MetricFire is a full-scale platform offering infrastructure, system, and application monitoring using open-source monitoring tools. The platform allows you to use Graphite-as-a-Service and display your metrics on aesthetically pleasing Grafana dashboards. Because of its powerful monitoring capabilities, MetricFire allows you to understand complex systems at a glance. This article will highlight everything you need to know to understand and use MetricFire for your business.

Prometheus is an open-source monitoring solution, it offers efficient, scalable, and flexible monitoring practices and has emerged as a trusted tool for organizations seeking insights into their systems. It’s written in Go, gathers metrics data, and stores it in a time series database. Also, Prometheus employs a robust query language, PromQL, to manipulate and analyze collected time series data, offering versatile monitoring capabilities for various systems and services.

Whether in personal or professional life, goals always set a direction for where you wish to go, in addition to defining the guidelines with which to reach that desired end. In addition, awareness and motivation are generated about the actions that are carried out, which allows us to focus our energies and efforts.

In a previous post, we described the technique that makes the ”most recent values” queries hundreds of times faster and has benefited many of our customers. The idea behind this technique is to progressively evaluate time-organized files until we reach the most recent values.

Web applications emit a wealth of metadata and user interaction information that’s critical to understanding user behavior. However, parsing this data to find what is most relevant to your product analytics project can be challenging—what one product analyst might find useful, another might consider unnecessary noise.

You are running a complex, mission-critical application, and you understand you need an advanced Observability solution to efficiently troubleshoot and proactively prevent issues. Yet you have a choice to make—should you choose a “Fully Managed” SaaS solution such as Datadog, Newrelic, or Dynatrace, or should you pick an Open-Source solution that you can host yourself?

As a provider of incident management software, we at incident.io manage sensitive data regarding our customers. This includes Personally Identifiable Information (PII) about their employees, such as emails, first names, and last names, as well as confidential details regarding customer incidents, such as names and summaries. Consequently, we approach the management of this data with a great deal of care.

Breaking down AI complexity: Your gateway to production-ready applications with Elasticsearch — the world's most downloaded vector database Generative AI (GenAI) is transforming the business landscape we’ve come to know.

In today's rapidly evolving cloud landscape, robust security measures are more critical than ever. At Elastic Security, we're excited to introduce our extended protections for cloud — a key component of our cloud detection and response (CDR) use case. This initiative seamlessly integrates open source security tools from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) ecosystem with Elastic Security's powerful analytics platform.