Node.js monitoring is a tricky task. There are certain challenges to look out for. Because Node.js is a dynamically typed programming language and single-threaded you give the interpreter and runtime a lot of freedom to make decisions. This can easily […]
Node.js Open Source Monitoring Tools
What is the most important feature your Node.js application can have? Do you think it’s having fancy fuzzy logic for your full-text search, or maybe using sockets for real-time chats? You tell me. What’s the fanciest, most amazing and sexy […]
Top Node.js Metrics to Monitor
Making Node.js applications quick and sturdy is a tricky task to get right. Nailing the performance just right with the V8 engine Node.js is built on is not at all as simple as one would think. JavaScript is a dynamically typed language, where you let […]
IoT: Air Pollution Tracking with Node.js, Elastic Stack, and MQTT
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 […]
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 […]