Instana Blog
Author: Marcel Birkner
In this article we will show how Instana uses AWS EKS to run all ingress and processing components for our SaaS platform.
| December 13, 2021
Things break all the time in distributed systems. In this post I talk about how we detected problems with one Cassandra node in production and how we quickly resolved this issue.
| September 10, 2020
Things break all the time in distributed systems. This post explains how we responded to a ClickHouse node problem in production.
| September 10, 2020
How a Slack “Zero Width Space” character broke a Kubernetes Deployment – Lessons from an Instana SRE
Do you know what a zero-width space is? More importantly, do you know what it can do to your IT Operations?
| May 10, 2020
This is the fourth post in a series on the Life of an SRE at Instana.
| April 1, 2020
This is the third post in a series on the Life of an SRE at Instana. Check out the first post and second post.
| March 16, 2020
Instana’s 1 second metrics resolution and auto-detection of components makes it easy to get answers for the most pressing questions when hosts get rebooted without prior notice.
| March 5, 2020
Instana’s automatic discovery and monitoring of Cassandra nodes and clusters, as well as alerting on change events, makes our daily works as an SRE a lot easier.
| February 27, 2020