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What is Syslog and how does it work?

When you’re adding or subtracting fractions, you need to make sure that they have a common denominator, a number that allows you to compare values. In the same way, your IT environment needs a common “language” for your event log data. Your environment consists of various devices running different operating systems, software, and firmware.

Monitoring Loadmaster Performance with Flowmon NPMD

The Loadmaster Network Telemetry feature makes it easier than ever to get key insights on your applications into your Flowmon deployment. By creating both cluster-wide and application specific channels you can quickly build NPM dashboards and topologies that surface essential performance and availability metrics broken down by application, client and server.

What Is SQL Performance Tuning?

As database administrators and developers, we need to know how to tune SQL queries and databases. Tuning SQL queries and databases is one of the most powerful tools in our arsenal for achieving the best possible performance results. This post will help you understand more about SQL tuning. I’ll start by explaining what SQL performance tuning is. Then, I’ll go over how to conduct SQL performance tuning in MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, and Oracle.

The Best Graphite Dashboard Examples

Graphite provides time-series metrics in an open-source database. With Graphite dashboards, you can see key performance indicators (KPIs) as well as other metrics visually. Dashboards typically display data as graphs, charts, and tables and can be customized to meet the specific needs of an organization. Using dashboards, organizations can monitor and analyze various aspects of their performance, such as system utilization, application performance, and resource utilization, using web interfaces.

How to Create a Dashboard in Kibana

Wondering how to create a dashboard in Kibana to visualize and analyze your log data? In this blog post, we’ll provide a step-by-step explanation of how to create a dashboard in Kibana. You’ll learn how to use Kibana to query indexed application and event log data, filter query results to highlight the most critical and actionable information, build Kibana visualizations using your log data, and incorporate those visualizations into a Kibana dashboard.

5 key functions you need for your Kubernetes monitoring tool

As an open-source container management system, the Kubernetes (commonly referred to as K8s) platform’s constant growth warrants an intricate cluster network, making it challenging to gain system-wide visibility. Even a tiny disruption within the network could collapse the entire operation, resulting in the failure of dependent applications. Businesses that rely on such containerized applications may experience a huge impact in revenue.

10 Best Apache Log Analyzers: Free & Paid Tools [2023 Comparison]

Apache is the second most popular web server, after …., with its roots and official release going back as far as 1995. Throughout the years, it gained features, including HTTP/2, caching, and many more, while retaining its most appreciated capabilities: speed, modularity, and great stability. To fully leverage its features, you need to understand the environment, bottlenecks, traffic and user behavior. Just like with every software inside your infrastructure, Apache is no different.

Empowering SecOps Admins: Getting the Most Value from CrowdStrike FDR Data with Cribl Stream

Join Ed Bailey and Sidd Shah as they discuss how Cribl Stream can empower Security Operations Admins to make the most of their CrowdStrike FDR data. During the discussion, Ed and Sidd will address the challenges faced by CrowdStrike customers who generate a vast amount of valuable data each day but struggle to leverage it fully due to complexity and size. They will explain how Cribl Stream can help SecOps admins extract the right data for their SIEM, while moving the rest to their Security Data Lake, enabling them to get the maximum value from their data and be cost-effective at the same time.

Introducing Session Replay from Sentry: Bridge the Gap between Code and UX

You know that annoying bug? The one that doesn’t show up locally? And no matter how many times you try to recreate the environment you can’t reproduce it? You’ve gone through the breadcrumbs, read through the stack trace, and are now playing detective to piece together support tickets to make sure it’s real. To get to the root cause faster - without rolling your head on your keyboard - we built Session Replay, now generally available for all web-based platforms.