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Logs act as silent sentinels, recording every whisper of your application's activity. They are invaluable chronicles illuminating system behavior, diagnosing issues, and providing crucial insights into your application's health.  However, the

Running a Kubernetes cluster includes keeping an eye on it to make sure your apps and services are healthy. You don’t want to be staring at a bunch of Kubernetes

Introduction Launching a mobile App is no walk in the park, especially when it comes to your App's store position and ratings. One of the trickiest parts is maintaining a

As an observability tool, Grafana has a lot to offer. Not only can users utilize their opensource solution for decently comprehensive and scalable metrics, but they can take advantage of

Graylog is unique in the fact that it offers both a cloud and open-source solution. Many people know it well from its open-source capabilities, which are often more than enough

Catchpoint is a lesser-known but decently powerful web performance monitoring tool. It's designed to help companies monitor and test the health of their applications and websites as well as analyze

LogicMonitor has been around since 2007, and it's been running strong ever since. It is a go-to solution for website and network monitoring, but it's not always the right fit

ManageEngine's Site24x7 has been around since 2007, and it has been adopted as one of the go-to website observability solutions for many businesses, big and small. It is a fairly

ITRS Uptrends has a lot to offer in terms of observability. It offers real user monitoring, synthetic monitoring, uptime monitoring, and a lot more, making it quite the powerful tool.

As one of the newer kids on the block, StatusCake has quickly made a name for itself as being decently cheap and reliable. It's a very powerful tool for those

Zabbix is a well known, enterprise-class, open-source distributed monitoring solution. It's designed to be an easily-accessible infrastructure monitoring and tracking tool for servers, networks, applications, and other IT infrastructure systems.

As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) or DevOps professional, you are well aware of the importance of observability in ensuring the smooth functioning and performance of your applications. Observing and

In the world of modern business, data drives decision-making. Every interaction, every transaction, and every click generates a series of data in the form of logs. These logs, often seen

RAG is all the RAGe these days. If you don't know the term, it's short for "retrieval-augmented generation", which means that we're using retrieval (in our case OpenSearch) to augment

Being a part of SolarWinds, Papertrail is one of the more well-known log management tools out there. It's powerful in terms of log aggregation and management, but it doesn't always

As APIs play a crucial role in connecting modern cloud applications, monitoring their availability and performance is a must if you want to provide a top-notch experience. A good API

Solr is widely adopted by startups and enterprises alike. It's powerful and open-source, so it's very appealing to just about everyone looking for a search platform to build off of.

The World Wide Web's transmission system is built on HTTP. To ensure an application that uses the HTTP transmission works, you must monitor it constantly. This is where an HTTP