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

Exciting News About the Cribl Certified Observability Engineer Program!

At Cribl, we want to make it as easy as possible for anyone to learn about our products. Whether you’re a potential future customer, new user at an existing customer, a partner, we believe knowledge about our products should be free and easy to consume, convenient to access at any time and at a pace desired by the learner. We're excited to announce that we've issued our 1000th certification!

Flask Monitoring and APM Benefits

Many renowned businesses use the well-known web framework Flask. Flask is quite famous among developers for making small and full-fledged applications. It is known for being a straightforward framework to learn hence why it is popular among established organizations. Monitoring your Flask application can be a challenge. Many important operations are happening inside of them, and if anything goes wrong, it can cause some damage.

Transform Data into Actionable Insights to Empower Digital Experiences

Today we are living and working in a world that is digital-first and hybrid by design, with cloud, SaaS and legacy technologies working together, and employees working from everywhere. In this world, a click is everything. That action comes with intent and expectation—of a flawless digital experience. These experiences are the heartbeat of the fierce and competitive landscape we all work in.

Why and How to Monitor Amazon OpenSearch Service

Some time ago, AWS forked ElasticSearch, the most popular search engine on the planet. They had some struggles with the maintainer of ElasticSearch and decided it was time to part ways. So, with OpenSearch, there is now a new kid in town. Well, not new, but at least some kind of alternative.

Sixth Street Breaks Down Silos and Deploys a Streamlined Logging Solution with ChaosSearch

As high-scale Financial Technology (FinTech) companies build on their data-driven capabilities and establish product-market fit, they often experience rapid growth that creates challenges for IT and DevOps teams.

Getting Started with Apache Kafka and InfluxDB

The number of applications and services increases every day as more application architectures move towards microservices or serverless structures. You can process this increasing amount of time series data with real-time aggregation or with a calculation whose output is a measurement or a metric. These metrics need to be monitored so that you can solve issues and make relevant changes in your system quickly. A change in a system can be captured and observed in many ways.

FAQ: SquaredUp Cloud

SquaredUp Cloud has been in development for over two years (we first previewed it at SquaredUp Live, Spring 2021). It continues our mission to unlock and summarize data – think of it like “BI for engineering”. In building SquaredUp Cloud, we drew upon what we’ve learned with our Microsoft solutions over the last ten years, and built a solution independent of any one tool, like SCOM.

Papertrail and AWS SNS

Operating a modern web application requires having a good handle on what’s going on with your application’s log data. But this doesn’t mean you need to keep the logs pulled up all the time. Sometimes, you want the flexibility to send important logged events to any number of places. The integration of SolarWinds® Papertrail™ and AWS Simple Notification Service (SNS) can help you make this happen.