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Introduction to Metrics, Monitoring and Alerting
Monitoring your system and infrastructure is critical to ensure the performance of your services. In fact, as software development moves faster and faster, alerting and monitoring becomes an indispensable practice
AWS EBS Volumes: 5 Ways to Optimize Performance and Costs
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) provides block storage for applications that are running in the cloud. However, not every company is getting the most out of the EBS volumes they
Introducing Sematext Synthetics for API & Website Monitoring
No matter which path of the stack you work on, it's crucial you make sure your website or API is up and running. We wanted to create a tool that
Logging vs Monitoring: How are They Different & Why You Need Both
By Chris Tozzi Logging or monitoring? If you deploy and manage an application, these are the two key techniques available to you for helping to ensure that the application meets
14 Monitoring and Logging Best Practices and Standards for Monitoring
When managing cloud-native applications, it’s essential to have end-to-end visibility into what’s happening at any given time. This is especially true because of the distributed and dynamic nature of cloud-native
Kafka Open Source Monitoring Tools
Open-source software adoption continues to grow within enterprises (even for legacy applications), beyond just startups and born-in-the-cloud software. They may not have full-blown features like the Sematext Kafka monitoring integration
Kafka Metrics to Monitor Performance
As the first part of a three-part series on Apache Kafka monitoring, this article explores which Kafka metrics are important to monitor and why. When monitoring Kafka, it’s important to also
4 Best Practices for Choosing your DevOps Tools
By Chris Tozzi If you google “DevOps tools,” you’ll see a dizzying litany of software applications, all promising to simplify your life as a DevOps engineer. This can be an
Best Practices for Hybrid Cloud Management
By Eric Bruno One of the unintended side-effects of the public cloud is the enablement of a platform-agnostic cloud architecture. This means that it’s now easier than ever to mix
5 Benefits to Run Elastic Stack in the Cloud
By Chris Riley What is the Elastic Stack? Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana — the trio better known as Elastic Stack (or ELK, if you prefer a term that is now