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Using SolarWinds Loggly to Get the Most Out of MongoDB Structured Logging

Logs are essential for understanding and optimizing performance, and MongoDB structured logging makes them more powerful. By organizing logs into a consistent format, we can query and analyze them more efficiently. However, dealing with logs locally has its limits. That’s where a centralized log management tool like SolarWinds Loggly comes in. Shipping MongoDB logs to SolarWinds Loggly gives you a unified view of your data, advanced analytics, and proactive monitoring.

Introducing CloudWatch Metric Stream Support in Lumigo

At Lumigo, we are constantly working to help you gain full visibility into your AWS environments with minimal friction. That’s why we’re excited to announce our support for CloudWatch Metric Stream. Now, AWS users can easily send their CloudWatch metrics to Lumigo to create dashboards, set alerts, and unify all their observability data—traces, logs, and metrics—into one powerful, centralized view.

Kickstart your investigations and reduce alert noise with Doctor Droid's offering in the Datadog Marketplace

Being an on-call engineer is often overwhelming, requiring you to pivot between tickets, dashboards, runbooks, and different data sources as you try to separate legitimate incidents from unnecessary noise. Not only does the process of investigating irrelevant alerts take time away from remediating important issues, but it also compounds alert fatigue.

What's That Collector Doing?

The Collector is one of many tools that the OpenTelemetry project provides end users to use in their observability journey. It is a powerful mechanism that can help you collect telemetry in your infrastructure and it is a key component of a telemetry pipeline. The Collector helps you better understand what your systems are doing—but who watches the Collector? Let’s look at how we can understand the Collector by looking at all the signals it’s emitting.

Anatomy of an OTT Traffic Surge: Netflix Rumbles Into Wrestling

On Monday, Netflix debuted professional wrestling as its latest foray into live event streaming. The airing of WWE’s Monday Night Raw followed Netflix’s broadcasts of a heavily-promoted boxing match featuring a 58-year-old Mike Tyson and two NFL games on Christmas Day. In this post, we look into the traffic statistics of how these programs were delivered.

Network Observability: Boosting NOC Performance in an AI-Driven World

In today’s digital battleground, a business’ survival depends on the robustness and reliability of its network infrastructure. Network connectivity represents the backbone of critical operations and services. Optimized network performance and experience is the lifeblood of corporate success. With the surge in cloud computing and cutting-edge technologies, networks are becoming intricate and multi-layered beasts.

Structured Logging Best Practices: Implementation Guide with Examples

In structured logging, log messages are broken down into key-value pairs, making it easier to search, filter, and analyze logs. This is in contrast to traditional logging, which usually consists of unstructured text that is difficult to parse and analyze.

AWS cloud monitoring: How Applications Manager can help

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a popular cloud platform known for its scalability, flexibility, and cost-efficiency. However, its dynamic nature and its complex architecture make real-time monitoring a challenge without a dedicated AWS monitoring tool. IT teams that operate in the AWS cloud need to keep an eye on every corner of the cloud infrastructure to ensure smooth IT operations.

Innovation, impact, and inspiration: Reflecting on 2024

2024 was a year where technology truly made a difference. For businesses, it wasn’t just about new systems; it was about using technology to make operations smoother, improve security, and drive growth. Many organizations turned to ManageEngine to solve challenges, improve efficiency, and achieve meaningful results. Communities also saw the benefits. From connecting urban and rural areas to supporting sustainability efforts, technology helped create impact.