Loki is a log aggregation system built by Grafana Labs that indexes metadata instead of log content, making it efficient and cost-effective.
What Is Cloud-Native?
Cloud-native is an approach to building and running applications that fully exploits cloud computing advantages like scalability and resilience.
What Is an SLO?
An SLO is an internal target for a service’s reliability, expressed as a percentage of successful operations over a defined time period.
What Is a Load Balancer?
A load balancer distributes incoming traffic across multiple servers to ensure no single server is overwhelmed, improving availability and performance.
What Is MTTR?
MTTR measures the average time it takes to restore a system to normal operation after a failure or incident occurs.
What Is Auto Scaling?
Auto scaling automatically adjusts compute resources based on demand, scaling up during traffic spikes and down during quiet periods.
What Is Distributed Tracing?
Distributed tracing tracks requests as they flow through multiple services, providing visibility into latency, errors, and dependencies.
What Is Log Aggregation?
Log aggregation is the process of collecting, centralizing, and organizing logs from multiple sources into a single system for analysis.
What Is Terraform?
Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as code tool that lets you define, provision, and manage cloud resources using declarative configuration files.
What Is Infrastructure as Code?
Infrastructure as Code is the practice of managing and provisioning infrastructure through machine-readable configuration files rather than manual processes.