- Capacity Planning for a Self-Hosted Observability Stack
A practical guide to sizing LGTM, Victoria, and ClickHouse for ingestion, retention, compression, compute, storage, network, and cost.
11 min read - Designing a Scalable & Fault-Tolerant Log Pipeline [Part 2]: The Buffer Layer
Whether you actually need Kafka, what a buffer layer makes possible, and how to configure it correctly for log pipelines at scale.
7 min read - Designing a Scalable & Fault-Tolerant Log Pipeline [Part 1]: Agents and Forwarders
How to split responsibilities between log agents and forwarders, what each layer must handle, and three deployment patterns for log pipelines at scale.
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