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February 2025

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Helm vs Terraform: A Detailed Comparison for Developers

Feb 18, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
When managing infrastructure and deploying applications in a cloud-native environment, two popular tools that developers often compare are Helm and Terraform. While both are used to automate deployments, they serve different purposes and operate in distinct ways. Understanding the differences can help you make the right choice for your use case.
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A Quick Guide for OpenTelemetry Python Instrumentation

Feb 18, 2025 By Prathamesh Sonpatki In Last9
OpenTelemetry is an open-source tool that helps you keep an eye on your application’s performance. Whether you’re building microservices, using serverless setups, or working with a traditional monolithic app, it’s crucial to monitor and trace your app’s behavior for debugging and optimization. OpenTelemetry's Python instrumentation is an excellent way to track traces, metrics, and logs across your entire app.
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Tomcat Logs: Locations, Types, Configuration, and Best Practices

Feb 18, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Apache Tomcat logs are essential for monitoring, debugging, and maintaining Java applications running on Tomcat. These logs capture critical information such as server startup details, request handling, and application errors. They help developers and system administrators troubleshoot issues, analyze traffic, and ensure application stability. Tomcat generates multiple logs, each serving a distinct purpose.
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What is DynamoDB Throttling and How to Fix It

Feb 17, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
When you're working with DynamoDB, one of the most critical things you need to keep an eye on is throttling. If you're not careful, throttling can severely impact your database's performance. It’s not just about slower response times—throttling can lead to system failures or unexpected downtime if not addressed properly.
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An Easy Guide to OpenFeature Flagging

Feb 17, 2025 By Ujjwal Goyal In Last9
In software development, feature flags have become an essential tool for teams looking to deploy code with more control and agility. OpenFeature flagging, in particular, stands out as an open-source standard that’s revolutionizing how teams manage feature rollouts, experiments, and toggling. In this guide, we’ll understand what OpenFeature flagging is, its key benefits, how to implement it, and best practices to help you get the most out of it.
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Understanding Syslog Formats: A Quick and Easy Guide

Feb 14, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Syslog is the backbone of logging in many Linux and Unix-based systems, playing a crucial role in monitoring, debugging, and auditing. But not all syslog messages are created equal. Depending on your system, software, and logging configuration, syslog messages may follow different formats. This guide walks you through the different syslog formats, why they matter, and how to work with them effectively.
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Log Retention: Policies, Best Practices & Tools (With Examples)

Feb 14, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Logs are the backbone of debugging, security, compliance, and performance monitoring. But if you don’t manage retention properly, you’ll either drown in unnecessary data or lose critical insights too soon. Log retention is all about striking a balance between keeping what’s necessary and discarding what’s not.
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High Cardinality Explained: The Basics Without the Jargon

Feb 14, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Cardinality refers to the number of unique values in a dataset column. A column with many distinct values—like a user ID or timestamp—has high cardinality, while a column with limited distinct values—like a boolean flag (true/false) or a category with a few possible options—has low cardinality. For example, consider a database of an e-commerce platform.
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SRE Challenges & APM Solutions

Feb 14, 2025 By ManageEngine Site24x7 In Site24x7
Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) face constant challenges as cloud environments and microservices grow more complex. Performance issues often go unnoticed until they escalate, leading to downtime and disruptions. With Site24x7 APM, you can stay ahead of issues before they impact your business. Our Application Performance Monitoring (APM) solution provides real-time insights, predictive analytics, and deep visibility across your entire IT ecosystem—helping you.
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The biggest mistake by Devtool founders

Feb 14, 2025 By Zenduty In Zenduty
Key advice from Ramiro (CEO & Founder Okteto): Don't get attached to your solution - get attached to the problem you're solving! Watch how this mindset helped build a successful Kubernetes developer experience tool.#StartupAdvice#Observability Exclusively on The Incidentally Reliable podcast, which is made by SREs for SREs and hosted by Zenduty. Zenduty is a revolutionary incident management platform that gives you greater control and automation over the incident management lifecycle.
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Types of Pods in Kubernetes: An In-depth Guide

