Observability and Instrumentation in Systems
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What is the primary function of instrumentation?

  • To visualize and alert on system behavior
  • To enable role-based access control
  • To automate user provisioning and management
  • To collect and analyze telemetry data (correct)

    • What is the main benefit of integrating data from compute or service to an observability platform?

  • Automated user management
  • Improved data security
  • Enhanced system performance
  • Centralized analysis, visualization, and alerting (correct)

    • What is the primary focus of the Coralogix observability platform?

  • Single sign-on and authentication
  • Identity and access management
  • CI/CD pipelines and automation
  • Logs, metrics, traces, and security data (correct)

    • What is the purpose of SCIM?

    <p>To automate user provisioning and management</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary benefit of using Coralogix Templates?

    <p>Clustered logs with similar structures and sources</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary function of AWS IAM?

    <p>To control resource access in AWS</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary benefit of using CI/CD platforms like CircleCI and Jenkins?

    <p>Automated integration, testing, and deployment of code</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary function of SAML?

    <p>To enable single sign-on authentication</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary purpose of AWS Glue?

    <p>Extract, transform, and load (ETL) service</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main distinction of Amazon S3?

    <p>Scalable cloud storage service</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary function of Elasticsearch?

    <p>Search and analytics engine</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the purpose of Amazon Kinesis?

    <p>Streaming data on the cloud</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary use of Grafana?

    <p>Monitoring and observability</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary use of AWS Open Distro for Elasticsearch?

    <p>Distribution of Elasticsearch with enhanced features</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary use of Amazon CloudWatch?

    <p>Monitoring and observability service</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary benefit of using Fargate with ECS?

    <p>Defining container specifications without scalability concerns</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary use of Prometheus?

    <p>Open-source monitoring system</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the purpose of a node in a Kubernetes cluster?

    <p>To host multiple pods and provide necessary services</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary function of OpenTelemetry Collector?

    <p>To receive, process, and export telemetry data</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main difference between ECS and ECS-Fargate?

    <p>ECS requires provisioning EC2 instances, while ECS-Fargate does not</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary purpose of Amazon ECS?

    <p>To provide a managed container service for AWS</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary function of a pod in Kubernetes?

    <p>To ensure the co-location and co-scheduling of containers</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary purpose of Ansible?

    <p>To automate the provisioning and management of servers</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary function of Docker?

    <p>To develop, ship, and run applications inside containers</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following is a service mesh designed to control and observe microservices-based applications?

    <p>Istio</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which platform is designed to provide reliable notifications, automatic escalations, and on-call scheduling for incident management?

    <p>PagerDuty</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary function of Blue/Green Deployment?

    <p>To reduce downtime and risk by running two separate production environments</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following is an open-source, large-scale metrics platform for Prometheus?

    <p>M3DB</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary function of Zipkin?

    <p>To gather timing data for all the disparate services at work during a request to a system</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following is owned by Datadog?

    <p>Vector</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary function of Canary Deployment?

    <p>To roll out new software versions gradually to a small subset of users</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following is Google Cloud's integrated monitoring, logging, and diagnostics tool?

    <p>GCP Stackdriver</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary purpose of Amazon GuardDuty?

    <p>To continuously monitor for malicious activity in your AWS environment</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main difference between Application Load Balancer (ALB) and Network Load Balancer (NLB)?

    <p>ALB is best suited for routing HTTP/HTTPS traffic, while NLB is a type of AWS Elastic Load Balancer optimized for handling sudden and volatile traffic patterns</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the purpose of Snyk?

    <p>To identify and fix vulnerabilities in open-source dependencies and container images</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the purpose of Auditd?

    <p>To collect security-related events in a log file</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary purpose of a trace in the context of observability?

    <p>To provide a detailed breakdown of a request's execution path across services</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary purpose of an Intrusion Detection System (IDS)?

    <p>To monitor networks or systems for malicious activity or policy violations</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary purpose of a Service Level Indicator (SLI)?

