The latest News and Information on Monitoring for Websites, Applications, APIs, Infrastructure, and other technologies.
Disjunctive queries (term_1 OR term_2 OR... OR term_n) are extremely commonly used, thus they are getting a lot of attention when it comes to improving query evaluation efficiency. Apache Lucene has two main optimizations for evaluating disjunctive queries: BS1 on the one hand for exhaustive evaluation, and MAXSCORE and WAND on the other hand to compute top hits.
Testing is a key part of application development and helps you maintain a reliable experience for your users. But the process can be difficult to scale and is often siloed to a single team or individual that does not have broad knowledge of your application’s UI. This can lead to organizations investing in sizable test suites that do not accurately represent real user behavior.
Gaps in website performance optimization have a devastating effect, and you will surely get strict penalties for making them happen. Websites failing to pass the Google Core Web Vitals assessment can expect their traffic, conversions, and business revenue to go south. And they can only make up the leeway with fast intervention and ingenious strategic planning.
Provisioning Grafana Alerting resources, such as notification policies, can help you deploy resources faster and streamline the alerting and notification process. Before getting started, it’s important to understand the different options for provisioning notification policies, how they work, and the challenges they can present. In Grafana Alerting, notification policies use alert labels to determine how alerts are routed to different contact points or receivers.
Mezmo, formerly known as LogDNA, offers log analytics without any native capabilities around metrics and tracing data. While Coralogix’s full-stack observability supports logs, metrics, tracing and security data, for the purpose of this comparison with Mezmo, we will focus primarily on logs.
RabbitMQ is a popular open-source message broker that facilitates communication between different components of a distributed system. Monitoring a RabbitMQ instance is crucial to ensure its health, performance, and reliability. Monitoring allows you to identify and address potential issues before they escalate, ensuring smooth communication between various parts of your application.
In the website monitoring and observability space, there are few names that hold as much weight as Splunk. Established in 2003, Splunk is highly focused on log data visualization and analysis but offers a wide range of tools to help you monitor your applications. All of that being said, just because it’s been around a while doesn’t mean that it’s right for everyone.
Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. This week, we explore whether digital transformation can solve DataOps challenges. Data is the new oil in the modern digital economy, and businesses today are producing more data than ever before. Without any proper process in place, firms globally are finding it overwhelming to navigate through the pool of data.
