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The latest News and Information on Monitoring for Websites, Applications, APIs, Infrastructure, and other technologies.

New Volume Reporting and Alerting Feature Announcements

We’re excited to announce the new Log Usage Dashboard designed to provide greater visibility into your log data volume consumption. This dashboard gives you in-depth visibility into your total log volume usage, so you can better manage—and optimize—your plan usage.

What alerts should you have for serverless applications?

A key metric for measuring how well you handle system outages is the Mean Time To Recovery or MTTR. It’s basically the time it takes you to restore the system to working conditions. The shorter the MTTR, the faster problems are resolved and the less impact your users would experience and hopefully the more likely they will continue to use your product! And the first step to resolve any problem is to know that you have a problem.

How to Select the Best Network Monitoring Tool for Your Needs

When it comes to protecting your company’s important data and network, it doesn’t matter what size your firm is, keeping things safe and running smoothly should be a top priority. For this reason, many invest in network monitoring tools like Pandora FMS. This is because we offer a software solution to make sure your network is always safe and secure around the clock. Let’s learn a bit more about the process of network monitoring and why it’s so important here!

Elastic at KubeCon Europe 2020: Orchestration to observability, and beyond!

KubeCon Europe 2020 is virtual this year, and Elastic is doing our part to help "keep cloud native connected." We would rather be there in person to shake hands, tell stories, and laugh, but the challenges of a virtual conference also provide the opportunity to share great content and materials that we might not be able to at a crowded booth.

Java Development Mistakes: Avoid These 7 Mistakes When Java Developing

Over time, Java has become a popular programming language in software development. Although Java is more popular with developers than C or C++, this programming language still has its problems. Here are seven Java development mistakes that developers can make and how you can avoid them.

Website Traffic Monitoring - Beyond Google Analytics

In today’s digital age there are numerous websites that compete to drive traffic to their portals. They invest heavily in strategies like SEO and SMM to get visitors hooked on their content. Getting traffic on your website is important but it’s also critical to understand how visitors interact with your content. This is where website analytics tools and solutions come in.

Intro to Puppeteer and Checkly

A short introduction and overview to Puppeteer showing executions on both a local machine and Checkly, together with some considerations on how it fits in the current landscape of browser automation tool. Puppeteer is a Node library which provides a high-level API to control headless Chrome/Chromium over the DevTools Protocol. Checkly is an active reliability platform bridging the gap between traditional monitoring and E2E testing, allowing you to automatically verify your API behaviour, as well as your key site transactions from one simple dashboard.

Introducing Kubernetes Enrichment Early Access

With more engineering teams adopting Kubernetes as their container orchestration platform, new challenges emerge in giving your entire team visibility into Kubernetes for monitoring, debugging, and deployment. We’ve heard consistent feedback from developers and infrastructure teams about the observability gaps that exist between underlying Kubernetes infrastructure and deployed services.

Why Monitor Cloud and On-Premise Infrastructure together?

Data centers and cloud are undoubtedly an integral part of business continuity strategies of companies to run operations with a distributed workforce amid the lockdown successfully. The Covid-19 outbreak and the resultant work from home policies have pushed businesses across globe increase in adoption of cloud infrastructure services up by 80%. Managing the entire suite of enterprise technology is not easy for businesses that have several vendors on board.