Category: monitoring

At Iguana Solutions, we have created our own monitoring system: a multi-tenant system based on Prometheus for our alerting and metrology needs: Sismology. We will share through articles all its optimizations but also our advice on monitoring in the broadest sense to help you manage your infrastructure and web platforms.

Observability at the core of Iguana Solutions

Iguana Solutions is an IT infrastructure hosting and outsourcing expert that needs to know in real time the state of all the infrastructures under its control. The continuous evolution of the various software layers, the arrival of new development practices such as containerization, new agile development tools and DevOps practices are generating more and more […]

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New offer, DevOps as a service: experts at your disposal

Iguana Solutions puts its experts at your disposal to reinforce your technical teams How to find the right technical profiles at the right time, for one-off or long-term projects? How do you take advantage of engineers who are immediately operational and integrate them into your teams? As a service provider specialized in hybrid cloud-based infrastructures, […]

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Load testing: the 10 commandments to respect

The 10 commandments to effectively test the limits of your web platform 1. Goals Load testing is often seen as a way to determine if a platform can hold 500, 1,000 or 10,000 simultaneous users. It is actually not. To prove this kind of claim, the scenarios used during load tests would need to match […]

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CDN: the benefits of a content delivery network

CDN: a performance and security lever for your website You have certainly already seen the acronym CDN (for Content Delivery Network ). Built of many servers that play the role of relays, this network ensures rapid access to the content of a website or application, especially when users are located at great distance from origin […]

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Autoscaling: How to implement your strategy?

How can you put in place an autoscaling strategy adapted to your business needs? Cloud computing is becoming a standard for business. Your company probably already uses web-hosted services. In a cloud ecosystem, the key to performance (and cost rationalization) is to manage resources: at all times, you must ensure that the number of machines […]

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Retrospective: Sismology, Iguana Solutions’ Monitoring System

Timeseries, Long Term Storage, Multi tenancy & High Availability This article is a retrospective of several months of continuous improvement since the creation of our current monitoring system: what challenges did we face, how we overcame them and how we finally switched to Victoria Metrics. How it started At Iguana Solutions we have created a […]

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