Box is a leader in Cloud Content Management, providing users easy access to their information and a secure platform to share and collaborate. Box delivers its cloud-based product via web applications, integrations with partner solutions such as Microsoft Office 365 and G Suite, and publicly exposed and supported APIs that enable customers and partners to integrate Box into their systems. As with any SaaS application, performance, reliability, and availability are critical to the business.

Honeycomb is an event-based observability tool. Rather than relying on the rigid pre-aggregated measures provided by metrics, Honeycomb instead favors using events because they provide a much greater degree of flexibility. But that doesn’t mean metrics don’t belong in Honeycomb. Our new whitepaper, Getting Started With Honeycomb Metrics, breaks down exactly how to do that.

E-commerce has now revolutionized the way that people shop. But one of the biggest challenges a lot of e-commerce owners face today is website security. Although selling online opens doors for many opportunities, keeping your site safe from phishing, hacking, and other cyber attacks can be a nightmare for a lot of online business owners. Also, the risk is even higher because the choice of security provisions is often beyond your reach.

You’ve probably heard the term API (application program interface) used more than a few times, but do you really understand what an API is, what it does, and how it works? In this article, we dissect the term and examine the many various aspects of an API call.

Many organizations are adopting centralized logging tools so that they have one place for all of their data. This is generally easier than having separate tools across teams for log storage and analysis. But centralized logging introduces new challenges, like how to segment those logs according to the teams or developers where they are the most relevant. And, how to manage log volume.

The 7.2 stable release builds on the major developments in Grafana 7.0. Interested in getting started with Grafana? Watch this webinar for a demo of the user interface and setup.

Application monitoring alone is not always enough to get the full picture of your systems. Frequently, services running in satellite apps (or supporting apps) can have an acute impact on your day-to-day operations. Database servers are well-known examples of this. Backup scripts and other background jobs can also slow systems and are often overlooked. AppSignal does not watch these satellite processes by default.

I would like to share our recent case study on our battling a very serious performance issue whose solution turned out to be a small change in code, but with a huge impact on all of our HTTP endpoints in our platform.