In order to effectively manage and monitor your infrastructure, a web admin needs clear and transparent information about the types of activity going on within their servers. Server logs provide a documented footprint of all traffic and errors that occur within an environment. Apache has two main log files, Error Logs, and Access Logs.
Infrastructure management has come a long way. (Mostly) gone are the days of manual configurations and deployments, when using SSH in a “for” loop was a perfectly reasonable way to execute server changes. Automation is a way of life. Configuration management tools like Chef, Puppet, and Ansible — once on the bleeding edge — are now used by most enterprises.
+ Bonus: 20 Apache errors – a free checklist Apache error logs and Apache access logs contain valuable data. In this article, we explain how the log files generated by the Apache web server are an important factor in keeping your web sites and apps running 24/7. We show you how to effectively use Apache logs to monitor and troubleshoot Apache log files, to protect and fix your web server. Want to get Apache/Tomcat/Log4J insights right away?
Mint is a shiny new Elixir package which allows you to make HTTP requests using the HTTP 1 and HTTP 2 protocols. It can transparently handle ALPN (Application Layer Protocol Negotiation), which essentially means that it can figure out if a server uses HTTP2 or HTTP1 on its own. It also comes with an optional dependency on a castore package which verifies the SSL certificates of the servers (that you connect to).
Imagine that you are developing an application and there's an error in the code. When you release it to production, this error causes hundreds of thousands of crashes. In this case, a logging tool would list all the crashes but an error monitoring tool, like Rollbar, would attempt to group the crashes together. Now you would receive just one notification about an error that crashed hundreds of thousands of times instead of many notifications about different crashes.
While Instrumental offers broad support and integrations for application, server, service, and custom monitoring, certain AWS data is only available within the AWS CloudWatch service. Over the past few months, we’ve been testing a deep integration with CloudWatch and are excited to release it to all users. Like the rest of Instrumental, our CloudWatch integration is designed to be simple, configurable, and lightning-fast.
Exoprise recently released new storage sensors for end-to-end monitoring and testing of Azure Blob or Amazon S3. These sensors, once deployed against a container, enable continuous monitoring of access performance, uptime and availability of Azure Blob storage or Amazon S3. They enable network and storage administrators to test network capacity, latency and effective bandwidth to the various object store regions and datacenters that support the stores.
Have you ever found yourself trying to reconstruct an event from the past only to come up blank because you cannot go so far back in time? If only you could bring back that missing piece of the puzzle! In the world of IT, logs are the way machines and software record events. They help us understand when an event happened, where they happened and most importantly, why they happened.
From legacy internet service to 5G possibilities, Spiceworks examines the evolution of telecommunications in the workplace. The internet has been a transformative force around the globe, both at home and in the workplace. Organizations rely on internet service providers (ISPs) to provide vital access to email, the World Wide Web, and cloud services that connect us. As communications and commerce increasingly take place online, there’s no question internet access is crucial to business success.
