Category: Glossary

Jaeger is an open-source distributed tracing platform that helps teams monitor and troubleshoot latency issues in microservices architectures.

Amazon S3 is a highly scalable object storage service that stores and retrieves any amount of data from anywhere on the internet.

Loki is a log aggregation system built by Grafana Labs that indexes metadata instead of log content, making it efficient and cost-effective.

Cloud-native is an approach to building and running applications that fully exploits cloud computing advantages like scalability and resilience.

An SLO is an internal target for a service’s reliability, expressed as a percentage of successful operations over a defined time period.

A load balancer distributes incoming traffic across multiple servers to ensure no single server is overwhelmed, improving availability and performance.

MTTR measures the average time it takes to restore a system to normal operation after a failure or incident occurs.

Auto scaling automatically adjusts compute resources based on demand, scaling up during traffic spikes and down during quiet periods.

Distributed tracing tracks requests as they flow through multiple services, providing visibility into latency, errors, and dependencies.

Log aggregation is the process of collecting, centralizing, and organizing logs from multiple sources into a single system for analysis.