In A Comedy of Errors, we talk to engineers about the weirdest, worst, and most interesting application and infrastructure issues they’ve encountered (and resolved) over the years. This week, we hear from Or Weis, co-founder and CEO of Rookout. Rookout’s focus is on collecting data in a seamless, immediate way that maximizes a developer’s insight into live code.

When you think of the top 100 sites in the world, you think of high-traffic domains and pages coded to perfection. In fact, even the most popular sites in the world have errors hidden behind the scenes that are still visible in your browser’s developer tools. These can affect your experience as a user directly, create inaccurate tracking data and security vulnerabilities, and even lose the company revenue.

Why could a spike itself not always be good news? Why is it so important to find the relationships between time series metrics at scale?

For any company with an online presence, website traffic is important. The more visitors you attract, the more opportunities you’ll have to advertise your brand, establish relationships and ultimately sell your service or product. This is why a sudden drop in search engine traffic is a frightening prospect, since it ultimately leads to business losses and lower revenue.

As a long-time security professional, I’m always interested to hear about how companies like Datadog are keeping up with the changing security landscape. I can recall when the security organization was solely responsible for security, and we were focused on protecting the perimeter of our business. However, with the advent of the cloud, mobile, and web applications, that perimeter has disappeared.

Congratulations, VictorOps! OnPage would like to congratulate our contenders at VictorOps for their acquisition by Splunk. This acquisition of VictorOps validates the growing need for incident management and alerting platforms. As technology advances with sensors technology (IOT), and monitoring system utilizing AI, automation is necessary to achieve improved productivity and business resiliency. Therefore, incident management and alert automation is essential.

When it’s time to add or rework a wireless network for a client, a lot of little things need to line up for the venture to be successful. It’s not enough to simply have an SSID in the air, and if you’re not careful, you risk disrupting your client’s business and damaging your reputation. Though not every business has the same focus, when it comes to Wi-Fi there are a common set of concerns. Make sure these bases are covered.

I continue to be intrigued by the evolution of software architectures and their impact on business. In my 20+ year career, I’ve participated in four of these architecture transitions – the shift from client-server to the internet, the rise of 3-tier architectures underpinning rich internet applications, virtualization that upended the dominance of hardware providers, and now the shift to microservices-based architectures based on cloud infrastructure and software automation.

If you’re building a new application from scratch and are responsible for maintaining its availability and performance, you might wonder whether you should be monitoring logs or metrics. For us, it’s a no-brainer that you’ll want both: metrics are fast and efficient for proactively monitoring the health of your system, while logs are essential for helping to troubleshoot the details of the issue itself to find the root cause.