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Olivier Spiesser

Elasticsearch, Ingest Pipeline and Machine Learning

16.04.2024 by Olivier Spiesser

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,(…)

DevOps

Monitor Elasticsearch Cluster with Zabbix

12.04.2024 by Olivier Spiesser

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(…)

Application integration & Middleware

Apache httpd Tuning and Monitoring with Zabbix

09.04.2024 by Olivier Spiesser

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(…)

Ansible

Faster Ansible

08.04.2024 by Olivier Spiesser

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(…)

DevOps

Monitor Kubernetes with Zabbix

27.02.2024 by Olivier Spiesser

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(…)

Ansible

Configure Zabbix with Ansible

13.02.2024 by Olivier Spiesser

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,(…)

Application integration & Middleware

Zabbix Web Monitoring

30.01.2024 by Olivier Spiesser

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(…)

Application integration & Middleware

How to Improve your JMeter Load Testing?

29.01.2024 by Olivier Spiesser

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(…)

Application integration & Middleware

Load Test M-Files Server with JMeter

25.01.2024 by Olivier Spiesser

Creating load test scenario on a web application might look easy: Record a scenario Replay it In practice, it is much more complex than that when you want to manage variables elements like usernames, session IDs, and, in case of(…)

Application integration & Middleware

Monitor M-Files with Zabbix

23.01.2024 by Olivier Spiesser

So far, for Zabbix monitoring, I only covered Linux based servers. We can put aside MS-SQL which was monitored via ODBC, thus without any Zabbix agent involved. In this blog post, I will explain you how(…)