In the early days of web development, there was one way to measure code: WTFs per minute. It was a metric that could be applied across all languages, as every developer knew what WTF meant (Works That Frustrate, obviously). Today, however, code is too intricate — and important — for clever, opaque metrics. You need objective data that communicates the quality and stability of your code — KPIs such as events accepted, transaction outcomes, and crash-free sessions.

Prometheus is an open-source tool that’s meant to monitor and collect metrics from applications. The point of this system is to make it easy for users to see and understand important metrics that let them know how well an application is doing. In fact, Prometheus is able to collect over one million metrics per second, and then store them until you’re ready to retrieve them.

We’ve seen how much you love SquaredUp. But we’re also aware that opening up access to your SCOM and Azure data can sometimes hold you back from sharing the joy of powerful dashboarding with other teams. And what about trying to get an overview of multiple SCOM management groups without having to log into each one individually? We have the perfect solution for both problems.

When you hear the word "Thanos," your first thought might be the Marvel Cinematic Universe villain from the Avengers: Infinity War film who seeks to collect the Infinity Stones and end half of all life in the universe. But if you mention the word to a data nerd, you're likely to get a very different response. Prometheus is a free and open-source platform for real-time systems and event monitoring and alerting.

Open source is eating the world. Companies have realized and embraced that, and ever more companies today are built around a successful open source project. But there’s also a disturbing counter-movement: vendors relicensing popular open source projects to restrict usage. Last week it was Grafana Labs which announced relicensing Grafana, Loki and Tempo, its popular open source monitoring tools, from Apache2.0 to the more restrictive GNU AGPLv3 license.

Cloudflare secures and ensures the reliability of your external-facing resources such as websites, APIs, and applications. It protects your internal resources such as behind-the-firewall applications, teams, and devices. This post will show you how Coralogix can provide analytics and insights for your Cloudflare log data – including traffic, performance, and security insights.

Server monitoring is important for optimum server performance to ensure no disruptions to your business. However, server performance monitoring can be dispersed and complex. Keeping an eye on everything has become an uphill battle. Information on the server allows you to better understand what went wrong. Tools, like Retrace, that make this uphill battle more streamlined and manageable. Let’s learn how to monitor server performance.