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APIs have become the de-facto standard in building and running modern applications. They are an integral part of the automation workflow of any business and as more users rely on

When it comes to troubleshooting Java application performance, JVM metrics are no longer enough. To fully understand the environment you also need Java logs and traces. Today, we're going to

When it comes to troubleshooting application performance, the more information you have the better. Java logs combined with JVM metrics and traces give you full visibility into your Java applications.

Knowing how your users interact with your web application and how they experience it is crucial to provide the best possible experience. So what do you need to know? Start

If you’re a RabbitMQ user, chances are that you’ve seen queues growing beyond their normal size. This causes messages to get consumed long after they have been published. If you’re

Getting visibility into your application is crucial when running your code in production. What do we mean by visibility? Primarily things like application performance via metrics, application health, and availability,

Don't you hate it when you see an uncaughtException error pop up and crash your Node.js app? Yeah... I feel you. Can anything be worse? Oh yeah, sorry, unhandledRejection I

Let's say you get an alert that one or more queries is slow. Or that your users complain, whichever comes first 🙂  We've all been there… How do you find

Sematext Logs is a Log Management-as-a-service. Think of it as your own central location for logs in the cloud. If you prefer or need to keep logs in your own

Building SaaS products is hard. Making customers happy is even harder. I should know, I've built a start-up that failed! But, not everything is that bad. I learned a lot.

This article is part 2 of a four-part series of articles about Elasticsearch performance monitoring. Part 1 explains what Elasticsearch is and how it works, while in this part, we're

Imagine some users complaining that querying PostgreSQL is slow (this never happened right?), and we have to troubleshoot this problem. It could be one of two things: Something wrong with

Open-sourcing a code base for the world to see after working on it for a long time is a great experience. You should care about what your users want. You

Making sense out of logs is not an easy task. Log management solutions gather and accept data from multiple sources. Those sources can have different log structures, providing a different

What do you think of a website that displays SSL/TLS certificate errors when you visit it? Most people abandon it in disappointment. A certain amount of trust and respect for

Logs are one of the most valuable assets when it comes to IT system management and monitoring. As they record every action that took place on your network, logs provide

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

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