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June 2023

Graphite Metrics Delay: Why it Happens and What to Do

To understand why Graphite metrics delay occurs, we must first know what Graphite is. Graphite is an open-source tool used to track the performance of websites, applications, and network servers. It makes it simple to monitor, store, retrieve, and visualize numeric time-series data. While Graphite does make it easier to render graphs on-demand, the struggle of dealing with large amounts of data with minimum delay is real.

Database Sharding: What is it, and How it Works?

Today’s world runs on data. We are constantly improving our solutions thanks to the plethora of data available to us in the public domain. Our society has seen a behavioral change when it comes to formulating remedies. We are increasingly adopting data-driven decisions, and rightly so. Now, talking about this whole data logic, where do you think this enormous amount of data gets stored? Well, the answer is a database!

How to monitor an Apache CouchDB cluster with Grafana Cloud

We’re excited to introduce a dedicated Grafana Cloud integration for Apache CouchDB, a NoSQL document database that stores data in a JSON-based document format. Known for its scalability, availability, and easy replication of data across multiple servers, Apache CouchDB comes with a whole host of features designed to make it easy to run resilient distributed systems, with built-in bi-direcitonal replication allowing for simple replication across multiple servers and data centers.

Top 10 Contact Database Providers for Your Sales and Marketing Needs

The world runs on data. And accuracy is paramount. Let's face it: inaccurate data is not worth having. Worse, fake or inaccurate data can cost you money, waste your time, and get you into trouble by causing you to contact someone who doesn't wish to be contacted at all. Clean, accurate contact data, on the other hand, is an investment. It makes businesses more efficient, more productive, and more professional when they reach out to potential business partners, candidates, or customers.

The Carbon Daemons: Graphite monitoring

Graphite is a powerful open-source time series database used for storing, retrieving, and visualizing changing numeric data points over time. With its robust monitoring system, Graphite can efficiently handle large data loads without compromising performance. In this article, we delve into the basics of Graphite, focusing on its primary component, Carbon.

VictoriaMetrics bolsters move from monitoring to observability with VictoriaLogs release

Today we’re happy to announce our new open source, scalable logging solution, VictoriaLogs, which helps users and enterprises expand their current monitoring of applications into a more strategic ‘state of all systems’ enterprise-wide observability. Many existing logging solutions on the market today offer IT professionals a limited window into live operations of databases and clusters.

Smarter Database Monitoring: Tackling Performance Hiccups and Leveraging Data for Success

The cloud is the hub for data management nowadays. DevOps teams are all about preventing any hiccups that could make customers unhappy. And with more companies moving to cloud databases and services like SnowFlake, Redshift, RDS, and BigQuery, they’re operating on a bigger scale with better quality.

Enterprise businesses that adopt Database DevOps save an average of $4.3M per year

If treated well, the database can be a major accelerator in your business’s efficiency. It can be the star performer in your migration to the cloud, in your move to micro services and other change initiatives. If the right factors aren’t in place, though, the database can become a business risk. You could be at risk of losing new and existing customers to the competition due to poor UX, downtime or outages. It can also increase your vulnerability to data breaches. Find out how the database can be the hero in your digital transformation or change initiative.

PostgreSQL Database Monitoring

PostgreSQL is one of the most popular relational databases on the market today with more than 1.5 billion users. This article will discuss everything you need to know about monitoring PostgreSQL, and how you can use it to optimize your site's data monitoring. If you want to get started right away on PostgreSQL database monitoring with MetricFire, you can book a demo or sign up for the free trial today.

5 important Oracle Cloud Compute monitoring metrics

Applications Manager offers Oracle Cloud Compute monitoring that tracks the health, availability, and performance of your Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) instances. Applications Manager effectively enables DevOps teams to establish a secure and dependable environment for application development and deployment. Without an Oracle Cloud Compute monitor like Applications Manager, administrators would have to manually check each component of an instance to identify performance issues and rectify them.

Toronto Open Source Data Infrastructure Meetup - May 2023

A recording from the first Open Source Data Infrastructure meetup in Toronto, hosted by Aiven on May 17, 2023. The video features a talk by Matty Stratton, Director of Developer Relations at Aiven, and Kat Cosgrove, Lead Developer Advocate at Dell: "Databases: A History of Places to Put Your Stuff".

Receiving MySQL database Alerts

Imagine your popular website or app suddenly slowing down significantly or even stopping altogether. You scramble to find the root cause while losing customers and income every minute. This stressful situation is all too familiar, but you can avoid it. Proactively monitoring MySQL databases can help prevent these issues and keep your performance at its best.

Redis Monitoring | 101 Guide to Redis Metrics Monitoring

Monitoring Redis for performance issues is critical. Redis is famous for its low-latency response while serving a large number of queries. There are certain key metrics that you can monitor to keep track of your Redis instance performance. In this guide, we will go through key Redis metrics that should be monitored and ways to collect these metrics with in-built Redis tools.