The last time I worked with Loki when it was still in Beta, and it looked much simpler then than it does now. In the new project, there is no logging system at all, and since we all love the Grafana stack, we also decided to use Loki for logging. Although to be honest,… Read More »
We have Grafana Loki for logs and need to connect an AWS IAM Role with AWS IAM Policy, which gives access to an AWS S3 bucket where Loki’s chunks and indexes will be stored. IAM roles for Kubernetes Pods will work in the same way as IAM roles to EC2 instances: a process inside… Read More »
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… Read More »
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 »
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 »
The feature is not in production yet (maybe, will be announced on the re:Invent-2021?), but it already can be used via the browser’s Developer Tools. So, open the Developer Tools (F12), and open AWS Console, in the Dev Tools switch to the Application tab, on the left side in the Storage open Cookies: In the… Read More »
Let’s proceed with our journey on AWS Cost Optimization topics. Previous parts – AWS: Cost Explorer – costs checking on the CloudWatch Logs example and AWS: cost optimization – purchasing RDS Reserved Instances. One of the shortcomings of the cloud-based architecture is the fact, that it can cost much more than when using own bare-metal… Read More »
let’s proceed in our journey of the AWS Lambda function, which will copy an EC2’s AWS Tags to all EBS volumes, attached to it. In the first part, AWS: Lambda — copy EC2 tags to its EBS, part 1 – Python and boto3, we wrote a Python script that can get all EC2 instances in… Read More »
We have an AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service cluster, which has a few WorkerNode Groups that were created as AWS AutoScaling Groups by using the eksctl, see the AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service: a cluster creation automation, part 2 – Ansible, eksctl for more details. The WorkerNode Group configuration for the eksctl keeps a set of Tags,… Read More »
Boom! Get ready for a virtual AWS Tech Conference from AWS User Group Ukraine! Conference program: 6 comprehensive presentations 6 workshops with AWS instructors AMA with AWS experts 1500 online attendees rewards for best questions The speaker line-up will consist of an AWS team from all over the world that’s why the presentation will… Read More »