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Apica Quick Guides - Memu Player Setup for ZebraTester Recording

Have you ever wondered what that one checkbox does, where that button takes you or what a specific function does? These quick guides are designed to explain every function as quick and precise as possible so you can continue your monitoring without any disturbance. This guide assumes you already have your Memu Android Emulator and ZebraTester installed and the intention of this guide is to show you how to setup Memu in order to allow ZebraTester to record the traffic from it.

Monitoring benchmark: how to generate 100 million samples/s of production-like data

Share: One of the latest benchmarks we did was for OSMC 2022 talk VictoriaMetrics: scaling to 100 million metrics per second - see the video and slides. While the fact that VictoriaMetrics can handle data ingestion rate at 100 million samples per second for one billion of active time series is newsworthy on its own, the benchmark tool used to generate that kind of load is usually overlooked. This blog post explains the challenges of scaling the prometheus-benchmark tool for generating such a load.

All About Solr Replica Placement Plugins

With Solr 9 the Autoscaling Framework was removed – for being too complex and not terribly reliable – and instead we have Replica Placement Plugins. Unlike Autoscaling, replica placement only happens when you create a collection or add a new replica. Hence the name: it’s about where to place these new replicas. In this article, we’ll look at the available replica placement plugins, what you can use them for and how to use them.

IT Workflow Explanation

IT Workflow Automation serves to automates the execution of IT tasks and processes. This can include everything from provisioning new servers and deploying software updates to monitoring and troubleshooting IT systems. Workflow automation helps organizations reduce the time and effort required to perform these tasks by automating manual processes and eliminating the need for manual intervention. It can also improve the accuracy and consistency of these processes, as there is less room for human error.

10 Points of consideration for investing in an Observability Platform for your organization.

10 Points of consideration for investing in an Observability Platform for your organization: Scalability Can the observability platform handle the volume of data that your organization generates? Compatibility Is the observability platform compatible with your organization's existing systems and technologies? Ease of use Is the observability platform user-friendly and easy for your team to adopt and use?

High Performance Images: 2024 Guide

Images engage users, drive clicks, and generally make everything better–except performance. Images are giant blobs of bytes that are usually the slowest part of your website. This 2024 guide has everything you need to know for fast images on the web. Images are big. Really big. The bytes required for an image dwarf most site’s CSS and JavaScript assets. Slow images will damage your Core Web Vitals, impacting your SEO and costing you traffic.

2023: Looking both ways...

As a small business, we at Monitive understand the importance of being mindful of both the past and the future. We've been in the uptime monitoring business for almost 13 years now and we are proud to say that in 2022, we had a decent financial performance. As we value transparency and honesty above all else, we're excited to share our accomplishments with you and also talk about our plans for 2023.

Cuba and the Geopolitics of Submarine Cables

This week marks a decade since the ALBA-1 submarine cable began carrying traffic between Cuba and the global internet. On 20 January 2013, I published the first evidence of this historic subsea cable activation which enabled Cuba to finally break its dependence on geostationary satellite service for the country’s international connectivity. ALBA-1 was one of my first lessons on how geopolitics can shape the physical internet.