Apache Druid: overview, running in Kubernetes and monitoring with Prometheus
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18 September 2022

Apache Druid is a columnar database, focused on working with large amounts of data, combining the features and benefits of Time-Series Database, Data Warehouse, and a search engine. The general task is to set up monitoring of the Druid cluster in Kubernetes, so at first, we will see what it is in general and how… Read More »

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AWS: VPC Flow Logs – an overview and example with CloudWatch Logs Insights
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19 July 2022

AWS VPC Flow Logs allow you to log traffic information between network interfaces in a VPC. Further, these logs can be stored in AWS S3 or sent to AWS CloudWatch Logs, while enabling traffic logging does not affect the performance of the network interface in any way. Let’s briefly review the basic concepts, and available… Read More »

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Arch Linux: pacman – error “HTTP server doesn’t seem to support byte ranges”
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30 May 2022

During system upgrade with pacman -Syu, I got internet disruption, and on the next upgrade I got the error from pacman. It sounds like “HTTP server doesn’t seem to support byte ranges. Cannot resume“: [simterm] … ==> Retrieving sources… -> Downloading clightd-5.6.tar.gz… ** Resuming transfer from byte position 12288 % Total % Received % Xferd… Read More »

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NGINX: IP Geolocation by Cloudflare and “nested” if conditions
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2 April 2022

Among other features provided by Cloudflare, it can add a special header with a country value, from where a visitor came. As a Ukrainian, I’d like to ban all visitors from russia, but: redirect all visitors from russian IPs to another web domain – russki-voenny-korabl-idi-nahuy.com during this, I’d like to filter requests and leave requests… Read More »

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SSH: the “Too many authentication failures” error and its solution
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19 March 2022

During an SSH connection, I started getting the “Too many authentication failures” error message from a remote host. The error, and its cause Actually, the root cause is simple: during establishing a new SSH connection, the local ssh-client first tries to use keys, that are loaded by the local ssh-agent, and only after that will… Read More »

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Elastic Stack: an overview and ELK installation on Ubuntu 20.04
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22 February 2022

The last time I’ve worked with the ELK stack about 7 years ago, see the ELK: установка Elasticsearch+Logstash+Kibana на CentOS. Currently, we are using Logz.io, but its costs going higher and higher, so we started looking at the self-hosted ELK solution to be running on our AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service clusters. So, the task, for… Read More »

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AWS: Trusted Advisor, part 2 – CloudWatch Alarms and Slack notifications
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29 November 2021

Continuing with the theme of the AWS Trusted Advisor service, let’s see how can we configure notifications about new findings. The first part: AWS: Trusted Advisor, part 1 – its features overview. To have notifications, we can use Trusted Advisor metrics from the CloudWatch, see their list on the Trusted Advisor metrics and dimensions page.… Read More »

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AWS: Trusted Advisor, part 1 – its features overview
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29 November 2021

AWS Trusted Advisor is another service that allows monitoring your accountant its resources in use for their cost-effectiveness, performance, security, and more. Keep in mind, that Trusted Advisor’s checks that are available for you depend on the AWS Support Plan of your account. вашего аккаунта. Fortunately, we have Premium so I’m able to how all… Read More »

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