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10 Ways to Implement Effective IoT Log Management

The Internet of Things (IoT) has quickly become a huge part of how people live, communicate and do business. All kinds of everyday things make up this network – fridges, kettles, light switches – you name it. If it’s connected to WiFi, it’s part of the Internet of Things. IoT raises significant challenges that could stand in your way of fully realizing its potential benefits.

Snooze notifications until the next workday

When a site is down, Oh Dear sends a notification every hour. Since last year, our notifications can be snoozed for a fixed amount of time (5 minutes, 1 hour, 4 hours, one day). In the evenings and weekends, you might not want to receive repeated notifications. That's why we've added a nice human touch: all notifications can now be snoozed until the start of the next workday. You can choose this new options in the snooze settings of a check.

Log4j Tutorial: How to Configure the Logger for Efficient Java Application Logging

Getting visibility into your application is crucial when running your code in production. What do we mean by visibility? Primarily things like application performance via metrics, application health, and availability, its logs should you need to troubleshoot it, or its traces if you need to figure out what makes it slow and how to make it faster. Metrics give you information about the performance of each of the elements of your infrastructure.

How to Steer Clear of Application Performance Bottlenecks

We are living in a time where a difference of a mere couple of seconds can make you lose your business to another company with a faster, more easily accessible web application. In such a highly competitive space, it is important to squeeze out the maximum amount of performance from your application’s software stack and hardware infrastructure.

How I monitor my OpenWrt router with Grafana Cloud and Prometheus

I’ve been an open source fan and user for many, many years, going back to before we defined the term “open source” and we called it “free software.” Whenever and wherever possible I prefer to have control over the software I run on my devices. Case in point: My internet router runs OpenWrt, which is a free/open source Linux operating system designed to replace the software provided by the router’s manufacturer.

Grafana - How to read Graphite Metrics

Before getting started on how to read Graphite metrics, let us first dive into understanding what Grafana is all about. In a nutshell, Grafana is an open source analytics and monitoring solution, developed and supported by Grafana Labs. It allows you to query, display graphs and set alerts on your time-series metrics no matter where the data is stored.

A Conversation With Pedro Bados and Bruce Chizen

"Very similar to what Adobe's mission was around content, Nexthink is doing around the employee and their digital experiences." —Bruce Chizen 🚀 Watch now to hear Bruce, Pedro Bados, and Bernd Leger discuss our latest funding round, $1.1B valuation, and what this news means for Nexthink down the line. Welcome to the board, Bruce!

Martello in Motion | Real User Monitoring & Network Visualization

As an industry-leading provider of the most comprehensive Microsoft 365 monitoring solution, Martello is in a class all its own; our digital experience monitoring solution features key capabilities that help IT teams identify when and where cloud application performance issues are happening and how to best mitigate the impact.

Pandora FMS from Microsoft Azure

In this article we will focus on our on-premise platform, or cloud monitoring after having installed Pandora FMS console in Microsoft Azure. The installation will be made with an automated script that installs the Community version and with a second script, it allows to update Pandora FMS to its Enterprise edition (Corporative), leaving a 30-day test version (Trial).