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Find tutorials and lists of incredible open-source and paid DevOps tools for beginner and experienced developers, from full platforms to plugins for the ELK Stack and other stacks.

DevOps
What are the hardest parts of Kubernetes to learn?

What Are the Hardest Parts of Kubernetes to Learn?

Many enterprises have already adopted Kubernetes or have a Kubernetes migration plan in place, making it clear...

Gedalyah Reback
Gedalyah Reback
Jun 29th, 2020
DevOps
AIOps now and in the future

Building AIOps Now for the Future

AIOps is a term Gartner invented to describe a general trend of applying AI techniques to IT...

Jonah Kowall
Jonah Kowall
Jun 16th, 2020
DevOps
The Post-Cloud Evolution and Europe's Cloud Revolution

The Post-Cloud Evolution: Europe Moves to the Edge

Current cloud investments have been a boost for flexibility and productivity. The challenge is that there is...

Jonah Kowall
Jonah Kowall
Jun 3rd, 2020
DevOps
What is distributed tracing?

Tracking Telemetry — What is Distributed Tracing?

Software monitoring allows developers and IT professionals to observe events, metrics, and communications occurring within or between...

Jonah Kowall
Jonah Kowall
Apr 24th, 2020
DevOps
The Best Resources for Learning Kubernetes from Scratch

A Master List of Resources for Learning Kubernetes 

Kubernetes is the world’s leading container orchestration platform. Its cloud agnostic status enables you to manage your...

Gedalyah Reback
Gedalyah Reback
Feb 26th, 2020
DevOps
Istio vs. Linkerd vs. Consul2

Istio vs. Linkerd vs. Consul: A Comparison of Service Meshes

In a previous article, we examined service meshes in detail. Briefly, a service mesh takes care of...

Gedalyah Reback
Gedalyah Reback
Feb 17th, 2020
Community
Essential Logging and Performance Monitoring Interview Questions to watch out for in 2020

10 Essential Monitoring Interview Questions to Prep for in 2020

You might be on the move. You might be breaking into the field. You might be trying...

Gedalyah Reback
Gedalyah Reback
Feb 3rd, 2020
DevOps
Are Prometheus and Grafana a match made in heaven?

Prometheus and Grafana: A Match Made in Heaven?

Prometheus and Grafana are two monitoring tools that, when combined, provide all of the information DevOps and...

Daniel Berman
Daniel Berman
Dec 24th, 2019
DevOps
Major DevOps announcements by Logz.io in 2019

2019 at a Glance: Logz.io Key Announcements

At AWS re:Invent recently, we excitedly announced Logz.io Infrastructure Monitoring – our new monitoring product based on...

Daniel Berman
Daniel Berman
Dec 17th, 2019
DevOps
What is DevOps? What's the difference between DevOps and things like Agile or Lean methodology?

What DevOps Is NOT

There’s no shortage of posts explaining what DevOps is—from articles that use acronyms like CALMS (Culture, Automation,...

Evan Klein
Evan Klein
Nov 21st, 2019
News
Are you the DevOps evangelist that Logz.io is looking to hire?

Could You Be the DevOps Evangelist We’re Looking For?

Have you ever been in charge of your company’s observability stack? Does the pain of implementing, configuring,...

Evan Klein
Evan Klein
Oct 24th, 2019
DevOps
2019 DevOps Trends: Observability, Kubernetes, SRE, CI/CD and more

The Top 10 DevOps Trends of 2019

At Logz.io we’re always keeping tabs on the latest and greatest in the DevOps world, for the...

Daniel Berman
Daniel Berman
Oct 23rd, 2019
DevOps
Observability and Zero Trust Security are two sides of the same coin

How Log Analytics Improves Your Zero Trust Security Model

Over the past few years, cloud computing has passed through its hype and early-adopter phases. Now we...

Bruno Amaro Almeida
Bruno Amaro Almeida
Oct 17th, 2019
DevOps
Kubernetes monitoring

Top 11 Open Source Monitoring Tools for Kubernetes

This article provides the pros and cons of the top 10 open source monitoring tools for Kubernetes...

Daniel Berman
Daniel Berman
Oct 4th, 2019
DevOps
monitoring and incident management

Monitoring and incident management: a winning combination

Learn how monitoring and incident management systems complement each other to achieve proactive, realtime incident responses that...

Evan Klein
Evan Klein
Sep 24th, 2019
DevOps
How to Create Grafana Dashboard that Rivals Kibana

Creating the Perfect Grafana Dashboard

Easily monitor time series data by leveraging Grafana's robust capabilities, community, and leveraging our tips for creating...

Daniel Berman
Daniel Berman
Sep 4th, 2019
DevOps

Comparing Apache Hive vs. Spark

A comparison of Hive vs. Spark examining features, capabilities, integrations, architecture, history and more. Find the best...

