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A digital platform may have billions of messages flowing through it each day, with real-time updates considered the standard by customers and enterprises. Ensuring that messages aren’t duplicated or lost in the process is an arduous task, and one that is the focus of IBM MQ, an enterprise-grade messaging solution that has been on the market for over 25 years.

IT admins face pressure from all sides. Besides tracking and securing data across devices, they must also manage a changing inventory of physical and digital assets while adhering to an executive directive to make technology an enabler for growth. Software deployment can be a particularly daunting task. Deploying software through an automated solution is just a click of a button, but what are the don’ts to keep in mind?

Are you interested in learning how to monitor Nginx? In this post, we'll show you all about how Nginx works and how you can use Hosted Graphite to monitor it. First, we'll read what Nginx monitoring is all about and how it can together work with Prometheus. Nginx, pronounced like “engine-ex”, is an open-source web server that, since its initial success as a web server, is now also used as a reverse proxy, HTTP cache, and load balancer.

Network monitoring is a critical component of your network management strategy that provides valuable insights into network-related problems which can affect your organization. When you monitor networks regularly, you'll mitigate risks like overloaded networks, router problems, downtime, cybercrime, and data loss. Network monitoring lets you: All successful companies invest in network monitoring tools that provide accurate insights into performance, speed, security, and productivity.

Application monitoring plays a critical role in the success of your digital products. As you monitor various performance metrics such as usage of CPU, memory, network traffic, and more, you can swiftly take pre-emptive actions before things develop into a larger problem. In spite of the importance of monitoring, the task can become challenging when your infrastructure exists across multiple cloud platforms including AWS and Heroku.