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Leading on full-stack observability: once you have the logs, the rest is easy

Observability gets more challenging yearly in the rapidly evolving world of distributed computing and cloud-native applications. Organizations today are tasked with ensuring that their critical business applications, revenue-generating applications, and supporting infrastructure operate with reliability and security. The stakes are high; any lapse can lead to user churn, revenue loss, and decreased productivity.

How to use Kubernetes to deploy Postgres

Kubernetes is an orchestration platform that allows containers to be deployed in an automated and resilient way, abstracting many of the manual steps of rolling upgrades and scaling. You will usually want to deploy database applications (like PostgreSQL) as well, so that your applications can leverage their features within the cluster. Deploying in a Kubernetes cluster lets you build out your cloud-native PostgreSQL instance.

Less is more: industry leaders share their success with tool consolidation for maximized productivity

We’ve known for years that context switching is detrimental to productivity. Both computers and humans become less productive with each additional concurrent task or priority. Every time you need to shift your focus between projects, you lose approximately 20% efficiency as you figure out where you left off, what needs to be done, how the work fits into the project, etc.

Find connections and expand your data visualization with new dashboards

One of my favorite movies of all time is WarGames, which depicted a teenage hacker accidentally breaking into NORAD and starting a nuclear war simulation that almost turned into a real catastrophe. The movie featured state-of-the-art dashboards (at least for 1983) showing simulated missile launches by different countries. Now you can create Sumo Logic dashboards like the ones shown in this movie using our new Connection Map panel.

How to monitor MySQL performance metrics in minutes

MySQL, a leading open source database for the past few decades, underpins potentially millions of applications, from tiny prototypes to internet-scale e-commerce solutions. The beauty of MySQL is not only its powerful relational database capabilities but also that it can be scaled up as the application grows. Why should you care about MySQL performance? Because MySQL is the backbone of many applications, your application performance will be inherently tied to your MySQL database performance.

Plan better and preempt bottlenecks with predict for metrics

Nothing is certain in this world except for death, taxes, and that you will eventually run out of disk space. You may have used our unique predict operator to query logs and forecast future values (we’ve even heard of customers predicting their ingest volume for Sumo Logic log data to better forecast their usage and budget!) — and wanted to do the same with metrics. With the recent general availability of the predict for metrics operator, you can.

OpenTelemetry-powered infrastructure monitoring: isolate and fix issues in minutes

The process of building and maintaining modern, cloud-based applications requires a new approach to infrastructure monitoring. Traditionally, engineers would try to isolate a specific infrastructure component causing an issue — and fix it alone, without diving into code. Today, DevOps engineers must understand how application performance is related to their infrastructure. Infrastructure, for DevOps engineers, is an enabler to deploy code.

Even faster 3 am troubleshooting with new logs search and query

As an SRE putting out fires all day, it’s nice to get a good night’s sleep. But there are times when that PagerDuty alert goes off in the middle of the night, forcing you to leap into action to fix a high-priority issue. This is where having the best log analytics tool is critical to easily search and query the log data, perform deep-dive troubleshooting and analysis and quickly come to a resolution.

Implementing a log management program: What is best to start with?

Everything you need to know about creating a log management program Businesses create, collect and have access to more data than ever before. Some of this log data, the record of events that occur in your digital spaces, can help DevOps and security teams assess the performance and reliability of their systems, evaluate weaknesses and troubleshoot any issues that may be occurring.

Troubleshoot faster and modernize your apps with AWS Monitoring and Observability

As a company born in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud, we understand that operating at cloud scale requires balancing security, compliance, and operational safety with your commitment to innovation, speed, and agility. From cost optimization at scale to operational resiliency to application modernization, we know you’re facing various challenges and need reliable solutions.