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

Ryan Betts | INFLUXDB INTERNALS

Ryan will expand on his popular blog series and drill down into the internals of the database. Ryan will discuss optimizing query performance, best indexing schemes, how to manage clustering (including meta and data nodes), the impact of IFQL on the database, the impact of cardinality on performance, TSI, and other internals that will help you architect better solutions around InfluxDB.

Tom Wilkie | THE RED METHOD: HOW TO INSTRUMENT YOUR SERVICES

In this talk, Tom Wilkie will discuss patterns of application instrumentation, where and when they are applicable, and how they can be implemented with Prometheus. He’ll cover Google’s Four Golden Signals, the RED Method, the USE Method, and Dye Testing. He’ll also discuss why consistency is an important approach for reducing cognitive load. Finally, he’ll talk about the limitations of these approaches and what can be done to overcome them.

Rob Frohnapfel | TURNING CLOUD METRICS INTO RESULTS

You have discovered InfluxDB and now have a plethora of metrics at your fingertips. Next, you want to apply these metrics and generate impactful, tangible business results. But where do you start? This talk will describe how Comcast was able to apply our multi-tenant cloud metrics to identify huge opportunities, partner with the business, and drive outcomes that include reliable cloud performance and the return of real dollars to the business…not to mention happy customers!

An Introduction to Java's ThreadLocal Storage

As its name suggests, a single instance of ThreadLocal can store different values for each thread independently. Therefore, the value stored in a ThreadLocal instance is specific (local) to the current running thread. Any other code logic running on the same thread will see the same value, but not the values set on the same instance by other threads. There are exceptions, though, like InhertiableThreadLocal, which inherits parent threads’ values by default.

Vulnerability Scanning with RapidSpike

The latest addition to the ever growing Security Monitoring tools from RapidSpike is the ability to perform Vulnerability Scans of your external facing servers and web applications. Cyber Security is a massive area of concern for every website or web application owner and ensuring that your applications and servers are free from vulnerabilities is critical in ensuring the ongoing availability of your service.

AWS Lambda monitoring - How to optimize function execution time and performance

Function as a service (FaaS) products like AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and Google Cloud Functions have instigated a paradigm shift in the way Ops teams provision and manage their organization's infrastructure. With everyday administrative tasks like provisioning, patching, maintaining compliance, and configuring operating systems all being abstracted away, your Ops team only has one task to work on - writing world-class code.

Trace View Capabilities within Retrace: Determine Where Problems Are and How to Fix Them

Stackify’s APM+ product, Retrace, helps provide important insights into your code, and one of the important pieces to understand is the Traces view. Learn the benefits of the "traces" tab and see examples within Retrace.

Free Plan Upgraded to 60 Monitors

A couple of weeks ago we launched a new feature for Pro users: rate limiting SMS alerts. Back then we promised that free users wouldn't be left out and we've just rolled out the planned upgrade to all free accounts: we've increased the available number of monitors from 20 to 60. That's right, you can now monitor up to 60 websites completely free.

Going for the Gold - Monitoring the 2018 Olympic Winter Games

The 2018 Olympic games have proven to be exciting, featuring ground-breaking athletic feats, new world records, and unprecedented diplomacy (two countries that are normally mortal enemies playing under the same flag!). The 2018 games are coming to a close, but it's not too late to get in on the action. We created a one stop shop dashboard for Olympic data (using LogicMonitor, of course).