Logstash is a powerful log collection and event processing engine used for collecting, parsing, transforming, and forwarding logs and event data from multiple sources. It is one of the core components of the Elastic Stack and is widely used for centralized logging, monitoring, and data processing. Logstash helps organizations manage large amounts of log data efficiently by collecting logs from different systems, processing them into a structured format, and forwarding them to storage or analysis platforms. What is Logstash? Logstash is an open-source data processing pipeline that collects data from …
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. (more…)
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. Elastic Beanstalk supports applications developed in Go, Java, .NET, Node.js, PHP, Python, and Ruby. Once the application brings …
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 Configuration Management: Complete Guide to Nodes, Functions & Configuration Files
Managing modern IT infrastructure manually is time-consuming and prone to errors. As organizations scale, system administrators need reliable automation tools to maintain consistency across servers. Puppet is one of the most widely used open-source configuration management tools designed to automate system administration and infrastructure management. What is Puppet? Puppet is an open-source system management and automation platform used to centrally manage server configurations. It enables organizations to define infrastructure as code, ensuring systems remain consistent, secure, and properly configured over time. Configuration management refers to the process of documenting, controlling, …
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 …
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.