51 posts in categories technical

7-Year Log Archiving in Production: Checklist, Guardrails & Runbooks

Production checklist for 7-year log archiving: loss detection, privacy, schema, cost guardrails, runbooks, and fire drills. Part 6 of 6.

· 16 minutes reading time

Log Archiving Security & Compliance: AWS / GCP / Azure / OVHcloud

IAM/RBAC, encryption, BYOK, WORM/Object Lock, GDPR residency, and compliance certificates for AWS, GCP, Azure, and OVHcloud. Part 4 of 6.

· 14 minutes reading time

Log Archiving Query & Recommendations: AWS / GCP / Azure / OVHcloud

Query UI, dashboards, alerting, cold-tier behaviour, and 7-year log archiving recommendations for AWS, GCP, Azure, and OVHcloud. Part 5 of 6.

· 14 minutes reading time

Elasticsearch vs. OpenSearch vs. Loki vs. Quickwit vs. ClickHouse: Kubernetes Operations, Backup & DR

Setup, ingest, backup & DR, observability, and alerting for Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Loki, Quickwit, ClickHouse 7-year log archives. Part 2 of 5.

· 22 minutes reading time

Elasticsearch vs. OpenSearch vs. Loki vs. Quickwit vs. ClickHouse: Security & Compliance

Encryption, RBAC, and WORM compliance for log archives: Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Loki, Quickwit, ClickHouse. S3 Object Lock, audit logging. Part 3 of 5.

· 13 minutes reading time

ClickHouse Use Case: Vector, Istio, nginx, Java on OVH MKS

Vector → ClickHouse on OVH MKS: Envoy/Istio, nginx, Java, Go and Kubernetes logs with hot-to-cold S3 tiering. Monthly awffull reports via SQL export. Part 5 of 5.

· 17 minutes reading time

Elasticsearch vs. OpenSearch vs. Loki vs. Quickwit vs. ClickHouse: UX, Dashboards & Alerts

UI layers, log search UX, cold-tier query behaviour, dashboard building, sharing, multi-team isolation, and alert management. Part 4 of 5.

· 20 minutes reading time

Elasticsearch vs. OpenSearch vs. Loki vs. Quickwit vs. ClickHouse: Long-Term Log Archiving for 7+ Years

Five-way log archiving comparison: Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Loki, Quickwit, ClickHouse — tiering, compression, query languages, SaaS options. Part 1 of 5.

· 26 minutes reading time

Istio vs. Linkerd: Service Mesh on Kubernetes

Comparing Istio 1.29 (sidecar mode) and Linkerd 2.19: data plane, mTLS, egress, resource overhead, observability, and when to use each.

· 14 minutes reading time

NFS to Object Store Sync with rclone and systemd

Learn how to sync an NFS share to Azure Blob Storage or S3 with rclone. Production hardening, monitoring, and benchmark strategy for large file trees.

· 12 minutes reading time