    <p>To gauge the reliability, availability, or performance of a service</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary purpose of Zabbix?

    <p>To provide an enterprise-class open-source distributed monitoring solution for networks and applications</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following terms with their definitions:

    <p>Observability = The capability to introspect the internal state of a system from its external outputs. Instrumentation = The process of adding monitoring and observability code to an application or system. Integration = The process of shipping data from compute or service to an observability platform. RBAC = A system where access decisions are based on roles assigned to users.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following platforms with their descriptions:

    <p>Coralogix = A SaaS observability platform focused on logs, metrics, traces and Security data. CircleCI = A CI/CD platform that automates the integration and deployment of code. AWS IAM = A service to control resource access in AWS. SCIM = An open standard that automates user provisioning and management across cloud applications and services.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following terms with their definitions:

    <p>SAML = An XML-based protocol for authentication and authorization. SSO = An authentication process that allows a user to access multiple applications with a single set of credentials. CI/CD = Practices that automate the integration and deployment of code. Coralogix Template = A grouping in Coralogix, where logs with similar structures and sources are clustered by ML.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following platforms with their descriptions:

    <p>Jenkins = A CI/CD platform that automates the integration, testing, and deployment of code. AWS IAM = A service to control resource access in AWS. CircleCI = A CI/CD platform that automates the integration and deployment of code. Coralogix = A SaaS observability platform focused on logs, metrics, traces and Security data.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following terms with their definitions:

    <p>Observability = The capability to introspect the internal state of a system from its external outputs. Integration = The process of shipping data from compute or service to an observability platform. Instrumentation = The process of adding monitoring and observability code to an application or system. RBAC = A system where access decisions are based on roles assigned to users.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following terms with their definitions:

    <p>SCIM = An open standard that automates user provisioning and management across cloud applications and services. SAML = An XML-based protocol for authentication and authorization. SSO = An authentication process that allows a user to access multiple applications with a single set of credentials. CI/CD = Practices that automate the integration and deployment of code.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following AWS services with their descriptions:

    <p>AWS Lambda = A serverless compute service that runs code in response to events and automatically manages compute resources ECS = A managed container service by AWS ECS-EC2 = Launch and manage your own EC2 instances (virtual servers) in your AWS account ECS-Fargate = A serverless compute engine for containers</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following platforms with their descriptions:

    <p>AWS IAM = A service to control resource access in AWS. Coralogix = A SaaS observability platform focused on logs, metrics, traces and Security data. CircleCI = A CI/CD platform that automates the integration and deployment of code. Jenkins = A CI/CD platform that automates the integration, testing, and deployment of code.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following terms with their definitions:

    <p>Instrumentation = The process of adding monitoring and observability code to an application or system. Integration = The process of shipping data from compute or service to an observability platform. Coralogix Template = A grouping in Coralogix, where logs with similar structures and sources are clustered by ML. Observability = The capability to introspect the internal state of a system from its external outputs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following containerization tools with their descriptions:

    <p>Docker = A platform to develop, ship, and run applications inside containers Kubernetes/K8s = An open-source container orchestration platform for automating application deployment, scaling, and management ECS = A managed container service by AWS Container = A lightweight, standalone, and executable software package that includes everything needed to run a piece of software</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following configuration management tools with their descriptions:

    <p>AWS Chef = A configuration management tool integrated with AWS Puppet = An open-source configuration management tool used to automate the provisioning and management of servers Ansible = An open-source automation tool for configuration management, application deployment, and task automation Chef = An open-source tool for automating the deployment, configuration, and management of infrastructure</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following data processing and analytics tools with their descriptions:

    <p>Amazon Athena = An interactive query service to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL Logstash = A data processing pipeline that ingests, transforms, and sends data to specified storage like Elasticsearch Filebeat = A lightweight log shipper for Elasticsearch, collecting and forwarding log data from files Metricbeat = Collects metrics from systems and services, forwarding them to Elasticsearch or Logstash</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following observability tools with their descriptions:

