Whether you’re a DevOps, SRE, or just a data driven individual, you’re probably addicted to dashboards and metrics. We look at our metrics to see how our system is doing, whether on the infrastructure, the application or the business level. We trust our metrics to show us the status of our system and where it misbehaves. But do our metrics show us what really happened? You’d be … [Read more...] about Phantom Metrics: Why Your Monitoring Dashboard May Be Lying to You
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Performing Real User Monitoring (RUM) with Elastic APM
Sorry if I lured you into the mood of having a sip of a wonderful cocktail made with rum and you realized that the RUM I’m talking about is not the rum you are craving. But, be assured that Elastic RUM is equally wonderful! Let’s take a sip! I do want to warn you that it will take a bit of time to go through the amount of detail I will cover in this blog.What is RUM?Elastic … [Read more...] about Performing Real User Monitoring (RUM) with Elastic APM
Zen and the Art of Kubernetes Monitoring
The way to solve the conflict between human values and technological needs is not to run away from technology. That’s impossible. The way to resolve the conflict is to break down the barriers of dualistic thought that prevent a real understanding of what technology is – not an exploitation of nature, but a fusion of nature and the human spirit into a new kind of creation that … [Read more...] about Zen and the Art of Kubernetes Monitoring
Product Spotlight: Logz.io Service Performance Monitoring
We believe that one of the most powerful capabilities added to the Logz.io Observability Platform in recent months is our new Service Performance Monitoring (SPM) feature set. As you may have seen earlier this year, Logz.io was named a Visionary in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant(™) for Application Performance Monitoring and Observability. To that end, SPM is a cornerstone for … [Read more...] about Product Spotlight: Logz.io Service Performance Monitoring
Synthetic Monitoring, Monitor the Uptime of your App
In a world where the customer’s digital experience is critical to business outcomes, it is crucial to understand how our applications are behaving. As businesses increasingly rely on the performance and availability of revenue-generating applications, the tolerance for downtime and slow response times has plummeted – so the response to production issues must be quick and … [Read more...] about Synthetic Monitoring, Monitor the Uptime of your App
Implementing Synthetic Monitoring with Telegraf and Logz.io
In my previous blog post, we explored key questions about Synthetic Monitoring, such as what it is, why it’s important, how it works, and how it compares to Real-User monitoring. Synthetic Monitoring is becoming an increasingly-popular method to continuously monitor the uptime of applications and the critical flows within them so that DevOps, IT, and engineering teams are … [Read more...] about Implementing Synthetic Monitoring with Telegraf and Logz.io
Announcing Logz.io Alert Manager for Metrics Monitoring
Logz.io alerts are a critical capability for our customers monitoring their production environment. By keeping a watchful eye for data that indicates an issue – like spiking memory metrics or 3xx-4xx response codes – alerting quickly notifies engineers that something is going wrong. Setting an actionable alert to immediately notify engineers of oncoming problems can be the … [Read more...] about Announcing Logz.io Alert Manager for Metrics Monitoring
A Monitoring Reality Check: More of the Same Won’t Work
On December 7, 2021, Amazon’s cloud services recently suffered a major outage that not only affected Amazon services, but also many third-party services we use day-to-day, including Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Alexa, Amazon deliveries and Amazon Ring. Causes for the outage, which began at 7:30 am PST and lasted nearly seven hours, were detailed in a Root Cause Analysis report … [Read more...] about A Monitoring Reality Check: More of the Same Won’t Work
CISA Alerts on Actively Exploited Flaws in Zabbix Network Monitoring Platform
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has warned of active exploitation of two security flaws impacting Zabbix open-source enterprise monitoring platform, adding them to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. On top of that, CISA is also recommending that Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies patch all systems against the … [Read more...] about CISA Alerts on Actively Exploited Flaws in Zabbix Network Monitoring Platform
Announcing Service Performance Monitoring in Early Access
Today, we’re thrilled to announce the early access of our Service Performance Monitoring capability.As today’s DevOps teams know all too well, monitoring application requests in modern microservices architectures is extremely difficult. Requests typically travel across a vast ecosystem of microservices and, as a result, it is often a significant challenge to pinpoint a specific … [Read more...] about Announcing Service Performance Monitoring in Early Access