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Best practices to collect, customize and centralize Node.js logs

Node.js is an established platform for developing server-side applications in JavaScript. One of the most fundamental concerns that arise during the development of Node.js apps is how to carry out proper logging that will be safe, secure and performant. While there are several options for configuring Node.js logging, a few specific engineering best practices still apply, no matter which option you choose.

On-premise vs. On the Cloud

Since its emergence in the mid-2000s, the cloud computing market has evolved significantly. The benefits of reliability, scalability, and reduced set-up costs have created a demand to fuel an ever-growing range of “as-a-service” offerings, resulting in an option to suit most requirements. But despite the advantages, the question of cloud or on-premise remains valid.

Introducing Anomaly Advisor for troubleshooting at scale

Troubleshoot at scale with our all-new, lightweight Anomaly Advisor, powered by machine learning. The Anomaly Advisor finds periods of time with elevated anomaly rates across your entire infrastructure faster than ever before. This new feature works along with our ML unsupervised models on the edge, making your troubleshooting trouble-free! Even better, the Anomaly Advisor requires minimal configuration and is extremely lightweight. No need to worry about exhausting your CPU usage.

How to Monitor Active Directory with OpenTelemetry

We’re excited to announce that we’ve recently contributed Active Directory Domain Services (abbreviated Active Directory DS) monitoring support to the OpenTelemetry collector. You can check it out here! You can utilize this receiver in conjunction with any OTel collector: including the contrib collector, the observIQ’s distribution of the collector, as well as Google’s Ops Agent, as a few examples.

How to monitor an Umbrel server running a Bitcoin node with Grafana Cloud

Most people in the world are familiar with legal tender paper money — also known as fiat currency — and how to access it online through a bank website, ATM, or mobile app. The idea of “digital money” or cryptocurrency — such as Bitcoin — remains a relatively new concept.

Create Bitcoin Buy and Sell Alerts with InfluxDB

This article was originally published in The New Stack. Given how volatile Bitcoin price is, an automated alerting system can be valuable for preserving our attention and sanity. We can pay attention to Bitcoin only when the price action is interesting. Momentum, that is buying an asset that has done well in the past, has been one of the most persistently effective trading strategies — see Clif Asness: “Value and Momentum Everywhere” and Tzouvanas (2019).