    <p>OpenTelemetry (OTel) Collector = A component of the OpenTelemetry framework that receives, processes, and exports telemetry data (traces, metrics, logs) DataDog Agent = A lightweight software that collects and forwards metrics, traces, and logs from hosts to the Datadog platform for monitoring and analytics FluentD = An open-source data collector used for unifying log data collection and consumption Regex = A sequence of characters defining a search pattern</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following orchestration tools with their descriptions:

    <p>Kubernetes/K8s = An open-source container orchestration platform for automating application deployment, scaling, and management ECS = A managed container service by AWS Amazon EKS = A managed Kubernetes service by AWS Node (K8s) = A worker machine, virtual machine, or physical computer that serves as a host for running pods</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following container registry and compute services with their descriptions:

    <p>Amazon ECR = A managed Docker container registry by AWS AWS Lambda = A serverless compute service that runs code in response to events and automatically manages compute resources ECS = A managed container service by AWS Cloudbees = A provider of Jenkins-based continuous delivery solutions</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following security and monitoring tools with their descriptions:

    <p>Amazon GuardDuty = A threat detection service that continuously monitors for malicious activity and unauthorized behavior Auditd = A security auditing tool that monitors system calls Snyk = A security platform that helps developers find and fix vulnerabilities in open-source dependencies Zabbix = An enterprise-class monitoring solution for networks and applications</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following tools with their primary functions:

    <p>Curl = A command-line tool for transferring data with URL syntax Packetbeat = A real-time network packet analyzer that sends data to Elasticsearch Kibana = A visualization tool for Elasticsearch, allowing users to create dashboards and explore data Grafana = An open-source platform for monitoring and observability, known for its customizable dashboards</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following databases with their primary characteristics:

    <p>InFlux DB = An open-source time series database optimized for fast, high-availability storage Amazon RDS = A managed relational database service by AWS Elasticsearch = A search and analytics engine used for indexing, searching, and analyzing large datasets in real-time Apache Lucene = A high-performance text search engine library in Java, which underpins Elasticsearch</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following companies with their primary products or services:

    <p>Hashicorp = Infrastructure automation software, with products like Terraform, Vault, and Consul InfluxData = A platform for real-time monitoring and analytics, known for InfluxDB Fastly = A cloud computing service provider, offering content delivery network services Instana = A performance monitoring and management tool for cloud-native applications</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following AWS services with their primary functions:

    <p>AWS Glue = A managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service Amazon S3 = A scalable cloud storage service Amazon CloudWatch = A monitoring and observability service Amazon Kinesis = A platform for streaming data on the cloud</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following logging and monitoring tools with their primary functions:

    <p>Syslog = A standard for message logging, allowing separation of software from system messages Metrics = Quantitative measurements used to monitor and assess the status or performance of systems and applications Thanos = A set of components that can be composed into a highly available metric system with unlimited storage capacity Cortex = A horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long-term storage for Prometheus</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following query languages with their primary uses:

    <p>Lucene syntax = The query language for Apache Lucene and platforms like Elasticsearch PromQL = The query language for Prometheus monitoring YAML = A human-readable data serialization format, often used for configuration files JSON = JavaScript Object Notation: a lightweight format for storing and transporting data</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following message brokers with their primary characteristics:

    <p>RabbitMQ = A message broker that allows applications to exchange data, known for its versatility Apache Kafka = A distributed streaming platform, known for its scalability and high-throughput Amazon SQS = A message queue service offered by AWS Amazon SNS = A notification service offered by AWS</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following content delivery networks with their primary providers:

    <p>CDN = A system of distributed servers that deliver web content based on user location Amazon CloudFront = A content delivery network offered by Amazon Web Services Fastly = A cloud computing service provider, offering content delivery network services VPC = A virtual private cloud related to the customer or Coralogix</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following tools with their primary usage:

    <p>NGINX = Web server, reverse proxy server, and mail proxy server Suricata = Open-source network threat detection engine Jaeger = Open-source distributed tracing system Zabbix = Enterprise-class open-source distributed monitoring solution</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following AWS services with their primary function:

