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AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service: load-testing and high-load tuning – problems and solutions
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4 September 2020

Actually, this post was planned as a short note about using NodeAffinity for Kubernetes Pod: But then, as often happens, after starting writing about one thing, I faced another, and then another one, and as a result – I made this long-read post about Kubernetes load-testing. So, I’ve started about NodeAffinity, but then wondered how… Read More: AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service: load-testing and high-load tuning – problems… »

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Kubernetes: a cluster’s monitoring with the Prometheus Operator
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13 August 2020

Continuing with the Kubernetes: monitoring with Prometheus – exporters, a Service Discovery, and its roles, where we configured Prometheus manually to see how it’s working – now, let’s try to use Prometheus Operator installed via Helm chart. So, the task is spin up a Prometheus server and all necessary exporter in an AWS Elastic Kubernetes… Read More: Kubernetes: a cluster’s monitoring with the Prometheus Operator0 (0) »

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Prometheus: yet-another-cloudwatch-exporter – collecting AWS CloudWatch metrics
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23 July 2020

Currently, to collect metrics from the AWS CloudWatch we are using AWS’s own cloudwatch-exporter, see the Prometheus: CloudWatch exporter — сбор метрик из AWS и графики в Grafana post (in Rus), but it has a few gaps: it’s written in Java, so uses CPU/memory of the monitoring host doesn’t scrapes AWS tags from resources uses… Read More: Prometheus: yet-another-cloudwatch-exporter – collecting AWS CloudWatch metrics0 (0) »

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Grafana: Loki – the LogQL’s Prometheus-like counters, aggregation functions and dnsmasq’s requests graphs
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17 November 2019

The last time I configured Loki for logs collecting and monitoring was in February 2019 – almost a year ago, see the Grafana Labs: Loki – logs collecting and monitoring system post, when Loki was in its Beta state. Now we faced with outgoing traffic issues in our Production environments and can’t find who guilty for… Read More: Grafana: Loki – the LogQL’s Prometheus-like counters, aggregation functions and… »

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Prometheus: RTFM blog monitoring set up with Ansible – Grafana, Loki, and promtail
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10 March 2019

After implementing the Loki system on my job’s project – I decided to add it for myself, so see my RTFM blog server’s logs. Also – want to add the node_exporter and alertmanager, to be notified about high disk usage. In this post, I’ll describe the Prometheus, node_exporter, Grafana, Loki, and promtail set up process… Read More: Prometheus: RTFM blog monitoring set up with Ansible – Grafana,… »

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Grafana Labs: Loki – using AWS S3 as a data storage and AWS DynamoDB for indexes
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13 February 2019

Let’s proceed with the Loki system. First post of this series – Grafana Labs: Loki – logs collecting and monitoring system and the second one – Grafana Labs: Loki – distributed system, labels and filters. There is the Grafana’s Slack community with the dedicated #loki channel where you can ask for some assist (and it’s really helpful).… Read More: Grafana Labs: Loki – using AWS S3 as a data… »

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Grafana Labs: Loki – distributed system, labels and filters
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7 February 2019

The previous post – Grafana Labs: Loki – logs collecting and monitoring system. There Loki, promtail, and Grafana were configured on the same host in one Docker Compose stack. Now I want to try some distributed setup: Grafana will work on a one host Loki – on the other one Promtail – will collect logs from… Read More: Grafana Labs: Loki – distributed system, labels and filters0 (0) »

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Grafana Labs: Loki – logs collecting and monitoring system
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6 February 2019

Grafana 6.0 was still in Beta on Feb 2019, when the new feature was introduced – Loki, a  log aggregation system available via another new ability – Explore. It’s similar to well-known ELK/EFK stack but more simple to set up and use and is intended to be used mostly with clouds and systems like Prometheus… Read More: Grafana Labs: Loki – logs collecting and monitoring system0 (0) »

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