Sending Influxdb alerts to Google Chat

Posted on by David Vassallo

We recently moved away from Slack as a company and started using Google Chat. The main stumbling block from a tech point of view was that most monitoring services (such as InfluxDB which we use) have easy integration with Slack, but not Google Chat: Easy slack integration... but limited HTTP(S) options Luckily, we can bend … Continue reading Sending Influxdb alerts to Google Chat

Grafana Loki coming from Elasticsearch : Extracting Visuals

Posted on by David Vassallo

Grafana Loki (https://grafana.com/oss/loki/) looks like a viable alternative to Elasticsearch and has an excellent pedigree, but how does it stack up with Elasticsearch, especially when using it in a SOC perspective? Getting Setup This was a breeze compared to Elasticsearch (which itself is also really simple to setup). The test stack consisted of Promtail to … Continue reading Grafana Loki coming from Elasticsearch : Extracting Visuals