Chetan Singh

Chetan Singh is a DevOps Engineer at To The New, with a strong focus on gaining a deep understanding of cloud and infrastructure management. He is actively engaged in exploring and mastering the core concepts and principles related to cloud infrastructure, automation, and deployment processes. Chetan is dedicated to applying his knowledge to optimize and enhance cloud-based infrastructure within the organization.

DevOps

Fixing Unbalanced Shards in Elasticsearch: Why One Node Holds All Your Data

When we run Elasticsearch in production, one of the common issues is imbalance in "shards". There may be one node in the cluster that is out of disk space, while a few nodes with no shards on them. For example, here is a node with all the shards: Node Shards Disk Used Disk % Free Space PESD222 957 329.1 GB 32% 694.2...

15-Mar-2026

DevOps

Rolling Node Replacement: The Safest Way to Upgrade Kubernetes

Introduction What if upgrading your Kubernetes cluster required no downtime at all? Imagine if you could upgrade your Kubernetes cluster and keep everything running smoothly, with zero downtime. Sounds pretty great, right? A lot of teams worry that upgrading will mean their apps go offline, but with solid planning, it's actually...

15-Mar-2026

DevOps

Mastering Real-Time Alerting with ElastAlert2: Detecting DOS Attacks from WAF Logs

Introduction ElastAlert 2 is a simple framework for alerting on anomalies, spikes, and other patterns of interest in data from Elasticsearch and OpenSearch. ElastAlert 2 is a tool for monitoring real-time data in Elasticsearch and alerting on matching patterns. Elastalert accepts this Alert type: Email AWS SES (Amazon...

09-Apr-2025

AWS, DevOps

Exploring AWS Graviton’s Compatibility and Support for Common Software and Frameworks

The Arm-based Amazon Web Services (AWS) Graviton platform has become a strong contender for cloud computing applications. Graviton is becoming increasingly well-liked among developers and businesses thanks to its improved performance and low cost. Graviton smoothly connects with a variety of AWS services in addition to being compatible...

13-Sep-2023