Daniel Berman
Daniel Berman
Aug 5th, 2019
DevOps
Logging with Apache Flume for Hadoop and Data Pipelines

Apache Flume and Data Pipelines

Introduction Apache Flume helps organizations stream large log files from various sources to distributed data storage like...

Daniel Berman
Daniel Berman
Jul 25th, 2019
ELK Stack

Deploying Redis with the ELK Stack

Redis is a buffering layer, giving downstream components better chances of processing and indexing data successfully. Here's...

Daniel Berman
Daniel Berman
Jul 16th, 2019
DevOps

A Guide to Open Source Monitoring Tools

Learn about the world's most popular open source monitoring tools as well as the pros and cons...

Daniel Berman
Daniel Berman
Jul 11th, 2019
DevOps

CI/CD Tools for Cloud Applications on Kubernetes

We name some of the top CI (Continuous Integration) and CD (Continuous Deployment) tools compatible with Kubernetes,...

Evan Klein
Evan Klein
Jul 5th, 2019
ELK Stack

Distributed Tracing with Jaeger and the ELK Stack

Jaeger is a popular open source distributing tracing tool. Learn how you can use it with the...

Daniel Berman
Daniel Berman
Jul 3rd, 2019
Cloud

A Guide to the World of Cloud-Native Applications

The term cloud-native is thrown around a lot. But what qualities differentiate cloud-native applications from the rest?...

Evan Klein
Evan Klein
Jun 25th, 2019
DevOps

Metricbeat vs. Telegraf: Side-by-Side Comparison

Our comparison of metricbeat vs. telegraf shows both metric collector's strengths and weaknesses as well as how...

Daniel Berman
Daniel Berman
Jun 20th, 2019
DevOps

Kubernetes as a Service: GKE vs. AKS vs. EKS

Hosted Kubernetes Services: The Battle Between Google Kubernetes Engine, Azure Kubernetes Service, and Amazon Elastic Container Service...

Evan Klein
Evan Klein
Jun 11th, 2019
ELK Stack

Deploying Kafka with the ELK Stack

Protect Logstash and Elasticsearch against such data bursts using Kafka. Find out how to deploy it on...

Daniel Berman
Daniel Berman
May 30th, 2019
ELK Stack
chef logging

Chef Server Logging with the ELK Stack – Part 1

Our guide on setting up a pipeline for shipping Chef logs into the ELK Stack and Logz.io....

Quintessence Anx
Quintessence Anx
Apr 30th, 2019
Cloud
GKE

Deploying a Kubernetes cluster with GKE

Gain full control over cluster management and container orchestration by deploying a Kubernetes cluster with GKE. Here's...

Daniel Berman
Daniel Berman
Updated on: May 14, 2020
DevOps
kafka logging

Kafka Logging with the ELK Stack

This tutorial features Kafka logging best practices to help you easily monitor your Kafka instances using the...

Daniel Berman
Daniel Berman
Updated on: Aug 2, 2020
DevOps
automation servers

Battle of the Automation Servers: Jenkins vs. Bamboo vs. TeamCity

Evaluate which automation server best suits your needs with our comparison between the three most popular: Jenkins,...

Ofer Velich
Ofer Velich
Jan 21st, 2019
DevOps

Jenkins Build Monitoring with the ELK Stack and Logz.io

Learn how to track and monitor Jenkins build activities including the build name, number, execution time, result,...

Daniel Berman
Daniel Berman
Dec 17th, 2018
DevOps

The Tool Sprawl Problem in Monitoring

When using seperate tools for monitoring, troubleshooting, security and more, tool sprawl is a common problem. Here's...

Daniel Berman
Daniel Berman
Dec 5th, 2018
DevOps
relational database comparison

Sqlite vs. MySQL vs. PostgreSQL: A Comparison of Relational Databases

What is the best relational database for your business? Find out in our comprehensive comparison between SQLite,...

Asaf Yigal
Asaf Yigal
Nov 8th, 2018
DevOps

A Newbie’s Guide to Configuration Management Tools and How to Get Started

What is configuration management and what are the best tools for getting started? Read our list to...

Ofer Velich
Ofer Velich
Nov 5th, 2018
DevOps
jenkins in a nutshell

Jenkins in a Nutshell

What is Jenkins and why is it a leading CI/CD tool? Find out everything you want to...

Daniel Berman
Daniel Berman
Oct 4th, 2018
DevOps
DevSecOps Tools

Top 7 DevSecOps Tools

The practice of integrating security into DevOps is of critical importance, but difficult to implement. Here are...

Asaf Yigal
Asaf Yigal
Aug 13th, 2018
Community
alice slackbot

Diving Deeper into the Rabbit Hole with Alice — Logz.io’s Slack Bot

Introducing Alice -- the new Slackbot from Logz.io! Learn how you can use it for querying, seeing...

