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A quick guide to load testing Grafana Loki with Grafana k6

As a software engineer here at Grafana Labs, I’ve learned there are two questions that commonly come up when someone begins setting up a new Loki installation: “How many logs can I ingest into my cluster?” followed by, “How fast can I query these logs?” There are two ways to find out the answers.

Use Kubernetes to Manage Eleasticsearch Clusters for Logging | Sematext at Kubecon 2022

Radu Gheorghe (Sematext Group) & Ciprian Hacman (polypoly) explain how Kubernetes can be used to manage and autoscale Elasticsearch clusters. They will explain the use cases for such a setup, what are the pros and cons of using Kubernetes to manage Elasticsearch for logging, and what operators are currently available to accomplish this task.

Minimize MTTR to Mitigate Impact of Change Management

In the first blog this demo series, we showed you how to use Restorepoint to remediate after a network breach. In our second blog of this three-part series, we walk you through a change management instance—showing how to speed problem resolution and how to mitigate the impact of poor change management to minimize MTTR.

New Feature: Sitemap Monitoring

Our feature development has always been heavily influenced by our users. Some of our most popular features were directly requested by people using our products on a daily basis, which we believe is one of the best ways of developing a product such as ours. If one person wants to monitor something, chances are others will do too. Which is how our new feature: Sitemap Monitoring was incepted!

Regression testing your Java Agent Plugin

For developers who’ve created their own instrumentation with the Java Agent plugin, the next phase of the process is regression testing. By performing regression testing, you can ensure that your plugin functions the way it’s supposed to after you’ve made code changes or updates. You’ll have your own plugin, but to illustrate regression testing in this article, I’ll use the plugin in our example repo.

The ultimate logging series: Using the PHP system logger

Logging is essential to application development. Logs provide exhaustive, robust information that is useful for tracking all the changes made to an application's code. PHP logs help you track the performance of the method calls within your application, the occurrence of a particular event, and the errors in your application. With proper PHP logging techniques, you can track and optimize an application's performance.

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