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Read Better URL Search with Elasticsearch
Monitoring

Better URL Search with Elasticsearch

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At trivago, we generate a huge amount of logs and we have our own custom setup for shipping logs using mostly Protocol Buffers. Eventually we end up with some fields in Elasticsearch (ES) that contain partial (or full) URLs. For instance, in our specific case we store the query component of the URL in a field called query and the path component in a field named url_path. Sample values for these fields could be:

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Read The Web Performance Impact Of Lossy Network Conditions
Monitoring Frontend User Experience

The Web Performance Impact Of Lossy Network Conditions

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tl;dr: continuously monitor your CDN and origin servers on layer 3 with tools like MTR. Layer 3 issues on external middleware can have a significant impact on layer 7 web performance. In a recent rollout of a new cloud service, we monitored the impact of this service on web performance, UX and business metrics. For all cloud regions and origin servers, we had Synthetic and Real User Monitoring for our site in place.

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Read Nomad - our experiences and best practices
Monitoring Backend DevOps

Nomad - our experiences and best practices

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Hello from trivago’s performance & monitoring team. One important part of our job is to ship more than a terabyte of logs and system metrics per day, from various data sources into elasticsearch, several time series databases and other data sinks. We do so by reading most of the data from multiple Kafka clusters and processing them with nearly 100 Logstashes. Our clusters currently consists of ~30 machines running Debian 7 with bare-metal installations of the aforementioned services.

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Read Splitting a Monitoring Monolith into Separate Components
Monitoring Open Source

Splitting a Monitoring Monolith into Separate Components

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Ever heard about Microservices? Those tiny litte pieces of code that are used to split a big pile of magic into smaller pieces of magic? Well, they’re not that tiny after all and require lots of preliminary work to use them properly. Have a look at this post to hear about my journey of splitting an existing monolith written in PHP up into several microservices written in Go.

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