    <p>ELB = Distributes incoming traffic across multiple targets Route 53 = Scalable and highly available Domain Name System (DNS) and domain registration service AWS WAF = Web application firewall service that helps protect web applications or APIs against common web exploits NLB = Handles sudden and volatile traffic patterns</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following programming languages with their characteristics:

    <p>Ruby = Dynamic, object-oriented programming language known for its simplicity and productivity Python = High-level, interpreted programming language known for its clarity and versatility SQL = Language used for database queries CSS = Styling web pages</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following observability concepts with their definitions:

    <p>RED Metrics = Request rate, Error rate, and Duration metrics for monitoring and understanding service health and performance APM = Method of monitoring the performance and availability of software applications SLO = Target level or range of values for a service level, indicating the desired performance of a service Error Budget = Acceptable level of errors or downtime a system can have</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following security tools with their primary function:

    <p>Snort = Open-source intrusion prevention system capable of real-time traffic analysis Suricata = Open-source network threat detection engine Forensics = Scientific process of collecting and analyzing information about past events, typically related to computer security incidents Security Onion = Free and open-source Linux distribution for intrusion detection and network monitoring</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following AWS services with their primary purpose:

    <p>Amazon GuardDuty = Threat detection service that continuously monitors for malicious activity in your AWS environment Amazon S3 = Object store for storing and retrieving data AWS Glue = Fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service AWS CloudWatch = Monitoring and logging service for AWS resources and applications</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following development tools with their primary purpose:

    <p>GitLab = Web-based DevOps platform providing Git repository management, CI/CD, and more Ansible = Automation tool for configuration management, application deployment, and task automation Docker = Containerization platform for deploying applications Snyk = Platform that identifies and fixes vulnerabilities in open-source dependencies and container images</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following distributed tracing concepts with their definitions:

    <p>Traces = Detailed chronological view of transactions as they flow across distributed systems Spans = Single operation or unit of work in a trace within a distributed system Jaeger = Open-source distributed tracing system Loki = Horizontally-scalable, highly-available, multi-tenant log aggregation system</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following observability platforms with their primary usage:

    <p>Vector = General-purpose data pipeline Istio = Service mesh for microservices-based applications M3DB = Distributed time series database Zipkin = Distributed tracing system</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following incident management platforms with their functionalities:

    <p>PagerDuty = Reliable notifications and automatic escalations Opsgenie = On-call scheduling and incident management Datadog = Observability data pipeline GCP Stackdriver = Monitoring, logging, and diagnostics</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following deployment techniques with their benefits:

    <p>Blue/Green Deployment = Reducing downtime and risk Canary Deployment = Gradual roll-out of new software versions Vector = General-purpose data pipeline Istio = Service mesh for microservices-based applications</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following platforms with their owners:

    <p>Vector = Datadog Istio = Google Cloud GCP Stackdriver = Google Cloud PagerDuty = Opsgenie</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following platforms with their primary focus areas:

    <p>Istio = Microservices-based applications GCP Stackdriver = Monitoring, logging, and diagnostics M3DB = Distributed time series database Zipkin = Distributed tracing</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following platforms with their usage scenarios:

    <p>Vector = Collecting data from various sources Istio = Controlling microservices-based applications PagerDuty = Incident management GCP Stackdriver = Monitoring cloud infrastructure</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following platforms with their functionalities:

    <p>M3DB = Real-time distributed time series database Zipkin = Gathering timing data for services Istio = Providing service mesh GCP Stackdriver = Monitoring cloud infrastructure</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following platforms with their primary use cases:

    <p>Vector = Observability data pipeline Istio = Service mesh for microservices GCP Stackdriver = Monitoring, logging, and diagnostics PagerDuty = Incident management and notification</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Study Notes

    Observability and Monitoring

    • Observability: the capability to introspect the internal state of a system from its external outputs, essential for debugging and understanding system behavior.
    • Coralogix: a SaaS observability platform focused on logs, metrics, traces, and security data.
    • Coralogix Template: a grouping in Coralogix where logs with similar structures and sources are clustered by ML.

