Category: Glossary

Prometheus is an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit that collects time-series metrics using a pull model, designed for cloud-native environments.

AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that runs your code in response to events without requiring you to provision or manage servers.

OpenTelemetry is an open-source observability framework that provides standardized APIs and tools for collecting metrics, logs, and traces.

AWS IAM controls who can access which AWS resources and what actions they can perform.

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.

A Kubernetes namespace is a virtual partition within a cluster that isolates resources and provides scope for names, access controls, and resource quotas.

A Kubernetes pod is the smallest deployable unit in Kubernetes, consisting of one or more containers that share networking and storage resources.