Company
Date Published
Author
Tola Ore-Aruwaji
Word count
969
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

The guide by Tola Ore-Aruwaji, a Developer Relations Engineer, provides an in-depth walkthrough on creating alerts using Axiom to monitor unusual behavior in Memcached by integrating it with Packetbeat. It details the prerequisites, including having Packetbeat installed and configured with the Memcache protocol, and explains how to set up an Axiom Dataset and Ingest Token. Users are guided through configuring Packetbeat to capture network traffic and ship Memcache metrics to Axiom. The process also involves creating a dataset and generating an ingest token in the Axiom UI. Once the data is ingested, users can set up Monitors and Notifiers in Axiom to receive alerts for specific conditions, such as spikes in network traffic or timeouts. The guide emphasizes configuring Monitors with specific threshold values and selecting notification methods like Email, Slack, PagerDuty, or Webhook to ensure timely alerts. Additionally, users are shown how to use aggregation types in queries to detect network traffic anomalies effectively. The guide concludes with a reminder of the extensive features available in Axiom for app monitoring and invites readers to engage with further resources and community support.