Platform Engineering

  Getting Started with Fluentd: Unified Logging for Modern Applications When you run applications across multiple servers, containers, and cloud services, logs quickly become… chaos. Different formats, different locations, and no easy way to search or analyze them. Fluentd is a powerful open-source data collector that helps you solve exactly this problem by unifying log collection and routing from many sources to many destinations. In this post, we’ll cover: What Fluentd is and why you’d use it Key concepts (inputs, filters, outputs, buffers) How to install Fluentd A simple architecture diagram and explanation What is Fluentd? Fluentd is an open-source log and data collector. It sits between your applications and your log storage/analytics systems and acts as a unified logging layer . Think of Fluentd as: “A smart pipe that collects data from many places, transforms it, and sends it where you want.” Why use Fluentd? Some reasons Fluentd is popular: Un...

  Understanding Observability: Logs, Metrics, and Traces with Grafana and Prometheus 🚀 Introduction In today’s cloud-native world of microservices, containers, and distributed systems , simply monitoring your servers isn’t enough. To truly understand how your system behaves, you need observability — a combination of logs, metrics, and traces that together provide full visibility into your applications. In this post, we’ll break down each observability pillar, explore their differences, and see how tools like Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, and Tempo work together to give you a complete picture. 🧩 What Is Observability? Observability is the ability to understand the internal state of your systems by analyzing the data they produce — mainly logs , metrics , and traces . It helps engineers detect issues faster , diagnose root causes , and improve system performance . Each pillar provides unique insights: Pillar Focus Example Logs What happened Error messages, debug info, au...