Speed is everything in capital markets. Success in the front and back office is dependent on the ability to provide accurate, fast responses to challenging questions. Over the past several decades, there has been a tremendous increase in the amount of information available to market participants, and trade transactions are now being carried out at a very rapid pace. In parallel, the technology which capital markets firms are developing is becoming increasingly complex.

MongoDB is a document-oriented and cross-platform database that maintains its documents in the binary encoded JSON format. Mongo’s replication capabilities and horizontal capability using sharding make MongoDB highly available. An effective monitoring solution can make it easier for you to identify issues with MongoDB such as resource availability, execution slowdowns, and scalability. observIQ recently built and contributed a MongoDB metric receiver to the OpenTelemetry contrib repo.

The explosive growth of ecommerce has slowed in the last year. But the need for businesses to deliver a great digital user experience continues to grow. Companies that don’t rely on online customer purchases can still suffer blows to revenues due to a poor online experience. Market conditions are raising the importance of Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools to ensure every digital interaction with your company is positive. APM tools vary by design, features and functionality.

Without logs, or a good understanding of them, debugging an application or looking through an error stack trace can be challenging. Luckily, Flask logging can change the way you understand debugging and how you interact with logs produced by the application. The Flask logging module gives you a way to record errors over different severity levels. A default logging module is included in the Python standard library, and it provides both simple and advanced logging functions.

Everybody is used to dealing with the bugs on their smartphone and other technology devices In their homes that have been an issue for years. The fact that they may never be resolved is just one of those things that we’ve decided to accept. At Cribl, we approach this situation differently — we’re not okay with bugs of any size.

You probably have heard of logging agents, such as Logstash or Fluent Bit, if you’ve been investigating log analysis, monitoring, and observability. If so, and you’re wondering what logging agents are and why you might need them, you’ve come to the right place. This article will look at what logging agents are for, their advantages, and what you can use instead of a logging agent.

We are pleased to announce that an upgraded version of the Linux Node integration is available in Grafana Cloud, including the capability to visualize logs that are correlated with previously existing metrics. It also includes a new pre-configured dashboard based on the USE method, which focuses on showing resources utilization, saturation, and errors.

One of Cribl Stream’s selling points is the reduction of ingested log volume, which helps our customers control costs and improve system performance. This can be accomplished in two ways – either by eliminating duplicate or unnecessary fields and null values within the events, or controlling the number of specific events that actually get sent to the destinations through strategic filtering.

What’s the saddest log line in the multiverse? A log line without context. That’s according to Grafana Labs software engineer and Grafana Loki tech lead Ed Welch, who joined Grafana Labs VP of Culture Matt Toback and Engineering Director Mat Ryer for the latest episode of “Grafana’s Big Tent," our new podcast about people, community, tech, and tools around observability.