Last week-end, we were attending FOSDEM, in Brussels for one of the largest and maybe the largest open source conference over the world with about 8000 attendees from all over the world. Here is our recap.

Instrumental receives a lot of raw data, upwards of 1,000,000 metrics per second. Because of this, we’ve always used an event queue to aggregate the data before we permanently store it. Before switching to AWS Kinesis, this aggregation was based on many processes writing to AWS Simple Queue Service (SQS) with a one-at-a-time reader that would aggregate data, then push it into another SQS queue, where multiple readers would store the data in MongoDB.

The serveless computing becomes super popular among developers. AWS Lambda functions is one of the best serverless compute service. Using Atatus APM, You can start monitoring your functions on AWS Lambda.

In 2016, my side project StatusGator garnered enough paying customers to be profitable. I have wanted to document and share what I’ve learned along the way for months. But doing so requires confronting the reality that my side project is not the runaway success that I had hoped it would be, but rather a useful tool for myself and for others, that can exist forever thanks to the fact that it ekes out a meager profit on paper.

Cron expression support has been the most requested feature, since the launch of healthchecks.io. Long story short, it’s been implemented and is ready to use! You can now set up a time-based schedule for your checks, using the exact same syntax you use in crontab files.

Applications logs are a critical factor in helping ensure that your online applications are running at their best. By using Understand.io you can get deep visibility into your applications in real-time, helping you to easily track down error messages, application requests, customer problems, and much more.

We’re excited to announce two improvements to Instrumental that’ll make it easier to understand the context of your application and server monitoring graphs.

Instrumental is a key piece of infrastructure for many businesses, including Instrumental! We put significant effort into making sure that Instrumental customers can rely on us to be accurate, available, and consistent, but no system is perfect.

Confused about the price of an application and server monitoring tool? So were we! Every tool is priced differently and there are a lot of nuances. We’ll walk you through important terminology differences, the pros and cons of different plans, and then discuss the pricing details for Librato, New Relic, SignalFX, Datadog, and of course, Instrumental.

Atatus is a comprehensive application performance management (APM) suite for Node.js applications. Atatus Node.js APM gives you the deeper visibility into the every web transactions happened in your Node.js apps. With Atatus, you can identify the slowest web transactions and see where your web requests are spending time whether it is in the database, remote services or middlewares. Atatus makes Node.js monitoring simpler and easier.