The latest News and Information on Monitoring for Websites, Applications, APIs, Infrastructure, and other technologies.
You’ve probably heard the term API (application program interface) used more than a few times, but do you really understand what an API is, what it does, and how it works? In this article, we dissect the term and examine the many various aspects of an API call.
Many organizations are adopting centralized logging tools so that they have one place for all of their data. This is generally easier than having separate tools across teams for log storage and analysis. But centralized logging introduces new challenges, like how to segment those logs according to the teams or developers where they are the most relevant. And, how to manage log volume.
The 7.2 stable release builds on the major developments in Grafana 7.0. Interested in getting started with Grafana? Watch this webinar for a demo of the user interface and setup.
Application monitoring alone is not always enough to get the full picture of your systems. Frequently, services running in satellite apps (or supporting apps) can have an acute impact on your day-to-day operations. Database servers are well-known examples of this. Backup scripts and other background jobs can also slow systems and are often overlooked. AppSignal does not watch these satellite processes by default.
I would like to share our recent case study on our battling a very serious performance issue whose solution turned out to be a small change in code, but with a huge impact on all of our HTTP endpoints in our platform.
