Author: Asif Akhtar Audience: DevOps Engineers, Elasticsearch Admins, and SREs Tags: Elasticsearch, Ansible, Jenkins, Automation, Autoscaling, DevOps 🧭 Introduction Managing Elasticsearch clusters at scale is a balancing act between performance, cost,...
Author: Chinmay Samant , Co-author: Phani Pawan Padmanabharao Observability is no longer optional, it’s a foundational requirement for modern, distributed systems. Today’s applications operate across microservices, cloud platforms, and Kubernetes clusters, generating massive volumes of...
As ClickHouse adoption grows, many teams are moving away from ZooKeeper to the newer ClickHouse Keeper . ClickHouse Keeper is a lightweight, purpose-built coordination service designed to handle ClickHouse workloads without the operational overhead of a full ZooKeeper cluster. Why the need...
In today’s fast-paced world of AI-powered applications, maintaining the performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness of your OpenAI agents is critical. As these intelligent agents independently execute tasks, make decisions, and engage with users or systems, robust observability becomes...
With Instana’s 300th release, we’re reaffirming our commitment to frictionless, full-stack observability. Our self-guided sandbox lets you explore Instana on your terms—anytime, anywhere. Dive into a live microservices environment, follow real traces, understand app performance, and see how...
In today’s software ecosystem, observability is essential for ensuring modern distributed applications' reliability, performance, and user experience. Two prominent players in this field are IBM Instana and OpenTelemetry . Let’s explore their features, how they are related, and how they...
In our ongoing efforts to improve performance and scalability within our IBM Instana Self-Hosted offerings, we recently transitioned from an Nginx-based gateway to an Envoy-based reverse proxy. This blog post walks you through the motivations behind this change, the architectural improvements...