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Articles by Michael Hyatt
Principal Solutions Architect, Elastic
Michael is a solutions architect with background in Analytics, APIs and messaging. He is passionate about technology and travelling with my family.
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Kubernetes observability tutorial: Monitoring application performance with Elastic APM
The third post in our observability tutorial series for Kubernetes takes a look at application performance monitoring with Elastic APM. We'll instrument Java and RUM agents and then look at distributed tracing, service maps, visualizations, and more.
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Kubernetes observability tutorial: Log monitoring and analysis
Learn how Elastic Observability makes it easy to monitor and detect anomalies in millions of logs from thousands of containers running hundreds of microservices — while Kubernetes scales applications with changing pod counts. All from a single UI.
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