    Instrumentation and Integration

    • Instrumentation: the process of adding monitoring and observability code to an application or system, allowing it to produce telemetry data for analysis, debugging, and performance optimization.
    • Integration: the process of shipping data from compute or service to an observability platform, involving collecting, transforming, and sending telemetry data from servers, containers, or applications to a centralized observability platform.

    Access Control and Security

    • RBAC (Role-Based Access Control): a system where access decisions are based on roles assigned to users.
    • AWS IAM (Identity and Access Management): a service to control resource access in AWS.
    • SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language): an XML-based protocol for authentication and authorization.
    • SSO (Single Sign-On): an authentication process that allows a user to access multiple applications or services with a single set of credentials.

    Continuous Integration and Deployment

    • CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment): practices that automate the integration and deployment of code.
    • CircleCI and Jenkins: CI/CD platforms that automate the integration, testing, and deployment of code.
    • Cloudbees: a provider of Jenkins-based continuous delivery solutions.

    Containerization and Orchestration

    • AWS Lambda: a serverless compute service that runs code in response to events and automatically manages compute resources.
    • ECS (Elastic Container Service): a compute engine for Amazon ECS, allowing running containers without managing servers.
    • ECS-EC2: launch and manage your own EC2 instances (virtual servers) in your AWS account.
    • ECS-Fargate: a serverless compute engine for containers, where you don't need to provision, configure, or manage servers for your containers.

    Container and Orchestration

    • Container: a lightweight, standalone, and executable software package that includes everything needed to run a piece of software.
    • Pod (K8s): the smallest and simplest unit in the Kubernetes container orchestration system, holding one or more containers that share the same network IP, port space, and storage.
    • Node (K8s): a worker machine, virtual machine, or physical computer that serves as a host for running pods in a Kubernetes cluster.

    Configuration Management

    • AWS Chef: a configuration management tool integrated with AWS.
    • Config manager: a generic term that refers to a tool or system used to manage and maintain configuration settings for software or hardware systems.
    • Puppet: an open-source configuration management tool used to automate the provisioning and management of servers.
    • Chef: an open-source tool for automating the deployment, configuration, and management of infrastructure.
    • Ansible: an open-source automation tool for configuration management, application deployment, and task automation.

    Observability and Monitoring Tools

    • Amazon ECS: a managed container service by AWS.
    • Amazon ECR: a managed Docker container registry by AWS.
    • Kubernetes/K8s: an open-source container orchestration platform for automating application deployment, scaling, and management.
    • OpenTelemetry (OTel): an open-source observability framework for cloud-native software, providing APIs, libraries, agents, and instrumentation to capture distributed traces and metrics from applications.
    • OpenTelemetry (OTel) Collector: a component of the OpenTelemetry framework that receives, processes, and exports telemetry data (traces, metrics, logs).

    Data and Analytics

    • Amazon Athena: an interactive query service to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL.
    • Elasticsearch: a search and analytics engine used for indexing, searching, and analyzing large datasets in real-time.
    • Apache Lucene: a high-performance text search engine library in Java, which underpins Elasticsearch.
    • Kibana: a visualization tool for Elasticsearch, allowing users to create dashboards and explore data.
    • Grafana: an open-source platform for monitoring and observability, known for its customizable dashboards.

    Other Tools and Technologies

    • Docker: a platform to develop, ship, and run applications inside containers.
    • Amazon EKS: a managed Kubernetes service by AWS.
    • InfluxData: a company offering a platform for real-time monitoring and analytics, known for InfluxDB.
    • Instana: a performance monitoring and management tool for cloud-native applications.
    • Syslog: a standard for message logging, allowing separation of software from system messages.
    • Metrics: quantitative measurements used to monitor and assess the status or performance of systems and applications.
    • Thanos: a set of components that can be composed into a highly available metric system with unlimited storage capacity.
    • Cortex: a horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long-term storage for Prometheus.

