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How to monitor a web server running NGINX|httpd

Web servers are software services that store resources for a website and then makes them available over the World Wide Web. These stored resources can be text, images, video and application data. Computers that are interfaced with the server mostly web browsers (clients), request these resources and presents to the user. This basic interaction determines every connection between your computer and the websites you visit.

Graviton-Based Lambda Functions, What It Means For You

AWS just announced support for AWS Lambda functions powered by AWS Graviton2 processors. These are 64-bit Arm-based processors that are custom built by AWS and offer a better price to performance ratio. In this post, let me take through what we have learnt about this new option and what it means for you.

Troubleshooting Outages at 3 AM with Alert Response

Imagine you are an on-call engineer, who receives an alert at 3 AM in the morning informing you that customers are experiencing high latency on your website, and are unable to shop. Being an Incident response coordinator myself at Sumo Logic, I can tell you, I don’t envy being that engineer. If this alert fired, this is what would likely follow: The biggest challenge is how to gather this information quickly, so you can decide whether to jump out of the bed or go back to sleep.

Sumo Logic Extends Monitoring for AWS Lambda Functions Powered by AWS Graviton2 Processors

Organizations are constantly trying to maintain pace with users' expectations and desires from a digital experience. These users expect an experience that constantly changes based on their preferences and behavior, which means innovating quickly and improving software is critical to user happiness and driving business success.

Introducing Sensu Plus: An Integrated Analytics Solution for All Sensu Users

As part of its recent acquisition of Sensu, Sensu Go is now part of the Sumo Logic Continuous Intelligence Platform, empowering enterprises and developers to quickly get real-time insights from unstructured data for troubleshooting, performance improvement, and security across dynamic multi-cloud infrastructure.

What's new in Sysdig - September 2021

Welcome to another monthly update on what’s new from Sysdig! Happy Janmashtami! Shanah Tovah! 中秋快乐! With lockdown lifting by varying degrees across the world, we hope you had a safe but pleasant holiday! It has certainly been long overdue. Here at Sysdig, we celebrated Labor Day in the USA with an extended weekend and a well being day for the team.

Automate, Group, and Get Alerted: A Best Practices Guide to Monitoring your Code - Part 1

As companies grow, so do their products, teams, and the number of external tools. For engineers, that can mean code sprawl, data silos, notification fatigue, and some “what the…?” moments along the way as they try to make sense of it all.

How Splunk IT Service Intelligence Assures Business Service Performance for Financial Institutions

With an influx of data and technology, financial institutions are transforming their digital services to adapt to shifting regulations, customer expectations and geopolitical trends. They need to digitally transform their business while protecting service performance and availability of their critical business services. Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) is a premium analytics solution that empowers these teams to gain visibility across their environments and predict incidents before they impact customers. Unlike legacy IT or point-monitoring solutions, Splunk ITSI correlates and applies machine learning intelligence to monitoring data for 360° service visibility, predictive analytics and streamlined incident management.

Troubleshooting the Internet: If You Can't Have Authority, Visibility Will Do

The vast majority of businesses aren’t all on-premises or all-cloud, but rather in some form of hybrid IT middle ground. That means “who owns the system” (and a closely related issue: “who owns the problem”) continues to be a thorn in the side of many IT pros. In this conversation, SolarWinds Technical Content Manager for Community Kevin M. Sparenberg and Head Geek Leon Adato break down some ways technical teams can get around the lack of authority needed to solve problems and keep critical services up and running.