The latest News and Information on Monitoring for Websites, Applications, APIs, Infrastructure, and other technologies.
On September 4, 2021 a major submarine cable broke down in Vietnam causing network connectivity issues for a large portion of the population. Organizations hosted online and those with data centers outside those perimeters were hit the worst with most of their applications down or running extremely slow.
At Grafana Labs, we have a “big tent” philosophy: We believe our users should be able to determine their own observability strategy and choose their own tools, so we help users bring different data sources together. Datadog is a powerful product used by many teams, and we hear a lot from customers about how we should further embrace and support this critical data source — which is why we created the Datadog data source plugin a few years ago.
If your application runs in a virtualized environment, there is a crucial metric you might not be aware of: CPU steal. In this post, we’ll explain what CPU steal is, how to monitor it, and what happens to your app when CPU steal is high.
In this article, you’ll learn how to capture error logs in your Cloudflare Workers application using AppSignal. We’ll build a simple workers project and integrate AppSignal’s code to collect the necessary metrics. We’ll also learn how to utilize AppSignal’s dashboard to analyze and track errors. Let’s get stuck in!
To celebrate our 13th birthday today, I sat down with Catchpoint's co-founders and my friends, Mehdi Daoudi, Chief Executive Officer, Drit Suljoti, Chief Product and Technology Officer, and J. Scotte Barkan, Chief Technology Officer (dialing in from Long Island after a long week of patch fixes), for an informal chat. We looked back to the days when they all met at DoubleClick prior to the three of them (along with Veronica Ellis, now a Principal Engineer at Eventbrite) founding Catchpoint.
Sysadmins, cartographers, and dashboard designers can now personalize Elastic Maps to create richer geodata stories. The 7.14 release of Elastic Maps has the geo capabilities to highlight points of interest, hide unnecessary details, and help you explore new trends in your data. Elastic Maps is available now on Elastic Cloud — the only hosted Elasticsearch offering to include all of its latest features.
AI-based monitoring and anomaly detection is the key to ensuring that businesses can keep pace with the high level of service required for mission-critical applications. Early, contextual detection is a basic requirement for speedy resolution. AI-based monitoring creates more visibility and provides the agility needed to mitigate the outages, blackouts, glitches and issues that do and will happen.
