On Monday, our senior Linux systems engineers Saša and Branko, joined InfluxData’s webinar to discuss our monitoring system. They talk about what we as a company require from monitoring, the tools we used during the last (almost) 20 years and lastly, how we use the InfluxData stack. InfluxData Webinar started with...
As discussed in a previous post, we at Sysbee love HAProxy, and we're excited when new functionalities are added. HAProxy 2.1 introduced the ability to proxy requests directly to an FastCGI application, eliminating the need to pass the request to a web server to do the same thing. In this post, we're...
Continuing on our last blog post Monitoring origins: Where it all began, in this post, we’ll be discussing the most popular monitoring setups currently used by IT technicians around the world. Today, TSDBs dominate the monitoring world. TSDBs are specialized databases designed to store large amounts of time-indexed data. We can say...
Today's monitoring systems have many features to help you get all of the data you need. However, it wasn't always like that; tools were limited, offered no metrics and were hard to deploy and maintain. In this post, we'll take a look at the history of monitoring tools. With almost 20...
In the current global crisis, companies have to cut down costs as much as possible. Laying off employees or overhauling the production process is extremely hard, and not always the best choice. Companies tend to look at non-essentials, where IT infrastructure often falls, especially for non-IT companies. To help you...
Puppet is an open-core configuration management tool that significantly simplifies infrastructure management, especially when sysadmins have to deal with a large number of servers. Essentially, with its declarative language, Puppet allows sysadmins to describe the desired system state in high-level terms - e.g. users, installed packages, enabled services, configuration files, etc. Puppet...
Every website can be categorized as either static or dynamic. In this post, we’re going to define a dynamic website as one that needs server-side processing to function, while a static website as one that serves the same content for all users. Another way of looking at it is that...
HAProxy is a free, open-source, high-performance TCP/HTTP load balancer. HAProxy has been around since 2001, it's written in C programming language, and it uses an insignificant amount of memory and CPU resources, even with very advanced manipulations on HTTP traffic. It's also very secure, having only fifteen security issues during the...
So what is DevOps? In a nutshell, DevOps is a combination of development and operations. So what does that exactly mean? First, it's easier to say what DevOps isn't - it's not a technology, programming language or a standard. Many DevOps supporters will say DevOps is a culture or a movement -...
If you decided it’s time to invest in a new and improved infrastructure, you’re probably wondering how to do a webshop migration without knocking it offline. To help you with this process, we’ve described how we prepare for the webshop migration, what steps do we take to ensure everything goes...
