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Challenges and Best Practices for Monitoring SaaS-based Businesses

SaaS-based businesses are on the rise more than ever. Old businesses are rushing to turn their legacy software into SaaS-based solutions and new businesses are popping up offering SaaS-based solutions to everything imaginable. SaaS-based solutions are made up of multi-layered complex architecture with both internal and external components that require strategic constant monitoring and optimization.

SolarWinds Updates APM Suite Designed to Simplify Application and Infrastructure Management

Introduces new service map and web transaction recorder, enhanced custom parsing rules, and search user experience to further reduce application performance management complexity and speed up troubleshooting.

How to categorize logs for more effective monitoring

Logs provide a wealth of information that is invaluable for use cases like root cause analysis and audits. However, you typically don’t need to view the granular details of every log, particularly in dynamic environments that generate large volumes of them. Instead, it’s generally more useful to perform analytics on your logs in aggregate.

Monitoring AWS Fargate with Prometheus and Sysdig

In this article, we will show how it’s easily possible to monitor AWS Fargate with Sysdig Monitor. By leveraging existing Prometheus ingestion in Sysdig, you will be able to monitor serverless services with a single-pane-of-glass approach, giving you confidence in running these services in production.

Identify, Reconcile & Rock the Multi-Source CMDB: From Nathan Foreman, Solutions Architect - Cookdown

Nathan Foreman, our solutions superstar here at Cookdown, shares his knowledge on how to successfully blend data sources to create a beautifully populated CMDB, as well as tips on how to customise and maintain data quality. Nathan talked us through the process of using ServiceNow’s out of the box Identification and Reconciliation Engine (IRE) to ensure a smooth integration of a multi-source CMDB.

Learn Grafana: How to automatically repeat rows and panels in dynamic dashboards

Running your software on dynamic infrastructure means that your monitoring platform needs to change dynamically. Variables let you reuse a single dashboard for all your services. Select the service you want to inspect from a drop-down menu, and watch panels update to only show you metrics from that service. Grafana lets you create dynamic dashboards using template variables. Any variables in your queries interpolate the current value of the variable before the query is sent to the database.

Purposeful Power Monitoring for IT

Have you ever lost power to a server? Did it ever reboot on its own? Wouldn’t it be nice to prevent power outage to IT devices? If this is something you’ve experienced in the past, there are ways to simplify power monitoring and avoid some of the outages that can be caused by power issues. This article will focus on using power consumption data from a rack power distribution unit (rPDU) and how to simplify the process.