performance monitoring

As your business grows, so will your infrastructure and the number of applications or services running in it. In other words, forget about any sort of manual monitoring or home-grown

Server monitoring is a core responsibility for DevOps teams, SREs, and IT operations professionals. Effective server monitoring helps you maintain uptime, optimize resource usage, detect incidents early, and troubleshoot issues

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.

While Kubernetes revolutionized distributed orchestration, it also added complexity to logging and monitoring. You need to adapt your monitoring strategy to keep up with the challenges of working with Kubernetes

OK, so you've decided to move from Elasticsearch to OpenSearch. Maybe our comparison helped you decide and maybe you've checked our guide on how to perform the migration. But how

Mobile-friendly websites are a must. We are all using mobile devices more and more to access information and perform all kinds of work and tasks - shopping, banking, communication, dating,

Businesses that have mission-critical applications deployed on servers often have operations teams dedicated to monitoring, maintaining, and ensuring the health and performance of these servers. Having a server monitoring system

This article is the third of a four-part series of articles about Elasticsearch monitoring. In the first article, we put together an Elasticsearch guide, covering how Elasticsearch works and why the

The Apache HTTP Server (httpd) is a widely used, open-source web server application. Because you can easily customize it through modules, it has become the go-to choice of both individuals

A large amount of data requires special tools. Apache Cassandra is one of those databases that can handle a large amount of data spread among many commodity servers, providing high

Keeping your website running smoothly is no small task, and choosing the right monitoring tool can make all the difference. With so many options out there, it’s easy to feel

Linux is one of the most popular operating systems today, powering a large portion of the Internet. According to W3Techs, almost half of today’s top-ranked 1 million websites currently run

A system is “a set of things working together as parts of a mechanism or an interconnecting network; a complex whole”. So when we say System Monitoring Tools we mean

Evolving MySQL operations requires understanding how MySQL works. A good monitoring tool alerts on issues before they impact end users and helps reduce the MTTR of incidents when they do

Keeping an eye on everything that could affect your customers is a key part of providing a service. In the tech world, this would mean monitoring anything from low-level performance

HAProxy is one of the most popular software around when it comes to load balancers and reverse proxies. When you’re using it for these purposes, it’s especially important to monitor

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

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

Containers are no longer a thing of the future - they are all around us. Companies use them to run everything - from the simplest scripts to large applications. You

There are multiple reasons why Java and the Java Virtual Machine-based languages are very popular among developers. A rich ecosystem with lots of open-source frameworks that can be easily incorporated

In this article, you'll learn how to understand and debug the memory usage of a Node.js application and use monitoring tools to get a complete insight into what is happening

NGINX is a popular web server featuring a wide range of capabilities, including reverse proxy, mail proxy, HTTP cache, and load balancing. It offers TLS offloading and a health check

Apache Cassandra is a distributed database known for its high availability, fault tolerance, and near-linear scaling. It was initially developed by Facebook, but it is a widely used open-source system

So you finally launched your service worldwide, great! The next thing you’ll see is thousands and thousands of people flooding into your amazing website from all corners of the world

PostgreSQL is a popular open-source, object-relational database. As with any other data storage solution, capturing metrics is crucial for making sure your database is reliable, available, and performing optimally. This

Monitoring is crucial if you want to see what happens in your system and JVM-based applications are not different. Well, some metrics, like memory and garbage collection, require special attention

When working with Java or any other JVM-based programming language we get certain functionalities for free. One of those functionalities is clearing the memory. If you’ve ever used languages like

Nowadays, most applications we build are composed of microservices and distributed in nature. In such a setup, communication between these microservices is crucial, but can, unfortunately, cause some headaches. The

User experience (UX) is everything today. Poor digital experience can easily and quickly reflect in your client list and thus, your bottom line. It starts from the first user interaction

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

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

Monitoring your system and infrastructure is critical to ensure the performance of your services. In fact, as software development moves faster and faster, alerting and monitoring becomes an indispensable practice

If you are anything like us here at Sematext, you are likely always trying to automate any tedious, repetitive tasks. Repetitio est mater… boringdorum. Setting up monitoring falls in that

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) provides block storage for applications that are running in the cloud. However, not every company is getting the most out of the EBS volumes they

What is the most important feature an Express.js application can have? Maybe using sockets for real-time chats or GraphQL instead of REST APIs? Come on, tell me. What's the most

There are 1.3 billion websites out there in the great unknown and it’s hard not to think about what makes them different from one another. Why do users flock to

eBPF has revolutionized the observability landscape in the Linux kernel. Throughout our previous blog post series, I covered the fundamental building blocks of the eBPF ecosystem, scratched the surface of

In Part 1 we’ve described what container monitoring is and why you need it. Because each container typically runs a single process, has its own environment, utilizes virtual networks, or has

Working with Java applications has a lot of benefits. Especially when compared to languages like C/C++. In the majority of cases, you get interoperability between operating systems and various environments.

