As a concept, observability has been a relatively recent entrant into the world of information technology and cloud technology. The idea originated initially from controls system engineering. Observability refers to the concept of inferring the internal status of the system based on the outputs derived from the same. This is the conventional definition of observability.
Monitoring for your Node.js apps can be hard. The tricky part is understanding what you need to monitor, instrumenting your code, and then making sense of all the data that’s been emitted. (That’s almost every part you might say 😅 ). At AppSignal, we dogfood our product and understand the pain users feel ourselves. The key points we focus on are the ease of use, flexibility, and developer experience.
With the advanced containerization that has become the norm in the modern cloud, your infrastructure is likely more distributed, and thus more exposed to networking issues, than ever before. When troubleshooting application performance issues, this can make it difficult to link the symptoms you observe through monitoring the “golden signals” (requests, latency, and errors) on individual endpoints in your application to their underlying root causes.
Securing access to business resources has always been of high priority for admins and IT teams. In the wake of the pandemic, workforces are more distributed than ever before, and 76 percent of global office workers state that they would like to work from home even when the pandemic is over.
Last year at .conf19, we announced the GA release of Splunk TV, our free app for Apple TV that provides users with a secure, reliable, read-only platform to display Splunk dashboards on their TVs. Splunk TV was built with security in mind, to power your SOCs and NOCs. Using Splunk TV instead of running dedicated computers to power each screen saves money and increases security. The read-only experience eliminates the risk of someone with physical access tampering with your environment.
For Sensu Software Engineer Eric Chlebek, the Go programming language is a core part of his day-to-day, and building a monitoring tool has given him unique insight into the world of operations and what operators are looking for in a monitoring solution. In this series, he shares his learnings about Go as it relates to and benefits IT operators.
The ability to access the internal state of your application ecosystem is critical to optimizing your applications and the experience of your users. Elastic Cloud on Microsoft Azure gives you access to Elastic Observability, allowing you to monitor your infrastructure and see how every signal interrelates by utilizing a wide variety of resources that can be deployed in minutes.
What is bandwidth? Over the last few years, and at the dawn of the very celebrated arrival of the Internet into our homes and our beloved cell phones, concepts such as bandwidth, previously restricted to more technical contexts, have come into our lives hand in hand with waves of experts who recommend this or that connection based on criteria that usually fits your brother-in-law’s wisdom.
