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How to make Predictive Monitoring Valuable for your Organization

Doesn’t it sound magical to predict issues? Detecting a network outage, long before it happens. Yes! It does sound exciting. Now there are numerous network monitoring softwares out there offering this capability. To accomplish this particular goal, businesses around the world have been investing in AI powered network monitoring softwares.

An (only slightly technical) introduction to Loki, the Prometheus-inspired open source logging system

Every application creates logs. Web servers, firewalls, services on your Kubernetes clusters, public cloud services, and more. For companies, being able to collect and analyze these logs is crucial. And the growing popularity of microservices, IoT, cybersecurity, and cloud has brought an explosion of new types of log data. That’s why log management is a huge $2-billion-plus market that’s growing 14% YoY.

Morgan NPM Logger - The Beginner's Guide

In this guide, we’ll cover how you can use Morgan npm to log requests and other aspects of your web application built on Express (or any of the similarly architected frameworks around). So what can Morgan do for you? And when would you need it? As you’ll see in a second if you’re working with Express or a similar framework (such as restify) you’ll have the need to log incoming information about the requests, this framework was designed specifically for that, just keep reading.

Getting started with Grafana Loki on Google Kubernetes Engine - under 5 minutes.

Introducing Loki by Grafana, a new logging backend, optimized for users running Prometheus and Kubernetes. Loki is a great match with Grafana for searching, visualizing and exploring your logs natively. Loki is the latest 100% open source project from the team at Grafana Labs.

How Oh Dear identified a certificate problem at a large CDN provider

As part of our service, we perform SSL certificate monitoring. We do this slightly different than other providers, which is why were able to detect a problem with the SSL certificates of a large, commercial, CDN provider. In this post, we'll do a technical deep-dive into how we found this problem!