The latest News and Information on Monitoring for Websites, Applications, APIs, Infrastructure, and other technologies.
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Since 2018, Watchdog has provided automatic anomaly detection to notify you of performance issues in your applications. Earlier this year, we introduced Watchdog for Infra, enhancing Watchdog to also monitor your infrastructure. We’re pleased to announce the latest enhancements to Watchdog, which now provides more visibility and greater context around the full scope of each application issue.
We’ve just launched Cortex 1.4.0, one of the most significant releases of 2020. The big headline: The new blocks storage engine has exited the experimental phase and is now marked as Generally Available. Blocks storage aims to reduce the operational complexity and costs of running a Cortex cluster at scale. In particular, it removes the dependency from a NoSQL database to store series indexes.
I’ve built web applications for 15 years. Some have succeeded and flourished, others have crashed and burned. But I’ve learned some hard-won lessons along the way: techniques that correlate with maintainable code and long-term success. Maybe they can help you.
If you work in Information Technology, you have doubtless encountered logs- in fact depending on your area of expertise, you may be inundated with them on a daily basis. Nearly every piece of digital technology produces some kind of log, from complex web applications to the drivers that power your mouse and keyboard. As such, the definition of what a “log” actually is, is necessarily loose; any output received from a piece of software could be considered a log.
In Kibana you have a full selection of graphical representations for your data, most of the time this can be a simple line or bar charts to do what you need to do. But every so often you need to take a different view to get the most out of your data. Heatmaps are a critical component of the Kibana visualization arsenal, and deserve their own attention.
AWS Elasticsearch is a common provider of managed ELK clusters., but does the AWS Elasticsearch pricing really scale? It offers a halfway solution for building it yourself and SaaS. For this, you would expect to see lower costs than a full-blown SaaS solution, however, the story is more complex than that.
Every minute of server downtime can cost you serious revenue. 98% of organizations revealed that a single hour of downtime costs them over $100,000. The good news is that you can effectively prevent such losses with server monitoring software. Being a critical piece of your technical infrastructure, servers must be continuously tracked for their performance, and health. Efficient server monitoring lets you resolve issues before they become too critical.
