Elasticsearch is a great platform for any data lake initiative, and ideal for analyzing your monitoring and observability data. But if you’re working with a number of different monitoring and observability tools, especially across multiple cloud environments, you might find it challenging to get all your data into Elasticsearch.
It goes without saying that 2020 has been a challenging year for businesses. Faced with unexpected and unfamiliar hurdles, organizations have been under immense pressure to maintain or improve performance in all areas of their business. But this has also been a year of innovation. We’ve seen modern organizations embrace new, innovative technologies and tactics that have reshaped the way they manage IT performance.
Say you are an awesome developer sitting contentedly at your desk when a Slack message suddenly interrupts your peaceful mental flow: It would appear there is a data issue with the new Activity History service released last month… Or at least a couple people think there is. Now, instead of making progress on new tasks, you now need to drop those and look into what’s happening here. Sigh.
IT teams are essential for many companies to work. And, although due to the nature of their work they have certain features, you should not forget that, after all, they are human teams, so they have similar characteristics to those of any other group. The sensible thing, then, is to remember that if you want your IT team to work to the fullest, you must be able to optimize several of the aspects involved in its performance, both the characteristics of the IT field and more general ones.
The DIFFERENCE Foundation is a non-profit organization based in the Netherlands that is focused on designing, guiding, and funding highly quantitative research on metabolic dysfunction. The foundation considers metabolic dysfunction—which can trigger obesity, diabetes, many other diseases—the original global pandemic, as it affects almost one quarter of the global population.
VirtualMetric and ConnectData Sintel stepped into a partnership to deliver all-in-one monitoring solutions for cloud service providers, managed service provider and telecoms in France. The new partnership combines the experience of ConnectData Sintel on the French market with the advanced capabilities of VirtualMetric to deliver in-depth data analytics for the health and performance of large infrastructures.
The Network Monitoring Dashboard is critical for your users to process, interact with, and analyze data. While most enterprise teams understand the essentiality of dashboards, they often fail to maintain the efficacy of a well-designed dashboard. A common phenomenon among dashboards is that even the most sophisticated-looking dashboards, embedded with colorful graphics, can be deceptive and uninformative for the decision-making process.
Building SaaS products is hard. Making customers happy is even harder. I should know, I’ve built a start-up that failed! But, not everything is that bad. I learned a lot. Now I maintain a few open-source Node.js projects at Sematext. It’s an observability SaaS. I joined to help make the log management features as good as they can be. If you’ve never heard that term before, my co-worker wrote a great introductory explanation of what Log Management is right here.
Serverless is synonymous with Event-Driven Architecture, where Events are a fundamental block of information that is passed around to execute certain application logic. It is very important that events are delivered to the right destination with expected behavior to make sure the whole serverless application works as one. Events are relayed from one place to another through communication services, either in sequence or in parallel.
There is more to Distributed Tracing with Jaeger than just capturing machine data as with metrics, or tailing log files. To start, you should read this primer. In this article, I will walk you through the initial principles you’ll need before executing anything within your codebase. This is going to focus on Node.js, as slight differences and concerns exist for browser applications.
