Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

When managing Kafka clusters, health checks are essential—not just a luxury. They’re your frontline defense in maintaining stability and performance, helping you catch issues before they snowball. Let’s dive into effective ways to assess your Kafka cluster’s health, from tracking key metrics to taking proactive steps that keep your operations running smoothly.

Note: The data presented in this analysis is based on information we collected from January 2024 to October 2024 and may contain errors or omissions. This post has been updated to include the latest dataset. GitHub and its components are used by developers and businesses around the world to power everything from small projects to large-scale operations. This is why it's crucial to understand the platform's reliability as a core business enabler.

In previous discussions about Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs), I’ve looked into the architectural benefits and product-level advantages of integrating Cribl. Today, let’s explore why Cribl isn’t just technically sound—it’s also a smart business decision that can help MSSPs like you manage and lower egress costs, creating a significant impact on the financial efficiency of your operations.

In today’s digital economy, infrastructure has evolved from your organization’s technical foundation to a strategic asset that can make or break your business outcomes. Yet, as companies embrace hybrid environments, many find themselves struggling with a critical challenge: how to maintain control and visibility across increasingly complex infrastructure landscapes and AI workloads.

Applications today are more portable and distributed than ever before. We’re witnessing businesses accelerate their migration to cloud-based infrastructure and software as a service (SaaS). Yet, amid this cloud adoption wave, a noticeable “cloud exit” trend is emerging as organizations seek an optimal balance between cloud and on-premises infrastructure.

When your system shows a "no healthy upstream" error, it usually means your load balancer can't connect to any of your backend servers. Let's get straight to fixing this problem.

Our production services run on a Linux machine using Docker Compose, keeping our infrastructure simple and manageable. Docker Compose allows us to easily define and manage multi-container applications, providing a straightforward way to orchestrate services, which helps reduce complexity in our infrastructure. Recently, we decided to switch to SigNoz to gain more flexibility and control over our observability stack. Following the SigNoz setup guide, we used logspout to collect and forward logs.

As your IT environment scales, a proactive approach to monitoring becomes increasingly critical. If your infrastructure environment contains multiple service dependencies, disparate systems, or a busy CI/CD application delivery pipeline, overlooked anomalies can result in a domino effect that leads to unplanned downtime and an adverse impact on users.

AWS Lambda supports nearly any programming language by enabling developers to run serverless functions with either supported or custom runtimes. Once a runtime is deprecated, however, AWS will set dates for when you can no longer create or update functions using that runtime. You will then need to decide what course of action to take to ensure your Lambda functions continue running as expected.

Golden Signals—latency, traffic, error rate, and saturation—help SRE teams monitor system health and avoid costly performance issues.