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Feb 24th, 2020 | Gedalyah Reback

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...

OpenTracing, OpenCensus and OpenTelemetry

Feb 17th, 2020 | Gedalyah Reback

OpenTracing, OpenCensus & OpenTelemetry: What is Distributed Tracing?

Software monitoring allows developers and IT professionals to observe events occurring within a monitored system. The data...

Feb 3rd, 2020 | Gedalyah Reback

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

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

Essential Logging and Performance Monitoring Interview Questions to watch out for in 2020

Dec 24th, 2019 | Daniel Berman

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...

Are Prometheus and Grafana a match made in heaven?

Dec 17th, 2019 | Daniel Berman

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...

Major DevOps announcements by Logz.io in 2019

Nov 21st, 2019 | Evan Klein

2019 at a Glance: Logz.io Key Announcements

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

What is DevOps? What's the difference between DevOps and things like Agile or Lean methodology?

Oct 24th, 2019 | Evan Klein

What DevOps Is NOT

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

Are you the DevOps evangelist that Logz.io is looking to hire?

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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,...

2019 DevOps Trends: Observability, Kubernetes, SRE, CI/CD and more

Oct 23rd, 2019 | Daniel Berman

Oct 17th, 2019 | Bruno Amaro Almeida

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...

Observability and Zero Trust Security are two sides of the same coin

Oct 4th, 2019 | Daniel Berman

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...

Sep 24th, 2019 | Evan Klein

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...

Sep 4th, 2019 | Daniel Berman

Monitoring and incident management: a winning combination

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

How to Create Grafana Dashboard that Rivals Kibana

Aug 5th, 2019 | Daniel Berman

Creating the Perfect Grafana Dashboard

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

Jul 25th, 2019 | Daniel Berman

Comparing Apache Hive vs. Spark

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

Logging with Apache Flume for Hadoop and Data Pipelines

Jul 16th, 2019 | Daniel Berman

Apache Flume and Data Pipelines

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

Jul 11th, 2019 | Daniel Berman

Deploying Redis with the ELK Stack

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

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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...

Jul 5th, 2019 | Evan Klein

Jul 3rd, 2019 | Daniel Berman

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,...

Jun 25th, 2019 | Evan Klein

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...

Jun 20th, 2019 | Daniel Berman

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?...

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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...

Jun 11th, 2019 | Evan Klein

May 30th, 2019 | Daniel Berman

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...

Apr 30th, 2019 | Quintessence Anx

Deploying Kafka with the ELK Stack

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

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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....

Mar 6th, 2019 | Daniel Berman

Feb 7th, 2019 | Daniel Berman

Deploying a Kubernetes cluster with GKE

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

Jan 21st, 2019 | Ofer Velich

Kafka Logging with the ELK Stack

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

Dec 17th, 2018 | Daniel Berman

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,...

Dec 5th, 2018 | Daniel Berman

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,...

Nov 8th, 2018 | Asaf Yigal

The Tool Sprawl Problem in Monitoring

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

Nov 5th, 2018 | Ofer Velich

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,...

Oct 4th, 2018 | Daniel Berman

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...

Aug 13th, 2018 | Asaf Yigal

Jenkins in a Nutshell

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

Aug 9th, 2018 | Daniel Berman

Top 7 DevSecOps Tools

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

Jul 12th, 2018 | Daniel Berman

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...

Jul 5th, 2018 | Daniel Berman

Zipkin vs Jaeger: Getting Started With Tracing

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

Apr 10th, 2018 | Asaf Yigal

5 Hosted Kubernetes Platforms

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

Dec 27th, 2017 | Daniel Berman

Microservices: The Future or a Fleeting Episode?

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

Nov 29th, 2017 | Daniel Berman

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...

Nov 9th, 2017 | Amir Kalron

5 Slack Apps for DevOps

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

Aug 14th, 2017 | Daniel Berman

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...

Jul 6th, 2017 | Daniel Berman

Deploying the ELK Stack with Ansible

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

Jun 8th, 2017 | Asaf Yigal

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...

Jun 5th, 2017 | PJ Hagerty

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...

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The Top 5 DevOps Podcasts

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

May 4th, 2017 | Daniel Berman

Nov 23rd, 2016 | Asaf Yigal

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...

12 mins

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...

Jun 21st, 2016 | Daniel Berman

Updated on: Mar 18, 2020 | Asaf Yigal

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...

Apr 25th, 2016 | Daniel Berman

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

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

Apr 20th, 2016 | Daniel Berman

Heroku Log Analysis with the ELK Stack

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

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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...

Mar 4th, 2016 | Tomer Levy

Feb 29th, 2016 | Ziv Segal

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...

Aug 11th, 2015 | Tomer Levy

A Guide to Continuous Integration Tools

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

Updated on: Mar 18, 2020 | Noni Peri

9 Open Source DevOps Tools We Love

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