Editor’s note: This post was originally written for the The New Stack. You can check out the original here.
Logging and monitoring are peanut butter and jelly. The two go well together, just like bread and butter or other famous combinations you can think of. Similarly, logging and monitoring work best because they complement each other well.
Continue reading “Logging and Monitoring: Why You Need Both”Editor’s note: This post was originally written for the The New Stack. You can check out the original here.
The most important ability is availability.
This is a common statement I hear from sports commentators. Whether athletes are in the NBA, NFL or EPL, they need to be available to play the game before anyone can talk about how good they are at scoring points or goals. Someone just cannot become a great player if they’re always on the bench because of an injury.
Continue reading “Application Performance Monitoring vs. Observability Silo”Editor’s note: This post was originally written for the Raygun blog. You can check out the original here.
APM is something that some organizations either don’t fully understand or don’t put much thought into until it’s too late. When there’s a problem with an application, the organization scrambles to find a tool that can help solve the problem at hand. They contact the sales teams of various APM vendors to see which ones can help them.
But remember that the sales team’s job is to do their ABCs and “always be closing.” And they do a good job of it because I’ve come across many organizations over the years that have purchased an APM product but don’t have a clear understanding of what it’s doing for them or how it’s doing it.
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