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Deciphering Distributed Systems: A Complete Guide to Monitoring Strategies

Feb 15, 2024 By Olivia Díaz In Pandora FMS

Distributed systems allow projects to be implemented more efficiently and at a lower cost, but require complex processing due to the fact that several nodes are used to process one or more tasks with greater performance in different network sites. To understand this complexity, let’s first look at its fundamentals.

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Internet VPN Performance Troubleshooting For Multi-Site SMBs with Obkio's Basic Plan

Feb 15, 2024 By Andrii Kernitskyi In Obkio

At Obkio, we frequently get asked the question by potential customers: "Which plan do I need?". So we decided to share the perfect use case to provide clarity. What better way to illustrate the capabilities of our Basic Plan than by showcasing a real-life scenario of a multi-site SMB taking advantage of it?

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Data Lakes: A Comprehensive Guide

Feb 14, 2024 By Zaigam In Apica

Whether you’re a Data Engineer, DevOps, Cloud Architect, or a Business Intelligence Professional, Data Lakes are indispensable tools for harnessing the power of big data, enabling advanced analytics, and driving informed decision-making across your enterprise. Back in the 90s, the internet boom led to an unprecedented expanse of data. This led to a gaping demand for better data storage solutions.

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Custom Metrics and their importance in Observability

Feb 14, 2024 By Ian Thompson In Splunk

In my role here at Splunk, I get the opportunity to speak to a number of our customers about the challenges they are facing in building and running these complex platforms that power today’s environments. And what’s more, is that the challenges are more or less the same.

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Heroku Router Path Metrics

Feb 14, 2024 By Elliot Langston In MetricFire

We are pleased to announce that we have released a new feature that allows you to collect Heroku Router metrics by path! By default, this option will not be enabled as it will increase your number of total metrics. If no action is taken, you will continue to receive your Router metrics in the default format. This provides a good overview of your application’s total connection times, requests by method/status, etc.

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How to Monitor Network Failover: Fighting Against Downtime

Feb 14, 2024 By Alyssa Lamberti In Obkio

The Internet is everywhere these days, woven into how businesses operate and connect with customers, partners, and colleagues. It's not just a luxury; it's a necessity. Keeping things running smoothly means having a network that's on its A-game all the time – no glitches allowed. Why? Well, network downtime isn't just an inconvenience; it's like a money-eating monster that also affects how people see your company.

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Why ngrok Prioritized a Datadog Integration for Streamlined Monitoring of HTTP Events

Feb 14, 2024 By Datadog In Datadog

ngrok delivers instant ingress to your applications in any cloud, private network, or devices with authentication, load balancing, and other critical controls using their global points of presence. Hear from Chad Tindel, Field CTO & VP WW Solution Architecture, on why Datadog was their most requested integration and how it provides an easy pathway to ship application and traffic logs into one unified observability platform.

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Monitoring Kafka with OpenTelemetry including client side monitoring

Feb 14, 2024 By SigNoz In SigNoz

In this video, you will see a demo of how to monitor Kafka with OpenTelemetry. We will instrument a NodeJS application using Kafka and get client side metrics like delay between producer emitting a message to consumer receiving it via distributed tracing. We will also get Kafka server metrics like consumer lag and plot it dashboards.

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Safer Client-Side Instrumentation with Honeycomb's Ingest-Only API Keys

Feb 14, 2024 By Jason Harley In Honeycomb

We're delighted to introduce our new Ingest API Keys, a significant step toward enabling all Honeycomb customers to manage their observability complexity simply, efficiently, and securely. Ingest Keys are currently available for Environment & Services customers, with Classic support and programmatic key management capabilities under development and coming soon!

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Powering Real-Time Data Processing with InfluxDB and AWS Kinesis

Feb 14, 2024 By Anais Dotis-Georgiou In InfluxData

Imagine a data engineer working for a large e-commerce company tasked with building a system that can process and analyze customer clickstream data in real-time. By leveraging Amazon Kinesis and InfluxDB, they can achieve this goal efficiently and effectively. So, how do we get from idea to finished solution? First, we need to understand the tools at hand.

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