The latest News and Information on Monitoring for Websites, Applications, APIs, Infrastructure, and other technologies.
In a previous blog post, we talked about Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). RDS is one of the most popular cloud-based database services today and extensively used by Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers for its ease of use, cost-effectiveness and simple administration.
It is imperative to keep a close watch on all the Cron jobs you have defined on your system, this would include checking errors and validation of codes. For monitoring of defined Cron Jobs, a developer can use a “Hosted monitoring system” like PushMon. This kind of a system is defined as a push monitoring system as it depends on receiving signals from Cron jobs for monitoring and error notification. A system like PushMon has the following 4 steps in its monitor of your Cron job.
Today we’ve got a few new additions to take you through, and you can expect some other changes still to come as the week progresses!
Secure Shell (SSH), is a network protocol that gives administrators secure access to remote computers. It also refers to the suite of utilities that implement the protocol. A SSH check looks at the availability of your SSH services to see if the service is accepting connections.
Request tracing is the ultimate insight tool. Request tracing tracks operations inside and across different systems. Practically speaking, this allows engineers to see the how long an operation took in a web server, database, application code, or entirely different systems, all presented along a timeline. Request tracing is especially valuable in distributed systems where a single transaction (such as “create an account”) spans multiple systems.
