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Python Logging Best Practices: The Ultimate Guide

Python is a highly skilled language with a large developer community, which is essential in data science, machine learning, embedded applications, and back-end web and cloud applications. And logging is critical to understanding software behavior in Python. Once logs are in place, log monitoring can be utilized to make sense of what is happening in the software. Python includes several logging libraries that create and direct logs to their assigned targets.

Boost HTTP Client Monitoring in Elixir with AppSignal and Tesla Templates

When relying on data from external services, it's important for the retrieval to be accurate and timely. While we may not control how efficiently an external API responds to our requests, we can control how and when we request data from that API. However, over time as your application and the API that serves it change, once efficient requests may turn into bottlenecks.

Assure a seamless trading experience for investors by monitoring your cloud deployments using Site24x7

Ensure your cloud environment is SEBI-compliant Stock exchanges and related entities deal with highly sensitive data daily, such as trade information, customer details, and financial transactions. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), the regulatory authority for the securities market in India, protects the interests of investors and ensures that the data stored by regulated entities (REs) is secure.

How to capture custom metrics without app code changes using the Java Agent Plugin

The Elastic APM Java Agent automatically tracks many metrics, including those that are generated through Micrometer or the OpenTelemetry Metrics API. So if your application (or the libraries it includes) already exposes metrics from one of those APIs, installing the Elastic APM Java Agent is the only step required to capture them. You'll be able to visualize and configure thresholds, alerts, and anomaly detection — and anything else you want to use them for!

Moving Massive Amounts of Data into Google Chronicle? Cribl Stream Makes it A Piece of Cake

As someone who admittedly gets bored easily, one of my favorite things about working for a company like Cribl is the huge amount of technologies in our ecosystem I get exposure to. Over time, I also get to observe trends in the market – it’s always so cool to see big upswings in adoption for various platforms and tech. One such trend I’ve observed over the last year is a noticeable uptake and presence in the market of Google Chronicle.

Distributed tracing for testing with Grafana Tempo and Tracetest (Grafana Office Hours #05)

Did you know you can use distributed tracing for testing with Grafana Tempo and Tracetest? Distributed tracing can really help you drill down from metrics to root causes, but how can you automate it? Adnan Rahić, Senior Developer Advocate at Tracetest.io, shares how you can do just that, using Grafana + Grafana Tempo + Tracetest.

7 Deadly e-Commerce Checkout Sins

Back in the 1970s when bell bottoms roamed the world and 8-tracks reigned supreme, the Eagles warned us that Hotel California was a place where you could “checkout anytime you like, but you can never leave.” Well, on the 21st century e-commerce landscape there is a similar dilemma facing customers who want to buy everything from gardening equipment to a new car: they can try to checkout anytime they like, but they can never buy.