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The DevOps 2.5 Toolkit

You're reading from   The DevOps 2.5 Toolkit Monitoring, Logging, and Auto-Scaling Kubernetes: Making Resilient, Self-Adaptive, And Autonomous Kubernetes Clusters

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838647513
Length 322 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Viktor Farcic Viktor Farcic
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

1. Autoscaling Deployments and StatefulSets Based on Resource Usage FREE CHAPTER 2. Auto-scaling Nodes of a Kubernetes Cluster 3. Collecting and Querying Metrics and Sending Alerts 4. Debugging Issues Discovered Through Metrics and Alerts 5. Extending HorizontalPodAutoscaler with Custom Metrics 6. Visualizing Metrics and Alerts 7. Collecting and Querying Logs 8. What Did We Do? 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

Exploring centralized logging through Papertrail

The first centralized logging solution we'll explore is Papertrail (https://papertrailapp.com/). We'll use it as a representative of a logging-as-a-service solution that can save us from installing and, more importantly, maintaining a self-hosted alternative.

Papertrail features live trailing, filtering by timestamps, powerful search queries, pretty colors, and quite a few other things that might (or might not) be essential when skimming through logs produced inside our clusters.

The first thing we need to do is to register or, if this is not the first time you tried Papertrail, to log in.

 1  open "https://papertrailapp.com/"

Please follow the instructions to register or to log in if you already have a user in their system.

You will be glad to find out that Papertrail provides a free plan that allows storage...

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