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Using API Gateway to run Database Queries

The most common integration type for AWS API Gateway is with Lambda functions. The API service can integrate with virtually any other service that accepts HTTP requests, though. This opens up possibilities to use the API Gateway as a proxy to database queries, without any compute layer such as a Lambda function. The direct integration between API and database is perfect when Lambda serves only as an intermediator.

"Fiel-ding Good" - Three great ways to enrich AWS logs in Sumo Logic

In this article I’m going to show you three quick and easy ways to enrich your AWS log data in Sumo Logic using fields. Fields is a feature of Sumo shipped in 2019 as part of our Kubernetes monitoring solution and is how the fluentd pipeline adds Kubernetes metadata like service and pod to each log event. It’s also really handy for enriching each log event from AWS with fields.

Integrating proactive monitoring with customer service

Everyone knows the existential question: If a tree falls in the forest, and nobody is there to hear it, does it make a sound? Leading-edge customer service management today has produced a corollary: If a network problem is fixed before the customer even suspects there’s an issue, did it even happen?

InfluxData expands in Asia Pacific region with Digital China and Hyundai BS&C partnerships

New distribution partnerships will support increased demand for InfluxDB across the region SAN FRANCISCO — April 29, 2020 — InfluxData, creator of the time series database InfluxDB, today announced its expansion into the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region through new strategic partnerships. Digital China and Hyundai BS&C will be the exclusive value-added distributors of InfluxDB in China and South Korea, respectively. The company also teamed up with Intellify, a reseller in Australia.

Microsoft Teams Monitoring for SCOM | 6 months FREE

To help Microsoft Teams administrators and their companies ease their workload in Teams administration, NiCE provides a free 6 months Teams Monitoring solution. The NiCE Active 365 Management Pack for Microsoft SCOM extends your Teams monitoring to meet IT governance standards. You will benefit from clear end-to-end views on performance, get notified on unexpected outages or latencies as they happen, as well as have expert advice on how to solve issues.

SolarWinds Study Shows Converged Roles and Contracting Budgets Increase Need for Qualified U.K. Tech Pros Across Hybrid IT Environments

SolarWinds IT Trends Report 2020: The Universal Language of IT examines the evolving role of technology in business and the breakdown of traditional IT siloes. Less than 25% of budgets dedicated to emerging tech, instead prioritise cloud and hybrid IT. Tech pros cite need to upskill across security, APM, and non-technical and interpersonal skills.

Introducing Organization Accounts

Several times throughout the last five years of StatusGator, we have received requests for organizational accounts. As more and larger teams have joined, there’s been a steady increase in requests for multi-user accounts. We are proud to announce that StatusGator Organization accounts are now available on our Start Up plan and above. Our first implementation of this is quite simple: separate user accounts are joined together by linking them to a parent Organization record.

What Does 99.9% Uptime Mean?

An old adage about choosing a hosting provider says that everyone promises 99.9% uptime so you need to test uptime of a site for the real picture. Or scour the forums for reviews and judge for yourself how reliable they are. That works too. What that saying is really getting at is the need for some kind of indicator that uptime does not fall below expectations, because you can’t just trust the word of the provider when your business is at stake.

Top metrics to look out for while monitoring Node.js applications

Applications built on the Node.js platform, an event-driven I/O server-side JavaScript environment based on Google Chrome’s V8 engine, are known as Node.js applications. Since both the server-side and the client-side are written in JavaScript, Node.js facilitates easier and faster implementation of codes, and processes requests quickly and simultaneously; this is greatly beneficial for building real-time applications, especially chat and streaming applications.

Elixir Package 1.13: Phoenix LiveView Helpers and Updated Typespecs

With a special thanks to Aleksandar and Unai, we’re happy to announce AppSignal for Elixir 1.13.0, which includes our all-new LiveView instrumentation helpers and updated typespecs. If you’re not an AppSignal user yet, make sure to check out the product tour and see how errors, performance, host metrics and triggers all come together in one tool.