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Distributed systems offer many advantages, such as improved scalability and availability, but they can also be more challenging to manage. As an IT professional, you are responsible for keeping distributed systems running smoothly and efficiently. To do this, you need to monitor…

Node.js applications need significant maintenance to keep working as expected. Since Node.js applications are built on the V8 engine, it can be tricky to tune performance while keeping an eye on costs. This is why monitoring and measuring performance metrics and visualizing…

Introduction As a developer, running an application connected to numerous different services and systems can cause challenges for tracking or tracing issues. Understanding what data to collect and how to collect it properly is fundamental to quickly addressing availability and performance issues.…

In a perfect world, we wouldn’t need to look at error logs. But until we get there, this blog will teach you how to set up error logs on your WordPress site(s). Luckily, the WordPress ecosystem always has a solution to your…

DevOps and DevSecOps are two strategies businesses use to achieve agile software development and streamline software pipelines. While DevOps and DevSecOps sound similar, there are some important differences. Let’s dig in and see how they stack up.

Constantly monitoring your systems and networks is critical to keeping your applications healthy. You can monitor either proactively or reactively. Although both methods are effective, proactive monitoring is preferable to reactive monitoring, and unfortunately, we seem to spend more time being reactive…

Monitoring is crucial in modern IT environments. There are many different infrastructure and application layers to monitor. This makes effective monitoring more complicated. While the general idea of monitoring is the same as in the past, the actual implementation will be slightly…

Robust logging and log management is a nonnegotiable requirement in any serious system. If you operate applications in production or during the dev environment, you need information about what’s happening collected at scale. You also need to gather the logs generated by…

Writing logs in a machine-readable format ensures the log can be leveraged by software. What Is Structured Logging? First, to learn what structured logging is, you must take a step back and understand what exactly is unstructured logging. With unstructured logging, events…

Infrastructure and application monitoring is now becoming more and more important. This is mainly because both infrastructure and applications are becoming more complex. Additionally, modern software development techniques like canary releases rely on monitoring to do their job. And when we’re talking…