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This is the first post of a 2 part series where we will set up production-grade Kubernetes logging for applications deployed in the cluster and the cluster itself. We will be using Elasticsearch as the logging backend for this. The Elasticsearch setup will be extremely scalable and fault-tolerant.
A Key Management Service (KMS) is used to create and manage cryptographic keys and control their usage across various platforms and applications. If you are an AWS user, you must have heard of or used its managed Key Management Service called AWS KMS. This service allows users to manage keys across AWS services and hosted applications in a secure way.
A stack trace lacking your source code with all the variables and function names, is like putting together a jigsaw puzzle without a picture for reference. You have all these randomly shaped pieces but no way to know how they fit together. Unless you are fluent in computer, making sense of a JavaScript stack trace with minified code is going to make debugging very difficult. Thankfully, by uploading source maps to Sentry, you can map back to the original source code to make sense of what went wrong.
OpenTelemetry (OTel) is steadily gaining broad industry adoption. As one of the major Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) projects, with as many commits as Kubernetes, it is gaining support from major ISVs and cloud providers delivering support for the framework. Many global companies from finance, insurance, tech, and other industries are starting to standardize on OpenTelemetry.
In this blog post, we describe how one backbone service provider uses Kentik to identify and root out spoofed traffic used to launch DDoS attacks. It’s a “moral responsibility,” says their chief architect.
When faced with an incident, there are two areas that demand your immediate attention: the incident investigation, and the cross-functional coordination needed to resolve the issue. Grafana Incident helps with the collaboration by providing a central hub for communication across teams that seamlessly integrates with the tools you are already using, such as Slack or Microsoft Teams. But how can you best use your telemetry data to debug your application and bring your systems back online?
Today’s a big day at Checkly; we’re thrilled to announce that next to Browser and API checks we released a brand new check type to monitor your apps — say “Hello” to Heartbeat checks! In the realm of software, ensuring uninterrupted functionality is critical. While synthetic monitoring helps you discover user-facing problems early, keeping a close eye on the signals coming from your backend can be just as vital.
