As a website or web service provider, you live and die based on your KPIs (Key Performance Indicators). In this article, we define those KPIs and help you decide which tools you need to monitor and track the KPIs you care about.
Over the past few years, and coupled with the growing adoption of microservices, distributed tracing has emerged as one of the most commonly used monitoring and troubleshooting methodologies. New tracing tools and frameworks are increasingly being introduced, driving adoption even further. One of these tools is Jaeger, a popular open source tracing tool. This article explores the integration of Jaeger with the ELK Stack for analysis and visualization of traces.
A post-geographical culture means more than putting a face to the name. Here, the Grafana Labs team is also putting a photo to the workspace. Check out the setups that have been where some of the latest Grafana releases and products have been developed. What you’ll learn is that not only is the Grafana Labs team adept at creating dashboards, supporting hosted services, and hosting conferences.
Errors suck. And you don’t want to spend too much of your time fixing them, dealing with them, investigating them, etc. In our Workflow blog post series, we look at how to optimize your, well, workflow, from crash to resolution. At this point in our workflow (check out the first and second posts in this series), we’ve minimized the impact of errors on the development process by creating infrastructure and culture equipped to handle unexpected issues.
It’s always sad to see products shut down, even if they are our competitors, so it’s the case of AdminLabs, as some new customers have brought to our attention. So we want to let any previous users of AdminLabs know, you’re welcome here at Statuspal, let us help you have a smooth transition to the only hosted status pages provider as feature rich, that provides native monitoring features right within your status page dashboard.
