Cloud

According to a Web Server Survey 2020 conducted by Netcraft, more than 400 million websites across the world trust NGINX to deliver their content quickly, reliably, and safely. To ensure the smooth functioning of the server and its applications, NGINX writes events in different log formats, including the error log and the access log. Handling…

The world may run on coffee, but it’s the alarm clock that gets us out of bed. It operates on a simple threshold. You set the time that’s important to you and receive an alert when that variable is true. Like your alarm clock, today’s tooling for web service alerting often operates on simple thresholds,…

The multi-cloud approach to modern IT means workloads—whether virtual machines, containers, or minimal applications—can be located on any one of multiple independent infrastructures; whether running simultaneously for fault-tolerance or when being moved between these. In a modern IT deployment, workloads can (and will) regularly move between cloud and onsite deployments, whether for price, maintenance, latency, or…

Virtualization management requires mastering a specific set of skills. But once mastered, these essential skills can lead to a long and meaningful career in IT. IT pros need a foundation in technologies. To extend utility to their organizations, they should further develop three essential skills – monitoring, troubleshooting, and reporting. Think back to your first responsibilities as an…

Here are several top cloud logging solutions offering tech pros flexibility and features for effective log management. How are you getting the log insights you need to maintain and improve your applications and services? If you’re attempting to manage logs manually or using only basic software, you probably already suspect you’re not being efficient with…

As organizations adopt new IT tools and deploy their applications using containers in hybrid cloud environments, ensuring high availability, security, and performance is getting more challenging. Traditional tools for infrastructure and application monitoring are not equipped to handle the scale and complexity of modern IT environments. In this evolving landscape, logs still hold crucial insights…

Thanks to garbage collection (GC), memory management in languages like Java is a nonissue. As a developer, most of the time, you don’t have to do anything. But things aren’t always perfect. The garbage collection process certainly isn’t. It’s important to keep an eye on it so you can quickly diagnose and fix issues to…

Server monitoring starts with collecting data (such as error rates or CPU usage), and analyzing this data can help you determine the health and performance of your IT services. Your DevOps team can analyze these metrics to shift from reactive to proactive monitoring. Instead of waiting for a problem to occur, you can create alerts…

Apache HTTP Server is an open-source, cross-platform web server capable of running on Linux, Unix, or Windows environments. It’s often used in combination with Linux, MySQL, and PHP/Perl/Python. Apache currently powers around 40% of active websites, including those of Cisco and Apple. Apache offers a modular architecture, making it appropriate for different use cases. Apache’s…

From single-page informational websites to multi-step transactions supporting web applications, business websites have evolved significantly. Unlike the monoliths of the past, today’s web applications are built using microservices and deployed over hybrid clouds. These applications receive much higher traffic, and their availability requirements have become more stringent. As a result, organizations now use advanced web…

When your web applications perform below optimal levels, the impact can be significant. Your organization might lose productivity, or end users may have a poor experience and leave your site. That’s why optimizing performance is a top priority for many businesses. Web application performance optimization involves monitoring and analyzing app performance and pinpointing the ways…

People using our services would be very familiar with our basic HTTP Uptime check by now. After all, it’s our most used feature. Something a lot of our users might not know is that you can make the HTTP checks more advanced by using the Optional settings of the check. You find these settings under…

Applications, services, programs, and databases all generate large volumes of log data at a near-constant rate. Any tech pro responsible for analyzing these logs will tell you it’s a headache to organize and monitor them all. But since log analysis can help tech pros with a wide range of important tasks—from troubleshooting application performance to…