Company
Date Published
Author
Christos Markou • Michael Katsoulis • Stamatis Katsaounis
Word count
1367
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

In an exploration of enhancing the monitoring of NATS messaging systems, a team in the telecommunications sector, working with Kubernetes microservices, developed NATS modules for Metricbeat and Filebeat to integrate seamlessly with their existing EFK stack. This initiative began during an internal hackathon, where the team quickly created a NATS Beat, which was later incorporated into the core Beats project with support from the Elastic Beats team. NATS, known for its ability to handle millions of messages per second, provides key monitoring data through HTTP endpoints and server logs, which the team utilized to create a comprehensive monitoring solution. This solution includes pre-built dashboards for visualizing metrics and logs, allowing users to gain insights into the performance and state of their NATS environments. The development process not only solved the team's monitoring challenges but also fostered collaboration with Elastic engineers and contributed to the open-source community.