A changelog is a chronological list of important changes users can reference as an application or service expands. Logs explain what features are added, which are changed or adjusted and what those changes do. They sometimes provide explanation or instruction. Logs are useful for preparing your user base for scheduled downtime, and giving your most loyal users something to look forward to.

Since Amazon released Lambda in late 2014, the notion of serverless applications and function-as-a-service has steadily gained steam. Being able to focus on application code and simplifying infrastructure management is alluring, but traditional monitoring methods are no longer applicable. With less visibility, it becomes even more important to take advantage of the available monitoring methods. In this post, we discuss those monitoring methods, CloudWatch Metrics and CloudWatch Logs.

As a product manager in a high-growth environment, I have come to accept that at any given time, something is on fire. Or, at the very least, smoldering. Five or so years ago, the team at Raygun, was just five people. Now, we’re building software products for businesses like Nordstrom. With this growth also comes many learning opportunities for a product manager like myself.

Ever since the launch of our DNS scan, we’ve had the warning about mismatched NS records. Many users choose to ignore this, but there’s a pretty good reason we give a big warning whenever those records don’t line up. In this blogpost, we’ll show what can happen with misconfigured NS records.

Performance monitoring in today’s all-digital world is not a luxury; it’s a necessity. Whether the data center is running on-premises or workloads are hosted in the cloud, IT operations teams must incorporate monitoring into service delivery and enablement. Monitoring is an early warning system that alerts IT operations when something has gone wrong or is about to go wrong: e.g., application slowness, downtime and outages, configuration changes, capacity issues, and so on.

Programming requires special knowledge and dedication. Being a good programmer also requires valuable skills; all this makes the foundation quite solid and it is the starting point for great programs and, who knows, we may even produce a killer application!

We are pleased to announce the first open source release of our X.509 module for Icinga. The X.509 module for Icinga keeps track of certificates as they are deployed in a network environment. It does this by scanning networks for TLS services and collects whatever certificates it finds along the way. The certificates are verified using its own trust store.