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Distributed Tracing with Zipkin and ELK

While logs can tell us whether a specific request failed to execute or not and metrics can help us monitor how many times this request failed and how long the failed request took, traces help us debug the reason why the request failed, or took so long to execute by breaking up the execution flow and dissecting it into smaller events.

Monitoring Errors in Android Apps

When developing mobile apps it’s important to monitor errors so that you can understand your user’s experience. You need deeper insight than just a crash report because errors could cause a degraded user experience or a drop in key behavioral metrics. Your team needs to know quickly when there are production problems either with the app itself or with your backend services so you can fix the issue before more customers are impacted.

How to Harness the Power of Open Source and Manage its Vulnerabilities

Open source has come a long way. Open source components are the building blocks of arguably every organization’s software. According to Stack Overflow’s 2018 developer survey results, nearly half of professional developers contribute to open source projects, and 40% listed contribution to open source software as part of their non-formal learning background.

Announcing Sensu 2.0 Beta

We’re excited to announce that Sensu 2.0 Beta is now publicly available for testing! Sensu 2.0 is easier to install and operate, requiring only a single sensu-backend process and sensu-agent process that communicate directly with each other. Our new API-driven approach gives you more flexibility when integrating Sensu into your existing infrastructure and tools. We believe this newest release is built to scale and meet the needs not only of your infrastructure today, but for years to come.