The performance of your APIs is a critical factor that influences the success of a project. After implementation, you will want to constantly monitor your APIs. You may want to monitor response time on a regular basis or you may have more extensive monitoring scenarios. MetricFire specializes in monitoring systems, including APIs. You can use our product with minimal configuration to gain in-depth insight into your environments.
In today’s world, with many microservices fuelling hundreds of components, the failure of just one piece can cause a crash for the whole system. For example, a lack of memory in one component can cause a database failure. This database failure could be the reason for authentication problems for particular users, causing those users to not be able to login. And of course, finding the core problem manually can be complex and time-consuming.
Your website is the face of your business - it should urge the customer to buy your product. Knowing this, you spend weeks on a great web design and user experience. But that’s only the visible part, what about your site’s infrastructure? In order to make your website as optimized as possible, you need metrics about everything such as customer behavior, load speeds, proxy request counts, load balancers and more.
Your monitoring system provides a comprehensive overview of any infrastructure. To effectively monitor your infrastructure and systems, you’ll need to get all of your data into one place - regardless if you have 1 node or 10 nodes. This centralization of data inevitably creates a vulnerable point that attackers can potentially target and exploit. In this article, we look at how to design your infrastructure in a secure way, as well as focus in on how to secure your nodes.
Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) form the backbone of the product delivery lifecycle. A well tuned, fault tolerant and scalable CI/CD pipeline is very important to support modern Agile teams. Despite obvious business advantages, a rapid release approach combined with continuous change processes resulting from DevOps principles will in the long run generate new challenges. The entire process needs to be carefully examined and controlled.
We have come a long way in the world of computing. From having computers that fill up entire rooms or buildings while performing relatively basic actions to having complex machines that literally fit in our pockets and palms, this advancement has been nothing short of breathless. With an emphasis placed on speed and efficiency, computers and the applications running on these computers have been tailored to ensure optimal use of resources, be these resources hardware or software resources.
So what exactly is observability? Is it just a new-fangled term for 'monitoring'? Well, no. Observability goes further than mere monitoring. Observability involves the combination of 3 pillars – Metrics, Logs, and Tracing – to give a much more in-depth view of what your application is doing. Observability offers proactive insights into how your application and/or infrastructure are likely to behave, whereas monitoring is only reactive in nature.
Your app is done and the client is ready to launch! Everything looks great. But how can you ensure that you will achieve your SLA for uptime? How are you tracking revenue growth (& optimizing)? Do you know how many users you have, and what they’re doing at any given moment in the app? What you need is a monitoring platform that will be able to track these different types of data in one place.
An infrastructure, especially if it is scalable, can become extremely complex to visualize and observe. If something goes wrong, it would be difficult to fully understand the problem without a great data monitoring strategy. Information related to CPU, RAM, and statistics about SSH or HTTP servers are critical to understanding the performance of your web-application.
You’re ingesting 20,000 data points a second, in 400,000 metrics, from thousands of AWS instances – and your monitoring can’t handle the load. You need a scalable, highly-available monitoring and dashboarding solution (and you need it yesterday). Should you do it yourself with an in-house Graphite or Prometheus monitoring system? Or will you skip the headache and choose a hosted service like MetricFire?
