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20 Best Cloud Monitoring Tools of 2021: Pros & Cons Comparison

When providing services to your customers you need to keep an eye on everything that could impact your success with that – from low-level performance metrics to high-level business key performance indicators. From server-side logs to stack traces giving you full visibility into business and software processes that underpin your product. That’s where cloud monitoring tools and services come into play.

A Step-by-Step Guide to Building Modern Dashboards on the Orion Platform - SolarWinds Lab #93

Turning data into information and information into decisions are some of the most common challenges facing any monitoring professional. A clean, easy-to-interpret dashboard can go a long way in turning those raw numbers into actionable decisions. In this heavily requested follow-up episode, Kevin M. Sparenberg, technical content manager for THWACK®, presents a step-by-step build for modern dashboards.

Setting Up AppSignal Monitoring for a Ruby on Rails Application

As we’re doing our best to make monitoring easy, we’ve wanted to make more content that would really show and not just tell you how easy it is to set up monitoring with AppSignal. We’ve been collaborating with Leigh Hallday on making this video for you that will show you everything you need to know about the setup process. We’ll be posting more videos like this on our YouTube channel, so you should subscribe to it if you’d like to get notifications about future videos.

Illuminate 2020 Keynote: Christian Beedgen

Watch as Christian Beedgen, Co-Founder & CTO of Sumo Logic shares his thoughts and musings on Sumo Logic’s ten year anniversary, and some great tech talk, including a demonstration of our end-to-end observability solution for DevSecOps. This keynote session was part of Sumo Logic’s 4th annual Illuminate user conference.

Amazon Connect App for Splunk

The Amazon Connect App for Splunk uses a variety of data sources to help gain insight into your contact center performance both historically and in real-time. In standard Splunk fashion, data is democratized so from DevOps and AppDev teams, to Network and Service Operations Centers, to Contact Center Operations, to Engineering and Capacity Management, there’s something in the app for everyone.

Top 10 Elasticsearch Metrics to Monitor

This article is part 2 of a four-part series of articles about Elasticsearch performance monitoring. Part 1 explains what Elasticsearch is and how it works, while in this part, we’re going to look at Elasticsearch’s capabilities and potential use cases, and how to check its status. We’ll identify key metrics that you need to monitor to maintain the health and performance of your Elasticsearch cluster.

How to Address the Most Common Microservice Observability Issues

Breaking down larger, monolithic software, services, and applications into microservices has become a standard practice for developers. While this solves many issues, it also creates new ones. Architectures composed of microservices create their own unique challenges. In this article, we are going to break down some of the most common. More specifically, we are going to assess how observability-based solutions can overcome many of these obstacles.

Running ELK on Kubernetes with ECK - Part 1

More and more employers are looking for people experienced in building and running Kubernetes-based systems, so it’s a great time to start learning how to take advantage of the new technology. Elasticsearch consists of multiple nodes working together, and Kubernetes can automate the process of creating these nodes and taking care of the infrastructure for us, so running ELK on Kubernetes can be a good options in many scenarios.