Logging and Monitoring

August 20, 2024

Observability stack research Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios, Kafka pipelines, and SRE-aligned alerting for security and reliability.

Objective

Reliable systems require visibility. This track documents logging, metrics, and tracing patterns that support both performance tuning and security investigations.

Tools studied

• Prometheus + Alertmanager + Grafana
• Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Fluentd)
• Nagios and legacy monitoring integration
• Kafka as log/event transport