Logstash (Log collection engine) collects Logs and events data, Parse and Transform. Logstash is a tool for managing events and logs. Logstash is a system of log collection, processing, storage and searching activities. Basically, it collects, processes, and forwards events and log messages. The Collection can be completed via configuring the “Input plugins” including raw socket/packet communication, file tailing, and several message bus clients. Once an input plugin has collected data it can be processed by any number of filters which modify and give an explanation of the event data. …
DevOps
VPC enables us to launch Amazon services to a Virtual network. This virtual network is owned by its own data centers with the benefits of using AWS services. In each account by default, VPC is already configured. The default VPC is used for testing purposes. The custom VPC is used for more secure network defined in the private subnet. The instances created in default VPC can’t communicate by default. Hardware VPN connection is used for connecting instance to the data center.
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
By using Elastic Beanstalk we can easily manage applications in the AWS Cloud without affecting the infrastructure on the applications. With this, we can manage all of the resources that run on the application as environments. It will reduce the risks in managing applications without restricting choices and the control, as we can simply upload the applications and Beanstalk will automatically handle the load balancing, scaling, application health monitoring and capacity provisioning.
Stackify is a developer-friendly solution that helps developers to manage and troubleshoot application or coding issues with integrated monitoring and error logs. Along with the solutions to monitor and manage their applications’ performance, it also provides a cloud-based solution that provides insights about the application’s performance. In the industry, most of the application monitoring solutions are designed for IT infrastructure. But Stackify is purely designed for developers and it became trending as it combines application logging and code profiling together. It helps software developers in troubleshooting and provides support with …
Munin
Monitoring our systems, networks and server’s performance and activity is one of the duller aspects of administration, and often something that is overlooked until there is a problem. Fortunately, there are many tools that can be used to monitor our system resources with differing levels of complexity and difficulty to configure. One of the simpler tools for getting the details for all the above can be simply derived from the monitoring tools called “Munin”, which is considered as one of the most flexible network resource monitoring systems available for UNIX …
Puppet
Puppet is an open-source system management tool for centralizing and automating configuration management. Configuration management is the detailed recording and updating of information that describes an enterprise’s hardware and software. Puppet is written using Ruby. System Administrators usually perform repetitive tasks such as installing servers, configuring those servers, etc. They can automate this task, by writing scripts, but it is a very hectic job when you are working on large infrastructure. To solve this problem, Configuration Management was introduced. Configuration Management is the practice of handling changes systematically so that …
Ansible is open-source software that automates software provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment. Ansible connects via SSH, remote PowerShell or via other remote APIs. You can use Ansible to automate three types of tasks: Provisioning: Set up the various servers you need in your infrastructure. Configuration management: Change the configuration of an application, OS, or device; start and stop services; install or update applications; implement a security policy; or perform a wide variety of other configuration tasks. Application deployment: Make DevOps easier by automating the deployment of internally developed applications …
Kibana is an open-source application tool used for log and time series analytics, application monitoring etc. On the latest Kibana, we can search and view the logs which logstash recorded. Kibana is a web interface software utilized for searching and visualizing logs as well as creating the charts, maps, bars etc of data. We use Kibana tool to view and communicate with the data stored in Elasticsearch. We can run Kibana on-premises, on Amazon EC2, or on Amazon Elasticsearch service. While we install Kibana software on on-premises or Amazon EC2 …
Apache Cassandra
Cassandra is a distributed database management system designed for handling a high volume of structured data across commodity servers. It provides high availability with no single point of failure. Important points Apache Cassandra is an open-source, distributed and decentralized/distributed storage system. It is a column-oriented database. Cassandra was developed at Facebook for an inbox search.