As more and more applications move to the cloud, the complexity of application architectures inevitably increases. It is a burden we willingly take on because the benefits—flexible deployment, technology diversity, independent scaling, and much more— tend to far outweigh the costs. But along this transition, most organizations face a dilemma, to divert resources to the necessary tooling for effective monitoring and troubleshooting of these systems – i.e.

Isn’t all logging pretty much the same? Logs appear by default, like magic, without any further intervention by teams other than simply starting a system… right? While logging may seem like simple magic, there’s a lot to consider. Logs don’t just automatically appear for all levels of your architecture, and any logs that do automatically appear probably don’t have all of the details that you need to successfully understand what a system is doing.

Every process on the net is a logical journey, including the Google blacklist – even when it’s done in error. Nothing kills profits like losing your web traffic; so here’s all you need to know about blacklists, how to avoid them, and – if your site is branded with a red warning banner – how to get off them.

We’re happy to announce a new version of AppSignal for Node.js, and support for instrumenting Apollo Server v2+. This means that we’ll save you more some time, and perform more automatic instrumentation for you.

Elastic Container Service (ECS) is the fully managed container orchestration service by Amazon. Combined with Fargate, Amazon’s serverless compute engine for containers, you can run your container workload without the need to provision your own compute resources. But how can you consolidate and query all of your logs and metadata for these workloads? Enter Loki, the log aggregation system from Grafana Labs that has proven to increase performance and decrease costs.

Like many industries, the pharmaceutical industry is undergoing a rapid transformation powered by technology. These technologies allow companies to improve business operations and empower the innovation needed to be competitive in today’s market. For pharmaceutical companies, time to market a new product can be costly and time-consuming. In this complex and regulated industry, it can take over a decade to bring a new therapy to market, while costs can total over $2 billion.

Our SCOM Connector for ServiceNow will enrich your ServiceNow deployment with direct integrations with Microsoft SCOM. Our suite of solutions are fast and easy to deploy, offer seamless integration, and can be fully customized. Streamlining your ServiceNow Incidents, CIs and mapping with SCOM has never been easier, with these new features we’ve just released.

Running a successful company relies on current and accurate information about the underlying systems. Much of this information is contained within your application logs. By investing in your log management solution, you can unlock these crucial insights and access a wealth of powerful data. This post presents a series of goals that will allow you to make the best possible use of your application logs.

The ELK stack is an industry-recognized solution for centralizing logging, analyzing logs, and monitoring your system use and output. However, the challenges of maintaining your own stack overcoming common Elasticsearch problems need to be considered. The popularity of the ELK Stack can be boiled down to two, key tenets. First, the management and analysis of logs is an incessant issue for developers, SMBs, and enterprises alike.

A lot happened last quarter, so you might have missed a few of the shiny new features now included with SolarWinds® AppOptics™. Don’t worry, we rounded up the recent updates here so you can get the most out of your application performance monitoring (APM) with AppOptics. Simplified Application Root Cause and Service- and Trace-Level Root Cause Summary Views The new service- and trace-level views expand the types of IT professionals who can use AppOptics.