Centralized Observability may not be a buzzword but its practicality and importance can’t be denied. Let’s see why is that. As DevOps and IT teams recognize the importance of Observability, it becomes a critical component to monitor the stack and ensure data reliability. That being said, enterprises are rapidly embracing modern data stacks to harness the power of data. Therefore, a host of platforms require data observability as a tool for reliable and trustworthy data management.
Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) is an extremely scalable and high-performing container orchestration solution that allows for the effortless execution, termination, and administration of Docker containers within a cluster. As more organizations embrace containerization, optimizing the costs of running containerized applications is essential, especially when using managed services like Amazon ECS.
Graphite is used by many organizations to track and visualize various metrics that their applications or servers send out. But what happens if there are too many of these metrics or the company doesn't want to use its human resources to monitor the behaviour of metrics constantly? In this article, we will use Hosted Graphite by MetricFire to learn about Graphite's ability to notify users about the abnormal behaviour of services or infrastructure in a timely manner.