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How to Monitor Full-Stack Django Applications

Modern web applications can be complex. A typical application stack usually involves several components spread across different layers. For example, HTML5 and AngularJS can make up a site’s front end. User inputs and queries from the front end can be passed on to containerized microservices running on a middleware, which in turn could pass the queries to a back-end database. Systems like WAFs and LDAP servers can be used for security and authentication.

AIOps Strategy and Management

In an earlier blog, I provided an introduction to AIOps. AIOps is the application of Artificial Intelligence to IT Operations. Many people misunderstand AIOps as replacing or mimicking human intelligence. This is not what AIOps is about. Rather, AIOps seeks to apply algorithms to solve specific problems, often much faster, much more accurately, and at much higher scale than a human ever could solve the problem.

Autoscaling AppOptics With Apache Deployed in K8s Pods

Introduction Since its introduction in 2014, Kubernetes has become the de-facto standard for deploying and scaling containers for cloud deployments and on-premises environments. Initially, it required a DevOps/SRE team to build, deploy, and maintain the Kubernetes deployment in the cloud. Now, all major cloud vendors provide a managed Kubernetes offering, freeing up teams to focus on managing and scaling the application instead of the infrastructure.

Datadog on Chaos Engineering

As you scale your applications, remaining resilient to underlying network failures, resource constraints introduced by other applications, or spikes in traffic can become exponentially more complex, even with very thorough testing and processes. Chaos engineering is a discipline that encourages experimenting in production and injecting controlled failures into the system to understand how the system will react in such conditions and to improve its reliability.

Azure Monitor for Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD)

At the end of March 2021, Microsoft released Azure Monitor for Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) for General Availability. Built upon Azure Monitor Workbooks to give insights into the Windows Virtual Desktop environment, including: Connection Diagnostics, Connection Performance, Host Diagnostics, Host Performance, Utilizations, Users, Clients and Alerts.

Best 7 Monitoring Tools for Node.js Application

Sometimes, applications do not perform as well as they should. Application developers are responsible for performing preventive and curative maintenance. Customers that use your application as a developer may waste a lot of money attempting to restore the applications without your help. To maintain track of your application's activities, it's best to use an effective monitoring system. Monitoring a Node.js application entails keeping a careful eye on its performance and availability.

New Relic vs Atatus

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is used to ensure consistent availability, performance, and response times of an application. Websites, mobile applications, and business applications have use cases for monitoring purposes. Although, in the digital world, monitoring use cases expand to the processes, hosts, logs, networks, and end-users including your customers and employees.