Trace your microservices application with Zipkin and OpenTracing
By Gianluca Arbezzano, Site Reliability Engineer at InfluxDB, CNCF Ambassador Walter Dal Mut is a certified Amazon Web Service consultant. He works at Corley SRL, an Italian company that helps other small and big companies move…
Announcing Jaeger 1.0 release!
In February we introduced Jaeger in a blog post Evolving Distributed Tracing at Uber Engineering. Two months later Jaeger backend has been released as an open source project. So many things have happened since then. We…
Cloud Native Computing Foundation kicks off KubeCon + CloudNativeCon with 31 new members
Foundation welcomes dozens of new members and more than 4,000 attendees to Austin for annual North American event AUSTIN, TX – December 6, 2017 – KubeCon + CloudNativeCon – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which sustains and integrates open source…
Prometheus user profile: L’Atelier Animation experiences inspired studio monitoring with Prometheus
Founded in Montreal in 2012, L’Atelier Animation is an animation studio that specializes in the creation of 3D feature films and television series; including Ballerina, RoboZuna, and The Bravest. With an infrastructure consisting of around 300 render blades,…
Prometheus user profile: Canonical talks about its transition to Prometheus
Canonical is the company behind Ubuntu – the leading OS for container, cloud, scale-out and hyperscale computing. 65 percent of today’s large-scale OpenStack deployments are on Ubuntu, using both KVM and the pure-container LXD hypervisor for the…
Outside developer perspective: CNCF
Gianluca Arbezzano is a full stack developer at InfluxDB, a Docker captain and contributor and maintainer of different oss projects. Passionate about modern monitoring and furthering cloud native technologies, Gianluca recently wrote about his first experience…
Open source software fuels explosive startup growth and goes mainstream
Last week, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and Battery Ventures hosted an interactive discussion on the explosive growth of open source software in San Francisco. Event slides can be found here. In SF? Learn about open…
Release update: Prometheus 1.6.1 and sneak peak at 2.0
Prometheus 1.6.1 After 1.5.0 earlier in the year, Prometheus 1.6.1 is now out. There’s a plethora of changes, so let’s dive in. The biggest change is to how memory is managed. The -storage.local.memory-chunks and -storage.local.max-chunks-to-persist flags have been replaced by -storage.local.target-heap-size. Prometheus will attempt to keep…
Sometimes two things go so well together you wonder how you ever saw them separately, like peanut butter and chocolate coming together to make Reese’s cups. The combination of Kubernetes and Prometheus invokes the same feeling…
Prometheus user profile: Monitoring the world's largest digital festival – DreamHack
A local area network gathering with live concerts and competitions in digital art and esports, DreamHack is considered the world’s largest digital festival. In fact, it was recognized by the Guinness Book of Records and Twin…