Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

The latest News and Information on Monitoring for Websites, Applications, APIs, Infrastructure, and other technologies.

Introducing Levitate: 'uplifting' your metrics woes because self-management sucks like gravity

Managing your own time series database is painful. We’ve moved from servers to services, and yet, monitoring metrics data is primitive. Our managed time series database powers mission-critical workloads for monitoring, at a fraction of the cost.

The Hidden Costs of Logging and What can Developers Do About It?

With the growing adoption of remote and distributed application development including micro-services, cloud-native applications, serverless, and more, it is becoming challenging more than ever before for developers to troubleshoot issues within a reasonable time, and that is a bottleneck. That in a sense contradicts the objectives of Agile and DevOps through fast feedback loops, continuous delivery, quick MTTR (mean time to resolution of defects), etc.

Why SREs need better visibility, not more tools

As a site reliability engineer (SRE), you juggle a lot of moving targets. You keep tabs on your operational environment’s health and maximize service levels, all while trying to scale your business and exceed client expectations. To hold it all together, you’ve likely implemented a hybrid cloud strategy to keep a watchful eye over everything: your on-premises infrastructure, containers, and numerous cloud deployments.

Custom Preferences in Sematext

Sematext Cloud is a monitoring and log analysis platform that provides tools for monitoring and analyzing the performance and logs of your infrastructure, applications, and services. Custom preferences allow you to customize your UI in the Sematext Cloud. Customize the Default color scheme for your charts and graphs in reports, Change between 12 and 24-hour formats, and change from the light theme to the dark theme. (One of the most requested features from our users)

I/O Wait Time: A Guide to Improving Linux Performance

I/O wait is a plaguing issue in Linux. Speaking in layman terms, I/O wait is the time taken by the processor (here, CPU) to complete an input service request. Ideally, our CPU doesn't seem to do any work when it is processing one input request at a time, thus the duration between your input and the output provided by the system can be treated as the I/O wait time.

3 Easy Ways to Get Started With Distributed Tracing

Not to put too fine a point on it, but we think distributed tracing gets a very bad rap for being too complicated and labor-intensive. We’re here to show you three ways you can jumpstart a distributed tracing effort, starting small and expanding as it makes sense. These examples involve only a little code and perhaps a bit of a mindset change. Starting small with distributed tracing can even be fun, because who doesn’t like getting customized results without much work?

10 Alternatives to SEO Site Checkup (Free SEO Analyzers)

In this blog post, we address different websites that will provide all the benefits that were provided by SEO Site Checkup to you with a single click. One of the best free SEO tools, SEO Site Checkup, is no longer offering free website analysis. Isn’t it bad news? But don’t be worried, as there are 10 good alternatives where you can run analysis without paying or even registering. Let’s dive into the detail.