NGINX is one of the most widely used reverse proxy servers, web servers, and load balancers. It has capabilities like TLS offloading, can do health checks for backends, and offers support for HTTP2, gRPC, WebSocket, and most TCP-based protocols. When running a tool like NGINX, which generally sits in front of your applications, it’s important to understand how to debug issues. And because you need to see the logs, you have to understand the different NGINX logging mechanisms.

The world lives by processing the data. Humans process the data – each sound we hear, each picture we see – everything is data for our brain. The same goes for modern applications and algorithms – the data is the fuel that allows them to function and provide useful features. Even though such thinking is not new, what is new in recent years is the requirement of near-real-time processing of large quantities of events processed by our systems.

Containers are no longer a thing of the future – they are all around us. Companies use them to run everything – from the simplest scripts to large applications. You create a container and run the same thing locally, in the test environment, in QA, and finally in production. A stateless box built with minimal requirements and unlike virtual machines – without the need of virtualizing the whole operating system.

At Sematext, we are dedicated to making troubleshooting easier for ops teams. When we started to receive positive reviews from our customers around the globe, we knew we were doing something right. Even as our userbase grew across multiple industries, we continued to get positive feedback. We even received a few awards along the way. In this post, we’re delighted to announce that Sematext Cloud is featured in the G2 Spring 2022 Reports under Monitoring Software Solutions category as.

There are multiple reasons why Java and the Java Virtual Machine-based languages are very popular among developers. A rich ecosystem with lots of open-source frameworks that can be easily incorporated and used is only one of them. The second, in my opinion, is the automatic memory management with a powerful garbage collector. The Java garbage collector, or in short, the GC, takes care of cleaning up the unused bits and pieces.

At Sematext, we are dedicated to making troubleshooting easier for ops teams. We knew we were doing something right when we started to receive awards and positive reviews from our customers around the globe, ranging from startups to enterprise clients across a wide range of industries. In this post, we’re listing just a few of the recognitions Sematext Cloud has received from the community via review platforms such as G2, Capterra, GetApp or SoftwareAdvice.

HAProxy is one of the most popular software around when it comes to load balancers and reverse proxies. When you’re using it for these purposes, it’s especially important to monitor for both availability and performance, which will impact your SLI and SLOs. In this post, we’ll talk about the main HAProxy metrics you should monitor and the best monitoring tools you can use to measure them.