Posts by Mike Elsmore

Mike is a happy hacker of technology, usually found elbows deep in experiments, JavaScript, or trying to learn something new. He loves sharing knowledge and teaching about DevOps, Observability, Microservices, and everything around it.

How To

Instrumenting Node.js for Jaeger and OpenTelemetry

Instrumenting Node.js for Tracing in Jaeger

There is more to Distributed Tracing with Jaeger than just capturing machine data as with metrics, or...

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How To

Serverless Monitoring: Logs, Metrics & Traces with AWS Lambda

I’ve been primarily a Javascript developer for a long time now, it’s been my go-to language for...

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How To

Kibana Visualization How-to’s: Heatmaps

In Kibana you have a full selection of graphical representations for your data, most of the time...

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Best Practices

Full Observability with Your Node.js App

Javascript is a pretty prolific programming language, used daily by people visiting any number of websites and...

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Open Source

OpenObservability Talks with Paul Bruce and Jonah Kowall

Building on our first-ever stream and podcast of OpenObservability Talks we recorded our second on July 30th...

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News

Introducing the OpenObservability Talks Podcast

We’ve recently launched the OpenObservability Talks on June 25th, this is a continuation of the OpenObservability Conference...

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Best Practices

Chaos Engineering and Kubernetes for Security

Chaos Engineering for a More Secure Kubernetes

Netflix, Amazon, Google, Facebook, and a host of other companies have adopted chaos engineering, which encourages designing...

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How To

How to Deploy an Azure Kubernetes Cluster with AKS

At the end of October 2017, Microsoft announced the release of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), its hosted...

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Best Practices

Grafana vs. Graphite

This blog post will pit Grafana vs Graphite two of the most popular observability tools on the...

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Best Practices

Best Practices for Monitoring Kubernetes using Grafana

Microservices and containers have taken the tech industry by storm. Kubernetes is one of the tools that...

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Best Practices

Prometheus vs. InfluxDB: A Monitoring Comparison

Monitoring has been around since the dawn of computing. Recently, however, there’s been a revolution in this...

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