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The most important part of disk usage monitoring is to check the utilization of each filesystem and each mount point which can reveal existing or impending issues with the storage space on your infrastructure.
Recent economic shifts have affected many in the tech sector; while some of us are seeing significant reductions with hiring freezes and small layoffs, others are continuing business as usual. However, this zeitgeist has all of us looking at expenses that feel not reasonably necessary.
If you build or maintain code in GitHub, the Honeycomb Buildevents Action can help you optimize the performance of your build pipelines in GitHub Actions. This blog introduces you to the gha-buildevents Action and a new hands-on quickstart guide that will show you the inner workings of GitHub Actions workflows, the buildevents tool, and the Honeycomb UI.
The spine is essential to perform every activity, like crawling, walking, or swimming. Just as the spine is necessary to enable these functions, your Kubernetes infrastructure needs a backbone to be efficient and effective. So if Kubernetes clusters act as the spine of your architecture, then Kubernetes nodes are like the vertebrae — they make up a Kubernetes cluster in the same way the vertebrae form the spinal column.
Lambda is the glue that holds serverless architectures together. Before its release, most users felt it was a matter of luck as to whether AWS would let you connect a service to another. If not, you had to spin up a VM or a container to transform the events from one service in a way that your target service could handle them. Since Lambda was easier to set up, people assumed that all code they would deploy on it would run faster and cheaper than on other compute services.
Microservices architecture is the new norm for building products these days. An application made up of hundreds of independent services enables teams to work independently and accelerate development. However, such highly distributed applications are also harder to monitor. When hundreds of services are traversed to satisfy a single request, it becomes difficult to investigate system issues.
We’re excited to announce our beta launch of Kentik Kube, an industry-first solution that reveals how K8s traffic routes through an organization’s data center, cloud, and the internet. With this launch, Kentik can observe the entire network — on prem, in the cloud, on physical hardware or virtual machines, and anywhere in between.
