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What Is JMX Monitoring?

The Java Management Extensions (JMX) framework is a well-known tool for any experienced Java developer. The purpose of the JMX framework is to simplify the management of local and remote Java applications while providing a user-friendly interface. The primary advantages of the JMX framework are that it’s highly reliable, scalable, and easy to configure. However, it’s also known for introducing the concept of MBeans, which unlocks the capacity for real-time Java application management.

Defining the Edge for IoT with InfluxDB

The 'edge' is the place where the physical world meets the digital world. More and more businesses rely on workloads at the edge, especially in the IoT and IIoT spaces. Define the edge to fit your needs. InfluxDB has the tools and resources to use data at the edge and in the cloud, and to create reliable, durable data pipelines between them.

Introduction to Cloud-native Monitoring and Observability - Civo

Our applications and infrastructure provide us with vast amounts of data about their performance. To gain control over this amount of data, we must process it to be useful information. This information can offer you insights into where your application could be performing better, with more efficiency, or with fewer errors. Your insights can only be as good as the data you gather and how you organize it. More is not (always) better - this is where observability comes in.

Stackify Earns SD Times 100: Best in Show for Performance Monitoring

Stackify earned top honors for the 4th year in a row from SD Times for Performance Monitoring. This year’s SD Times 100 looks at the best of the software development companies from how they performed in 2021 — a year like no other due to … Improve Your Code with Retrace APM Stackify’s APM tools are used by thousands of.NET, Java, PHP, Node.js, Python, & Ruby developers all over the world. Explore Retrace’s product features to learn more.

Learn the Latest from the Research Roundup for Modernizing Infrastructure and Operations in a Hybrid World by Gartner

Gartner breaks down modernizing I&O into five key focus areas you won’t want to miss. Unsure of how to keep-up with infrastructure reliability in an ever-changing, hybrid world? With so many cloud infrastructure and platform services (CIPS) available, do you find yourself asking, ‘How can I make sure my data center infrastructure and its operations are maximized and successful?’ If you are feeling a little challenged in any of these areas, this report will be informative.

An Observability Guide From Someone with a Precarious Grasp on the Topic

I’m Phillip, a product manager here at Honeycomb. After eleven-ish months of working on our product, I totally understand observability, right? ...Kinda? Sorta? Maybe? I'm not sure—but, I have been sitting in this space long enough to be a little better than clueless. Here's my guide on the topic. I hope it helps, especially if you’re passionate about exploring alternative ways you or your team can manage today’s cloud-native applications.

Introducing Grafana OnCall OSS, on-call management for the open source community

Last November, we announced the launch of Grafana OnCall, an easy-to-use on-call management tool that helps reduce toil through simpler workflows and interfaces tailored for developers. Born out of Grafana Labs' acquisition of Amixr Inc., Grafana OnCall began as a cloud-only solution that became generally available to all Grafana Cloud users, on both paid and free plans, in February.

Grafana Alerting: Explore our latest updates in Grafana 9

Grafana 8 marked a major redesign in the way we do alerting. We created a unified alerting experience that implemented a workflow that operates across all of our products and combined Grafana panel alerts and Prometheus-style alerts into a single pane of glass. We built this as an open source feature first to make sure you could opt in and try it out from day one, regardless of which flavor of Grafana (OSS, Cloud, or Enterprise) works best for you.