Fresh/Brewed

As they now demolish the massive Tomson Reuters, formerly Tomson West, formerly West Group headquarters in Eagan, I found this photo of a meeting in 2017 I got to take in the special conference room originally built for the owner/founder and not often used. Behind the panneled wall on the right was a small kitchen. If you stretch your browser window, you can see the flags on the left. Now look at this recent photo of the destruction and you can see the same flags

Cribl: Getting Started

Published Jan 18, 2022 by Isaac Johnson

Cribl has long interested me since a former senior director I worked with at Ahead joined them a few years ago. As I highly respect him, I thought, “what is this funny named company all about”? R...

Sumo Logic Part 3: Traces, Metrics and Serverless

Published Jan 11, 2022 by Isaac Johnson

To wrap our series on Sumo Logic, today we’ll explore the Tracing abilities of Sumo Logic with Dapr in a fresh AKS cluster as well as on our On-Prem k3s cluster. We’ll dive deeper into Kubernetes ...

Sumo Logic Part 2: Github, Integrations, Windows and Costs

Published Jan 7, 2022 by Isaac Johnson

In our last post we covered the History, Setup and usage with a Linux collector. We then moved onto monitoring Kubernetes, AWS S3 and Cloudfront, Azure Event Hub and lastly touched on Monitors.

Sumo Logic Part 1: Setup, Monitors, Kubernetes and AWS

Published Jan 4, 2022 by Isaac Johnson

Sumo Logic is another solid suite in the realm of APM and Logging. They aim to “reduce downtime with real-time alerting, dashboards and machine-learning-powered analytics for all three types of te...

Dynatrace: APM and Logging with OneAgent

Published Dec 29, 2021 by Isaac Johnson

Dynatrace is an Observability, APM and Logging suite with a focus on AI and Automation as well as DevSecOps. Dynatrace likes to highlight its high customer satisfaction scores and Gartner award.

PagerDuty RunDeck: Getting Started

Published Dec 21, 2021 by Isaac Johnson

Rundeck is a popular runbook automation suite that was acquired by Pagerduty last year to incorporate into their larger monitoring and automation offerings.