Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

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

Embedded Analytics for IT

When we hear the term ‘embedded analytics’, most people think of business intelligence. The concept of embedded analytics refers to the integration of analytic content and capabilities within a business process application. The business benefits of embedding analytics into a business process include increased visibility, more effective strategic planning and accelerated time to value.

What happened to Fastly and why did so many websites experience downtime?

A phrase we never thought was possible – “the internet is down”, was being shouted across the world on Tuesday 8th June 2021. Alarm bells were ringing when hundreds of websites had an “error 503” show up when visitors tried to access them. So what happened to the internet? A relatively unknown company soon dominated global news headlines for causing the websites’ “blackout”.

GrafanaCONline 2021 Day 5 recap: Grafana alerting, dashboards as code, synthetic monitoring in Grafana Cloud, and more!

GrafanaCONline 2021 is still going strong and you can tune in live (for free!) or sign up to get notified about on-demand access to all the session recordings, which will be available after GrafanaCONline ends. Here’s what you missed on Day 5 of the conference.

Jamstack, Next.js, Netlify, and Sentry: How The Pieces Fit

Jamstack (Javascript + APIs + Markup) is a web architecture that combines the convenience of pre-built websites with the capacity to handle custom APIs and serverless functions. By separating the frontend UI from backend databases, Jamstack allows developers to structure their application in ways that deliver dynamic content faster.

How to Monitor Full-Stack Django Applications

Modern web applications can be complex. A typical application stack usually involves several components spread across different layers. For example, HTML5 and AngularJS can make up a site’s front end. User inputs and queries from the front end can be passed on to containerized microservices running on a middleware, which in turn could pass the queries to a back-end database. Systems like WAFs and LDAP servers can be used for security and authentication.

Transforming Network Monitoring For The "Everything-As-A-Service" Era

Modern applications enable enterprises to scale faster with better efficiency and resilience. The main advantage of a multi-cloud/hybrid cloud infrastructure is in its highly distributed architecture that offers proximity – bringing end users closer to the service provider.