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

Livin' on the Edge With Cribl Edge 4.0: Featuring Improved Scalability, Enhanced Fleet Management, and AppScope Integration

Cribl CEO Clint Sharp first announced Cribl Edge in March of 2022. Our SVP of Marketing, Abby Strong, complemented the announcement with a well-rounded blog post discussing why Cribl Edge is the first fully manageable and auto-configurable agent designed to collect telemetry data at scale. Even Aerosmith gave the product a shoutout! Well, not really, but wouldn’t it be fun if it was true? 🙂 We’re thrilled to be back with exciting news about the latest release of Cribl Edge (4.0).

What's New With Cribl.Cloud: Search, BYO IdP, AWS Marketplace, and More

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Observability Pipelines Have Never Been This Easy to Set Up, Manage, and Troubleshoot

Did you know? Baby goats stand and take their first steps within minutes of being born. There is no stopping the goats! Likewise, there’s no stopping the goats at Cribl from innovating! Our product herd is growing rapidly, and it’s time for us to share the latest and greatest about our head of the product herd – Cribl Stream. (If you haven’t figured it out yet, We love goats here at Cribl. We even have a goat mascot; meet Ian)

Kaplan [InfluxData], Breck [Tesla] | Value of Building Great Developer Experience | InfluxDays 2022

Join Evan Kaplan, CEO at InfluxData, and a long-time InfluxDB community member as they discuss how to create a stronger developer experience (DX). Hear from Evan and Colin Breck, Cloud Platforms Lead at Tesla Energy Products, to learn more about industry best practices and how organizations can improve the experience for developers.

How to monitor and troubleshoot Apache web servers

The Apache HTTP Server (Apache HTTPd) is one of the most popular open source web servers available. HTTPd was also the first project developed by the Apache Software foundation which now supports hundreds of well known projects including Kafka, Cassandra and Hadoop. Netdata has a public demo space where you can explore different monitoring use-cases. Check out the Apache demo room to explore and interact with the charts and metrics described here.

How to monitor NGINX web servers?

Web servers are among the most important components in modern IT infrastructures. They host the websites, web services, and web applications that we use on a daily basis. Social networking, media streaming, software as a service (SaaS), and other activities wouldn’t be possible without the use of web servers. And with the advent of cloud computing and the movement of more services online, web servers and their monitoring are only becoming more important.

How to Monitor Redis Performance

In this article, we are going to look at how to monitor Redis performance using Prometheus. This will allow Redis Administrators to centrally manage all of their Redis clusters without setting up any additional infrastructure for monitoring. To follow the steps in this blog, sign up for the MetricFire free trial, where you can use Graphite and Grafana directly on our platform.

Cluster Monitoring with Prometheus and Rancher

In this article, we present an overview of cluster monitoring using Rancher and Prometheus as well as provide some brief setup tutorials for both tools. We further introduce a metric visualization tool called Grafana that transforms your Prometheus time-series data into graphs and visualizations. MetricFire specializes in monitoring systems. You can use this product with minimal configuration to gain in-depth insight into your environment.

The importance of using the latest browser version for monitoring

Security is one word that is at the tip of everyone’s tongue when it comes to ensuring that web browsers are up to date. In August 2022, after zero day vulnerability CVE-2022-2852 was identified as a critical risk, Google issued a new set of Chrome security updates and tech-industry folks carried on with business as usual. In general, security vulnerabilities of all types are an all-too-common game of Whac-A-Mole. Once a security flaw is discovered and patched, another pops up to take its place.