If you're thinking of running a serverless setup, congratulations! But...that means you're running a distributed system. With all the benefits and simplicities that come with going serverless comes this tradeoff: You potentially also have some increases in complexity. Distributed systems are, by their nature, complex. With partitions, you're communicating over a network that's potentially unreliable and can't be trusted. Which means that monitoring your application errors is going to be especially important.

Recently, OpsMatters marketing consultant & copywriter Lauren Detweiler sat down (virtually, of course!) with Lucian Daniliuc, founder & CEO of uptime monitoring service Monitive, to chat about the monitoring industry, the process of rewriting an application from scratch, and why customers matter to the process so much.

These systems are continuing to change the way businesses prepare for and respond to incidents when they arise.

For the final part of our monitoring series, we take a deeper look at the giant industry of security monitoring and how these tools can help you protect your systems from major threats.

Customer experience is becoming a key differentiator between competitors. Actually, it already is! If your website is performing poorly, it's hurting your business. The first step towards improving this performance is using a real user monitoring tool to identify problems and monitor your progress towards improvement.

Part two of our series takes a deep dive into infrastructure monitoring tools: what they are, who provides them, and how they can help your operations-related processes.

In the first part of our new series we examine the different types of application monitoring tools available today and what insights they can provide you.

It's never been more important to monitor the health of cloud-based systems. However, a recent study by Gartner says that 39% of enterprises operating in the cloud have solutions in place, but still don't have 100% visibility.