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

The challenges of choosing an APM tool

How do you choose an APM tool? You search online and you see there is a lot of choice. But you can only choose one. And it's a big decision. You need to find a tool that can monitor your crown jewel applications. You know that the cost of an APM tool is high. And you know that it's going to be a challenging and lengthy process to implement it.

Alternative to Application Performance Monitoring (APM)

It’s essential to monitor server vitals such as CPU utilisation, memory usage and free disk space to spot the warning signs of impending doom (hands up those that have run out of disk space on a production server before. Many turn to Application Performance Monitoring (APM) software for help. But APM solutions can be expensive, require software to be installed and require system access that some people may not be comfortable with.

Grafana as a Yet Another Tool for Technical Monitoring of Software Products We Build

One more article in Logicify Monitoring Tools series talks about Grafana, a software we use both for internal and external projects to visualize and analyze the data. The article could be of interest to CTOs, developers and DevOps, system administrators and Project Managers, and everyone interested.

Bridging DevOps and Traditional Operations

It’s official: Legacy IT infrastructure management (ITIM) tools have finally met their end. Several factors are combining to make existing on-premises ITIM tools nonviable in the presence of new cloud-based offerings. First and foremost, a slow but steady transition to generalists from specialists has left IT organizations with fewer experts required to manage a complex management tool.