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LogicMonitor is pleased to have been recognized as a Customers’ Choice vendor for 2024 in the Observability Platforms category on Gartner Peer Insights. This distinction is based on feedback and ratings as of December 30, 2024. LogicMonitor reviewers gave us a 4.7 (out of 5) overall rating in the report, with 94% saying they would recommend the LogicMonitor platform and 83% coming from companies with over $50 million in revenue based on 49 reviews submitted as of October 2024.

Logs are essential for understanding and optimizing performance, and MongoDB structured logging makes them more powerful. By organizing logs into a consistent format, we can query and analyze them more efficiently. However, dealing with logs locally has its limits. That’s where a centralized log management tool like SolarWinds Loggly comes in. Shipping MongoDB logs to SolarWinds Loggly gives you a unified view of your data, advanced analytics, and proactive monitoring.

At Lumigo, we are constantly working to help you gain full visibility into your AWS environments with minimal friction. That’s why we’re excited to announce our support for CloudWatch Metric Stream. Now, AWS users can easily send their CloudWatch metrics to Lumigo to create dashboards, set alerts, and unify all their observability data—traces, logs, and metrics—into one powerful, centralized view.

Being an on-call engineer is often overwhelming, requiring you to pivot between tickets, dashboards, runbooks, and different data sources as you try to separate legitimate incidents from unnecessary noise. Not only does the process of investigating irrelevant alerts take time away from remediating important issues, but it also compounds alert fatigue.

Have you ever noticed how everything feels calm during the holidays? There are fewer alerts, notifications, and late-night calls. But as soon as January arrives, everything seems chaotic again. This isn't just a feeling—our data backs it up.

The Collector is one of many tools that the OpenTelemetry project provides end users to use in their observability journey. It is a powerful mechanism that can help you collect telemetry in your infrastructure and it is a key component of a telemetry pipeline. The Collector helps you better understand what your systems are doing—but who watches the Collector? Let’s look at how we can understand the Collector by looking at all the signals it’s emitting.

On Monday, Netflix debuted professional wrestling as its latest foray into live event streaming. The airing of WWE’s Monday Night Raw followed Netflix’s broadcasts of a heavily-promoted boxing match featuring a 58-year-old Mike Tyson and two NFL games on Christmas Day. In this post, we look into the traffic statistics of how these programs were delivered.

In today’s digital battleground, a business’ survival depends on the robustness and reliability of its network infrastructure. Network connectivity represents the backbone of critical operations and services. Optimized network performance and experience is the lifeblood of corporate success. With the surge in cloud computing and cutting-edge technologies, networks are becoming intricate and multi-layered beasts.

In structured logging, log messages are broken down into key-value pairs, making it easier to search, filter, and analyze logs. This is in contrast to traditional logging, which usually consists of unstructured text that is difficult to parse and analyze.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a popular cloud platform known for its scalability, flexibility, and cost-efficiency. However, its dynamic nature and its complex architecture make real-time monitoring a challenge without a dedicated AWS monitoring tool. IT teams that operate in the AWS cloud need to keep an eye on every corner of the cloud infrastructure to ensure smooth IT operations.