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Ubuntu provides extensive logging capabilities, so most of the activities happening in the system are tracked via logs. Ubuntu logs are valuable sources of information about the state of your

Monitoring distributed systems like MongoDB is very important to ensure optimal performance and constant health. But even the best monitoring tool will not be efficient without fully understanding the metrics

HAProxy is generally the frontend layer of your application, which means it plays a critical role since all traffic first lands on this layer. Because of this, you need to

Redis is an open-sourced, BSD 3 licensed, highly efficient in-memory data store. It is used widely in the industry because of its incredible performance and ease of use. It can

Logs are a critical aspect of any production workload, as they give you insight into what is happening in your system and tell you which components may be having issues.

OK, so you want to sort your documents by something that can’t be implemented with Solr’s built-in functions. This calls for a custom function, which you can implement through your

When we say “logs” we really mean any kind of time-series data: events, social media, you name it. See Jordan Sissel’s definition of time + data. And when we talk

When new web browser versions are released, new bugs are inevitably introduced, which can degrade a website’s performance and increase the overall page load time. This can severely impact a

The Apache Tomcat is an open-source implementation of the Jakarta Servlet, Jakarta Server Pages, Jakarta Expression Language, Jakarta WebSocket, Jakarta Annotations and Jakarta Authentication specifications, all being a part of

OpenSearch 2.1 was recently released and here are the highlights: Snapshot Management: you could back up indices using Index Management before, but this only works well for time-series use-cases, like

If you’re using Solr, for sure there are times when you change the schema and need to reindex. Quite often the source of truth is a database, so you can

For this Black Friday, Sematext wishes you: more products sold more traffic and exposure more logs :) Now seriously, applications tend to generate a lot more logs on Black Friday,

No matter how well-designed, flashy, or useful your application is for your target users, they may not take kindly to it being slow or, even worse, crashing once in a

PostgreSQL is an open-source relational database management system that's been utilized in continuous development and production for 30 years now. Nearly all the big tech companies use PostgreSQL, as it

RabbitMQ is one of the most popular open-source message brokers available. Its ability to be deployed in various configurations and on various platforms makes it a widely used tool; it

NGINX is one of the most widely used reverse proxy servers, web servers, and load balancers. It has capabilities like TLS offloading, can do health checks for backends, and offers

The world lives by processing the data. Humans process the data - each sound we hear, each picture we see - everything is data for our brain. The same goes

Every developer's worst nightmare is digging through a huge log file, trying to pinpoint problems. The troubleshooting most likely won't stop there. They'll have to follow the trail to multiple