Feb 13, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
When working with Kubernetes, pods are the fundamental building blocks of deployment. But not all pods are created equal. Understanding the different types of pods and their use cases is crucial for optimizing workloads, ensuring reliability, and maintaining efficiency in your cluster. Let's break it all down.
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Telemetry Data Platform: Everything You Need to Know

Feb 13, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
As systems grow more distributed and complex, having a reliable way to monitor and understand what's happening across your infrastructure becomes essential. Telemetry data provides the visibility needed to keep everything running smoothly, whether you're managing microservices, cloud environments, or sophisticated AI systems. In this guide, we’ll break down what a telemetry data platform is, why it’s so important, and how you can choose the right one to meet your needs.
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Incident Severity Levels: A Complete Technical Guide

Feb 12, 2025 By Rohan Taneja In Zenduty
Incidents are inevitable but how you react to them can make all the difference. Not all incidents are created equal but the main challenge that many SRE teams face is to find a way to react to the incidents properly. When an incident occurs, the major question you need to answer is "how severe is it?" We use incident severity levels that help determine the severity based on some predefined guidelines.
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How to Filter Docker Logs with Grep

Feb 12, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Managing logs in Docker can quickly become overwhelming, especially when dealing with multiple containers. If you’ve ever tried to sift through a sea of log entries looking for a specific error or debugging message, you know the struggle. Fortunately, you can pipe docker logs output through grep to filter logs efficiently. This guide breaks down how to use docker logs grep it effectively, including practical examples to help you debug and monitor your containerized applications like a pro.
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Ubuntu System Logs: How to Find and Use Them

Feb 12, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
System logs play a crucial role in debugging and monitoring in Ubuntu. When a service misbehaves or an unexpected crash happens, logs hold the answers. They’re also great for keeping an eye on system performance. Knowing how to access, read, and manage these logs can save you hours of troubleshooting. This guide covers everything you need to know about Ubuntu system logs—from where they’re stored to how to analyze them efficiently.
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The Hard Truth About the Observability Landscape

Feb 12, 2025 By Zenduty In Zenduty
Why are ex-FAANG engineers building observability companies? When millions depend on reliable software, a simple reboot isn't enough anymore. From The Incidentally Reliable podcast with Piyush Verma discussing modern software reliability.#Observability Exclusively on The Incidentally Reliable podcast, which is made by SREs for SREs and hosted by Zenduty. Zenduty is a revolutionary incident management platform that gives you greater control and automation over the incident management lifecycle.
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Essential Incident Management Tools for IT Teams: 2025 Comparison Guide

Feb 11, 2025 By Vishal Padghan In Squadcast
In the ever-evolving landscape of IT operations, the ability to respond swiftly and effectively to incidents is critical. This is where Incident Management Tools come into play, empowering IT teams to detect, respond to, and resolve issues before they escalate into significant business disruptions. In this comprehensive guide, we’ll explore the top Incident Management Tools of 2025, comparing their features, strengths, and pricing to help you make an informed choice for your organization.
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Distributed Tracing 101: Definition, Working and Implementation

Feb 11, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Modern applications rely on microservices, making it tough to track issues across services. Distributed tracing helps by mapping a request’s journey and pinpointing latency, failures, and dependencies. Unlike traditional monitoring, tracing connects the dots between services, offering deeper visibility. But implementing it isn’t easy—it brings high data volumes, performance overhead, and complexity.
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AWS CSPM Explained: How to Secure Your Cloud the Right Way

