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Why Unstructured Logging Falls Short: My Field Experiences
I examine the problems of unstructured logging I've encountered in systems, the parsing nightmare, and real-time analysis challenges through my own experiences.
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Career
Cardinality Explosion: Should Every Detail Really Be Observed? And
What is cardinality explosion in monitoring systems, why does it happen, and how does this situation affect both systems and an engineer's career? Practical...
Career
Log Level Strategies: Detailed Monitoring or Minimum Noise?
Correctly setting log levels in our systems requires striking a critical balance between detailed monitoring and reducing unnecessary noise. This…
Tutorials
Log Level Strategy: How to Make the Right Choices in a Production
What should be considered when defining a log level strategy in production environments? Which log level should be used when? I'll explain with my experiences.
Career
Log Level Strategy: Is Debug Always Unnecessary?
Effective management of log levels is critical for system health and troubleshooting processes. In this article, we explore the necessity of the debug level.
Life
Log Level Strategies: Balancing Observability and Cost
Optimize system observability and control costs by setting the right log levels. A practical guide based on my experiences.
Technology
Structured vs Unstructured Logging: Observability Fundamentals
Exploring the differences, benefits, and real-world applications of storing system and application logs in structured (structured) or unstructured.
Technology
Application Log Levels: When to Use DEBUG and INFO?
The correct use of DEBUG and INFO log levels plays a critical role in debugging and optimizing system performance during application development. In this post.
Technology
Syslog on Network Devices: TLS, Buffering, and Log Storm
A model for turning syslog loss and log storm risk into a reliable log channel for incident/audit, using TLS/relay, disk-backed queue, and rate limiting.
Tutorials
Centralized Logging with systemd-journal-remote: mTLS and Retention
A practical setup and runbook for shipping journald logs over mTLS to a central collector — without adding agents — while running a disciplined disk budget…
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Designing a Telemetry Pipeline with OpenTelemetry Collector
Treating Collector not just as an agent but as a central telemetry backbone for sampling, redaction, routing and multi-destination delivery.
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Centralized Logging with Windows Event Forwarding (WEF)
Subscriptions, health checks, and a triage runbook to centrally collect and validate security and operations signals in Windows domain environments using WEF.
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Privileged Command Monitoring Runbook on Linux with Auditd
A practical approach that makes privileged operations observable and auditable in production using sudo, auditd rules, and log forwarding.
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Sensitive-Data Masking Pipeline for Logs with Vector and VRL
A practical Vector and VRL based approach for cleaning sensitive fields out of a centralised log stream before they reach the destination.
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Reliable Remote Log Transport with Rsyslog and RELP
An rsyslog and RELP-based setup that keeps critical logs intact through TCP drops as they ship to a central system.
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Tiered Log Retention with Grafana Loki
A cost-focused retention guide for designing hot, warm, and archive log tiers on Loki.
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A Centralised Log Collection Pipeline with Vector
A practical Vector-based setup approach for collecting and routing application, syslog, and infrastructure logs through a single stream.
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End-to-End Observability Pipeline with OpenTelemetry
An OpenTelemetry-based observability architecture that brings metric, log and trace data into a single standard.