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A Simple Guide to Monitoring and Optimizing Prometheus CPU Usage

May 23, 2025 By Faiz Shaikh In Last9
Prometheus is supposed to help you monitor your stack, not become the thing you need to monitor. But if you’ve ever seen it spike in CPU and slow everything down, you know that’s not always the case. High Prometheus CPU usage usually shows up when you're scraping too many metrics, using expensive queries, or running with default configs that don’t fit your workload. This guide covers how to track Prometheus CPU usage, what typically causes it, and how to fix it.
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VPC Log Format: Custom and Advanced Configurations

May 23, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
VPC Flow Logs come with a default format that gives you basic network traffic details. But you can tweak the format to capture exactly what you need. This can lower costs, speed up processing, and make your logs fit better with what you’re trying to monitor. If you want to improve security, keep an eye on performance, or save money, adjusting your VPC logs can make a big difference. Let’s take a look at some practical ways to customize your logs beyond the default settings.
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Surprised By Your AWS ELB Bill? Here's What Happened

May 23, 2025 By LogicMonitor In LogicMonitor
On May 1st, AWS corrected a long-standing billing bug tied to Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) data transfers between Availability Zones (AZs) and regions. That fix triggered a noticeable increase in charges for many users, especially for those with high traffic volumes or distributed architectures. The problem wasn’t new usage; it was a silent correction to an old error.
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What are Microservices? A Path to Scalability and Agility

May 23, 2025 By Wendy Howard In eG Innovations
If developing scalable, agile applications is a priority for your business, microservices may provide a compelling solution. But what are microservices exactly? The proper microservices definition refers to a modern architectural approach where an application is built as a collection of loosely coupled services. Each service is independent, self-contained, and designed around a specific business capability.
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Ownership change of the ansible-collection-icinga to NETWAYS

May 23, 2025 By Feu Mourek In Icinga
After NETWAYS has already taken a leading role in the past in maintaining the Ansible Collection Icinga, contributing features and bug fixes, it’s now official: The Ansible Collection Icinga is moving into the NETWAYS namespace (on GitHub and Ansible Galaxy). The people involved in the repository will remain largely the same.
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Motadata AIOps - AI-Driven Network Monitoring Software

May 22, 2025 By Motadata In Motadata
What positions Motadata AIOps as a standout among the premier network monitoring tools available in the market? In a crowded market of network monitoring tools, Motadata AIOps distinguishes itself through its intelligent and future-proof approach. The Network Observability tool leverages the power of AI to monitor your network and predict and prevent problems before they occur. This helps you achieve unmatched scalability for your growing network needs, while its open architecture and integration capabilities ensure a unified view of your entire IT environment.
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Motadata AIOps | Monitoring Infrastructure Using Monitors & Monitor Settings

May 22, 2025 By Motadata In Motadata
In the world of IT infrastructure management, having a real-time understanding of the health and performance of your systems is essential. Motadata AIOps introduces the Monitors, a way to provide comprehensive insights into your IT environment, empowering you to proactively manage and optimize your infrastructure.
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Get Better Visibility Into App Hangs On Apple Devices

May 22, 2025 By Philipp Hofmann In Sentry
App hangs are the worst kind of bug: they don’t crash, they don’t log, and unless you're actively profiling, good luck catching them in the debugger. Maybe the main thread is blocked because it’s decoding a massive image with UIImage(data:). Maybe a background task is holding a lock or waiting on a DispatchGroup that never finishes. Maybe an async flow is stuck waiting on a continuation that never resumes.
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