Feb 11, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
As organizations expand their AWS footprint, maintaining visibility and control over configurations can be challenging. Misconfigurations, unnoticed vulnerabilities, and compliance gaps can create serious security risks. AWS Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) helps teams navigate these challenges by automating security checks, ensuring compliance, and providing continuous monitoring. Here’s what you need to know about AWS CSPM and why it’s essential for securing your cloud environment.
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Monitoring Kubernetes Resource Usage with kubectl top

Feb 11, 2025 By Ujjwal Goyal In Last9
Efficient resource utilization is key to running Kubernetes workloads smoothly. Whether you're troubleshooting performance issues, optimizing resource requests and limits, or keeping an eye on cluster health, the kubectl top command is an essential tool. It provides real-time CPU and memory usage metrics for nodes and pods, helping you make informed decisions about scaling and resource allocation.
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Think Fast: When SREs saved the customer experience

Feb 11, 2025 By Zenduty In Zenduty
How quick decision-making saved customer experience! Featuring Piyush Verma (CTO Last9). Exclusively on The Incidentally Reliable podcast, which is made by SREs for SREs and hosted by Zenduty. Zenduty is a revolutionary incident management platform that gives you greater control and automation over the incident management lifecycle.
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Log Levels: Answers to the Most Common Questions

Feb 10, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Logging is essential for understanding what’s happening inside your software. It helps developers and operators catch issues, monitor system health, and track application behavior. A big part of logging is log levels—these indicate how serious a message is, from routine updates to critical errors. In this post, we’ll break down everything you need to know about log levels, how they compare to Syslog log levels, and best practices for making the most of your logs.
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The Ultimate Guide to OpenTelemetry Visualization

Feb 10, 2025 By Prathamesh Sonpatki In Last9
Modern software systems are complex, with multiple services interacting across different environments. Understanding how they behave—tracking performance, identifying bottlenecks, and diagnosing failures—requires more than just collecting data. OpenTelemetry provides a standardized way to gather logs, metrics, and traces, but the real value comes from making that data easy to interpret through visualization.
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How Azure Observability Optimizes Performance and Monitoring

Feb 7, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Observability in Azure isn’t just about tracking metrics—it’s about truly understanding how your cloud infrastructure, applications, and services are performing. It helps you spot issues before they become problems, optimize performance, and ensure security. In this guide, we’ll break down Azure Observability in a way that’s easy to follow, covering key concepts, best practices, and some useful tricks to give you an edge.
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Everything You Need to Know About Microsoft Sentinel Pricing

Feb 7, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Keeping your organization secure is more important than ever. Microsoft Sentinel, a cloud-native Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solution, helps detect and respond to threats effectively. But to get the most out of it, it’s important to understand how the pricing works.
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NGINX Log Monitoring: What It Is, How to Get Started, and Fix Issues

Feb 6, 2025 By Ujjwal Goyal In Last9
Ensuring that your web applications run smoothly and securely is essential. NGINX, known for its high performance and scalability, plays a key role in delivering web content. But to keep everything running efficiently, you need to monitor and analyze its logs properly. This guide will walk you through how to configure, analyze, and make the most of NGINX logs to stay on top of your server’s health.
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Top 10 challenges for SREs and how to overcome them with APM tools

Feb 6, 2025 By Sindu Priyadharshini V In Site24x7
According to Google, "SRE is what you get when you treat operations as a software problem.” The role of site reliability engineers (SREs) is evolving rapidly to ensure optimal application performance in today's evolving IT environments. SREs are expected to provide proactive and predictive solutions for the issues arising from managing such environments. A Gartner report even suggests that by 2025, 70% organizations will be depending on SRE practices to ensure operational resilience.
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How to Monitor Error Logs in Real-Time: An In-Depth Guide

Feb 6, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
For system admins and developers, being able to track error logs in real time is crucial. It’s not just about fixing problems; it’s about keeping everything running smoothly, ensuring systems perform at their best, and catching issues before they snowball into bigger ones. This guide breaks down the tools and commands that make real-time log monitoring easier and more effective, offering more than just the basics.
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Incident Management Process: Stages, Framework & Best Practices

