Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Mar 7, 2022 | LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING, OBSERVABILITY
HAProxy and HAProxy Enterprise collect a vast amount of information about the health of your applications being load balanced. That data, which uses the Prometheus text-based format for metrics, is published to a web page hosted by the load balancer, and since many...
Jim O'Connell Jim O'Connell | May 24, 2021 | BASICS, OBSERVABILITY, TECH
HAProxy generates over a hundred metrics to give you a nearly real-time view of the state of your load balancers and the services they proxy, but to get the most from this data, you need a way to visualize it. InfluxData’s InfluxDB suite of applications takes...
Moemen Mhedhbi Moemen Mhedhbi | Feb 19, 2021 | KUBERNETES, OBSERVABILITY
The HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller publishes two sets of logs: the ingress controller logs and the HAProxy access logs. After you install the HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller, logging jumps to mind as one of the first features to configure. Logs...
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Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Feb 12, 2021 | OBSERVABILITY
HAProxy publishes more than 100 metrics about the traffic flowing through it. When you use HAProxy as an API gateway, these give you insight into how clients are accessing your APIs. Several metrics come to mind as particularly useful, since they can help you...
Jim O'Connell Jim O'Connell | Nov 17, 2020 | BASICS, OBSERVABILITY
Log Sampling is a powerful feature introduced in HAProxy 2.0 that lets you define a percentage of your logs to create a representative view of your data allowing you to minimize your costs. Log files are the key to observability. They can provide helpful information...
HAProxy Technologies HAProxy Technologies | Jun 14, 2019 | CLOUD, OBSERVABILITY
HAProxy integrates with AWS X-Ray to give you the best observability across your Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources, including your load balancer. Read on to learn how. There is a trend to move away from monolithic applications towards microservices. Microservices...
