If you know anything about upholding the three pillars of observability for your business then you will know that centrally analysing and managing logs, metrics and traces is vital for improving how you observe the status of your business’s key infrastructure components.
Users of open-source log collectors and log monitoring solutions often preferred these solutions due to them being well suited for speed, flexibility and their ability to attract talented contributors who are willing to invest time to maintain technology projects they are passionate about. In this post, we’ll look at some of the best free and open-source logging tools out there today.
Prometheus is a metrics-based monitoring and alerting stack that is purpose-built for handling metrics generated by dynamic cloud environments such as Kubernetes. Another example target for Prometheus to gather metrics from could be a web app or an API server. As well as its use as an alerting and monitoring stack, Prometheus is also able to perform addition, average metrics over time and add and multiply any time-series data ingested.
Prometheus is one of the leading open-source monitoring frameworks around today. It is well known for its operational simplicity, and for being highly available by default. It is the second project hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNFC) and was accepted into the programme on May 9, 2016. Prometheus is completely based on time series data collection and uses both a dimensional data model and flexible query language (PromQL).
In this roundup of the best dashboards powered by the Prometheus metrics monitoring system, we wanted to show you some of the best use cases for this ever-popular solution for time series metrics alerting.
Every business from large enterprises through to small startups needs some level of log management in their day to day operations. For large-scale enterprises, Splunk has quickly become one of the most popular log management solutions globally. Splunk was developed for enterprise-level log analysis and Security Incident and Event Management (SIEM). The tool can also be used by medium-size enterprises as long as your organisation generates large volumes of machine data and log files.
PromQL is the dedicated query language for the metrics and monitoring Stack known as Prometheus. PromQL is well know for having a steep learning curve. Because of this we've created a helpful cheat sheet as a reference to help you with understanding the most common PromQL queries. Please feel free to save the sheet below and share it with any team members that you think would appreciate learning some of the most important queries of PromQL.
In 2020, Growmotely released a study and found out that 74% of business professionals expect remote work to become standard. The same study found that 97% of employees don’t want to return to the office full-time. Another striking statistic is that 61% of employees prefer being fully remote. With these kinds of statistics, it is only reasonable to expect that remote work will continue to become a new normal for many corporations, even those that are less modern and more traditional.
Loggly is a feature-rich log management platform that also offers a wealth of features including automated log summaries, custom derived fields, unlimited users, search & filters and email alerts. Loggly is often used to solve a variety of logging use cases including handling Meteor, Java, IIS, Docker and Apache logs.
We are excited to announce that Logit.io has recently been featured on e-ChannelNews where our founder Lee Smith was interviewed by the President of TechnoPlant, Julian Lee about our partner program. In this interview, Lee explains more about how the Logit.io platform can assist channel partners to grow their ability to offer enterprise-ready logging and metrics analysis.
