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How to Monitor Apache Web Server

In order to effectively manage and monitor your infrastructure, a web admin needs clear and transparent information about the types of activity going on within their servers. Server logs provide a documented footprint of all traffic and errors that occur within an environment. Apache has two main log files, Error Logs, and Access Logs.

Chef automation for infrastructure management

Infrastructure management has come a long way. (Mostly) gone are the days of manual configurations and deployments, when using SSH in a “for” loop was a perfectly reasonable way to execute server changes. Automation is a way of life. Configuration management tools like Chef, Puppet, and Ansible — once on the bleeding edge — are now used by most enterprises.

Apache Error Log & Apache Access Log: Complete Guide to Analyzing and Troubleshooting Apache

+ Bonus: 20 Apache errors – a free checklist Apache error logs and Apache access logs contain valuable data. In this article, we explain how the log files generated by the Apache web server are an important factor in keeping your web sites and apps running 24/7. We show you how to effectively use Apache logs to monitor and troubleshoot Apache log files, to protect and fix your web server. Want to get Apache/Tomcat/Log4J insights right away?

Splunk: Zeppelin Takes Predictive Maintenance to New Heights with Splunk

Predictive maintenance is one of the most promising uses of the industrial Internet of Things (IoT) today. The ultimate goal of most industrial organizations is to avoid costly repairs while improving the ability to maximize the availability of their equipment. Whether you are looking to improve efficiencies in production, maintenance, or operations, predictive capabilities are now within reach with machine learning.

Datadog: Dash

Dash is an annual conference about building and scaling the next generation of applications, infrastructure, and technical teams. The two-day conference brings together more than 1,200 engineers across dev and ops who are taking their systems and organizations to the next level of velocity, performance, reliability, and scale. Dash features a mix of speaking sessions, hands-on labs and trainings, and opportunities to make new connections and exchange ideas.

How to Test and Monitor Azure Blob or Amazon S3 Performance

Exoprise recently released new storage sensors for end-to-end monitoring and testing of Azure Blob or Amazon S3. These sensors, once deployed against a container, enable continuous monitoring of access performance, uptime and availability of Azure Blob storage or Amazon S3. They enable network and storage administrators to test network capacity, latency and effective bandwidth to the various object store regions and datacenters that support the stores.

Historical data analytics with Logz.io

Have you ever found yourself trying to reconstruct an event from the past only to come up blank because you cannot go so far back in time? If only you could bring back that missing piece of the puzzle! In the world of IT, logs are the way machines and software record events. They help us understand when an event happened, where they happened and most importantly, why they happened.