If you’re building a new application from scratch and are responsible for maintaining its availability and performance, you might wonder whether you should be monitoring logs or metrics. For us, it’s a no-brainer that you’ll want both: metrics are fast and efficient for proactively monitoring the health of your system, while logs are essential for helping to troubleshoot the details of the issue itself to find the root cause.

Graphite Metrics are one of the most common metrics formats in application monitoring today. Originally designed in 2006 by Chris Davis at Orbitz and open-sourced in 2008, Graphite itself is a monitoring tool now used by many organizations both large and small.

We surveyed 1,264 chat users to find out, and we started with two seemingly simple questions. What we learned was fascinating and inspiring, so we gathered up the data and created the team chat guide.

With the proliferation of virtualization and high availability architecture, teams are chasing 99.999% uptime like knights of old hunted unicorns. Many site reliability engineers find more comfort in the Boy Scouts’ motto, “Always be prepared.” Your company’s Git server is mission critical to the daily operations of engineering and everyone they support. How do you create business continuity in the face of unpredictable circumstances?

This article explores integrating Google Pub/Sub with the world’s most popular open source log analysis platform — the ELK Stack, for deeper analysis and investigation.

We are excited to announce our recent support of .NET Standard 2.0 and ASP.NET Core 2 applications for Raygun Crash Reporting. The update is for developers needing to target the .NET Standard 2 APIs. Our new provider targets both .NET Standard 1.6 and .NET Standard 2.0, so it can be used with both .NET Core 1 and .NET Core 2 applications. At the time of writing, it is just the .NET Core provider and ASP.NET Core provider that are .NET Core 2 compatible.

The Linux Audit framework is a kernel feature (paired with userspace tools) that can log system calls. For example, opening a file, killing a process or creating a network connection. These audit logs can be used to monitor systems for suspicious activity.

As a long-time security professional, I’m always interested to hear about how companies like Datadog are keeping up with the changing security landscape. I can recall when the security organization was solely responsible for security, and we were focused on protecting the perimeter of our business. However, with the advent of the cloud, mobile, and web applications, that perimeter has disappeared.

“Why does the ‘docker logs’ command fail?“, is one of our frequently asked questions. The answer is simple and mentioned in the Docker documentation: “The docker logs command is not available for drivers other than json-file and journald.”

If you’re part of a large enterprise, you’re probably in the throes of digital transformation. If you’re in IT, you’re supporting your business by rolling out new services and apps weekly (or even daily). Meanwhile, your users expect 24×7 availability and performance. So your IT operations team is having to sift through ever-increasing data pouring out of myriad specialized and fragmented monitoring tools, hybrid clouds, legacy systems and virtual infrastructure.