In this tutorial, we will talk about how different Java Garbage Collectors work and what you can expect from them. This will give us the necessary background to start tuning

By Chris Tozzi Logging or monitoring? If you deploy and manage an application, these are the two key techniques available to you for helping to ensure that the application meets

When it comes to Java applications, to make sure they run at peak performance, it’s critical to close the resource gap between the code and the virtual machine it’s running

A Cloud Challenge: Keep Track Of Your Inventory Managing agile software deployment for cloud infrastructure can be challenging. Deployments should be automated whenever possible to ensure consistent version management. Nevertheless,

What are the essential things to monitor in your infrastructure? Sure, CPU utilization, memory usage, and IO throughput. However, once you notice a significant load somewhere in your infrastructure you

XDP or Express Data Path arises due to the pressing need for high-performance packet processing in the Linux kernel. Several kernel bypass techniques (DPDK being the most prominent one) aim to accelerate network

As shown in Part 1, key Solr metrics to monitor, the setup, tuning, and operations of Solr require deep insights into the performance metrics such as request rate and latency,

As the first part of the three-part series on monitoring Apache Solr, this article explores which Solr metrics are important to monitor and why. The second part of the series

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

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?

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

Monitoring Kafka is a tricky task. As you can see in the first chapter, Kafka key metrics to monitor, the setup, tuning, and operations of Kafka require deep insights into

Open-source software adoption continues to grow within enterprises (even for legacy applications), beyond just startups and born-in-the-cloud software. They may not have full-blown features like the Sematext Kafka monitoring integration

As the first part of a three-part series on Apache Kafka monitoring, this article explores which Kafka metrics are important to monitor and why. When monitoring Kafka, it’s important to also

As shown in Elasticsearch Key Metrics, the setup, tuning, and operations of Elasticsearch require deep insights into the performance metrics such as index rate, query rate, query latency, merge times, and

This article (the first of a four-part series) explains how to get started developing an Elasticsearch monitoring strategy. In subsequent articles (part 2, part 3 and part 4), we’ll discuss

Recent Linux kernel releases are equipped with a powerful Linux monitoring framework for kernel instrumentation. It has its roots in what historically was approached as BPF. What is BPF? BPF (Berkeley

As shown in Part 1 - ClickHouse Monitoring Key Metrics - the setup, tuning, and operations of ClickHouse require deep insights into the performance metrics such as locks, replication status, merge

By Chris Tozzi So you’ve got a ClickHouse DB, and you’re looking for a tool to monitor it. You’ve come to the right place. In this blog post, which is

By Chris Riley If you keep up-to-date with the latest developments in the world of databases, you are probably familiar with ClickHouse, a columnar database management system designed for OLAP.

Looking for ways to measure your users’ experience? You’ve come to the right place. In this article, we will dive into the Apdex score, one of the main indicators for

By Chris Tozzi RUM and APM are two important acronyms to know if you work in software development or DevOps today. Moreover, not only is it important to be able to define

You can now create monitoring integrations for your technology stack easier than ever before. We’ve recently opened-sourced Sematext’s Monitoring Agent, reworked it, and made it fully pluggable, making it possible for

The popular Servers View has been overhauled. It’s both more modern looking and more powerful than the old version. Some things you can do with the new Servers view: Filter

Every modern organization depends on software, and where there is software there are metrics and logs and, one would hope, monitoring of these two critically important types of data. Operations

Need we say more?  If you’ve used Sematext Cloud recently you’ve noticed the UI looks and behaves differently.  Indeed, we rewrote the whoooooole front-end using modern front-end technologies like React.js

We’ve restructured the UI …. bigly :).   Everything you need can be quickly accessed via tabs on the left.  Account section is exposed, and Team-related functionality (invitations to apps

One of the Sematext differentiators is that it’s not just a monitoring solution or just log management solution.  It’s monitoring AND log management in a single solution.  This single pane

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.

This is a guest post by Nedim Šabić, developer of Fibratus, a tool for exploration and tracing of the Windows kernel.  Unlike Linux / UNIX environments which provide a plethora of open