New Streaming & Inquiries Apps in the Web UI, Orquesta second beta, Helm Chart for running StackStorm in HA mode on Kubernetes, new Windows runners, and plenty of fixes and improvements: StackStorm 2.9 is ready to go! Here’s all the details.
New users of APM software often believe their company has hundreds of critical business transactions that must be monitored. But that’s not the case. In my role as Professional Services Consultant (EMEA) at AppDynamics, I’ve worked at dozens of customer sites, and the question of “What to monitor?” is always foremost in new users’ minds.
Do any of these sound familiar? One of your best engineers just put in notice that they are taking a job elsewhere because the on-call load while working for you is destroying their personal life—but you honestly thought things were fine.
How about starting with an introduction? We will attach links to articles already published that expand on each concept or topic in order to keep our journey as compact as possible.
This week we share articles covering Grafana’s alpha Explore UI, the many ways Logicify uses Grafana, building your own centralized monitoring stack, and more.
When there’s an incident, Grafana is often the starting point for figuring out a response. Users look at a time series panel and form a hypothesis. And in many situations, they’d like to dive deeper. To help make that easier, Grafana Labs has created the Explore UI, which allows you to iterate quickly through Prometheus queries, while leaving your dashboards intact.
One more article in Logicify Monitoring Tools series talks about Grafana, a software we use both for internal and external projects to visualize and analyze the data. The article could be of interest to CTOs, developers and DevOps, system administrators and Project Managers, and everyone interested.
Running your organization's infrastructure and understanding how services are performing a is key to ensuring every Dev and Ops team is running as efficiently as possible. The problem? Teams typically care about different metrics, so it can be hard to track the metrics you care about when they are not located on a central dashboard. Additionally, if these metrics are in central dashboard, it is often hard to dive deep and understand the root cause of your incidents and the performance of your team.
Exoprise has long dedicated itself to excellence when it comes to synthetic (active) monitoring for cloud services like Office 365. But sometimes customers want to monitor an application that we might not support, a custom in-house application, or they want to get the perspective of an end-user that is on the road or telecommuting. That’s where our new Service Watch can come in handy.
