2026-09-22
Cloud automation services — Zapier, Make, Albato — and their comparison with n8n are covered in the third part of the series. This article is about something else: which platforms you can deploy on your own server …
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Jitsi Meet — an open-source video conferencing application (Apache 2.0 license). You can use it on the public server meet.jit.si or install it on your own server: then calls go through your infrastructure, and …
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What is Keenetic Keenetic is a line of routers, access points and Wi-Fi extenders with its own operating system, KeeneticOS. The main thing about these devices is not the hardware specifications, but the system: it is …
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Virtualization allows you to run multiple independent virtual machines (VMs) on a single physical server. Each VM has its own operating system, its own disks and network interfaces, while the processor, memory and …
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When the office loses internet or the switch in the server room fails, everything that depends on the network stops: mail, CRM, cloud accounting, IP telephony, order processing on the website. Redundancy of communication …
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Loki — a log storage system from Grafana Labs. Its main difference from ELK, OpenSearch and Graylog is that Loki does not build a full-text index. Only labels are indexed — a short set of key–value pairs describing the …
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ELK Stack — the best-known software stack for centralized logging. The name is formed from the initials of three components from Elastic: Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. Together they collect logs, parse them into …
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Metrics show something is wrong with the system: response time has increased, memory is exhausted, the share of successful requests has dropped. To understand why this happened, you need logs — records of events written …
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VictoriaMetrics — a time-series database compatible with Prometheus. It is used as a long-term storage for Prometheus metrics or as a complete replacement for it — together with the vmagent collector and the vmalert …
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Zabbix — an “all-in-one” monitoring system: data collection, storage, triggers, alerts, dashboards and access control are combined in a single product. It’s chosen when you need to monitor servers, …
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