2026-09-22
If your application runs on hundreds of client devices or you have a fleet of sensors with telemetry, sooner or later you’ll need to see what’s happening on the ground. Commercial systems like Splunk or …
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Server metrics and logs don’t show everything. If an error occurred in the user’s browser or in a rare code path, the server may not log anything and the user may simply close the page. For such cases there …
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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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Prometheus — an open-source monitoring system and time-series database (Apache 2.0 license). It was created at SoundCloud in 2012, and in 2016 the project joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, second after …
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Munin is one of the oldest open-source monitoring systems (GPLv2). It collects system metrics from servers and builds ready-made graphs from them: no query language, no separate database, and almost no configuration. The …
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Monitoring is the continuous collection and analysis of data about the operation of servers, networks, databases, and applications. Its goal is to detect a problem before users do: to see that disk space is running out, …
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Most people use n8n to move data from one place to another — a webhook arrives, create a task, a form is filled out, send it to the CRM. It’s useful, no doubt, but it’s a bit like using a good knife only to …
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When you have one server — you SSH in and do what’s needed. When there are ten — you write bash scripts. When there are more than three hundred — either you automate everything completely, or the infrastructure manages …
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