The Linux Academy Blog
Practical guides for cloud, DevOps & data engineers
Hands-on walkthroughs on the tools we teach — CI/CD, streaming, observability, databases and cloud. Written to get you productive, then point you to a free course to go deeper.
Observability
Monitoring & Alerting with the kube-prometheus-stack
Install Prometheus, Grafana and Alertmanager on Kubernetes in one Helm chart, scrape your own app with a ServiceMonitor, write a symptom-based alert, route it to Slack — with a full example and fixes.
Observability
Centralized Logging: ELK with Fluent Bit on OpenSearch
Build a modern logging pipeline: Fluent Bit collects and ships logs, OpenSearch stores and indexes them, Dashboards lets you search — with parsing, index lifecycle for cost, and troubleshooting.