Every application has errors. It's how you respond to them that makes the difference. In this article, Ashley Allen shows us how to use Honeybadger to make sure your Laravel apps are performing as they should.
The cloud is driving enterprise digital transformation. Gartner predicts that by 2026, public cloud spending will exceed 45% of all enterprise IT spending, a 2.5x growth from 2021. Enterprises globally are accelerating application modernization, embracing the cloud. This is giving rise to a few key trends. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) adoption is on the rise. So, organizations are using applications whose implementation/infrastructure they have little or no control over.
At 8:54 pm on November 1, 2020, a customer of HDFC bank complained on Twitter that the bank’s services like internet banking and ATMs were down. More customers started raising similar issues over the next couple of hours, saying that UPI, credit card, and debit card transactions weren’t working either. Finally, at 11:55 pm, the bank confirmed that one of their data centers faced an outage. “Restoration shouldn’t take long,” they promised.
In 2017, McAfee found that an average enterprise uses 464 custom applications. A large enterprise — a company with over 50,000 employees — uses 788 custom apps! The more applications you have, the more complex your application environment is. This means that you are more susceptible to outages. So, the tolerance for downtime is impossibly low. Mission-critical applications must be available at all times.
After years of helping developers monitor and debug their production systems, we couldn’t help but notice a pattern across many of them: they roughly know that metrics and traces should help them get the answers they need, but they are unfamiliar with how metrics and traces work, and how they fit into the bigger observability world. This post is an introduction to how we see observability in practice, and a loose roadmap for exploring observability concepts in the posts to come.
How do you perform AWS Fargate monitoring? Today, we’ll discuss the background of AWS Fargate and using Retrace to monitor your code. As companies evolve from a monolithic architecture to microservice architectures, some common challenges often surface that companies must address during the journey. In this post, we’ll discuss one of these challenges: observability and how to do it in AWS Fargate.
The ELK Stack has millions of users globally due to its effectiveness for log management, SIEM, alerting, data analytics, e-commerce site search and data visualisation. In this extensive guide (updated for 2021) we cover all of the essential basics you need to know to get started with installing ELK, exploring its most popular use cases and the leading integrations you’ll want to start ingesting your logs and metrics data from.
Seasonal spikes in consumer activity are expected, if not depended on, by online retailers throughout the calendar year. However, as shoppers rush to compete over door-buster deals and order holiday must-haves, web traffic escalates to levels standard resource allocation cannot easily sustain. This spike in traffic can lead to unresponsive checkouts, lost or abandoned carts, and slow-loading pages, ultimately resulting in thousands of dollars in lost revenue.
