Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Mar 7, 2022 | LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING, OBSERVABILITY
HAProxy and HAProxy Enterprise collect a vast amount of information about the health of your applications being load balanced. That data, which uses the Prometheus text-based format for metrics, is published to a web page hosted by the load balancer, and since many...
Jim O'Connell Jim O'Connell | May 24, 2021 | BASICS, OBSERVABILITY, TECH
HAProxy generates over a hundred metrics to give you a nearly real-time view of the state of your load balancers and the services they proxy, but to get the most from this data, you need a way to visualize it. InfluxData’s InfluxDB suite of applications takes...
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Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Feb 12, 2021 | OBSERVABILITY
HAProxy publishes more than 100 metrics about the traffic flowing through it. When you use HAProxy as an API gateway, these give you insight into how clients are accessing your APIs. Several metrics come to mind as particularly useful, since they can help you...
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,...
