SPM 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 is […]
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 […]
MongoDB Monitoring Support
For many of us in the DevOps field, MongoDB is a critical part of our IT stack. With today’s acquisition of WiredTiger, MongoDB is further establishing itself as the NoSQL DB built to support massive data processing and storage. It would be an […]
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 […]
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 […]