41 comments on “Logstash „Hello World“ Example – Part 1 of the ELK Stack Series”

Logstash „Hello World“ Example – Part 1 of the ELK Stack Series

Today, we will first introduce Logstash, an open source project created by Elastic, before we perform a little Logstash "Hello World": we will show how to read data from command line or from file, transform the data and send it back to…

1 comment on “How to set up Docker Monitoring via cAdvisor, InfluxDB and Grafana”

How to set up Docker Monitoring via cAdvisor, InfluxDB and Grafana

Have you ever tried to monitor a docker solution? In this blog post, we will discuss three open source docker monitoring alternatives, before we will go through a step by step guide of a docker monitoring alternative that consist of the components Google cAdvisor as…

4 comments on “Resolving Networking Problems (Performance Problems) of a WD My Cloud NAS System”

Resolving Networking Problems (Performance Problems) of a WD My Cloud NAS System

Ever since I had bought a Western Digital My Cloud System with 4 TB of Backup space, I had problems with it: after some hours, the system was unreachable over the network. Several firmware upgrades later the problem has aggravated,…

3 comments on “Docker Performance Tests for Ruby on Rails”

Docker Performance Tests for Ruby on Rails

In a series of performance tests, we could show that a (Rails) web application has 50% higher performance on docker (installed on Windows/boot2docker) than the same application run natively on Windows, no matter whether or not the database and program code is located on a shared volume. However, if such a shared volume is auto-mounted to one of the Windows C:\Users folders, the performance drops by a factor of almost ten.