Feb 5, 2025 By Vishal Padghan In Squadcast
These days, organizations must be prepared to handle unexpected disruptions efficiently. Whether it’s a cybersecurity breach, system failure, or a natural disaster, having a structured Incident Management Process is essential. The Incident Management Team plays a crucial role in swiftly identifying, assessing, and resolving incidents, minimizing downtime, and ensuring business continuity.
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Getting Started with OpenTelemetry Java SDK

Feb 5, 2025 By Prathamesh Sonpatki In Last9
Understanding how your applications perform is crucial. OpenTelemetry has emerged as a powerful observability framework, offering a standardized approach to collecting telemetry data such as metrics, logs, and traces. For Java developers, the OpenTelemetry Java SDK provides the tools necessary to instrument applications effectively. This guide is all about the OpenTelemetry Java SDK, exploring its components, configuration, and advanced features to help you harness its full potential.
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AWS CloudWatch Custom Metrics: Types & Setup Guide [With Examples]

Feb 5, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring and observability service that provides real-time insights into AWS resources and applications. While CloudWatch provides many default metrics, sometimes you need custom metrics to monitor specific aspects of your infrastructure or applications. This guide covers everything you need to know about CloudWatch custom metrics, from basics to advanced use cases.
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SSHD Logs 101: Configuration, Security, and Troubleshooting Scenarios

Feb 4, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Secure Shell (SSH) is a fundamental tool for remote system administration, and its logs play a critical role in security monitoring, debugging, and compliance. SSHD logs provide insights into authentication attempts, connection successes, failures, and potential intrusions. This guide explores everything you need to know about SSHD logs, including their location, format, analysis, and lesser-known security practices to maximize their effectiveness.
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Website Performance Benchmarks: What You Should Aim For [with Examples]

Feb 4, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
When it comes to your website, speed is everything. A slow site frustrates users, drives up bounce rates, and even impacts your revenue. That’s where website performance benchmarks come in. They help you figure out how well your site is performing, where it needs improvement, and—most importantly—what you can do to make it faster. In this guide, we'll walk you through the key benchmarks, the tools you need, and a few tips that’ll help your site outshine the competition.
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Top 11 API Monitoring Tools You Need to Know

Feb 4, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
APIs are the backbone of modern software, quietly powering everything we interact with. But just because they’re invisible doesn’t mean they can’t run into issues. From response times to uptime, keeping an eye on your APIs is key to making sure everything works smoothly. In this guide, we’ll explore 11 popular API monitoring tools to help you find the one that best fits your needs.
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10 Kubernetes Monitoring Tools You Can't-Miss in 2025

Feb 4, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Monitoring a Kubernetes cluster isn’t just about keeping an eye on CPU and memory usage. It’s about understanding system health, detecting anomalies before they cause outages, and ensuring applications run smoothly. With so many tools available, choosing the right one can feel overwhelming. This guide covers the best Kubernetes monitoring tools, their use cases, and key factors to consider.
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The Basics of Log Parsing (Without the Jargon)

Feb 3, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Logs are crucial for understanding what's happening in your system, but they can often be hard to make sense of. Log parsing is the key to turning raw, unstructured data into something useful. In this blog, we'll explore the basics of log parsing, its importance, and how it helps you extract valuable insights from your logs without all the clutter.
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OpenTelemetry Processors: Workflows, Configuration Tips, and Best Practices

Feb 3, 2025 By Prathamesh Sonpatki In Last9
Most developers are familiar with Opentelemetry core components—Traces, Metrics, and Logs. But there’s one part of the OpenTelemetry ecosystem that doesn’t always get the spotlight: processors. These behind-the-scenes operators shape your data pipeline, helping you filter, enrich, and fine-tune telemetry data before it reaches your backend systems. Processors play a key role in making sure your data is cleaner, more useful, and just the way you need it.
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