The latest News and Information on Monitoring for Websites, Applications, APIs, Infrastructure, and other technologies.
Fifteen years ago, the Internet was a very different place. It operated on a very different scale, had different market leaders and it faced different technical challenges. What has not changed, however, is the need for the best – indeed ever higher - performance and resilience. We founded Catchpoint in September 2008 (amid terrible economic conditions) with the desire to make the Internet better. Not exactly the greatest year to launch a startup.
Synthetic testing, also referred to as continuous monitoring or synthetic monitoring, is a technique for identifying performance problems with critical user journeys and application endpoints before they impair the user experience. Businesses may use synthetic testing to assess the uptime of their services, application response times, and the efficiency of consumer transactions on a proactive basis.
In this post, we will go through the process of configuring and installing Graphite on an Ubuntu machine. What is Graphite Monitoring? In short; Graphite stores, collects, and visualizes time-series data in real time. It provides operations teams with instrumentation, allowing for visibility on varying levels of granularity concerning the behavior and mannerisms of the system. This leads to error detection, resolution, and continuous improvement. Graphite is composed of the following components.
Tomcat has been a trusted platform for managing your Java based web applications, Java Server Pages (JSPs) and Java Servlets. But who is the one reliable soldier watching Tomcat’s back while you are boosting the efficiency of your organization? We have the answer: your monitoring tool. Complete visibility into the infrastructure and comprehensive insights ensure IT administrator can properly manage their organization’s IT infrastructure.
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) has been a cornerstone for IT professionals and system administrators for years. It provides essential tools for monitoring and managing an organization’s IT infrastructure health, performance, and security. With each new release, Microsoft introduces enhancements and updates to make SCOM even more powerful and user-friendly.
This article will focus on the popular monitoring tool Prometheus, and how to use PromQL. Prometheus uses Golang and allows simultaneous monitoring of many services and systems. In order to enable better monitoring of these multi-component systems, Prometheus has strong built-in data storage and tagging functionalities. To use PromQL to query these metrics you need to understand the architecture of data storage in Prometheus, and how the metric naming and tagging works.
