About The Speaker
My first computer was a Commodore VIC-20. My dad would painstakingly type in programs from books or magazines, and save them to a cassette tape. Next thing we knew we had Space Invaders playing on the TV set, thanks to that VIC-20.
Both of my grandfathers were railroaders, and so I grew up surrounded by and fascinated with trains, both real and model. Computers were starting to penetrate the hobby of model railroading. The hobby magazines of the day were starting to fill with BASIC program listings and electronic schematics to do all sorts of fun things for a model railroad. I was fascinated.
That fascination drove me to not want to just mimic the programs I’d seen but also to learn about the ins and outs of the languages, in order to do more. I’m happy to report that at this point in my life I have amassed a rather large collection of model railroad equipment, I have not yet started on a model railroad to operate it on, but I have a lot of plans for when I do build something. However, that’s largely a result of the fascination with software leading to a career engineering code in virtually every modern programming language and operating system in use today. I’m something of a jack of all trades, software-wise.
Scaling a Nagios Log Server 2024R2 Cluster and Node Roles
With the release of Nagios Log Server 2024R2, the decade-old ELK stack has been replaced with a stack encompassing OpenSearch, a newer version of Logstash, and a completely new dashboarding system.
Behind the Session Title
The infrastructure updates allow for better scaling as data input and storage needs grow. OpenSearch allows individual instances to have one or more roles: Cluster Manager, Data, Ingestion, Coordinators, and Search. In this session, I’ll talk about the various roles an individual instance in a Nagios Log Server cluster can assume, and how to tailor the hardware for an instance that is assigned a given role.
What I Hope You Learn
In this session we’re going to provide an understanding of the roles individual instances in a Nagios Log Server cluster can assume. We’re also going to dive in to planning your infrastructure, and what kind of hardware you’ll need for each instance type, vis a vis your workflows and data retention needs.
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