Month: March 2026

Fluentd is an open-source data collector that unifies log collection, processing, and routing from multiple sources to various destinations.

Alertmanager handles alert routing, deduplication, grouping, and silencing for Prometheus monitoring.

An SLI is a quantitative measure of a specific aspect of service performance, such as availability, latency, or error rate.

An SLA is a formal contract between a service provider and customer defining expected service levels and penalties for breaches.

MTTD measures the average time between when a problem occurs and when the team becomes aware of it.

A Pod Disruption Budget limits the number of pods that can be voluntarily disrupted at once, ensuring minimum availability during maintenance.

Linkerd is a lightweight, CNCF-graduated service mesh for Kubernetes providing observability, security, and reliability with minimal complexity.

The sidecar pattern deploys a helper container alongside the main application container in a pod, extending functionality without code changes.

A Kubernetes Network Policy controls traffic flow between pods at the network level, acting as a firewall for your cluster.

A Kubernetes CRD extends the Kubernetes API by defining new custom resource types managed like native Kubernetes objects.