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How to monitor SaaS Environments with a Google Chrome Plugin

Explore the capabilities of this Chrome plugin, the 'Elastic APM JavaScript Injector'. This tool injects the Elastic APM JavaScript agent into any web page, allowing you to gather crucial performance metrics right in your browser. In this video, we walk you through the installation process, demonstrate how to set up your Elastic APM server URL, and show you how the plugin works in the background to measure performance metrics. Please remember, always respect privacy policies and only monitor sites you have explicit permission to monitor. Happy Monitoring!

Logging in Docker Containers and Live Monitoring with Papertrail

Docker’s power and versatility have cemented its place in developers’ and administrators’ toolkits. Along with this widespread adoption comes the critical need for effective logging in Docker containers. However, once you scale beyond a single container on a single machine, effectively capturing and working with logs from Docker presents a challenge. The native docker logs command quickly becomes inadequate, and you’ll need a more scalable solution.

Observability for the Public Sector: Greater Visibility for a More Resilient Digital Future

Observability continues to prove its worth. In The State of Observability 2023, the annual research report Splunk created in partnership with the Enterprise Strategy Group, we share the characteristics that set the observability leaders (those with a mature observability practice) apart from the rest.

Mezmo Logging vs Coralogix Logging: Features, Pricing and Support

Mezmo, formerly known as LogDNA, offers log analytics without any native capabilities around metrics and tracing data. While Coralogix’s full-stack observability supports logs, metrics, tracing and security data, for the purpose of this comparison with Mezmo, we will focus primarily on logs.

10 Best Splunk Alternatives [2023 Comparison]

In the website monitoring and observability space, there are few names that hold as much weight as Splunk. Established in 2003, Splunk is highly focused on log data visualization and analysis but offers a wide range of tools to help you monitor your applications. All of that being said, just because it’s been around a while doesn’t mean that it’s right for everyone.

The Ultimate Guide to ELK Log Analysis

ELK has become one of the most popular log analytics solutions for software-driven businesses, with thousands of organizations relying on ELK for log analysis and management in 2021. In this ultimate guide to using ELK for log management and analytics, we’re providing insights and information that will help you know what to expect when deploying, configuring, and operating an ELK stack for your organization. Keep reading to discover answers to the following.

Install the BindPlane Agent on Windows

Learn how to install your first BindPlane Agent on Windows, connect it to BindPlane OP server, and start shipping logs and metrics to Google Cloud Operations About ObservIQ: observIQ brings clarity and control to our customer's existing observability chaos. How? Through an observability pipeline: a fast, powerful and intuitive orchestration engine built for the modern observability team. Our product is designed to help teams significantly reduce cost, simplify collection, and standardize their observability data.

Linux Log Management: Advanced Techniques and Best Practices

Linux log management is critical to maintaining system health, troubleshooting issues, and ensuring security. This article explores advanced techniques and best practices for effectively managing Linux logs. Whether you're a seasoned Linux administrator or a newcomer, these insights will help you optimize your Linux log management processes.

How to Troubleshoot Slow Web Applications With Sematext

Maintaining a smooth operation of your web application is crucial for the success of your business. When customers encounter performance issues while using your application, it will likely affect your business reliability and customer satisfaction. This can lead to churn rate increase which will cause a loss of revenue. As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) or DevOps professional, you would want to keep your product reliable for end users.