The shelter-in-place requirements around the world due to COVID-19 have prevented us from getting out much, but it has also opened views into a world we probably wouldn’t see otherwise. Not only do we get glimpses into celebrity homes as we watch the news, late-night talk shows, and concerts, we get to see into the lives and homes of the people we used to see in the office every day.
The first question we always get from developers before trying out our product is - “What’s the difference between your platform and Heroku?”. We think it’s very important to answer your questions clearly and this article is meant to be our answer.
For many companies today business success depends on quality efficient build, test and delivery processes. Development and deployment environments become complex very quickly, even for small and medium companies. A contributing factor to this complexity is companies’ adoption of microservices. This is where modern CI/CD solutions like CircleCI come in to help streamline these processes.
Yesterday, my colleague Mike Elsmore wrote a blog about sending metrics to Logz.io Infrastructure monitoring – now let’s analyze them by building Grafana visualizations! Once you’ve started to send metric data to Logz.io, how do you visualize and interpret that data so that it’s useful for you? In Logz.io Infrastructure Monitoring, we use Grafana to provide dashboards and bring meaningful information to light.
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, also known as HIPAA, is a compliance standard that was implemented after all health-related information was digitized. The crux of the act is to ensure that all sensitive electronic protected health information (ePHI) has restricted, secure access. Various aspects of your network determine your compliance with HIPAA standards. Let’s discuss some of these important components in detail.
In today’s post, we’ll take a deep dive into Rails migrations. We’ll break down the migration into different pieces, and in the process, learn how to write an effective migration. We’ll learn how to write migrations for multiple databases, as well as how to handle failed migrations and techniques of performing rollbacks. To understand the whole post, you’ll need to have a basic understanding of databases and Rails.
At Sentry, we often get asked how error monitoring is different from APM or logging. To help answer this, I’ve broken down the different types of monitoring into four major categories.
Histograms are one of my favorite topics in the Prometheus universe. Last November, I delivered a talk at PromCon EU 2019 that was titled Prometheus Histograms – Past, Present, and Future. Only the part about the past had to be cut due to time constraints. But I made a promise to resurrect my talk about the history of histograms and I kept my word. In February, I premiered the Secret History of Prometheus Histograms at FOSDEM 2020.
We all know that systems fail. We plan for this with failover partners and system backups. But can you really trust your backups? If you are using Azure monitoring, your backup and site recovery can be complicated. LogicMonitor provides clarity. Our Azure Backup monitoring service provides simple, secure, and cost-effective solutions for backing up and recovering your data using the Azure cloud.
