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How Log Management Underpins The Internet of Things (IoT)

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a term for the ever growing number of internet connected devices that fall beyond the realm of your typical laptop, desktop computer or smartphone. Many of us already own and use IoT devices on a daily basis, these could be anything from "smart" versions of appliances like refrigerators, thermostats and coffee machines through to your expected IoT devices such as Amazon’s Alexa & Google’s home speakers.

5 Reasons to Add Network Monitoring to Your 2021 IT Budget

For many companies, the beginning of October is also the beginning of the fourth and final quarter of the fiscal year. In IT, it’s a time to prepare for the new year by defining our priorities and setting our budget. COVID-19 threw a wrench into all of our 2020 plans from last year and a lot has changed since then. But one thing that hasn’t changed is the need for a network monitoring system in your software stack.

How to collect Prometheus metrics and store them anywhere (with Sensu!)

As my co-founder Caleb Hailey likes to say, collecting monitoring and observability data is essentially a solved problem. The only remaining challenges are related to getting that data where you want it to go. When dealing with different formats — say, collecting Prometheus metrics and storing them in Elasticsearch — this can be a non-trivial problem. Put simply, it’s like trying to put a square peg into a round hole.

All in on APM

It’s been just over six months since Splunk disrupted the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) market with the launched SignalFx Microservices APM, combining the technologies of SignalFx and Omnition. We have pushed ourselves harder and continued to invest in creating more value for our customers by making it easier for them to ingest ALL data and providing ever more powerful analytics on top of that data.

Splunk > Clara-fication: Job Inspector

Do you SPL? Well, if you do, you probably either already know about the job inspector, or you’re about to. Either way, you probably don’t know enough. Don’t worry though, that’s all about to change. There are a few different aspects of the job inspector that everyone should be familiar with. These include the execution costs, the search job properties, and the search.log. I’m going to walk us through these areas, and some others, and their importance.

StatsD: What Is It and How To Monitor It

StatsD is among the most popular monitoring solutions used to instrument code with the help of custom metrics. It has become very popular over the course of the last few years and emerged as the industry standard for open source inside-the-app monitoring. It has a host of advantageous features that makes it perfect for application performance measurements.

How to find Azure BLOB files that haven't been accessed

Azure storage has provided companies with a way to store almost limitless amount of data. But just like kids in a candy store this can get out of hand, and expensive. Being able to store as much data as you want is great, however it is something that can grow to a point where you are spending more on storage than you actually need.

Accelerate Your APIs by Using the HAProxy Cache

The age of rendering most of a web page’s contents on the server and then delivering it as a colossal HTML file is fading into the past. Modern web frameworks like Angular, React, and Vue push towards creating components instead—individual elements on the page that fetch their data in the background and poll for asynchronous updates—which can be reused across your site.