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The Ultimate Guide to ELK Log Analysis

ELK has become one of the most popular log analytics solutions for software-driven businesses, with thousands of organizations relying on ELK for log analysis and management in 2021. In this ultimate guide to using ELK for log management and analytics, we’re providing insights and information that will help you know what to expect when deploying, configuring, and operating an ELK stack for your organization. Keep reading to discover answers to the following.

Linux Log Management: Advanced Techniques and Best Practices

Linux log management is critical to maintaining system health, troubleshooting issues, and ensuring security. This article explores advanced techniques and best practices for effectively managing Linux logs. Whether you're a seasoned Linux administrator or a newcomer, these insights will help you optimize your Linux log management processes.

How to Extract Numerical Data from a Web Page for Dashboarding and Alerting

Over the years working as a software engineer and now a product manager, I’ve encountered multiple situations where I needed to extract numerical data from a page on a periodic basis and create visualizations, typically line charts to help me see trends over time. For example, I wanted to extract product prices and monitor them over time. Or, I wanted to query a search engine periodically and extract the number of matches or the position of a specific page for SEO purposes.

How to Track Your Company's Rating on a Website

Websites provide advisory services, research, and user reviews on SaaS companies to help users find the right product for their needs. Information and reviews shared by genuine users of your product or service is the strongest recommendation that can be received by your potential customers. This is why online user reviews are important for eCommerce and SaaS companies.

How to Periodically Extract Webpage Performance Metrics from Browser API

To ensure a good end user experience, smart businesses periodically gather performance data from their websites. They measure the responsiveness and speed of their services to ensure fast and reliable websites. Having a responsive and fast website improves companies’ conversion rates, keeps their reputation intact, and helps increase traffic and revenue. Website monitoring applications help determine whether the website achieves the desired response times and uptimes.

How to Extract Numerical Values from API Responses

Extracting numerical values from public or private JSON API responses can help you track and analyze data, easily spot trends, and alert on data that is important to your business. If you can passively have this information periodically come to you and if you can receive alert notifications when certain conditions are met, you can avoid checking each metric manually and – obviously – save a ton of time. Synthetic monitoring tools let you do these things automatically.

How to Troubleshoot Slow Web Applications With Sematext

Maintaining a smooth operation of your web application is crucial for the success of your business. When customers encounter performance issues while using your application, it will likely affect your business reliability and customer satisfaction. This can lead to churn rate increase which will cause a loss of revenue. As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) or DevOps professional, you would want to keep your product reliable for end users.

Simplify Azure Monitoring with Logz.io's New Azure-Native Integration

If you’re looking to monitor Microsoft Azure infrastructure with Logz.io, we’re now making it easier than ever with our new Azure-native integration Typically, collecting infrastructure metrics from Azure involves installing and configuring data collection components on your system, such as Prometheus, Telegraph, or a number of proprietary agents that are specific to different vendors.

An Introduction to the OWASP API Security Top 10

If you ever watched Stargate, then you have some understanding of how application programming interfaces (APIs) work. While APIs don’t give you the ability to traverse the galaxy using an alien wormhole, they do act as digital portals that allow data to travel between applications. However, as sensitive data moves from one application to another, each API becomes a potential access point that threat actors can exploit.