Middleware Team

Apache Kafka and ksqlDB

After two introduction blogs on Apache Kafka (ie. Apache Kafka Concepts by Example and Apache Kafka Consumer Group), it is time to discover the wide ecosystem around it. In this blog post,(…)

Elasticsearch, Ingest Pipeline and Machine Learning

Elasticsearch has few interesting features around Machine Learning. While I was looking for data to import into Elasticsearch, I found interesting data sets from Airbnb especially reviews. I noticed that it does not contain any rate,(…)

Monitor Elasticsearch Cluster with Zabbix

Setting up Zabbix monitoring over an Elasticsearch cluster is quiet easy as it does not require an agent install. As a matter a fact, the official template uses the Elastic REST API. Zabbix server itself will(…)

Apache httpd Tuning and Monitoring with Zabbix

There is no tuning possible without a proper monitoring in place to measure the impact of any changes. Thus, before trying to tune an Apache httpd server, I will explain how to monitor it with Zabbix. Setup Zabbix Monitoring Apache(…)

Faster Ansible

Even if Ansible is powerful and flexible, it can be considered “slow”. It will be anyway faster, and more consistent, than doing the same steps manually. Nevertheless, we will experiment to make it even faster. I found few of them(…)

Monitor Kubernetes with Zabbix

Zabbix might not be the first monitoring tool that comes in mind when you want to monitor a Kubernetes cluster (Did you say Prometheus? 🙂 ). Nevertheless, as an open-source project, Zabbix have affinities with others open-source projects. In this(…)

Configure Zabbix with Ansible

Besides the ability to setup your Zabbix server, proxy and agents, the Ansible collection for Zabbix (ie. community.zabbix) also allows to configure every aspects of your Zabbix system. From hosts to users,(…)

Why businesses – regardless of their size – have an interest in using an ECM/IIM solution?

In today’s business landscape, everyone is facing a crucial dilemma: how to store my information? How to secure my data? How to manage my content processes? How to make my data more intelligent? Which solution to use? In this(…)

Zabbix Web Monitoring

Zabbix allows to create complex web monitoring scenario and gather metrics about it. In this blog post, we will see how to assess that we are able to login to M-Files web application and, to not(…)

How to Improve your JMeter Load Testing?

In my previous blog post, I presented you how to create a load testing scenario based on a recorder. While working on it, I faced small problems that required few fixes which were very repetitive (and(…)