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A Deep Dive into SignalFx Microservices APM Alerts

The promise of NoSample™ full-fidelity distributed tracing with unlimited cardinality exploration is that no application performance degradation will be sampled away. This ensures that executions, which exemplify problems related to latency and/or errors will be retained for further inspection and analysis. Additional value can be extracted from trace data by determining when such investigations should occur, in other words, by identifying spikes and anomalies in endpoint latency or error rate.

Anodot - Autonomous Business Monitoring

Business metrics are notoriously hard to monitor because of their unique context and volatile nature. Anodot’s Business Monitoring platform uses machine learning to constantly analyze and correlate every business parameter, providing real-time alerts and forecasts in their context. Anodot reduces detection and resolution for revenue-critical issues by as much as 70%. We have your back, so you’re free to play the offense and grow your business.

PagerDuty Salesforce Service Cloud Integration Workflow

Check out this demo of the PagerDuty Salesforce Service Cloud integration for customer service teams. See how a customer service agent can create an incident from a salesforce case, how an incident is assigned to the right person without falling through the cracks, and how an agent can maintain complete visibility into an incident before it gets resolved.

Linux Logging Tutorial: What Are Linux Logs, How to View, Search and Centralize Them

TL;DR note: if you want the bzip2 -9 version of this post, scroll down to the very last section for some quick pointers. If you want to learn a bit about Linux system logs, please continue, as we’ll talk about all these and more.

Monitoring AWS Services For Business Continuity

Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides tools that help with application management, machine learning, end-user computing, and much more. Users that utilize AWS, more than likely, have a combination of the many services AWS offers. LogicMonitor consolidates data from these services and empowers users to monitor them side by side with the rest of their infrastructure, whether it’s in the Cloud or on-premises. Keep reading for tips on monitoring some of these services to ensure business continuity.

Get a jump on errors with Sentry and Atlassian

Recently, Atlassian announced 12 new features to help improve collaboration across software teams. These new capabilities and some help from Sentry & friends aim to help developers spend more time building the products and services their customers want. Here’s a more detailed look at how Sentry integrates with Atlassian products and leverages Bitbucket’s new Code Insights feature.

Azure Dashboards: SquaredUp vs. Azure Portal (Part 3 - Cost Management)

Previously on this Azure dashboards series, we covered making dashboards natively in the Azure portal vs. SquaredUp for Azure for VMInsights and AppInsights. In this third and final part we will be comparing our dashboard experiences when it comes to cloud cost management and visualization. We’ve already talked about the resource-level cost dashboards in the previous parts, our main goal in this one is to display costs on the subscription level. Alright, let’s jump straight into it!