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20 pagesAlerting
Alerting is a crucial part of observability, and it's the first step in knowing when something is wrong with your application.
Anti-Virus Scanning
Antivirus scanning of files and urls using ClamAV.
Application
A Nais application lets you run one or more instances of a container image. An application is defined by its application manifest, which is a YAML file that describes how the application should be…
Buckets
A bucket is a storage container for objects. Objects are files that contain data, such as documents, images, videos, and application code.
Build and deploy
To make your application available to others, you need to build and deploy it. Nais attempts to make this as simple as possible by providing a set of GitHub Actions and the Nais CLI.
Config
A config is a set of non-sensitive configuration values that can be used in a workload. This can be feature flags, connection strings, or any other configuration that does not need to be kept secret.
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
A content delivery network (CDN) serves static content and single-page applications (SPA) in a fast and reliable manner.
Distributed Tracing
Application Performance Monitoring or tracing using Grafana Tempo on Nais.
Feature Toggling
Feature toggling is a software development technique that allows you to turn features on and off in your application without deploying new code. This can be useful for testing new features, rolling…
Frontend observability
Frontend observability with Grafana Faro gives you real user monitoring, performance metrics, error tracking, and tracing for browser applications.
Google Cloud BigQuery Dataset
Google Cloud BigQuery is a service that provides a relational database that is optimized for analytical workloads. It is a good choice for storing data that is relational in nature.
Google Cloud SQL / PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is a relational database which is a good choice for storing data that is relational in nature. In the nais platform, we use CloudSQL from the Google Cloud Platform to provide managed…
Kafka
Kafka is a distributed streaming platform that can be used to publish and subscribe to streams of records. It is a good alternative to synchronous communication between services if you need to decouple services.
Leader Election
With leader election it is possible to have one responsible pod. This can be used to control that only one pod runs a batch-job or similar tasks. This is done by asking the elector container which…
Logging
Understand how application logging works in Nais, its purpose, good practices, and the available log destinations.
Metrics
Metrics are a way to measure the state of your application and can be used to create alerts and dashboards in Grafana.
Nais job
A Nais job is used for tasks meant to complete and then exit. This can either run as a one-off task or on a schedule, like a cron job.
OpenSearch
Nais provides managed search index services through OpenSearch as a drop-in replacement for Elasticsearch.
Secrets
A secret is a piece of sensitive information that is used in a workload. This can be a password, an API key, or any other information that should not be exposed to the public.
Valkey
Valkey is a key value database that is used for storing and querying data. It is a good choice for storing data that is not relational in nature and often used for caching.