The latest News and Information on Monitoring for Websites, Applications, APIs, Infrastructure, and other technologies.
We're excited to announce AppSignal Log Management, a straightforward solution for ingesting and analyzing your logs. AppSignal is designed to be intuitive and help you get the most out of your application's monitoring data. Here's what you'll get with our logging solution.
If you are like most organizations, your technology environment is a complex mixture of tools needed to run your business. In this environment, monitoring and observability are critical to making sure everything is running smoothly. You use monitoring tools to measure server resources, log-parsing tools for troubleshooting, application tools to observe application performance, and audit-request tools to comply with regulations. While these are all valid observability needs, there are risks to overdoing it by introducing too many tools. Here are some ways to avoid monitoring proliferation when developing your observability strategy.
In today's remote work environment, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solutions such as Citrix have become essential tools for organisations to enable their employees to work from anywhere. Citrix provides access to virtual desktops, applications, and data, allowing employees to work from any device and location. However, to ensure a seamless user experience, it is essential to have comprehensive monitoring of the Citrix environment. Unfortunately, many IT teams need help identifying and resolving issues that impact the user experience, particularly when the problems are intermittent or challenging to reproduce.
Now that Pingdom has permanently closed its doors to free users, many customers are searching for alternatives to stand in the gap for their website performance monitoring needs. Web monitoring keeps you from losing potential business because of service or site downtime. David Sanchez of Mammoth Web Solutions says: “You have to continuously monitor your domain, because every new integration can affect domain performance.
Observability is the ability to gather data from metrics, logs, traces, and other sources, and use that data to form a complete picture of a system’s behavior, performance, and health. While monitoring alone was once the go-to approach for managing IT infrastructure, observability goes further, allowing IT teams to detect and understand unexpected or unknown events.
We implemented a small, but valuable feature requested by some of our users. You can now store some free form notes on a site. When heading over a site's settings, you'll see the new "notes" field. Here you can add some important information to the site, for example, some details on the SLA or technical details, ... When you saved notes on a site, we'll show it when hovering over the site on the site list. Of course, you can also get to these notes via the API.