    Security and Auditing

    • Amazon CloudWatch: a monitoring and observability service offered by Amazon Web Services.
    • Prometheus: an open-source monitoring system with a multi-dimensional data model.
    • Auditbeat: a lightweight shipper to collect audit data from hosts and send it to Elasticsearch.
    • Packetbeat: a real-time network packet analyzer that sends data to Elasticsearch.
    • Access logs: logs that capture who accessed a system and what actions they performed.
    • Server access logging: logs that capture the requests made to a server.
    • S3 Access Logs: logs that provide details for all of the requests made against an S3 bucket.
    • VPC Flow Logs: capture information about the IP traffic going to and from network interfaces in a VPC.
    • Amazon CloudTrail: tracks user activity and API usage on AWS, providing an audit log of actions taken in an AWS account.

    Messaging and Streaming

    • RabbitMQ: a message broker that allows applications to exchange data.
    • Curl: a command-line tool for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting various protocols.

    Identity and Access Management

    • AWS IAM: a service to control resource access in AWS.
    • SAML: an XML-based protocol for authentication and authorization.
    • SSO: an authentication process that allows a user to access multiple applications or services with a single set of credentials.

    Content Delivery and Load Balancing

    • CDN: a system of distributed servers that deliver web content based on user location.
    • Fastly: a cloud computing service provider, offering content delivery network services.
    • Amazon CloudFront: a content delivery network offered by Amazon Web Services.
    • Amazon Route 53: Amazon's scalable and highly available Domain Name System (DNS) and domain registration service.
    • AWS ELB: Elastic Load Balancing, distributes incoming traffic across multiple targets, such as EC2 instances.
    • Network Load Balancing (NLB): a type of AWS Elastic Load Balancer optimized for handling sudden and volatile traffic patterns.
    • Application Load Balancer (ALB): a type of AWS Elastic Load Balancer best suited for routing HTTP/HTTPS traffic.
    • NGINX: a web server, reverse proxy server, and mail proxy server.

    Observability and Monitoring

    • Observability: the capability to introspect the internal state of a system from its external outputs, essential for debugging and understanding system behavior.
    • Coralogix: a SaaS observability platform focused on logs, metrics, traces, and security data.
    • Coralogix Template: a grouping in Coralogix where logs with similar structures and sources are clustered by ML.

    Instrumentation and Integration

    • Instrumentation: the process of adding monitoring and observability code to an application or system, allowing it to produce telemetry data for analysis, debugging, and performance optimization.
    • Integration: the process of shipping data from compute or service to an observability platform, involving collecting, transforming, and sending telemetry data from servers, containers, or applications to a centralized observability platform.

    Access Control and Security

    • RBAC (Role-Based Access Control): a system where access decisions are based on roles assigned to users.
    • AWS IAM (Identity and Access Management): a service to control resource access in AWS.
    • SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language): an XML-based protocol for authentication and authorization.
    • SSO (Single Sign-On): an authentication process that allows a user to access multiple applications or services with a single set of credentials.

    Continuous Integration and Deployment

    • CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment): practices that automate the integration and deployment of code.
    • CircleCI and Jenkins: CI/CD platforms that automate the integration, testing, and deployment of code.
    • Cloudbees: a provider of Jenkins-based continuous delivery solutions.

    Containerization and Orchestration

    • AWS Lambda: a serverless compute service that runs code in response to events and automatically manages compute resources.
    • ECS (Elastic Container Service): a compute engine for Amazon ECS, allowing running containers without managing servers.
    • ECS-EC2: launch and manage your own EC2 instances (virtual servers) in your AWS account.
    • ECS-Fargate: a serverless compute engine for containers, where you don't need to provision, configure, or manage servers for your containers.

    Container and Orchestration

    • Container: a lightweight, standalone, and executable software package that includes everything needed to run a piece of software.
    • Pod (K8s): the smallest and simplest unit in the Kubernetes container orchestration system, holding one or more containers that share the same network IP, port space, and storage.
    • Node (K8s): a worker machine, virtual machine, or physical computer that serves as a host for running pods in a Kubernetes cluster.

