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 […]
Docker + Elasticsearch: How to Monitor the Official Elasticsearch Image on Docker
Update: Elasticsearch 2.x requires a setup with standalone monitors. Why? A very restrictive Java security policy got implemented in Elasticsearch 2.x. This security policy forbids loading of 3rd party libraries – including in-process monitoring libraries from SPM. Here is an […]
Introducing Akka Monitoring
UPDATE: read about new and expanded Akka & Play Monitoring in Akka Monitoring with Kamon and SPM Akka is a toolkit and runtime for building highly concurrent, distributed and resilient message-driven applications on the JVM. It’s a part of Scala’s […]
Introducing AppMap
[Note: This post is part of a series on Transaction Tracing — links to the other posts are at the bottom on this post] As mentioned in the Transaction Tracing for Performance Bottleneck Detection and Transaction Tracing Reports and Traces […]
Transaction Tracing Reports and Traces
[Note: This post is part of a series on Transaction Tracing — links to the other posts are at the bottom of this post] If you missed the Distributed Transaction Tracing Intro, here’s the key bit you should know: Distributed […]
Transaction Tracing for Performance Bottleneck Detection
[Note: This post is part of a series on Transaction Tracing — links to the other posts are at the bottom of this post] When you’re building a monitoring solution or evaluate existing ones, what do you look for? Probably […]
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 […]
Centralized Log Management and Monitoring for CoreOS Clusters
Note: Click here for the Docker Monitoring webinar video recording and slides. And click here for the Docker Logging webinar video recording and slides. SPM Agent for Docker was renamed “sematext/sematext-agent-docker” on Docker Hub (see Sematext joins Docker ETP program […]