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Sending Instaclustr Metrics to New Relic Using the Grafana Agent
If you’re interested in viewing the metrics from your Instaclustr clusters along with the applications that use those clusters in one place, there are a number of ways you can do so. I touched on one option of using Instaclustr’s Prometheus endpoint, Prometheus, and Grafana in a previous blog post. However, you might be interested...
Learn MoreShane DucksburySeptember 13, 2022 -
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Hosting Prometheus on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) To Monitor Metrics for Your Instaclustr Clusters
Instaclustr offers a number of ways to monitor your clusters, including viewing metrics through our Console. We also offer a way to view all metrics in a single view with other metrics from your application stack. as well as a Prometheus endpoint which allows for the ingestion of your cluster metrics into Prometheus.
Learn MoreShane DucksburyJuly 26, 2022 -
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Redis™ vs Memcached
Introduction Caching is an important step in increasing the performance of many applications. It can be difficult to determine which caching solution is the best for your use case. Two likely contenders that will often make an appearance in your search for the answer are Redis vs Memcached. In the green corner is Memcached (est....
Learn MoreShane DucksburyFebruary 25, 2021 -
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Elastic Beats and Where They Fit With ELK Stack
After my last blog post about Logstash, Elasticsearch, and Kibana, I wanted to investigate something else I kept coming across during my Logstash research: Elastic Beats. Beats initially appeared to me to be a way to send data to Elasticsearch, the same as Logstash, leading me to wonder how Beats is different and where it...
Learn MoreShane DucksburyFebruary 22, 2021 -
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Getting to Know ELK Stack: Exploring the Power of Logstash
As a new member of the Product Team here at Instaclustr, I wanted to explore our offerings by connecting Logstash with our Managed Elasticsearch and Kibana. Having had no prior experience with the ELK Stack, and wanting to find out more about the power of Elasticsearch, I thought “How hard could it be?”
Learn MoreShane DucksburyJanuary 21, 2021