May 2017
Intermediate to advanced
436 pages
9h 44m
English
In The DevOps 2.0 Toolkit, I argued against "traditional" monitoring tools like Nagios (https://www.nagios.org/) and Icinga (https://www.icinga.org/). Instead, we chose to use Elasticsearch for both the logs and the system metrics. In the previous chapter, I reiterated the choice for using Elasticsearch as the logging solution. Can we extend its usage by storing metrics? Yes, we can. Should we do that? Should we use it as a place to store system metrics? Are there better solutions? The biggest problem with Elasticsearch, if used as a database to store system metrics, is that it is not a time series type of database. Logs benefit greatly from Elasticsearch ability to perform free text search ...
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