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Logging Practices: Know What to Log

Logging is an essential component of many applications. Every application has a different logging technique. You may prefer certain logging implementations, but you must also consider what to log, when to log, how much to log, and how to control logging. System administrators and developers, particularly the support team, benefit greatly from a well-designed logging system. For both the support team and the developers, logs save a lot of time.

What I learned running a SaaS for a year

This time last year, I showed the internet a little prototype uptime checker I built using Next.js as the frontend, with services running on AWS Lambda. I gave myself one week to put it together. I wrote a few articles about how the business was going throughout the year: The gist of my approach is as follows: I started with a single Lambda function that checks if static websites were still online, added an email alert if it's offline, wrapped authentication around it, integrated Stripe, and shipped it.

Top 13 Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Tools

The role and responsibilities of a site reliability engineer (SRE) may vary depending on the size of the organization, and as such, so do site reliability engineer tools. For the most part, a site reliability engineer is focused on multiple tasks and projects at one time, so for most SREs, the various tools they use reflect their eve-evolving responsibilities.

Crossing K8s Monitoring and Observability Gaps With Change Intelligence

Recently we had the privilege of being named a Gartner Cool Vendor in the Monitoring and Observability category. The funny thing is, while this is definitely the closest Gartner category for our solution, we aren’t really used to thinking about Komodor as a monitoring and observability tool.

Ask me Anything with WUG Ninja

You may have heard about an ‘Ask Me Anything, and its popularity across social media platforms like Instagram and Reddit. In our first Ask me Anything Webinar for What’s up Gold, our in-resident WUG Ninja, whom you’ve seen in many other webinars will be here to answer your questions about WhatsUp Gold! In this on-demand session, we’re turning it to you, to ask us questions. But there’s one catch, you have to submit the questions ahead of time (in the form on the right). You can ask us whatever you want, but here are some sample questions to get your creative juices flowing.

LogicMonitor APM is now generally available to Enterprise customers

Over the past two years, we have been on a journey to provide the tools you need in order to achieve unified, end-to-end observability in real-time across your entire business. We believe that true observability gives you the confidence to embark on your cloud and digital transformation initiatives. LM APM empowers ITOps and DevOps teams with the context they need to continue delivering quality user experiences while seamlessly correlating all of this data in one easy-to-use platform.

Node Congress Workshop: Tracking errors and slowdowns in Node + JavaScript using Sentry

Join Neil Manvar, Sales Engineer Manager, as he sets up Sentry step-by-step to get visibility into our frontend and backend. Once integrated, he will show you how to track and triage errors + transactions surfaced by Sentry from our services to understand why/where/how errors and slowdowns occurred within the application code. This workshop took place live at Node Congress on February 15, 2022.

Node Congress Lightning Talk: Monitoring errors and slowdowns with a JS frontend and Node backend

We've got a JavaScript frontend hitting a Node (Express.js) backend. Join Chris Stavitsky in this quick 7-min demo as he goes through how to know which party is responsible for which error, what the impact is, and all the context needed to solve it. This lightning talk took place at Node Congress on Feb. 17, 2022.