IBM MQ is enterprise-grade message-oriented middleware (MOM). Previously known as MQSeries and renamed to WebSphere MQ, IBM MQ is known for its stability and reliability. Companies in industries ranging from financial services to retail to aviation use it as an integral part of their backend infrastructure. Datadog’s new IBM MQ integration enables users to collect key metrics and logs from their IBM MQ instances and visualize them with a customizable out-of-the-box dashboard.

Java programs running on JVM create objects on the heap. At some stage, these objects are no longer used and can pile up as “garbage” needlessly taking up memory. Replacing the manual process of explicitly allocating and freeing memory, the Java Garbage Collection process was designed to take care of this problem automatically.

With PHP Monitoring, you can identify bottlenecks in your PHP application and optimize your users’ experience. If there is a delay in the page loads, or if the API request takes longer than the actual time, the PHP monitoring will help you to track and identify the anomalies, the slowest functions, database queries, external requests causing the delays.

Today we are happy to announce StackStorm v2.10.4. This is another bug fix release in the v2.10.x release series. It includes the following bug fixes and improvements...

It’s no secret that shoppers want a site that loads fast. Ecommerce websites have to balance looking good and working well to provide the best possible user experience. From product descriptions to user registrations to shopping carts, it can be overwhelming to figure out where to focus your site optimization efforts. Increasing your site’s loading time can double your conversions.

I started Blue Matador in 2016 to help people like me. Site reliability engineers and devops engineers time is in short supply while the demands keep growing. We support an increasing number of applications, microservices, tools, libraries, languages, runtimes, pipelines, analytics and BI suites, and more. At the same time we’re supporting more applications, the applications themselves are growing more and more complex both from a deployment and a management angle.

TimeShift is back after a few weeks away with a lot of updates to share. Nearly all of the Videos and presentations from GrafanaCon LA are available, so please check them out and let us know what you think. Also, if you hadn’t heard, Grafana v6.0 stable was recently released which has lots of new features and enhancements. Download the latest version v6.0.1 and read about the highlights below.

Don’t you just hate it when APIs are failing and you have absolutely no clue why? Now imagine you don’t have access to the VM, cluster or container where your software is running. Want me to continue with this nightmare? Yes, that’s what debugging AWS Lambda functions tends to seem like. A horrid nightmare of not knowing what is happening nor why things are failing. This article will show you a way of logging function invocations.