Jim O'Connell Jim O'Connell | Nov 17, 2020 | BASICS, OBSERVABILITY
Log Sampling is a powerful feature introduced in HAProxy 2.0 that lets you define a percentage of your logs to create a representative view of your data allowing you to minimize your costs. Log files are the key to observability. They can provide helpful information...
HAProxy Technologies HAProxy Technologies | Jun 14, 2019 | CLOUD, OBSERVABILITY
HAProxy integrates with AWS X-Ray to give you the best observability across your Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources, including your load balancer. Read on to learn how. There is a trend to move away from monolithic applications towards microservices. Microservices...
Chad Lavoie Chad Lavoie | Apr 12, 2019 | DEVOPS, OBSERVABILITY
HAProxy has added native support for Prometheus, allowing you to export metrics directly. Read on to learn more. Metrics are a key aspect of observability, along with logging and tracing. They contain the data that inform you about the state of your systems,...
Baptiste Assmann Baptiste Assmann | Jun 6, 2014 | OBSERVABILITY, TECH
Application layer health checking Health checking is the ability to probe a server to ensure the service is up and running. This is one of the root feature of any load-balancer. One can probe servers and services at different layer of the OSI model: * ARP check (not...
Baptiste Assmann Baptiste Assmann | Jan 2, 2014 | OBSERVABILITY, TECH
Introduction Redis is an opensource nosql database working on a key/value model. One interesting feature in Redis is that it is able to write data to disk as well as a master can synchronize many slaves. HAProxy can load-balance Redis servers with no issues at all....
