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Distributed Tracing with Sentry: How to Find the Root Cause of Errors Across Applications

Implementing Sentry on all your services allows you to use distributed tracing to find the root cause of errors. Just because an error happens in a browser or mobile app, doesn’t mean the issue is with the frontend or mobile code. The issue could stem from an error with code in a different project that they interact with in some way. Distributed tracing empowers developers to find the actual cause of hard to fix issues.

How to collect, customize, and centralize Node.js logs

When you need to troubleshoot an issue in your Node.js application, logs provide information about the severity of the problem, as well as insights into its root cause. You can use logs to capture stack traces and other types of activity, and trace them back to specific session IDs, user IDs, request endpoints—anything that will help you efficiently monitor your application.

Is your website monitoring service using the latest browser version?

Chrome 77 dropped last week, and our 209 checkpoint locations are in the process of updating or are already using the newest version of Chrome to monitor your website. That means your Web Application Monitoring and Full Page Check performance monitors are in sync with your users with the latest and greatest Chrome browser. Is your website monitoring service current?

Sean Porter: Scaling Sensu Go

For over eight years, the Sensu community has been using Sensu to monitor their applications and infrastructure at scale. Sensu Go became generally available at the beginning of this year, and was designed to be more portable, easier and faster to deploy, and most importantly: more scalable than ever before! In this talk, Sensu CTO Sean Porter will share Sensu Go scaling patterns, best practices, and case studies. He’ll also explain our design and architectural choices and talk about our plan to take things even further.

Adam Frank: AIOps & Observability to Lead Your Digital Transformation

The day to day life of a DevOps & IT Ops engineer should be spent on developing the beautiful products and services you offer your customers and less time operating them. In this Sensu Summit 2019 talk from Moogsoft Sr. Product Manager Adam Frank, you'll learn how Moogsoft & Sensu, along with other monitoring and observability tools, will drive your digital transformation, allowing you to understand the significance of your alerts and the alerts that are correlated, to give you better and faster context of an incident.

August 2019 Outage Report by Uptime.com

This past month was a hot one for outages. The Facebook family of apps continues to struggle with multiple outages, the London Stock Exchange had to open late one day this past month, and banks across the world experienced issues. Here’s your August outage report, including insights from our own monitoring at the Uptime.com HQ.

How LogicMonitor is Driving the Monitoring of SD-WAN

SD-WAN (software-defined wide area network) has grown over the last four years: from a concept spoken about only in forums and dimly lit DevOps departments to software that is littered across every IT company's flyer as their new cutting edge product. In 2017, NetworkWorld estimated that SD-WAN held less than 5% of the WAN market share but with the 59% annual growth in revenue for SD-WAN vendors, predictions for 2020 look to a $1.2 billion market.