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Hosted StatsD vs. StatsD

When you are designing and building applications, you should consider how to monitor them once they become live. You do not want to be blindsided by errors and degrading performances as you operate them. When your applications fail to provide optimal performance, it can broadly impact your business. Engineers will often be distracted to investigate and fix the issues. Customers will complain. It can eventually hit your bottom line.

MetricFire in 2023

As we welcome a new year, many people set goals, refresh their schedules, and look forward to making the most of 2023. At Metricfire, we think it’s important to reflect on the past and plan for the future. So we’re looking forward to creating goals for our company while sticking to our core values. In this article, we’ll briefly cover some of our company goals for 2023, specifically for our culture, our roadmap, and our growth as a company.

Monitoring your router with MetricFire

Having a healthy network is essential for any online business. Downtime can be costly; if you're not monitoring your devices, you could have more downtime than you realize. Routers, in particular, are essential for keeping a network running. Routers are critical equipment for any business that relies on the Internet to communicate with customers or clients. A slow or faulty router can grind business to a halt, which is why keeping an eye on your router's performance is essential.

How To Monitor NGINX using Telegraf and Graphite

When enterprises run online services, web servers play an essential role. They allow the software to surface on the world wide web and make it accessible through web browsers for customers worldwide. When the performance of a web server gets degraded or, even worst, if a web server is entirely down, it impacts not only the business bottom line but also the brand image for not providing reliable service to customers. Failure to manage web servers can also lead to security risks.

SQL Server Monitoring: What metrics to track

SQL Server Monitoring has become an essential part of modern-day applications since a major chunk of these applications rely heavily on a database. It is therefore important to monitor your metrics and make the best out of your database services. SQL Server Monitoring offers plenty of metrics to choose from. We will be breaking down the five key categories that an SQL server provides for a comprehensive view of their functionality.

Top 8 Web Application Performance Metrics

Web application performance metrics help determine certain aspects that impact the performance of an application. This article discusses eight key metrics, including: Web performance is rapidly evolving, with new trends like Google’s Core Web Vitals (CWV), increasing use of images and video on web pages, and the rollout of 5G. We’ll present three methods that can help you adapt to these changes and boost the performance of your web applications.

Using ClickHouse with MetricFire

In the analytics domain, fast and reliable storage is an important aspect for businesses to handle a large amount of data. There are different types of data storage including RDBMS, NoSQL, data lake, data warehouse, and graph database. Among these, the most widely used is RDBMS that powers various systems and applications of companies of all sizes. RDBMS is easy to use and straightforward to understand thanks to its table-based (or column-based) data format.

A Modern Guide to MySQL Performance Monitoring

According to results from the Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2022, nearly half (46%) of respondents say they use MySQL, making it the most widely-adopted database technology among developers today. This popularity is due in no small part to MySQL’s unique features that help it handily meet the needs of modern applications, from small software projects to business-critical systems.

Making the Most of CloudWatch Log Insights: 7 Best Practices

Amazon CloudWatch provides Log Insights, a feature that can help you: CloudWatch Log Insights uses a proprietary query language with several basic commands. It provides sample queries for common AWS service log types, as well as query auto-completion. Learn more about CloudWatch Log Insights capabilities and how to use them.