Knowledge Base | Observability
Tracing Requests Through HAProxy with AWS X-Ray
HAProxy TechnologiesHAProxy 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...
HAProxy Exposes a Prometheus Metrics Endpoint
Chad LavoieHAProxy 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, which...
Binary Health Check with HAProxy 1.5: PHP-fpm/fastcgi Probe Example
Baptiste AssmannApplication 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...
HAProxy Advanced Redis Health Check
Baptiste AssmannIntroduction 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....
