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JSON Logs | Best Practices, benefits, and examples

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format that has gained widespread popularity in recent years due to its simplicity and flexibility. It is easy for humans to read and write and for machines to parse and generate, making it a great choice for transmitting data in web applications. Logs serve multiple purposes for application developers. They are essential to understand what's happening in your application.

Applications Manager in 2022: A look back

As we reach the end of the year, many of us are looking back to see how our resolutions for the year 2022 went. Well we don’t know about you, but at Applications Manager, we kept to our resolution to work to deliver the best possible version of our tool. Here’s a look back at 2022 and every milestone we crossed this year.

Datadog on Building an Event Storage System

When Datadog introduced its Log Management product, it required a new event data storage platform, as storing logs and events is a completely different problem from storing metrics, which was the first Datadog product. Over time, Datadog introduced more and more products that needed to store and index multi-kilobyte timeseries “events”, re-using the Event Platform infrastructure from Log Management. The increased use of the Event Platform and the new feature requirements coming from new products started exposing the limitations of the legacy system and the need for a new approach

Best practices for continuous testing with Datadog

In Parts 1 and 2, we looked at how you can build and maintain effective test suites. These steps are a key part of ensuring that application workflows function as expected. But how you run your tests is another important point to consider, so in this post, we’ll walk through best practices for executing your tests across every stage of development. Along the way, we’ll also look at how Datadog supports these practices for the applications that you are already monitoring.

How to install the Site24x7 APM Insight .NET Core agent in Linux

This video will guide you through the installation of the Site24x7 APM Insight.NET Core agent. With the APM Insight.NET Core agent, you can monitor your web applications built in.NET Core 2.0 and above. You can track HTTP requests, SQL queries, errors, exceptions, web API calls, and remote calls in your ASP.NET Core applications hosted on Windows, Linux, or Mac. Related links The one-line code to include in the Program.cs file: builder.Services.AddSite24x7ApmInsights();

Observability vs. Monitoring

Today, organizations are moving toward distributed systems to provide top-notch application services. This trend has made both observability and monitoring essential practices. As observability and monitoring are often used interchangeably, many people tend to get confused. It’s crucial to understand the difference between the two to use the right approach for a given scenario.

How OpsRamp Log Management Helps You to Find and Fix Issues Faster

OpsRamp has enhanced its hybrid observability capabilities by adding an integrated log management solution to unify log, event and alert data within customers’ monitoring and event management command center. Presenting this log data as part of a unified view of IT performance data and integrating it with remediation capabilities will allow enterprises and service providers to expedite the process of identifying and resolving potential issues before they impact their business operations.

Assessing Observability Maturity at Danske Bank

In order to ensure reliability, IT operations teams today require a deeper understanding of systems than monitoring, along, can provide. In this session, you'll hear insights from Danske Bank about how their observability journey started, the obstacles encountered along the way, what they've achieved in observability so far and, finally, how they measure the maturity of their observability practice.

How to Add SD-WAN Devices to Hybrid Cloud Observability

SD-WAN network monitoring can help you better ensure SD-WAN performance and more easily troubleshoot slowdowns or outages. In this video, you’ll learn how to add new SD-WAN devices for monitoring so that you can get the insights you need for Meraki devices with Hybrid Cloud Observability.

Dos and Don'ts of Observability: Lessons Learned from RedMonk

On November 16, 2022, I sat down with analyst KellyAnn Fitzpatrick from RedMonk to discuss my favorite topic: observability. This time, we looked at observability in a context of what to do and what to avoid doing as you’re starting and going on an observability journey. Click the image below (or here) for a replay of the session. A machine-generated transcript is available at the end of the post.