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Between PostgreSQL Conference Germany 2023 and the Swiss PGDay 2023

The PostgreSQL Conference Germany 2023 is over and it was a success. We had 250 attendees which made this year’s edition of the conference the largest ever. For us the conference already started Monday evening with the speakers and(…)

Logs from Filebeat to Logstash to Elasticsearch -1

In a previous blog, we saw together the difference between Filebeat and Logstash, we said also that both can cooperate together in some cases. In this blog series we will deep into a use case: send(…)

Zabbix from Problem to Remediation

Until now, in my previous blog posts, we did not cover one of the main features of any monitoring platform: Alarming. In Zabbix, it is named triggers. Item and Trigger Trigger is based on an item calculation. Thus, the first(…)

ELK Stack – Filebeat vs Logstash

Filebeat and Logstash are both comprised in ELK Stack, in this blog we will compare both with some use cases. So, you can then take the most appropriate to your case.

Building a transportable Oracle Sandbox environment for an Apple Silicon Laptop (MacBook with M1- or M2-processor)

Since Apple released their Apple Silicon Laptops based on the ARM processor architecture, it became difficult for Consultants with such a device to run their Oracle Sandbox environment, because the main Oracle products are running on the Intel architecture. Hence(…)

Using Admission Controller in Kubernetes

Undoubtedly, Kubernetes has become the standard for container orchestration, making it necessary to work with extensions that add a layer of security and modularity. So, what exactly are these extensions? According to the Kubernetes documentation, “An admission controller is a(…)

Deploy awx-operator with Helm using images from a local registry

You want to deploy Ansible AWX on a Kubernetes cluster using awx-operator, but your security policy requires you to use a local registry to store the necessary container images ? Okay, let’s see how to do(…)

MongoDB:Backup and restore with mongodump and mongorestore

Introduction: As for Redis , MongoDB has its own backup utility to export and import data.This tool allow you in a single command to backup your database and your collections and then to load them. To save your data, we(…)

Elasticsearch – Snapshot Lifecycle Management (SLM)

In a previous blog, I spoke about snapshot, restore, and briefly about Snapshot Lifecycle Management. In this blog, I will go more in deep in SLM.

Elasticsearch – Snapshot and Restore

No need to explain what is a snapshot and restore, how much they are important to any platform, software, database, aso. In this blog, I will show you how to take snapshots of your Elasticsearch cluster and how to restore.