What can you do with a couple of IoT devices, Node.js, Elasticsearch, and MQTT? You can put together your own Internet of Things setup for measuring air pollution, like I have. In this blog post, I’ll share all the details […]
5 Steps to MeteorJS Monitoring
Meteor is a full-stack JavaScript platform for developing modern web and mobile applications. It includes developer tools, websockets, MongoDB integration, and a package manager. Atmosphere.js is the Meteor package manager. Unfortunately, it doesn’t list many Meteor monitoring solutions. Luckily, thanks […]
Presentation: Top Node.js Metrics to Watch
Fresh from Germany’s largest Node.js Meetup, hosted by Wikimedia in Berlin, is the latest presentation from Sematext DevOps Evangelist Stefan Thies — “Top Node.js Metrics To Watch”. The event was shared with the Node.js Meetup in London via video-live stream, the full recording […]
Slack Analytics & Search with Elasticsearch, Node.js and React
Sematext team is highly distributed. We are ex-Skype users who recently switched to Slack for team collaboration. We’ve been happy with Slack features and especially integrations for watching our Github repositories, Jenkins, or receiving SPM or Logsene Alerts from our […]
Top Node.js Metrics to Watch
Monitoring Node.js Applications has special challenges. The dynamic nature of the language provides many “opportunities” for developers to produce memory leaks, and a single function blocking the event queue can have a huge impact on the overall application performance. Parallel […]
How to Add Performance Monitoring to Node.js Applications
[Updated: Instructions for Node.js 4.x / 5.x / 6.x] We have been using Node.js here at Sematext and, since eating one’s own dogfood is healthy, we wanted to be able to monitor our Node.js apps with SPM (we are in […]
Monitoring Kibana 4's Node.js App
The release of Kibana 4.x has had an impact on monitoring and other related activities. In this post we’re going to get specific and show you how to add Node.js monitoring to the Kibana 4 server app. Why Node.js? Because Kibana 4 now […]
Custom Metrics from Node.js Apps
We recently added support for Node.js and io.js monitoring to SPM and have received great feedback. While SPM for Node.js monitors all key Node.js metrics, most applications have additional metrics one often wants to track — things like: the number of concurrent […]
Node.js and io.js Monitoring Support
Node.js and io.js are increasingly being used to run JavaScript on the server side for many types of applications, such as websites, real-time messaging and controllers for small devices with limited resources. For DevOps it is crucial to monitor the whole application […]