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By Preeti Dewani
When building robust, maintainable, and scalable Java applications, logging plays an essential role in debugging, monitoring, and ensuring smooth performance. Two of the most widely used logging frameworks in the Java ecosystem are SLF4J and Log4j. While both serve similar purposes, they offer different approaches and features, making it important to understand their differences before making a choice.
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By Ujjwal Goyal
When building modern.NET applications, logging is one of those things you don’t want to get wrong. Serilog steps in as a popular logging framework that has earned its spot as a go-to tool for developers. Why? Because it’s flexible, versatile, and does an awesome job of giving you clear insights into your app's behavior. But what exactly is Serilog?
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By Anjali Udasi
As technology advances at lightning speed, more and more businesses are turning to the cloud to boost growth, improve efficiency, and stay ahead of the competition. However creating a cloud strategy that matches your business goals, budget, and security needs can be tricky. It’s not just about switching to the cloud—it’s about using it wisely to get the most out of it.
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By Anjali Udasi
Monitoring your systems can feel like keeping track of a million moving parts. Logs, metrics, traces—the constant flow of data can quickly turn into a whirlwind. Making sense of it all can be overwhelming, but that's where a single pane of glass monitoring helps. In this post, we're going to break down what a single pane of glass monitoring means, why it's so important, and how it can make your life easier by giving you a clearer view of your systems.
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By Anjali Udasi
When you're working with logs in software development, one key thing to understand is log levels. They help us organize log messages, making it easier to find and analyze the most important ones. In this guide, we'll walk through what log levels are, why they matter, and how to use them effectively. Let’s get started!
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By Prathamesh Sonpatki
Node.js has gained popularity for its event-driven, non-blocking I/O model, which excels at handling multiple tasks simultaneously. However, despite its single-threaded nature, Node.js faces limitations when it comes to CPU-intensive tasks. Worker threads provide a solution to this challenge. In this guide, we’ll explore what worker threads are, how they work, and how to use them effectively in your Node.js applications.
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By Anjali Udasi
When it comes to monitoring and managing applications and infrastructure on AWS, CloudWatch Metrics is your best friend. CloudWatch helps you track key metrics in real time, providing the data you need to maintain system performance, troubleshoot issues, and gain deeper insights into your environment. But like most things in AWS, it can take some getting used to. To help you make the most of CloudWatch Metrics, we've put together this comprehensive guide.
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By Preeti Dewani
Logs are essential for understanding what’s going on inside your application. However raw JSON logs can be hard to read. pino-pretty is a tool that formats Pino logs into a more readable, color-coded format, making it easier to debug and understand what’s happening in your app.
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By Anjali Udasi
Cloudcraft is a tool that lets cloud architects design and visualize cloud infrastructure. It acts as a digital canvas, helping you map out everything from simple diagrams to complex systems. If you’re working on a project plan or brainstorming ideas, Cloudcraft makes it easier to see how all the pieces come together. In this post, we’ll talk about what makes Cloudcraft useful for cloud professionals and how to get the most out of it.
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By Prathamesh Sonpatki
Encountering an "upstream connect error" often indicates an issue with your network or server configuration. Whether you're managing microservices or using a load balancer, this error points to a breakdown in communication. This guide will walk you through troubleshooting and resolving the issue effectively.
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By Last9
Levitate is a high-cardinality monitoring tool and a telemetry data warehouse with support for metrics, events, logs, and traces. Prometheus and OpenTelemetry compatibility makes it easy to get started with a hassle-free monitoring journey, be it starting from scratch or even swapping out your existing monitoring tool. Used by engineering teams worldwide at companies like Replit, Disney+ Hotsar, Clevertap, Probo, Quickwork, Axio, and more.
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By Last9
The most apt alert rules toolkit for your Prometheus setup. Connect your Prometheus setup. Discover components emitting metrics. Get recommendations of rules to be applied.
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By Last9
Last9 Levitate’s integration with LaunchDarkly enables change intelligence with feature flag events. Visualize the feature flag events as Change Event annotations in Levitate to correlate system health.
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By Last9
Last9 Levitate’s integration with LaunchDarkly enables change intelligence with feature flag events. Visualize the feature flag events as Change Event annotations in Levitate to correlate system health.
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By Last9
Using template variables to insert dynamic values based on labels for use cases like detailed alert descriptions, routing links, etc.
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By Last9
Are you using Prodvana.io for deployments? Send a change event to Levitate for every deployment from Prodvana.
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By Last9
You have probably heard of OpenTelemetry in the context of traces. But did you know OpenTelemetry also supports metrics with a comprehensive, forward-looking data model and SDKs? When it comes to metrics, one thinks of Prometheus, but Otel metrics provide exciting ideas such as cumulative deltas, exponential histograms, and more! This talk will demystify everything about Otel Metrics, from the data model to APIs to how to get started. We will cover the differences between Otel Metrics and Prometheus and explain the reasons why people get excited about using Otel Metrics.
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By Last9
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