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How to Tail Kubernetes Logs: Using the Kubectl Command to See Pod, Container, and Deployment Logs

Logs are a critical aspect of any production workload, as they give you insight into what is happening in your system and tell you which components may be having issues. The traditional method of looking at logs involves basic Linux commands like tail, less, or sometimes cat.

How Instacart Rebuilt Their Release Monitoring Workflow

For a company like Instacart, one of the largest grocery delivery services in the US, a single bug in the codebase could impact millions of customers, shoppers, and their orders. When it came to a major release last year, Instacart’s infrastructure engineering team realized their existing workflow for monitoring the health of hundreds of microservices was no longer sustainable. They needed a better way to detect issues in their codebase before they impacted users.

No query, no problem: How LM Logs is built for everyone

So your team has access to a logging tool? Great! What’s the first thing you want to find? The latest config change gone wrong? Data from 30 days ago when a specific server was at high capacity? Or maybe you’d like to access logs for a certain IP on a certain day for specific HTTP and servers with counts and averages. Hopefully there was training to teach you the specific query languages and expert skills required to answer these questions.

Product Update - Custom Data Retention Periods for Buckets Made Easy

We love to write and ship code to help developers bring their ideas and projects to life. That’s why we’re constantly working on improving our product to meet developers where they are, to ensure their happiness, and accelerate Time to Awesome. This week, we are covering a product release that we think will save you time and effort when using InfluxDB with data retention requirements.

Monitoring HPC system health with Grafana and Psychart

Nicolas Ventura is a critical facilities engineer at NERSC, with experience in both mechanical and computer systems. The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) is a modern data center that’s home to two powerful high-performance computing (HPC) systems used for worldwide scientific research in genetics, physics, geology, and more. As such, the infrastructure team at NERSC has to closely track the facility conditions to ensure optimal operations.

InfluxDB Cloud Native Collectors, Enterprise and Industrial IoT Examples - Part 2

Learn how to deploy InfluxDB Cloud’s Native Collectors with Kepware and the Things Network. In Part 1 of the blog series, we discussed connecting Kepware to InfluxDB using the new InfluxDB Cloud feature Native Collectors! As promised, let’s now discuss how to connect an Enterprise IoT platform, The Things Network to InfluxDB. Before we get to the juicy tutorial let’s run through a quick reminder.