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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