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Metrics and runtime characteristics for application server monitoring are critical for the applications running on each server. Monitoring also helps to prevent or manage possible problems promptly. Apache Tomcat is one of the most widely used servers for Java applications. JMX beans or a monitoring tool like MoSKito or JavaMelody can be used in Tomcat performance monitoring.

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When automated software delivery runs smoothly, it can whisper, and quietly attend to itself. But when your delivery and distribution pipeline runs into a problem, it must shout. Boosting the volume of Artifactory and Distribution change events and issues through PagerDuty can help ensure they’re heard by everyone whose job it is to monitor your software delivery pipeline.

The popularity of Prometheus speaks for itself. The project doesn’t post official numbers, but there are at least 500,000 companies using this project today as one of the most mature CNCF projects – one that has over 40k Github stars as of the writing of this blog. And since Prometheus is highly interoperable, compatibility is key. This comes into play not only with the exporters, but also with long-term storage options and alerting systems.

Kubernetes is an open source container orchestration platform that significantly simplifies an application's creation and management. Distributed systems like Kubernetes can be hard to manage, as they involve many moving parts and all of them must work for the system to function. Even if a small part breaks, it needs to be detected, routed and fixed. These actions also need to be automated. Kubernetes allows us to do that with the help of readiness and liveness probes.

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.

In the freshly released Grafana 8.4, we’ve enabled the full-range log volume histogram for the Grafana Loki data source by default. Previously, the histogram would only show the values over whatever time range the first 1,000 returned lines fell within. Now those using Explore to query Grafana Loki will see a histogram that reflects the distribution of log lines over their selected time range.