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Table of Contents When an application written for the Java Virtual Machine is running, it constantly creates new objects and puts them on the heap. Well, at least in the vast majority of the cases. Such objects can have a longer or shorter life, but at some point, they stopped being referenced from the code. Unlike languages like C/C++, we don’t have exact control over when the memory will be freed – freeing the memory is the garbage collector’s job.

Table of Contents Setting up and administering multiple servers for business and application purposes has become easier thanks to advancements in cloud technology. Today, enterprises are choosing to operate large numbers of servers both in the cloud and in their data centers to meet the ever-increasing demand. As a result of these changes, monitoring technologies have become crucial. In this post, we’ll explore the best server monitoring tools and software currently on the market.

In our latest comparison guide for 2023, we'll cover all of the best IT infrastructure monitoring software that you should consider using to maintain uptime and improve your system’s performance.

Curious about Splunk® Universal Forwarders? This article will sum up what they are, why to use them and how the universal forwarder works. Importantly, we’ll point you to the very best tips, tricks and resources on using universal forwarders (and other ways) to get data into Splunk.

In 2017, Just Eat Takeaway.com (JET) was transitioning from a scrappy startup to a surging scaleup. With a global customer base and workforce, the food delivery marketplace’s front line teams needed to scale the real-time monitoring of the platform. Their initial efforts looked like “NASA’s mission control with Grafana dashboards,” said Senior Technology Manager Alex Murray.

Whether you’re a DevOps, SRE, or just a data driven individual, you’re probably addicted to dashboards and metrics. We look at our metrics to see how our system is doing, whether on the infrastructure, the application or the business level. We trust our metrics to show us the status of our system and where it misbehaves. But do our metrics show us what really happened? You’d be surprised how often it’s not the case.

Dashboards are powerful tools for monitoring and troubleshooting your system. Too often, however, we run into an incident, jump to the dashboard, just to find ourselves drowning in endless data and unable to find what we need. This could be caused not just by the data overload, but also due to seeing too many or too few colors, inconsistent conventions or the lack of visual cues.