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How JCB improves team structure, risk management, and application and platform development.

Maintaining your infrastructure's stability and reliability is paramount to your business operations' success in the swiftly evolving digital era. Among the key pillars that uphold this stability is efficient and comprehensive server monitoring. This becomes crucial when working with a Lotus Domino Server, a popular, versatile platform for hosting critical business applications, email hosting, and web services.

Navigating the complex terrain of IT systems, operational issues, and security breaches is no easy job, even for the seasoned CIO. And when tasked with the lofty goals of improving operational resilience, mitigating security risk, and enhancing customer experiences, dealing with the day-to-day operations is all the more challenging. Achieving these goals can often feel overwhelming, with no end to the journey in sight.

Since Grafana started 10 years ago, there have been more than 43,000 commits to the open source project. Grafana founder Torkel Ödegaard has made more than 7,600 of those commits, and he recently reflected on some personal favorites he’s worked on, ranging from early query builders to the latest navigation updates. Torkel isn’t the only one who has strong feelings.

DevOps engineers are under intense pressure to provide reliable, high-quality services to teams and stakeholders. In large part, this is because end users today demand seamless access to software and a great user experience – a trend that will only increase as digital transformation accelerates and we move further into the future. DevOps professionals rely on various metrics to meet performance and reliability goals, one of the most important being service level objectives (SLOs).

If you are trying to figure out how to measure the performance of your application, you are in the correct place. We spend a lot of time at Stackify thinking about application performance, especially about how to monitor and improve it. In this article, we cover some of our most important application performance metrics you should be tracking.

You may be thinking, “What on earth is an observability pipeline? And how does the Super Mario World fit in?” Hold on to your hat, my friend, because you’re about to find out!

Logs are like gold ore. They have valuable nuggets of information, but those nuggets often come in a matrix of less helpful material. Extracting the gold from the ore is crucial because it is vital to unlocking insights and optimizing your system(s). Raw logs can be overwhelming, containing informational messages, debug statements, errors, etc. However, buried within this sea of data lies the key metrics you can use to understand your applications' performance, availability, and health.