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Cloud Monitoring Basics: Page Speed, App Performance, Log Analysis

May 14, 2019

Monitoring user-facing software has always been important, no doubt about it. But with the unrelenting migration of software to the cloud, and the adoption of microservices and serverless architectures such as Function as a Service (FaaS), monitoring is now business-critical. These new ways of building modern software involve many moving parts, and developers need to … Read moreCloud Monitoring Basics: Page Speed, App Performance, Log Analysis

Best Free Log Management Tools 2019

April 16, 2019

The log management tools I feature here are either free or have a free tier of service. While it’s fantastic to find a bargain, that doesn’t always make it the best choice for a given use case. IT budgets aren’t infinite, I get that. But don’t let budget considerations alone keep you trapped in log … Read moreBest Free Log Management Tools 2019

Edge Computing Is Changing DNS

April 2, 2019 by Trevor Pott

Edge computing is the new black, and it comes in flavors. One of these flavors is the geo-proximate model, where workloads live in regional data centers, telco COs, or even in micro-data centers at the base of cell phone towers. Geo-proximate edge computing is heavily reliant on GeoDNS and other modern DNS tools.

Best Application Monitoring Tools 2019

March 6, 2019

As monitoring aficionados, our toolbox sports an embarrassment of riches, from configuration management to logging, and from synthetic transaction solutions to application tracing and monitoring. It could be argued that cloud-based application monitoring (or APM) tools are the most plentiful and, to a certain community of IT practitioners, the most essential, providing crucial information to … Read moreBest Application Monitoring Tools 2019

Best Website Monitoring Tools 2019

February 22, 2019

One of the first tasks we get that we can clearly identify as “website monitoring” is often “make sure the website’s up.” We may be doing it for our personal website or blog, or that of a friend or relative running a business, or for work. Not only that, but monitoring whether a website is … Read moreBest Website Monitoring Tools 2019

Top 10 Log Sources You Should Monitor

December 17, 2018 by Kevin Sparenberg

There are literally hundreds of possible types of log sources around your environment and choosing which bubble to the top of your IT consciousness can be difficult. In a job where everything seems to be a top priority, understanding all the log types and sources available for selection can be daunting. In your environment, some logs may be more valuable than others, but having general guidance about logging and what types of logs may be available to monitor can help make you a better technologist.

How to Tame — and Redefine — Your Network Now

August 26, 2018

The network as we know it is being redefined. As more endpoints, applications, and devices are added to the mix, the network is transforming. For IT, the challenge is two-fold: stay on top of the network today, and prepare for what it could look like tomorrow. In an environment where workers expect to be online … Read moreHow to Tame — and Redefine — Your Network Now

The Importance of Performance Certainty

August 26, 2018 by Gerardo Dada

Uptime is assumed. Performance is the new black. You can’t hope for performance, you need to be certain of the performance of the system. You need to know what drives performance and how any changes to the system change (or could change) the performance profile. This is, in summary, what performance certainty means. It’s a new world, performance matters Not … Read moreThe Importance of Performance Certainty

How SQL Server DMVs Can Be a Savior in SQL Azure, Too

August 26, 2018 by Pinal Dave

Be it SQL Server or the improved version of SQL Server on the cloud called as SQL Azure, when it comes to monitoring, there is nothing as powerful as DMVs (Dynamic Management Views). For a primer, Dynamic Management Views (DMVs) are a set of virtual views which expose the internal states of SQL Server deployment. … Read moreHow SQL Server DMVs Can Be a Savior in SQL Azure, Too

Must-know Tips and Tools for Oracle Virtualization

August 26, 2018

These days, even business-critical applications are being virtualized, and with the increasing costs and complexity of data environments, it’s not surprising. Some estimate that large organizations are as much as 70% virtualized already, with no plans to go back to physical servers. Virtualization, however, introduces new challenges for the Oracle DBA, including getting visibility to … Read moreMust-know Tips and Tools for Oracle Virtualization