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Exploring AWS Costs Beyond the Service Level

Honeycomb uses AWS Lambda as a core part of our query execution architecture; Lambda’s ability to quickly allocate lots of resources and charge us only for use is invaluable to keeping Honeycomb fast and affordable. Our total Lambda bill is easily accessible in the AWS Console, but how do we know which customers or application areas dominate this bill? How do we judge the cost of changes we make to our own software?

Have fun again creating, discover visual console and dashboard editing

The visual console editor allows the user to visually design the final layout by dragging elements with the mouse, choosing the background and the icons that represent the status of each relevant aspect you want to show. With dashboards you may define screens with different created visual elements and share them with other users or display them in full screen as slides for the whole team to see.

Improve Website Performance by Checking Logs

In the early days of log analysis, application developers would use their logging libraries to write logs to files stored on a disk. After years of relying on those libraries, they found that they were unable to monitor the performance of their applications anymore because they didn’t understand the way their logging libraries worked. This led to a shift from using log files stored on a disk to using Syslog.

StackState's v5.0 Release Delivers New 4T Monitors and More: Apply the Power of Topology to Transform Traditional IT Monitoring

This week we released v5.0 of StackState’s observability and AIOps platform, which introduces a rich set of new capabilities. Our latest release contains a little something for everyone responsible for reliably running business critical workloads in dynamic environments – SREs, DevOps, central platform teams, even business teams – and for new and existing users alike.

6 lessons from Cloudflare's June 2022 outage

On June 21, 2022, the US-based global content delivery network (CDN) provider and security company Cloudflare suffered an outage at 6:27 UTC that lasted until 7:42. The outage was caused by a network configuration error that affected 19 of Cloudflare's data center locations — Amsterdam, Atlanta, Ashburn, Chicago, Frankfurt, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Manchester, Miami, Milan, Mumbai, Newark, Osaka, São Paulo, San Jose, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo.

Monitoring Moodle Applications to Deliver High Quality Educational Services

In this article, we will cover a case study of one of our higher education customers using eG Enterprise to proactively monitor and troubleshoot their Moodle applications to ensure service availability and performance for their staff and students.

South East Asia-based company reduces its MTTR using Applications Manager

Founded in 1983, KFin Technologies is a leading transaction processing platform based in South East Asia. The organization serves the mission-critical needs of asset managers with clients in mutual funds, AIFs, pension, wealth management, and corporations in India and abroad.

How to get your customers more engaged with your SaaS product

One of the biggest challenges for SaaS companies isn’t only how to get customers to buy your SaaS product but how to keep them engaged with it. It may be surprising but just because someone has bought your product or service, it doesn’t mean they interact with it in the way that they should or in such a way that they’re getting the most out of it. The downside to this? They are the customers that are more likely to churn.

8 things you can do right now to rank better in Google

We all know it’s getting harder than ever to rank in Google, whether it’s for blogs or webpages, but all is not lost. There are some key elements that you should be focusing on on your webpages, for example, to ensure that you’re giving your website the best chances possible of ranking well. After all, the majority of organic traffic clicks on the first 3 results on the first page of Google so if you’re not there, your competitors must be!