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How to monitor and troubleshoot Fluentd with Prometheus

Fluentd is an open source data collector widely used for log aggregation in Kubernetes. Monitoring and troubleshooting Fluentd with Prometheus is really important to identify potential issues affecting your logging and monitoring systems. In this article, you’ll learn how to start monitoring Fluentd with Prometheus, following Fluentd docs monitoring recommendations. You’ll also discover the most common Fluentd issues and how to troubleshoot them.

KubeCon EU 2022 - Trends & Highlights

Kubecon EU returned to Spain. This time to Valencia, city of paella and horchata and, of course, a great place for big events. We had a great time meeting you all in person, and attending the talks. Here are our hot takes from the event. The main event started on Wednesday, but before that different co-located events took place: Ebpf Day, Cloud Native SecurityCon, and PrometheusDay among others. These events gathered a large number of attendees.

What's new in Sysdig - May 2022

Welcome to another edition of What’s New in Sysdig in 2022! The “What’s new in Sysdig” blog is now under my control! Hello, I’m Wes MacKay, a Sales Engineer based out of Dallas, TX working with the Sysdig US West Corporate team. I’m way too passionate about containerization, personal cloud storage, and automating my home life. In my spare time, I’m always looking for better Thai and Sushi restaurants in my area.

Accelerate Kubernetes troubleshooting with Sysdig Advisor

Troubleshoot Kubernetes problems up to 10X faster. Want to know how? Let’s dig in! Kubernetes is really difficult to operate at scale. When organizations have a problem in Kubernetes they must use command line tools, dashboards, and logs to figure out what went wrong. It can take hours to inspect the situation and identify the root cause before you can take action. Problems like crashloopbackoff and pods pending errors can be especially frustrating since there are so many things that can cause those conditions.

Troubleshoot Kubernetes 10x Faster With Sysdig Advisor

Troubleshoot Kubernetes problems up to 10X faster. Want to know how? Let’s dig in! Kubernetes is really difficult to operate at scale. When organizations have a problem in Kubernetes they must use command line tools, dashboards, and logs to figure out what went wrong. It can take hours to inspect the situation and identify the root cause before you can take action. Problems like crashloopbackoff and pods pending errors can be especially frustrating since there are so many things that can cause those conditions.

Sysdig Advisor: Making Kubernetes troubleshooting effortless

The cloud, Kubernetes, CI/CD, DevOps, GitOps… the last five years have seen a huge transformation in how organizations are architecting and shipping applications. It’s hard to keep up with the pace and learn all of this new tech! Nearly 55% of respondents to Canonical’s 2021 Kubernetes and cloud native operations report highlighted how the lack of sufficient in-house skills and people power is the biggest challenge that Kubernetes brings to businesses.

New release of Sysdig Open Source leverages Falco plugins

Sysdig maintainers are thrilled to announce the latest release of our beloved OSS tool for analyzing and/or recording the activity of processes and containers on a Linux system. You can find the full CHANGELOG in the GitHub repository, but here are some highlighted features: Note: The 0.29.1 has been released with a bug fix shortly after we started to write this post.

Prometheus 2.35 - What's new?

Prometheus 2.35 was released last month, focusing on a better integration with cloud providers. It also improved the service discovery, performance, and resources usage. One key change was the migration to Go v1.18. It has brought some changes in the support for TLS 1.0, 1.1, and certificates signed with the SHA1 hash function. Welcome to this first edition of What’s new in Prometheus. We love Prometheus, the de-facto open source standard monitoring tool!