While working with Nginx or any other server there is sometimes the need to parse the logs and see the consolidated view. This view can help you with identifying the things that are wrong like too many 5xx. Let’s have a look at log parsing in python. In this article, we will take nginx default
Category: Devops
The life cycle of a container
If you working in a DevOps or SRE environment, it is very rare to find a person who has not heard of the name containers. In this article, we talk about the life cycle of a container. For this purpose, we will use docker for a container runtime. Let’s have a look at the docker
What are SNAT and DNAT
If you are working as a DevOps you must have heard the name NAT. In this article, we will talk about them and SNAT and DNAT. NAT (Network Address translator) is generally used when you want to hide one side of the network and show it as a single IP. NAT keep a connection table
How to save your monitoring metrics in Prometheus vs Graphite.
Hey everyone in this article of tooling in DevOps we will talk about how we can save our monitoring metrics and use them to visualize in fancy graphs. Let’s say we have metrics of how much time our servers are taking to serve any request. Now we want to save it in some time series
Tooling in DevOps: Installing Graphite for monitoring data.
In this article of series tooling in DevOps, we will talk about the database to keep the time series data which is very important to collect metrics. Graphite is one such database to keep time-series data. Why Graphite? Well, you want you monitoring data to be stored somewhere so you can explore it and draw
Pattern and anti patterns while creating new servers.
We are want to automate the server creation process as this saves a lot of time. In this article, we are going to talk about some patterns and anti-pattern that cause make your automation better or worse. So let’s start with this. Antipattern: Handcrafted Server Handcrafted servers will generally work well for companies who are
What are the snowflake servers?
Snowflake servers are the server whose actual configuration has drifted far more than what was actually required. These servers can because of big issues as there can be scenarios that you may want to replace the server and you are not aware of what all makes this server still serving and you properly launched new
How to do load testing using locust and python for your applications.
Load testing or performance testing is used to make sure that your application perform at very high traffic or at least the traffic that you intended it to run. In this article we are going to talk about how we can use locust to do load testing for our application or api. With simple knowledge