Let’s Encrypt has announced that it will no longer send certificate expiration notification emails. If you’ve relied on those emails to remind you when to renew your SSL/TLS certificates, it’s time to rethink your approach.

Disk IO (Input/Output) is a core aspect of system performance. Whether you’re managing a database, a web application, or a cloud server, how efficiently your system reads and writes data affects everything from response times to stability. Unlike high CPU usage or memory bottlenecks that often manifest immediately, disk IO issues tend to creep up silently—until they slow down critical processes.

Imagine you’ve got a leaky faucet in your kitchen. At first, it’s just a drip here and there—annoying, sure, but not enough to ruin your day. But leave it unchecked, and soon that drip turns into a steady trickle. Your water bill skyrockets, the sink overflows, and before you know it, you’re ankle-deep in chaos. Now, replace that faucet with a Linux system, and you’ve got a memory leak.

Every server administrator’s nightmare starts with a message: “CPU usage at 100%” It’s that critical moment when your Linux server transforms from a reliable workhorse into a sluggish mess, taking your applications and user experience down. We’ve all been there… staring at a terminal, watching load averages climb, while frantically trying to figure out which process decided to throw a CPU-hungry party on our server.

In vino veritas, right? During a recent team gathering in Kraków, Poland, and after several yummy bottles of țuică, vișinată, żubrówka, diluted with some beer, the truth came out – even though we run Logsene, a log management service that you can think of as hosted ELK Stack, some of us still ssh into machines and grep logs! Whaaaaat!? What happened to eating our own dog food!?

Imagine you’re a detective trying to solve a crime, but all the evidence is invisible. Sounds impossible, right? That’s exactly what it’s like trying to debug a Java application without proper logging. Java logging is your magnifying glass, your fingerprint kit, and your trusty notepad all rolled into one. It’s the unsung hero that helps you understand what’s going on under the hood of your application. But logging isn’t just about catching bugs.

Imagine waking up to a critical system failure that has brought your business operations to a standstill. Panic sets in as you scramble to understand what went wrong. You sift through various error messages, desperately trying to pinpoint the issue.

Websites are no longer static pages. They’re dynamic, transaction-heavy ecosystems where every click, form submission, and login matters. Whether you’re in e-commerce, SaaS, or finance, transaction failures can lead to revenue loss, frustrated customers, and even damage to your brand. That’s where web transaction monitoring tools come in — a critical component to make sure every interaction goes smoothly.

It’s 2 AM, and your phone buzzes with an urgent alert—your primary server application is down, and users are flooding the support channels with complaints. As you dive into the logs, the cause is elusive, buried somewhere in the sea of system events. Is it a rogue service eating up memory? A failing disk? Or a network bottleneck? Without powerful Windows monitoring tools, you’re left troubleshooting in the dark.

Ever found yourself drowning in a sea of log data, struggling to make sense of the overwhelming noise? Or perhaps faced a major system breakdown, only to find that your logs didn’t provide the answers you needed, leaving you in the dark? Effective logging is a critical yet often overlooked aspect of software development and operations, highlighting why logging is important – it’s the foundation upon which observability, troubleshooting, and system maintenance are built.