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Application Monitor: Checking Everything that Matters

Application monitor solutions are not novel but rather an evolutionary technology. These types of solutions answer the problems that most developers and DevOps teams encounter when building an application. Application monitor solutions help determine potential defects so developers can take corrective actions quickly. Hence, building an application is no longer complete without application performance monitoring (APM) solutions.

Best 7 Monitoring Tools for Node.js Application

Sometimes, applications do not perform as well as they should. Application developers are responsible for performing preventive and curative maintenance. Customers that use your application as a developer may waste a lot of money attempting to restore the applications without your help. To maintain track of your application's activities, it's best to use an effective monitoring system. Monitoring a Node.js application entails keeping a careful eye on its performance and availability.

SMTP Ports (25, 587, 465, or 2525) - What is SMTP Port? How to Choose the Best and Right SMTP Port?

It can be difficult to choose an SMTP port. When we set up the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol SMTP Server, the first question that comes to mind is this. Which port is the best for SMTP connections? There are a variety of ports to choose from, but which one should you use? Allow me to take you on a journey through the history of each port. It will give you a good understanding of all of the ports, and then we'll talk about which one is optimal for SMTP connections.

New Relic vs Atatus

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is used to ensure consistent availability, performance, and response times of an application. Websites, mobile applications, and business applications have use cases for monitoring purposes. Although, in the digital world, monitoring use cases expand to the processes, hosts, logs, networks, and end-users including your customers and employees.

How to receive alerts in Slack with Pandora FMS

We are going to learn how to configure a CLI connector for Slack webhooks and use them in Pandora alerts. We will show how to create an app in Slack and link it to the channel where we will receive the alerts, enable a webhook to make possible the communication between Pandora FMS and the Slack channel and configure Pandora Slack CLI and an alert in our Pandora FMS console.

Prometheus vs. Datadog: Which is Right for your Business?

Deployment of an application is a significant step for any business. The quicker and better updates you can give to your users, the faster it will be for you to fix issues and introduce new features. With more immediate updates for your application, it is also important to handle the application’s bugs and issues and monitor them. As an entrepreneur, it will require a lot of effort and time, and sometimes it does not even appear to pay off.

Visualize Humio logs alongside your other data sources in Grafana Cloud with the new plugin for Grafana

Being able to get the big picture and immediately pivot between siloed data is one of the key values Grafana Cloud provides. Our composable observability platform integrates Prometheus and Graphite metrics, Loki logs, and Tempo traces with Grafana — and also allows you to draw data in from other sources of your choice concurrently.

Writing My First OpenSearch Plugin

Personally, I’ve always wanted to contribute to an open-source project, but never found a way to incorporate it with my day-to-day work. Occasionally, I’d muster up the courage to clone a project I liked, seeking a good entry point to add some new feature or handle some issue. I thought that all I needed was to make a small contribution and everything else would just flow into place.