Tag: observability

OpenTelemetry Collector: One Pipeline to Rule Them All

Replace five scattered agents with one OpenTelemetry Collector pipeline — metrics, logs, and traces unified with real config you can drop into a home server.

Uptime Kuma: Status Pages, Alerts, and Knowing Before Your Users Do

Advanced Uptime Kuma setup: TCP/DNS/Docker monitors, push monitors, Telegram alerts, public status pages, maintenance windows, and Docker Compose with backups.

Chaos Engineering: Break Things on Purpose Before They Break Themselves

Chaos engineering with Pumba for Docker container chaos and Toxiproxy for network failure simulation. Find the failures in staging before your users do in prod.

Docker Health Checks: Because "It's Running" Doesn't Mean "It's Working"

Docker health checks for Dockerfiles and Compose: configure HEALTHCHECK for PostgreSQL, Redis, Nginx, and Node.js with intervals, retries, and depends_on.

Docker Logging: From "Where Did My Logs Go?" to Centralized Bliss

Learn Docker logging from basics to centralized stacks. Master docker logs, logging drivers, log rotation, Loki+Grafana, and Fluentd setup with practical examples.

Auditd & Audit Logging: Know Exactly Who Touched What on Your Server

Master auditd for Linux audit logging: watch critical files, audit syscalls, use aureport and ausearch, and ship logs to Loki or Elasticsearch for compliance and security monitoring.

Observability and Monitoring for Containers

Logs, metrics, and traces for Docker containers — Prometheus, Loki, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry to know what's happening inside your stack.