Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform for building, deploying, and managing global-scale applications. With a wide range of offerings, including dozens of different services, Azure provides tools for users to create large and sophisticated systems for hosting any type of workload. But with the huge number of configuration options and resource types, understanding the health and performance of your applications in Azure can be challenging.

Alerting is central to your website, web application, and API monitoring. Getting the right message to the right people is essential to quickly resolving outages and error states. In this article, we walk you through seven aspects you need to consider when setting up the alerting for your monitors. If you need a general overview of how alerting works within Uptrends, we have a Knowledge Base article and an Academy course you may want to visit.

It has been 25 years since Java came into existence, and it is still one of the preferred platforms among enterprise applications. As technologies evolved, Java's functionality and programming flexibility also matured in parallel, positioning it as a relevant language for over two decades. New memory management systems and garbage collection algorithms are an outstanding example of this evolution.

Remote work has become the new norm. Organizations are adapting to the current volatile market conditions by amending their business strategies, drafting new business playbooks, and laying down novel policies, all centered around one theme: remote work. This transition to remote work certainly hasn’t been easy and brings with it a unique set of challenges. Shifting business operations to remote environments profoundly impacts an organization’s IT infrastructure and in-house networks.

Welcome to the third and last week of GrafanaCONline! We hope you’re able to check out all of our great online sessions. If you didn’t get a chance to watch yesterday’s sessions (or want to see them again), here’s a roundup of day 8 of the conference.

In rotating their tech support tasks, Reciprocity is finding a better way to monitor their code — and a better feel for their process. Joe Alfaro, VP of Engineering at Reciprocity, shares how Sentry helps his team resolve problems before customers can report them. Like most companies, Reciprocity constantly iterates on the best ways to support our product.

The large volumes of logs, metrics, and traces generated by scaling cloud environments can be overwhelming, but they must be collected to identify and respond to production issues or other signals showing business or application issues. To collect, monitor, and analyze this data, many teams choose between open source or proprietary observability solutions.