Daniel Berman
Daniel Berman
Aug 9th, 2018
DevOps
zipkin vs jaeger

Zipkin vs Jaeger: Getting Started With Tracing

Getting started with tracing? Learn which tool is best for you. Read our side by side...

Daniel Berman
Daniel Berman
Jul 12th, 2018
DevOps
hosted kubernetes

5 Hosted Kubernetes Platforms

There are many hosted Kubernetes platforms that have been developed due to Kubernetes's explosion in popularity. Here...

Daniel Berman
Daniel Berman
Jul 5th, 2018
DevOps
microservices

Microservices: The Future or a Fleeting Episode?

Microservices has been a key trend in software development for the past three years, but is it...

Asaf Yigal
Asaf Yigal
Apr 10th, 2018
ELK Stack
Jenkins ELK

Jenkins Log Analysis with the ELK Stack

Jenkins is one of the most widely-used open-source continuous integration tools. Here's how to create a logging...

Daniel Berman
Daniel Berman
Dec 27th, 2017
DevOps
Slack

5 Slack Apps for DevOps

Slack is an important communication tool for DevOps teams. Here are 5 Slack apps you can use...

Daniel Berman
Daniel Berman
Nov 29th, 2017
Community
5 machine frameworks

5 Open Source Machine Learning Frameworks and Tools

Open source machine learning frameworks are growing and becoming increasingly robust. Here are some of our favorite...

Amir Kalron
Amir Kalron
Nov 9th, 2017
ELK Stack
ELK Ansible

Deploying the ELK Stack with Ansible

How to use Ansible to set up ELK (version 5.x) on a remote server in order to...

Daniel Berman
Daniel Berman
Aug 14th, 2017
DevOps
best incident management platforms

The Top 5 Incident Management Systems for DevOps

To keep applications running at all times and handle incidents correctly, the right incident management tools are...

Daniel Berman
Daniel Berman
Jul 6th, 2017
DevOps
devsecops

What Is DevSecOps – and How Logs Can Help

Agile Manifesto makes everyone responsible for software quality. DevSecOps does the same for security and defines practical...

Asaf Yigal
Asaf Yigal
Jun 8th, 2017
DevOps
best podcasts on devops

The Top 5 DevOps Podcasts

Originally a format for entertainment, podcasts have become more and more prevalent as a way to stay...

PJ Hagerty
PJ Hagerty
Jun 5th, 2017
DevOps
victorops logzio

Incident Management with Logz.io and VictorOps

Logz.io supports hooking in any application that accepts data via REST API. Here's one such example using...

Daniel Berman
Daniel Berman
May 4th, 2017
DevOps
kafka redis

Kafka vs. Redis: Log Aggregation Capabilities and Performance

Kafka and Redis are used for log aggregation. In this post, we compare the two in regards...

Asaf Yigal
Asaf Yigal
Nov 23rd, 2016
Community
dockercon

5 Docker Monitoring Solutions on Show at DockerCon 2016

The Docker community is creating more solutions to monitor Dockerized environments and gain visibility into the health...

Daniel Berman
Daniel Berman
Jun 21st, 2016
Learn
logging microservices

What is DevOps? The Beginner’s Guide from Logz.io

Learn everything you need to know about DevOps culture, tools, and best practices.

Asaf Yigal
Asaf Yigal
Updated on: Mar 18, 2020
ELK Stack

Heroku Log Analysis with the ELK Stack

Heroku's logging system is extremely robust and aggregates application, system & API logs into one central stream....

Daniel Berman
Daniel Berman
Apr 25th, 2016
News

Announcing the Logz.io Add-On for Heroku Apps

Heroku simplifies developing and deploying cloud applications by worrying about the infrastructure for you. Users can now...

Daniel Berman
Daniel Berman
Apr 20th, 2016
DevOps

14 Open Source DevOps Tools We Use in Production

The open source community has many available open-source DevOps tools. Which ones would you add to this...

Tomer Levy
Tomer Levy
Mar 4th, 2016
DevOps
continuous integration tools

A Guide to Continuous Integration Tools

Regardless of which of these solutions your team uses, your company will have a more productive and...

Ziv Segal
Ziv Segal
Feb 29th, 2016
DevOps
devops tools we love

9 Open Source DevOps Tools We Love

The modern DevOps world is full of outstanding and unique open source tools. Here are our favorites.

Tomer Levy
Tomer Levy
Aug 11th, 2015
ELK Stack

How to Use ELK to Monitor Performance

To monitor performance, several tools and integrations are needed. Here's how you can use probes, Logstash, Elasticsearch,...

Noni Peri
Noni Peri
Updated on: Mar 18, 2020