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Splunk Cloud vs. Loggly: 2019 Speed Test

April 24, 2019

The core ability to search through logs quickly and intuitively is the most important feature a log management system brings to the table. Being able to quickly and efficiently search through logs generated by an infrastructure stack allows DevOps professionals to rapidly find and address problems, as well as confirm deployments and configuration changes. Because raw speed has such a direct impact on the usefulness of these products, we will compare to see which performs the best.

Monitoring Performance Using SolarWinds Loggly and AppOptics

February 21, 2019

Behind every application, service, and website is a healthy host. In order for DevOps teams to deliver fast, responsive, and stable applications, they need tools to monitor the performance and stability of these hosts. Monitoring helps teams not only identify problems such as high resource usage and errors, but also detect trends and potential changes in performance. In this article, we’ll show how integrating AppOptics with Loggly helps you identify, troubleshoot, and resolve performance problems.

Monitoring Site Availability Using Synthetic Transactions

February 21, 2019

One of the biggest challenges organizations face when operating web applications is monitoring the availability of complex transactions that involve multiple steps. Developers and testers are often left manually stepping through their applications in the hopes of reproducing problems and replicating the complex nature of user experience. What they really need is a way to simulate real user activity independent of any actual users. In this article, we’ll explain how to create and monitor web applications using synthetic transactions.

How to Stream Logs from Azure Resources to Loggly

February 15, 2019

When running any production load within Azure, you need to make sure you are always getting the latest info on what is going within your hosted infrastructure. Logs provide a way to record and monitor the systems that we are running and alert us to any potential problems. The Azure Event Hub messaging system has built-in support for streaming logs out of a large variety of Azure-hosted resources, such as VMs, load balancers, and more.

How to Optimize Node.js Callbacks Through Visualization

February 1, 2019

Back in the day when most languages didn’t support asynchronous functions, and you could follow the control flow simply by reading the code top to bottom, performance tuning was simple. To speed up a process, you had only a few options: make fewer function calls, make the function calls faster, or get better hardware. Now that we’re living in a world where we might process high volumes of requests through asynchronous runtimes, it can be a bit more complicated.

How to “Live Tail” Kubernetes Logs

February 1, 2019

DevOps engineers wishing to troubleshoot Kubernetes applications can turn to log messages to pinpoint the cause of errors and their impact on the rest of the cluster. When troubleshooting a running application, engineers need real-time access to logs generated across multiple components. The challenge that engineers face is accessing comprehensive, live streams of Kubernetes log data. While some solutions exist today, these are limited in their ability to live tail logs or tail multiple logs.

An In-Depth Guide to Host Monitoring

January 23, 2019

A host is a computer or device providing networked services such as websites, applications, and computing resources to other devices. This includes web servers, virtual machines, mainframes, and desktop computers. In an IT environment, hosts are essential for running software, managing workloads, and providing platforms to deploy applications and services. In this article, you’ll get a detailed guide on host monitoring to help you identify and address all potential risks.

Monitor System Security with Auditd and Papertrail

January 23, 2019

When it comes to managing risk and ensuring the safety of the data within your network, auditing and managing log data is one of the most important components of any monitoring solution. Keeping detailed records of user activities or changes on your critical systems helps you understand what is occurring within your environment and detect real-time risks. This tutorial will demonstrate deploying Auditd on a standard web server to monitor user logins, modifications to the /etc/passwd file, and changes to any file in the webserver directory.

An In-Depth Guide to Web Server Monitoring

January 4, 2019

Web servers are among the most important components in modern IT infrastructures. They host the websites, web services, and web applications that we use on a daily basis. Social networking, media streaming, software as a service (SaaS), and other activities wouldn’t be possible without the use of web servers. And with the cloud computing craze moving more services online, web servers, and web server monitoring as a result, are only becoming more important.

How to Log Amazon Alexa Apps and Improve User Experience

December 21, 2018

Efficiently managing this data is made easier with a log management tool. In this tutorial, we’ll show you to log from Alexa skills. Our skill is written as an Amazon Lambda function and we’ll show you how to track logs to Papertrail. Then, you can identify common misunderstood phrases and use them to improve your voice app. By reading this article, you will learn how to connect hardware to the Internet of Things (IoT), log the data it sends you, and leverage that data to improve your product.

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