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Exploring cAdvisor for Common Use Cases

Container technologies have revolutionized the field of software development. By using containers, you can bundle together an application's source code with its libraries, dependencies, and configurations, ensuring that it runs predictably and reliably on different machines. But how can you be sure that your containers are running smoothly once deployed? That's where container monitoring tools like cAdvisor come in. Below, we'll go over what cAdvisor is and the different use cases for cAdvisor.

Top Five Firewall Monitoring Best Practices

In today's hyper-connected world, cyber threats are an ever-present challenge that organizations of all sizes must face. With cybercriminals becoming increasingly advanced, prioritizing monitoring and managing your firewalls to safeguard your digital assets has never been more critical. This article aims to comprehensively understand five essential firewall monitoring best practices to fortify your network and protect your valuable data.

How To Monitor MemoryDB with MetricFire

Memory databases are known for their ability to store and manage large volumes of data in memory. Their memory-based architecture allows users to quickly retrieve critical information and benefit from performant data reading. Thanks to these characteristics, businesses use memory databases for various applications that require prompt data access playing a vital role within their digital resources.

Whisper Data Migration to the Cloud

In the modern business landscape, the recent surge in cloud computing has become a game-changer, fundamentally altering how organizations manage their IT infrastructure. As businesses increasingly embrace digital transformation, migrating services and applications to the cloud has emerged as a crucial factor in guaranteeing scalability, flexibility, and cost efficiency.

Why Am I Seeing NGINX 502 Bad Gateway: PHP-FPM?

The NGINX Error 502 Bad Gateway is a common error among website users. There are various possible reasons for this error and different ways to solve it. In this article, we will look at the main possible causes and how they can be solved by users and web developers. Use MetricFire's platform to analyze your system’s performance and troubleshoot errors.

Alternatives to Datadog

Before we dive into the specifics of each alternative to Datadog, let's address the most critical point: scaling. Datadog is great for users who need to do a little bit of everything, but Datadog's biggest weakness is scaling. Datadog can do logs, APM, time series and more, but scaling time-series metrics, alerts, and servers will cause your monthly bill to escalate. The graph below shows what you pay at Datadog vs. MetricFire, a leading competitor.

How to deploy Prometheus on Kubernetes

This is a tutorial for deploying Prometheus on Kubernetes, including the configuration for remote storage on Metricfire. This tutorial uses a minikube cluster with one node, but these instructions should work for any Kubernetes cluster. Here's a video that walks through all the steps, or you can read the blog below. You can get onto our product using our free trial, and easily apply what you learned.

Best Grafana dashboard for IoT Device monitored via MQTT metrics and Graphite

Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices and technologies have penetrated into our life. Nowadays, we can easily find IoT devices around us. Home appliance manufacturers produce IoT products for smart homes. Car makers invest in smart vehicles that can communicate with other smart cars and IoT objects nearby. Governments allocate huge resources to build smart cities with IoT technologies to improve the quality of life for people and promote economic growth.

How To Use Our AWS Integration

AWS is a cloud platform that is popular and widely used in many industries. They have many services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, and many more. Since AWS is so popular, being able to easily use it along with your other tools is a priority. We have an AWS integration set up with our tool so that our users have an optimal experience.