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What is Grafana?

Today, almost every application stack would usually consist of a number of different applications, each performing a specific role and working together towards a common goal. This is the case whether it be that of a fortune 500 company or a computer science student trying to complete a tech project. As such, the stability and reliability of your infrastructure would greatly depend on the performance of each application within that infrastructure.

How to Monitor Cloud Server Performance with Graphite

Dive into the article to learn how to monitor cloud server performance with Graphite and get started on your monitoring needs! Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is a crucial part of the technological era. It refers to a methodological approach towards maintaining and sustaining a system’s health. It is extremely important to monitor an application’s health and performance upon launch, and then regularly afterwards.

Sample Approaches of Hybrid Cloud Monitoring Models

While cloud is seen as the go-to environment for modernizing IT strategies, many security-conscious businesses are still hesitant to adopt a full cloud strategy. A logical middle ground has now emerged: the hybrid cloud. Hybrid cloud promotes the coupling of on-premises infrastructures with one or more public cloud services to meet both cost optimization and security compliancy. Despite its benefits, hybrid cloud computing can present technical and management challenges.

Use Grafana to Monitor Flask apps with Prometheus

Flask is a widely used Python framework for building simple web applications, as well as being popular for REST APIs. If your Flask application has a lot of requests and is sensitive to request delays, it is essential to keep track of its metrics. Monitoring Flask with Prometheus is the perfect tool for this. When used in combination with Grafana, it can help make your app’s metrics easier to understand.

How to monitor AWS Lambda

How do we get started on monitoring AWS Lambda? Let me first introduce you to the term serverless computing. It doesn't matter if you have been in the tech industry only a few months, or you started writing code when Pascal was still considered cutting edge, you probably would have heard the term serverless computing thrown around in recent times. But what exactly is serverless computing?

How Grafana and Prometheus work together

Let us get an insight on how Grafana and Prometheus work together for monitoring metrics. Application monitoring is a crucial feature for any successful software offering. Application monitoring in its simplest form refers to collecting metrics on an application and using those metrics to gain an insight to improve the performance and efficiency of the application. Think of it as a cycle. Grafana and Prometheus are probably the most prominent tools in the application monitoring and analytics space.

How hard is it to run your own Graphite?

How hard is it to run your own Graphite? Here’s one story of what someone had to go through! In this article, I want to share my story about what I went through to run my own Graphite and give some advice on how much you should be prepared both mentally and technically... ESPECIALLY if you are not a Graphite expert.

Single-Tenant Cloud vs Multi-Tenant Cloud

In this article, we shall talk about the advantages and disadvantages of single-tenant cloud and multi-tenant cloud. So let us get started! In the past decade adoption of cloud computing has been off the charts. For a long time most companies (primarily enterprises) managed their own IT infrastructure and they could reap the benefits of isolation, privacy and greater management control. This is what is known as a single tenant cloud architecture i.e.

Hosted Prometheus vs. Hosted Graphite

In this article, we will discuss major features, differences, and similarities of the open-source monitoring tools known as Prometheus and Graphite. We will then dive into how you can benefit from MetricFire’s hosted Prometheus and Graphite. Lastly, we will explain why, given the choice, hosted Graphite could be a better monitoring option for you. MetricFire provides comprehensive monitoring solutions with Hosted Prometheus and Hosted Graphite.