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Debugging serverless applications with Dashbird

With AWS Lambda, we get scalability and resilience out-of-the-box. What’s more, AWS also provides built-in monitoring, logging and tracing support through CloudWatch and X-Ray. These built-in tools provide a good starting point but many developers eventually outgrow them as their serverless application becomes more complex. In this post, let’s take a serverless application and see how Dashbird can help you debug a serverless application.

DOTComm Case Study

The Douglas Omaha Technology Commission (DOTComm) manages the IT services for the City of Omaha and Douglass County. Founded in 2001 the Organisation brought together the services previously delivered by two separate providers through a merger. This initiative was designed to deliver economies of scale, reduce costs and improve service provision by increasing the capacity of the organization.

JungleDisk Case Study

Modern businesses face a unique challenge when it comes to protecting their data, one that changes rapidly in our technology-focused lives: Backups fail; local disks fail; files become corrupted; hackers prey on IT users. Jungle Disk was founded to deliver robust data security to clients across a wide range of industry sectors and, since 2006, have been providing their clients with the latest technologies to keep their critical information safe.

timeShift(GrafanaBuzz, 1w) Issue 77

We’ve added more info on the upcoming talks at GrafanaCon LA and are excited to see the schedule shaping up. Grab your ticket while the last and join us February 25-26 for two days of great talks and hands-on workshops. This week we’re happy to share articles on how to view Azure Monitor Log Analytics data in Grafana, a proof of concept to visualize Fitbit data, how to quickly get up and running with Prometheus and more.

2018 year in review

There were some big IT headlines this past year. Microsoft acquired GitHub and IBM bought Red Hat. Kubernetes graduated from the CNCF incubator program. And the biggest headline of all—at least to those of us at Datadog, where we live and breathe monitoring—we released Datadog Agent version 6, a completely new monitoring agent written in Go! As we start the new year, we’d like to take a moment to recognize some of the incredible things our engineers accomplished in 2018.

LM Unleashed: 2019 Global Kick-off

Last week, the LogicMonitor executive staff kicked off a global tour across the LM offices to celebrate 2018 wins and share the company vision moving into 2019. This annual Company Kick-Off event (CKO) remains a strong tradition here at LogicMonitor, allowing team members to celebrate, collaborate and fuel-up for success in the coming year.

KPIs to monitor for optimal SQL Server performance

As you may know, Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database management system (RDBMS) developed by Microsoft. Several industries rely on SQL database servers for data storage and access because it supports a wide range of transaction processing, business intelligence, and analytics applications in corporate IT environments.

Diagnosing the Real Root Cause of Citrix Problems

One of the biggest challenges Citrix admins face is uncovering answers for Citrix performance issues. When an application or a desktop is slow, people naturally pin the blame on the Citrix infrastructure. It’s possible that there could be issues stemming from the Citrix side of the house, but often the real culprits are the supporting infrastructure components: network latency, virtualization bottlenecks, AD issues, storage hotspots, database issues, etc.