August 15, 2018
Modern distributed systems give off hundreds of metrics in the form of infrastructure and host metrics. It’s not practical to monitor all of these constantly, so we recommend picking a subset that serves as your application’s key performance indicators.
August 9, 2018
The architecture of modern web applications presents new challenges for monitoring their availability and performance. We will take a whirlwind tour of best practices for monitoring your services that can provide early warning signs before your next outage.
July 24, 2018
HTTP/2 optimizes website connections to offer improved performance, updated error handling, reduced latency, and lower overhead. We measured the speed difference between HTTP/2 and HTTP/1.1 using Pingdom’s page speed insights.
March 15, 2018
The New Relic price tag goes up dramatically as your server footprint grows. There’s a solution that offers richer features as an alternative to New Relic. When you combine Rollbar (errors) and Scout (performance), you’re choosing two best-of-breed, focused products that actually play well together.
August 8, 2017
APM tools are great at telling you what’s slow, when and where exceptions occur. Rollbar provides a lot more contextual information to help you determine what’s broken, why they occur, who is affected, and how to fix them.
December 16, 2016
Occasionally, I’ll talk to a developer or operations engineer who says they only use APM or logs as a monitoring solution. They’ll say something like, “We don’t look at logs much since we have New Relic.” Even worse, some rely on their customers to know when something is wrong: “We just check Google Analytics to see if popular pages or actions have gone down.” The surprising thing isn’t necessarily that they have a favorite go-to tool, but that they think it’s sufficient for all their needs. Have we finally achieved the holy grail: a single pane of glass that tells us everything we need to know about operations and performance?
November 9, 2016
Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) allows websites and web services to serve more requests from users by adding more servers based on need. An unhealthy ELB can cause your website to go offline or slow to a crawl. The right dashboards and meaningful metrics provide insights to remediate issues faster, and a powerful analytics engine makes alerts smarter.
November 9, 2016
Many high-volume applications and websites depend on Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) to improve their scalability and fault tolerance. In addition to automatically routing traffic across instances and Availability Zones, Amazon ELB detects unhealthy instances and reroutes traffic to the healthy instances that remain. The Loggly application pack for Classic ELB makes it easier for you to monitor what’s happening with Amazon ELB using log data.
July 1, 2016
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) is used to provide disk volumes for Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances. It’s elastic because it allows users to quickly create volumes based on their needed size and performance. EBS also offers greater durability by automatically replicating within an availability zone, making it easy to setup encryption and create snapshots.
June 2, 2016
Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is one of the most popular products on Amazon Web Services (AWS), used by 84% of companies on AWS according to 2nd Watch’s 2015 AWS Scorecard. Part one of this blog series described the top 12 challenges of monitoring Amazon EC2 when dealing with larger scale production deployments.
