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

How to Monitor Citrix Remote PC

Ever since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting lockdowns, working from home has instantly become the primary way of work for most people. Even companies that already had functionality in place to work from home were instantly hit by scalability issues. Many of the existing solutions typically weren’t meant to be used for a 100% concurrent remote workforce.

Analyze Stuck And Hogging Threads

What is Stuck Thread? A Stuck Thread is a thread which is processing a request for more than maximum time that you configured in admin console. By Default, the WebLogic server comes with 600 secs. If some thread doesn’t return in 600 secs, It gets a flag ‘stuck thread’. How to deal with Stuck Thread? Take thread dumps instantly. Open thread dumps in visualVM. Analyze dashboard from WebLogic console (managed server > monitoring > threads).

Do you use uniform tools to perform monitoring in different environments?

While monitoring different types of OS, it is essential to reduce the number of tools used to a logical and reasonable minimum. Under “tools”, we understand all kinds of APIs, software packages and technologies are used to perform the monitoring tasks. For example, same or similar tasks of monitoring system resources can be solved by using SNMP, WMI, various scripting languages, such as PS1, Python, VBasic and so on.

Feature Spotlight: System Maps

Lumigo’s System Map is a real-time visualization of your entire application. A bird’s eye view of the whole stack with filters that allow you to drill down into a subset of your infrastructure. Our systems have grown exponentially both in scale and complexity. AWS takes care of scaling automatically, ensuring your application will scale gracefully regardless of the programming language, load, or location.

GrafanaCONline Day 2 recap: The future of worldPing and an industrial IoT use case of Grafana

GrafanaCONline is live! We hope you’re able to catch the great online sessions we have planned over the next couple of weeks. After Grafana creator Torkel Ödegaard, Grafana Labs CEO Raj Dutt, and VP of Product (and Cortex co-creator) Tom Wilkie kicked off the conference with a keynote discussing the future of Grafana and the upcoming Grafana 7.0 release, GrafanaCONline continued with a focus on Grafana’s global reach.

How to Trigger Alerts From Application Events

EventSources, the sister LogicModule to DataSources, are a useful framework for triggering event-based, contextual alerts from your applications and infrastructure. While DataSources poll your applications and infrastructure for time-series datapoints, EventSources poll (or listen) for interesting events from your log files, SNMP traps, syslogs, Windows Event Logs, and much more.

Shadow IT: Why Tech Support Comes Up Short

The catchphrase “shadow IT” has always been a bit misleading in the world of tech support. Is using Dropbox instead of Google Drive akin to committing some seedy act in a dark alleyway? Jokes aside, it seems tech support’s real problem has less to do with terminology and more to do with the way they approach shadow IT. Their aim is often near-sighted because their tools hold them back.