging Industry Standard

The Cloud Native movement and migration of applications to microservice architectures require general visibility and observability into software behavior. OpenTracing aims to offer a consistent, unified, and tracer-agnostic instrumentation API for a wide range of frameworks, platforms and programming languages.

Monitoring and Logging for Docker Enterprise Edition

In this reference architecture document, you will find out about all key Docker metrics to watch. Following that, you will learn how to set up monitoring and logging for a Docker UCP cluster. Specifically, this e-book shows how to use Sematext Docker Agent to collect metrics, events and logs for all Docker hosts and containers. Enjoy and share!

Performance Monitoring Essentials - Elasticsearch Edition

Evaluating Elasticsearch for a future project or preparing to "go live"? This e-book is an introduction to the working principles of Elasticsearch, with a focus on performance monitoring and tuning of production operations. This guide helps close the gap in understanding between team members such as developers, operations and their team leader. Enjoy and share!

Log Management & Analytics - A Quick Guide to Logging Basics

Looking to replace Splunk or a similar commercial solution with Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (aka, "ELK stack" or "Elastic stack") or an alternative logging stack? In this eBook you'll find useful how-to instructions, screenshots, code, info about structured logging with rsyslog and Elasticsearch, and more. Enjoy and share!