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The latest News and Information on Monitoring for Websites, Applications, APIs, Infrastructure, and other technologies.

Observability for Retail: Top 3 Challenges and How Monitoring Can Help

The pandemic has created a unique set of circumstances that have accelerated what was already a growing trend. The shift from brick and mortar retail to a hybrid online and in-person retail experience has meant that nearly every retailer must also be an e-tailer and deliver a flawless digital shopping experience for its customers.

Dissecting DevOps - Measuring quality in a SaaS world: SLA, SLI, SLO

Now that software is delivered over the web and not in a box, how developers guarantee quality to their users has radically changed. Users do not care about version numbers or floppy disks. They just want access to a service that just works. In the microservices world, the quality of your service both to your internal users and external is measured by SLAs, SLIs, and SLOs. And how you decide what those metrics are is a key strategy.

The Ops Agent is now GA and it leverages OpenTelemetry

Running and troubleshooting production services requires deep visibility into your applications and infrastructure. While basic logs and metrics are available out of the box with Google Cloud Compute Engine (GCE), capturing advanced data used to require the installation of both a metrics agent and a logging agent.

Finding Unexpected Development Solutions Through Log Management

This is a personal story from before I worked at observIQ. I am not a technical person in any professional sense. I have no direct training and my coding experience is limited to front-end web design and some indie game development. Before observIQ, all I knew about log management was that it has something to do with tracking computer performance and behavior, and I associated it mostly with DevOps and the cloud. I never imagined it would play any valuable role in my professional endeavors.

Django SDK Setup

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Continue to monitor your Citrix NetScalers after December 2021 with SCOM

As you might know, all Citrix Application Delivery Controller (ADC/NetScaler) 11.x versions will be End of Life after 31-Dec-2021. Make sure you have these business critical systems upgraded to at least 12.1 before this date, to be able to get the latest updates and keep protected from exploits and hacks making use of any vulnerabilities.