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December 2023

Explore Apache Kafka Tiered Storage

Get an introduction to Apache Kafka® Tiered Storage which enables more effective data management by utilizing two different storage types—local disk and remote cloud storage solutions such as Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, and Azure Blob Storage. This feature offers a tailored approach to data storage, allowing you to allocate frequently accessed data to high-speed local disks while offloading less critical or infrequently accessed data to more cost-effective remote storage solutions. Tiered storage enables you to indefinitely store data on specific topics without running out of space. Once enabled, it is configured per topic, giving you granular control over data storage needs.

Monitoring Pi-hole using Pi-hole Exporter and OpenTelemetry: A Comprehensive Guide

Pi-hole is a fantastic open-source DNS-based ad blocker that enhances your online experience by blocking unwanted ads and trackers network-wide. Monitoring the performance and status of your Pi-hole setup is essential to ensure its effectiveness. Next, we'll explore how to use a Prometheus exporter to expose metrics from Pi-hole and have the OpenTelemetry collector scrape the metrics and send them to Splunk Observability Cloud.

How to securely query AWS S3 from ClickHouse

ClickHouse is a powerful analytical database, loading data from an AWS S3 bucket allows you to quickly start analyzing the data without having to download and upload them manually in the database. Writing data to S3 allows you to offload some cold data, while keeping all the hot data in ClickHouse and, with the usage of federated queries, being able to query both hot and cold data at the same time.

Aiven workshop: Data Persistence 101: Spring Boot and MySQL Edition

✨What's Cooking in Our Workshop✨ Persisting data is a crucial part of any application that you build. It’s not always easy to map your business objects with your relational database. One of the tools that can help you with this is called Hibernate ORM (for Object Relational Mapping). Join us in this workshop where we will learn the basics of Hibernate combined with the most popular Java App framework : Spring Boot and MySQL as a database.

Open source log monitoring: The concise guide to Grafana Loki

Five years ago today, Grafana Loki was introduced to the world on the KubeconNA 2018 stage when David Kaltschmidt, now a Senior Director of Engineering at Grafana Labs, clicked the button to make the Loki repo public live in front of the sold-out crowd. At the time, Loki was a prototype: We bolted together Grafana as a UI, Cortex internals, and Prometheus labels to find out if there was a need for a new open source tool to manage logs.

Introducing Canonical's new open source support portal

Amplifying the global impact of open source is at the heart of Canonical’s mission. Support is a crucial part of this exciting journey, especially when it comes to helping enterprises, institutions and communities around the world solve real-world problems through their IT infrastructure and applications. Working with thousands of global customers in a variety of use cases, our support team delivers fixes on everything open source, both Canonical-maintained projects and others.

Cloudversation with Aiven & Koo

Join us for an enriching Cloudversation featuring Koo, India's leading microblogging platform, and Aiven, a trusted open-source data platform. Uncover the secrets behind Koo's seamless connection and service to millions worldwide, powered by Aiven & Google Cloud's robust infrastructure. Don't miss this opportunity to delve into the insights that shape global communications with Google Cloud, Koo, and Aiven.

Enabling change data capture from MySQL to Apache Kafka with Debezium

Change Data Capture (CDC) is the process of tracking the changes happening in one or more database table in a source system and propagating them to a target technology. The objective of this video is to create a CDC flow from a source table in a MySQL database to Apache Kafka® via the Kafka Connect Debezium Source connector. Check out these resources to learn more.

VictoriaMetrics Enterprise, the World's Fastest Open-Source-Based Monitoring: Try It for Free

We’re happy to announce that we now offer a free trial of our VictoriaMetrics Enterprise solution! Designed to help solve an organisation’s monitoring and observability set ups, no matter the scale, VictoriaMetrics Enterprise provides reliable, secure and cost-efficient monitoring. The free trial of VictoriaMetrics Enterprise is perfect for organisations with large data loads, for whom cost-efficient monitoring is mission-critical.

'The Story of Grafana' documentary: Celebrating OSS, community, and innovation

On Dec. 5, 2013, Torkel Ödegaard made the first commit in GitHub for a personal project that would become Grafana. “It’s hard to believe it’s been 10 years since Torkel launched Grafana, growing from a small man with a big dream to becoming the most popular data visualization software in the world,” says Grafana Labs co-founder and CEO Raj Dutt. “The Story of Grafana” chronicles that meteoric journey.

Spring Boot Monitoring with Open-Source Tools

Spring Boot Monitoring aims to provide real-time insights into various aspects of a Spring Boot application. Spring Boot provides useful libraries like the Spring Boot Actuator and Micrometer to aid in monitoring. But in order to set up effective monitoring, you need to use a tool where you can send the monitoring data for storage and visualization. In this tutorial, we cover: In this tutorial, you will learn how to monitor a Spring Boot application with SigNoz and OpenTelemetry.