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What Are Script Errors and How to Fix Them

Do you use an error tracking tool for your website? Have you ever tried to debug a problem that a user reported, and when you looked at your error tracking

Website Benchmarking: An Example on How to Benchmark Performance Against Competitors

Time to first byte, first contentful paint, DNS response time, round-trip time, and the list goes on and on. With all of these website metrics, how are you supposed to

Java Logging Best Practices: 10+ Tips You Should Know to Get the Most Out of Your Logs

Having visibility into your Java application is crucial for understanding how it works right now, how it worked some time in the past and increasing your understanding of how it

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

DevOps Toolchain Explained: What Is & How to Create One. Choosing Between Buying or Building Your Own Tools

Over the past few years, we've seen an almost obsession with developing and adopting CI/CD tools throughout the DevOps community. There are thousands of "how-to's", "top x tools", and "tool

Service Autodiscovery & Automatic Monitoring with Sematext

If you are anything like us here at Sematext, you are likely always trying to automate any tedious, repetitive tasks. Repetitio est mater… boringdorum. Setting up monitoring falls in that

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

Building Highly Effective DevOps Teams: Structure, Roles & Responsibilities You Need to Succeed

When it started to really get traction as a concept, almost 10 years ago, DevOps was primarily used to push rapid changes to web environments with minimal impact on the

What Are Linux Logs & How to Check Them: Logging Basics Explained with Examples

TL;DR note: if you want the bzip2 -9 version of this post, scroll down to the very last section for some quick pointers. If you want to learn a bit

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