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
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 available in HAProx ICMP (ping) check...
Baptiste Assmann Baptiste Assmann | Jan 2, 2014 | OBSERVABILITY, TECH
Introduction Redis is an open-source 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....
