Sematext Monitoring is one of the most comprehensive Kafka monitoring solutions, capturing some 200 Kafka metrics, including Kafka Broker, Producer, and Consumer metrics. While lots of those metrics are useful, there is one particular metric everyone wants to monitor – Consumer Lag. What […]
Monitoring rsyslog with Kibana and SPM
A while ago we published this post where we explained how you can get stats about rsyslog, such as the number of messages enqueued, the number of output errors and so on. The point was to send them to Elasticsearch […]
Introducing On-demand Java Profiling
If you are running apps on top of JVM and want to be able to profile them in production, on-demand, without affecting your app’s performance and users, read on! Screenshots, features, and other juicy stuff is further down. Do you […]
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 […]
Introducing NetMaps
New Year, New Feature in SPM! We are happy to announce the immediate availability of NetMaps in SPM! Check out why they are useful or watch the short video below. Ever wondered how different components of distributed apps are actually […]
SPM vs. New Relic APM – Performance Monitoring Solution Comparison
If you’ve found your way to this post then chances are high that you’re having second thoughts about diving into a New Relic APM subscription. You’re not alone. In fact, we hear from many fellow DevOps engineers looking at performance […]
Docker + Solr How-to: Monitoring the Official Solr Docker Image
The official Solr Image on Docker Hub was released just a few weeks ago and already has 16K pulls. Why not more? Well, there are more than 200 different Solr images on Docker Hub — probably because no official Image was […]
Death to APM and Logging Silos
Sematext has combined the power of SPM and Logsene in a single pane of glass – a unified view into all the key bits of operational intelligence every DevOps engineer needs: server and application performance metrics, logs, events, anomalies, alerts, […]
Introducing Top Database Operations
If you run Elasticsearch, Solr, or any backend you communicate with using SQL (via JDBC), like SparkSQL, Apache Cassandra (CQL), Apache Impala, Apache Drill, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc., you’ll like what we’ve just added to SPM. We call it Database Operations and in SPM you […]