At LogicMonitor, we talk to customers and prospects constantly. This enables us to observe trends in requests for new features and functionality. There are two major topics that prospects and customers have been raising recently.

While Skylight was originally developed to instrument web requests, we understand the web interface is only one part of your server-side application. For this reason, we've been hard at work preparing Skylight for Background Jobs!

In the last post, Samuell (from the og-aws Slack group) figured out his negative TTL problems in Cloudfront. During that session, we actually solved two different problems. This post is to finish off that conversation and address the other problem, which was how to use the default error page in Cloudfront.

So you want to A/B test your web app. The idea is simple, but the details can get messy, and you don’t want to re-invent the wheel. Services like Optimizely are pretty good, but they can be expensive and full of features you don’t need immediately. In this post, we’ll share how Sentry wrote an experimentation system with minimal work.