Logging or monitoring? If you deploy and manage an application, these are the two key techniques available to you for helping to ensure that the application meets availability and performance expectations. One of them is Application Performance Management, or APM, though you can also find it referred to as ‘Application Performance Monitoring’ or simply ‘monitoring’. The other is log analytics and management or just ‘logging’.

Hosted Kubernetes services such as AKS were introduced to help engineers deal with the complexity involved in deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters. They do not cover, however, the task of monitoring Kubernetes and the services running on it. While some of the hosted Kubernetes services offer logging solutions, they do not offer all the functionality, flexibility and user-experience expected from a modern log management solution.

This is the third and last in a series of articles on Amazon CloudTrail. In the first part of the series, we introduced AWS CloudTrail and how it works and saw where and how it saves its data. We then learned how to query CloudTrail logs in the second part of the series where we used Amazon Athena to find meaningful information from large volumes of CloudTrail data.

If your work in IT, especially in the software field, then you’re almost certainly aware of logs. An application that doesn’t generate any type of logging would be unheard of, to say the least. What about “log analytics?” Do you know this term?

The Azure Marketplace makes it easy for customers to identify, subscribe to, then use SaaS and API solutions by removing barriers in the procurement process for purchasing those products. By using the existing payment terms they have with Microsoft, Azure customers can click through a simple workflow to purchase an ISV solution without needing to negotiate new terms or speak directly with an Azure or ISV representative.

Business intelligence (BI) is all about making sense of huge amounts of data to extract meaningful and actionable insights out of it. Log management tools such as Graylog, instead, are the perfect solution to streamline data collection and analysis, so it’s easy to understand how these two technologies can make sense when they’re coupled together.

The feedback on the new SolarWinds® Papertrail™ event viewer has been overwhelmingly positive. We’ve heard that the new event viewer is “awesome,” “sleek” and “easy to use.” We also heard, from some long-time Papertrail fans, that moving the context menu to the right side of the log lines might not have been the best choice.