Logging and Monitoring in Cloud Foundry Course

Logging and monitoring in Cloud Foundry are crucial processes for flawless operation. At the training, the attendees will learn how to effectively organize activities around distributed system monitoring and collection of logs from infrastructure components, Cloud Foundry components, and applications.

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Why enroll

By the end of the training, you will know how to:

See logs and metrics from different levels of deployment stack:
Applications
third-party services
Cloud Foundry
BOSH
IaaS
See possible ways of monitoring components described above (agents, Firehose nozzles, buildpacks, etc.)
Find out which metrics you can find useful in your Cloud Foundry installation
Gain experience with:
Firehose nozzle
Visualize metrics
IaaS/third-party services monitoring
Pushing sample application into Cloud Foundry and collecting some metrics from it
Tips and tricks with the Elasticsearch deployment

Who should attend

Cloud Foundry operators and DevOps engineers:

Looking to enhance their skills in working with logs and metrics from different levels of deployment stack
Seeking a better understanding and knowledge of the Cloud Foundry platform and its logging and monitoring components
Willing to discover the Elasticsearch deployment tips and trickss

Training program

DAY 1

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Setting up

Connecting to lab environment

Practice
Checking app code from GitHub

Practice
Pushing app code to Cloud Foundry

Practice

Main concepts of logging

Why we need logs

Theory
How we can get it centralized

Theory
Logging at different levels of a deployment stack

Theory

Logs in Cloud Foundry

How to get logs from applications, system components, and third-party services

Theory

Kibana

Setting up index patterns

Practice
Logs discovery

Practice
Visualisation

Practice
Dashboards

Practice

Parsing rules

How Logstash does parsing

Theory
Embedded parsing rules

Theory
Rules customization

Theory

Tips and tricks

Some tips from our practice

Theory

Main concepts of monitoring

Why monitoring is important

Theory
Why we need metrics

Theory
Collecting, storing, visualizing, and analyzing

Theory

Levels of the Cloud Foundry stack

High-level overview of applications, Cloud Foundry, third-party services, BOSH, and IaaS

Theory

Possible ways of monitoring components described above

For each component, we will see how it works and how we can monitor it (agents, Firehose nozzles, buildpacks, etc.)

Practice

Setup infrastructure for monitoring

Setup a Linux server

Practice
Install time-series database Install visualization software

Practice
Install a collecting agent

Practice
Install a Firehose nozzle

Practice
Configure BOSH to forward its metrics

Practice
Push simple application into Cloud Foundry

Practice

Create dashboards

Explore available metrics

Practice
Visualize some simple, but useful metrics

Practice

What else you can achieve with metrics

Useful metrics inside Cloud Foundry and their applications (like capacity planning, troubleshooting, or finding performance issues)

Theory

Seamless integration into Cloud Foundry

How to deploy monitoring solution with BOSH

Theory
How to deploy agents with BOSH

Theory
How to use custom buildpack

Theory

Prerequisites

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Altoros recommends that all students have:

Laptop (MacOS / Linux / Windows)
Some kind of a virtual environment to create Ubuntu VM and the Internet access from this a VM (on your choice):
- Docker
- Virtualbox
- AWS

Related courses:

Cloud Foundry for DevOps Cloud Foundry for Developers Concourse Training

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Here is what our customers say about us

"The instructors were friendly; the class was very wide-ranged. We covered 12 factors in details, learned about service registration and discovery, log tracing. That was as much as you can pack in a few hours"

"It was a great training. I’ve tried to look at this stuff and understand it on my own, but coming to this class allowed me get a much deeper understanding of Bosh and Cloud Foundry. What I’ve learned is how to deploy it, the value it has, how much more sophisticated than some of the other PaaS systems it is"

"I think the training is really good. There are a lot of questions, and it’s great because I have the same ones. It shows that I am in the right place. This is a great class if you want to learn more about what the undercover of Cloud Foundry does at its best"

"This workshop is great for people with a zero of ground knowledge of Cloud Foundry and Bosh. It would apply even more to people who are reliant on knowing how to bring this [Cloud Foundry] up, it is going to be a "bread and butter” for developers"

"I really like the training. I think it was thorough and informative. The hands-on nature was essential for learning Bosh, which is very complicated. It’s not something you can learn by watching just two slides. Getting your hands on the keyboard was the best part of the day. I would totally recommend this course to any of our partners or any potential customers"