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Graylog Monitoring

50 shades of Graylog

Graylog a very scalable log collection and log management solution with the ability to deal with over 100,000 messages per second, it has an open-source and an enterprise version so you can get vendor support if needed. Why chose Graylog over Elasticsearch Logstash Kibana (ELK) stack, Loki (from Grafana labs) or Splunk read on Graylog […]

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Monitoring

Grafana Visualisation

Turns time-series databases and more into useful visualisation of that data it empowers you to graph, alert on, and explore data you have collected and supports Prometheus natively. Again with most really good open-source software, the easiest way of getting it up and running is with docker there is an official Grafana built docker image […]

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Monitoring

Prometheus monitoring

Prometheus is a metric collection (scraping), alerting engine, time-series database, and visualisation all-in-one used by some of the largest companies in the world.I like to use it for its main purpose Metric (data) collection benifits of Prometheus is its plantory scale think just like DNS The above is a over simplification but you get the […]

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Monitoring

Netdata real-time Monitoring

Netdata is one of the single best pieces of software I have come across when looking to get metrics and monitor devices in realtime. Picture the scenario system guy says it the network is at fault the network guy says its the server they both point at the storage well with netdata you have realtime data graphed over […]