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There has been so much uproar about cloud computing in recent years, mostly due to its scalability, capability, and accessibility. Cloud computing is designed to provide constant access to data and applications for users, allowing them to have high bandwidth. Cloud architecture pertains to the diverse components, such as servers, software functionalities, and software solutions, used by all businesses to harness the efficiency of cloud resources.

Even though 2022 hasn’t even ended, Gartner has already charted its top technology trends for 2023. In this blog, we’ll look at how Applied Observability for networks — which Gartner lists as one of the top three trending technology topics in the “optimization” category — helps the organization translate network performance into business performance.

NGINX is a prominent web server, reverse proxy server, and mail proxy utilized by many websites and applications to serve content to their users. One important aspect of managing a web server is logging, which refers to the process of recording information about the server's activity and performance. In NGINX, logging is done using the error_log and access_log directives. error_log directive specifies the file where NGINX should log errors.

When the world went remote in March 2020, cloud technologies made work possible. Rapid digital transformation changed everyone’s jobs, whether in-office, remote, or hybrid. Today, your business relies on network speed for everything from productivity to customer service. Keeping your company’s services running means you need to make sure you have low-latency connectivity across data centers, users, and cloud.

The Cisco Networking portfolio is an essential part of your IT support services. These networks can provide your company with the necessary efficiency, security, and productivity, so you can securely connect your team, customers, and assets.

Today, organizations are moving toward distributed systems to provide top-notch application services. This trend has made both observability and monitoring essential practices. As observability and monitoring are often used interchangeably, many people tend to get confused. It’s crucial to understand the difference between the two to use the right approach for a given scenario.

Red Hat is a global leader for open source enterprise IT solutions with a portfolio of products that includes hybrid cloud infrastructure, middleware, cloud-native applications, and automation solutions.

As a continuation of our series for monitoring web servers with NGINX and APACHE, let us find out how to effectively and easily monitor and troubleshoot NGINXPlus using Netdata!