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Optimizing the AWS CloudWatch Log Process

Amazon’s native monitoring and management service AWS CloudWatch is great for basic monitoring and alerts. However, on its own, it may not be the best solution for analyzing log data at scale — especially if you need to analyze data outside of AWS. Many teams may find themselves restricted by retention issues and basic analytic features with Amazon CloudWatch logs for troubleshooting use cases.

How to set up Heartbeat Alerts within Sematext

Monitoring is an essential part of any IT infrastructure, as it allows you to keep track of the performance and health of your systems. However, simply monitoring your systems is not enough - you need to be alerted when something goes wrong so that you can take action to fix the issue. With Sematext, we automatically set up heartbeat alerts for many of our integrations. However, you can always customize your alerts to suit your needs. You can choose to receive these alerts via email, SMS, or even through a chat tool like Slack.

Dashboard Fridays: Sample Azure Application Insights Dashboard

This SquaredUp dashboard uses the Azure plugin to surface key performance metrics from Application Insights. Common user experience metrics are all provided out of the box, and we can query, summarize, and analyse the raw logs and traces. Tune in to learn how it was made, the challenges it solves, and our top tips for building it yourself.

Dashboard Fridays: Sample Google Compute Engine Dashboard

This Google Compute Engine dashboard shows key metrics about any GCE instances, managed instance groups, and related resources such as GCE disks. These metrics include utilization of resources and health status. Tune in to learn how it was made, the challenges it solves, and our top tips for building it yourself.

Dashboard Fridays: Sample Grafana Dashboard

This SquaredUp Grafana dashboard surfaces status information from Grafana, giving you a big picture overview across teams and apps – all while allowing you to utilize your existing dashboards and alert rules. Tune in to learn how it was made, the challenges it solves, and our top tips for building it yourself.

Dashboard Fridays: Sample Google Kubernetes Engine Dashboard

This SquaredUp dashboard shows key metrics from any GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine) clusters and node groups, including utilization of resources and health status. Tune in to learn how it was made, the challenges it solves, and our top tips for building it yourself.

SigNoz - Logs Performance Benchmark

Logs are an integral part of any system that helps you get information about the application state and how it handles its operations. The goal of this blog is to compare the commonly used logging solutions, i.e., ElasticSearch(ELK stack) and Loki(PLG stack), with SigNoz on three parameters: ingestion, query, and storage. Performance benchmarks are not easy to execute. Each tool has nuances, and the testing environments must aim to provide a level playing field for all tools.

How Monitoring Helps Avoid the Greatest Dangers to Your Website this Holiday Season

The holidays are here. It’s the happiest time of year but also the most dangerous time for your website. This season usually means sales and events, which bring in a surge of website traffic and strains to your systems. If you are not prepared for these changes, your website could pay the price and ultimately damage your business’s reputation and revenue. We want to avoid these catastrophes.

What is hyperconvergence?

Pandora FMS blog has a very clear purpose: for you to find out everything there is to know about the largest number of rare words related to computing, technology or monitoring, so you can show off among your peers (with whom the hell may you brag about this). Today it’s “Hyperconvergence“! It may sound like something about spacecrafts going into a state close to the speed of light or psychic-type Pokémon attack, but no, it’s something else!