    Configuration Management

    • AWS Chef: a configuration management tool integrated with AWS.
    • Config manager: a generic term that refers to a tool or system used to manage and maintain configuration settings for software or hardware systems.
    • Puppet: an open-source configuration management tool used to automate the provisioning and management of servers.
    • Chef: an open-source tool for automating the deployment, configuration, and management of infrastructure.
    • Ansible: an open-source automation tool for configuration management, application deployment, and task automation.

    Observability and Monitoring Tools

    • Amazon ECS: a managed container service by AWS.
    • Amazon ECR: a managed Docker container registry by AWS.
    • Kubernetes/K8s: an open-source container orchestration platform for automating application deployment, scaling, and management.
    • OpenTelemetry (OTel): an open-source observability framework for cloud-native software, providing APIs, libraries, agents, and instrumentation to capture distributed traces and metrics from applications.
    • OpenTelemetry (OTel) Collector: a component of the OpenTelemetry framework that receives, processes, and exports telemetry data (traces, metrics, logs).

    Data and Analytics

    • Amazon Athena: an interactive query service to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL.
    • Elasticsearch: a search and analytics engine used for indexing, searching, and analyzing large datasets in real-time.
    • Apache Lucene: a high-performance text search engine library in Java, which underpins Elasticsearch.
    • Kibana: a visualization tool for Elasticsearch, allowing users to create dashboards and explore data.
    • Grafana: an open-source platform for monitoring and observability, known for its customizable dashboards.

    Other Tools and Technologies

    • Docker: a platform to develop, ship, and run applications inside containers.
    • Amazon EKS: a managed Kubernetes service by AWS.
    • InfluxData: a company offering a platform for real-time monitoring and analytics, known for InfluxDB.
    • Instana: a performance monitoring and management tool for cloud-native applications.
    • Syslog: a standard for message logging, allowing separation of software from system messages.
    • Metrics: quantitative measurements used to monitor and assess the status or performance of systems and applications.
    • Thanos: a set of components that can be composed into a highly available metric system with unlimited storage capacity.
    • Cortex: a horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long-term storage for Prometheus.

    Security and Auditing

    • Amazon CloudWatch: a monitoring and observability service offered by Amazon Web Services.
    • Prometheus: an open-source monitoring system with a multi-dimensional data model.
    • Auditbeat: a lightweight shipper to collect audit data from hosts and send it to Elasticsearch.
    • Packetbeat: a real-time network packet analyzer that sends data to Elasticsearch.
    • Access logs: logs that capture who accessed a system and what actions they performed.
    • Server access logging: logs that capture the requests made to a server.
    • S3 Access Logs: logs that provide details for all of the requests made against an S3 bucket.
    • VPC Flow Logs: capture information about the IP traffic going to and from network interfaces in a VPC.
    • Amazon CloudTrail: tracks user activity and API usage on AWS, providing an audit log of actions taken in an AWS account.

    Messaging and Streaming

    • RabbitMQ: a message broker that allows applications to exchange data.
    • Curl: a command-line tool for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting various protocols.

    Identity and Access Management

    • AWS IAM: a service to control resource access in AWS.
    • SAML: an XML-based protocol for authentication and authorization.
    • SSO: an authentication process that allows a user to access multiple applications or services with a single set of credentials.

    Content Delivery and Load Balancing

    • CDN: a system of distributed servers that deliver web content based on user location.
    • Fastly: a cloud computing service provider, offering content delivery network services.
    • Amazon CloudFront: a content delivery network offered by Amazon Web Services.
    • Amazon Route 53: Amazon's scalable and highly available Domain Name System (DNS) and domain registration service.
    • AWS ELB: Elastic Load Balancing, distributes incoming traffic across multiple targets, such as EC2 instances.
    • Network Load Balancing (NLB): a type of AWS Elastic Load Balancer optimized for handling sudden and volatile traffic patterns.
    • Application Load Balancer (ALB): a type of AWS Elastic Load Balancer best suited for routing HTTP/HTTPS traffic.
    • NGINX: a web server, reverse proxy server, and mail proxy server.

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