The latest News and Information on Monitoring for Websites, Applications, APIs, Infrastructure, and other technologies.
Logs are vital for every application that runs in a server environment. Logs provide essential information which points to whether the current system is operating properly. Looking through logs, you will gather data on system issues, errors, and trends. However, it is not feasible to manually look up errors on various servers across thousands of log files. The solution? Central errors logging services.
I was recently on the Changelog Podcast talking about Elastic’s recent change away from open source licensing. I’m at 1:02:45 to 1:24:03, but the whole thing is pretty interesting if you have time to listen. This is where #InfluxDB is headed. No more open core, we're going to a combination of cloud offering, or if on-premise, a complementary offering to the open source. It'll take us time to get there, but that's the vision. Commercial complements the open source rather than replace.
A couple months ago, we hosted a week of community-led SCOM workshops and networking. These hands-on workshops took a deep dive into a series of topics handpicked by the SCOM community itself – and we are thrilled that the community found it valuable, as we learned from our post-event survey.
GitLab is one of the most popular web-based DevOps life-cycle tools in the world, used by millions as a Git-repository manager and for issue tracking, continuous integration, and deployment purposes. Today, we’re pleased to announce the first beta release of the GitLab data source plugin, which is intended to help users find interesting insights from their GitLab activity data.
“On Tuesday, we announced some big news: LogicMonitor has acquired Airbrake — a developer-centric application error and performance monitoring platform. This acquisition represents the latest step in our company’s journey towards becoming an end-to-end infrastructure monitoring and observability platform. As part of the acquisition, I am thrilled to welcome the Airbrake team into the fold!
In an industry where technological evolution is commonplace, it’s easy to get lost in a sea of terminology and acronyms. It’s important to establish a solid foundation of understanding. In the second installment of our ‘Frequently Asked Questions’ series, we tackle issues related to effective monitoring, speed, and performance related to Microsoft 365 services.
