Category: Monitoring

Grafana Plugin For Couchbase Visualization Released
Storing data on a Couchbase cluster is a great way to ensure the unrivaled performance and stability of your services. Coupled with our analytics service, Couchbase allows gaining insights into the data without affecting cluster performance. The number of analysis...

Get Started with Couchbase Capella in a 3 Easy Steps
Couchbase Capella makes it faster, easier and more affordable for developers and teams to get started with Couchbase. With the recent launch of Couchbase Capella, the award-winning database more accessible than ever. This article is a quick guide on how...

How to Build Observability Dashboards with Prometheus, Grafana & Couchbase
You’ve certainly heard it before: “What gets measured gets done.” It’s true: what you observe and measure is what you can improve. The key to any improvement is to first identify what to measure and then collect the related metrics....

How Vodafone Powers a 100% Cloud Communications Platform with Couchbase
Since making the first mobile phone call in the UK in 1985, Vodafone has grown into a multinational telecommunications company with over 625 million mobile customers and nearly 50 million broadband and TV customers. Today, Vodafone Spain is working on...

Couchbase Autonomous Operator vs MongoDB Enterprise Kubernetes Operator
A Kubernetes Operator is a software extension to Kubernetes that supports built-in capabilities to manage your Kubernetes applications in an automated fashion and that follows Kubernetes principles – especially the Control Loop pattern. Why do we need a Kubernetes Operator?...

Using Fluent Bit for Log Forwarding & Processing with Couchbase Server
With the recent release of Couchbase Autonomous Operator (CAO) 2.2, we have recently provided log processing and forwarding for the Kubernetes deployments using the OSS Fluent Bit tooling. This is also OSS and available on GitHub or as a container....

Announcing Couchbase Autonomous Operator 2.2
Today we are announcing the General Availability of Couchbase Autonomous Operator for Kubernetes (CAO) Version 2.2. This release provides an automated cloud-native database experience with exciting new features and improvements, such as: Auto-scaling Couchbase services Online storage scaling (scale up...

Using Prometheus and Grafana With Couchbase Sync Gateway
In order to improve the accessibility of our stats, the Couchbase Sync Gateway 2.8 release integrates the Prometheus exporter functionality directly into Sync Gateway, reducing the steps required to setup a monitoring stack. In this post, we will discuss the...

Helm: Deploy & Monitor with Couchbase Autonomous Operator
One Chart to Rule Them All With the release of Couchbase Autonomous Operator 2.0, the Couchbase Operator and Cluster charts have been consolidated into a single chart. This streamlined approach means it’s now possible to install Autonomous Operator, Admission Controller,...

Monitoring a NoSQL Database with Couchbase and Prometheus
Couchbase Server currently has a plethora of stats from data access throughput in KV and query to system resources like disk IO and CPU to newer services like eventing. There have been a number of community authored Prometheus Exporters written...

Couchbase Autonomous Operator 2.0 For Kubernetes Is Now GA!
We’re proud to announce the general availability of Couchbase Autonomous Operator 2.0. We have achieved significant milestones since we first announced production certification of Couchbase Server on Docker containers in June of 2016, and with Autonomous Operator 2.0, we are...

Testing For Growth
The goal of load testing should be to identify what load your current cluster can handle, and how you need to mutate and adapt your cluster configuration as you reach various load milestones. The result should be a plan for...