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NodeJS Instrumentation - Creating Custom Spans for Method-Level Visibility | Datadog Tips & Tricks

Apr 30, 2020 By Datadog In Datadog
In part 2 of this 4 part series, you’ll learn how to instrument your NodeJS application to capture custom method-level spans, allowing visibility into how specific methods behave in your application. Flame graphs allow for deep insight into the performance of your code. During instrumentation, we can capture custom spans for deeper layers of visibility in the resulting flame graphs. In this video, we use instrumentation to capture a method-level span, allowing us to see the performance of that specific method in our flame graphs in the Datadog UI.
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NodeJS Instrumentation - Adding Analyzed Spans for Improved Data Analytics | Datadog Tips & Tricks

Apr 30, 2020 By Datadog In Datadog
In part 4 of this 4 part series, you’ll learn how to add Analyzed Spans to your traces to open up even more data search and aggregation capabilities via App Analytics. In this video, we will walk you through how you can turn any span into an Analyzed Span. Analyzed Spans function like the root spans of a trace, allowing us to turn the tags embedded in them into facets for advanced data aggregation and searching in App Analytics. You can check out how to add tags to spans—and how to utilize them in App Analytics—in our first video of the series here (link to the first video).
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How to Monitor IIS

Apr 30, 2020 By Power Admin In Power Admin
IIS is very popular in part because it provides such a compact service with lots of features and configurations. Most enterprises that use Windows Server editions are hosting their websites using IIS. When hosting critical applications, many companies use monitoring software to keep their system administrators informed about the overall behavior of their systems. Such software provides configurable alerts for performance counters, services and applications. We will talk about how to monitor IIS, what the most important performance counters are, and what services should be monitored when talking about Internet Information services.
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How to Monitor a Website

Apr 30, 2020 By Power Admin In Power Admin
In this Power Admin video, learn how to monitor a webpage / website. Monitor one or many pages on a web site. Checks for positive cases (text that must be found), negative cases (alerts if error text found) and if the page has changed at all. Response times are checked and recorded, and reports can be generated to understand trends. The Web Page Monitor lets you define one or more web pages or web resources that should be checked. You can check return codes, data size, content on the page and/or changes in content size.
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How to Monitor Services

Apr 30, 2020 By Power Admin In Power Admin
Learn how to add a Service Monitor to your monitored server in PA Server Monitor. The Service Monitor watches the same system services that can be seen from the Administrator Tools Services applet (services.msc). If a service is not running, actions are fired (which could notify you and/or restart the service for example). The Restart Service action is typically attached to this monitor.
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How to Configure a Dynamic Server List Monitor

Apr 30, 2020 By Power Admin In Power Admin
PA Server Monitor can use rule-based automatic monitor configuration, which makes configuring monitors for your environment almost effortless. The Dynamic Server List monitors are setup to detect specific server types. In addition, they ignore any servers that are tagged as being blocked from Automatic Configuration (more on that below). The Windows Server rule which will be applied to all computers that are marked as being Windows is shown below.
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Page speed check: a comprehensive test of your site

Apr 30, 2020 By Host Tracker In Host Tracker

Instant check You can run it any time from HostTracker main page for free - and it really helps to see how your website performs from different countries and find its weak spots, if there are any. Let us check what we see there, if we test google.com: Top line shows us basics about the loaded page: how many http requests have been made to complete it, if all of them were successful, its size and load time.

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Integrating eG Enterprise with Microsoft Power BI for Application and Infrastructure Performance Analytics

Apr 30, 2020 By Priya Balasubramaniam In eG Innovations

Microsoft Power BI is a business analytics solution providing interactive visualizations and business intelligence capabilities from data and provides an interface that is simple enough for admins to create their own reports and dashboards. Data inputs to Power BI can come from multiple sources – Excel worksheets, CSV files, database tables, log files, the web, etc. It then employs smart visualizations and built-in AI technologies on that data to turn it into interactive insights.

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