In this tutorial, I will talk about Prometheus and Grafana. You will learn to install both on CentOS/RHEL and understand how to use Prometheus and Grafana to monitor the Linux server. Introduction Grafana is a leading time-series, an open-source platform for visualization and monitoring. It allows you to query, visualize, set alerts, and understand metrics…
To get a picture of RUM (Real User Monitoring), imagine your website is an ant farm, and your users are the ants. RUM clears the walls of your farm, letting you see exactly where the users come from, what they do, what problems they have, and how long it takes for them to interact with…
Real User Monitoring (RUM) is a testing technique that collects and analyzes the user’s interactions with the website pages or app. It is a passive monitoring solution that involves collecting data when pages begin loading and continues doing so as a visitor navigates through the website. This provides insights into how actual visitors experience the…
Have you ever caught up in a no-clue situation with an application crash? Did your client notify about services being down? – This must be a difficult situation to be in. Over the years, NodeJS has turned out to be a popularly used JavaScript framework for rapid micro-service development. With workloads running on NodeJS, it…
You are probably calm thinking that the DNS (domain name system) provider that hosts your domain names is happily redirecting traffic to your servers. Well, I don’t want to spoil that calmness, but you shouldn’t relax too much and blindly rely on your DNS provider since there are risks that threaten it and performance issues…
Let’s face it. There are all sorts of monitoring tools in place, and yet downtimes and errors are a significant source of business worries. Can Synthetic Monitoring be the answer? Monitoring is an extremely critical and needed part of any modern digital business. You cannot rely on the accidental discovery of bugs, or wait until…
The APIs you offer and the APIs you rely on every day affect your business. Performant APIs generate happy customers and keep your teams productive. Sluggish, malfunctioning APIs drive down reputation, consume your support resources and drop productivity company-wide. API monitoring with Uptrends’ web service and Multi-step API Monitors can help you save face and…
If there’s one thing businesses cannot afford in today’s competitive landscape, it’s sub-optimal system performance. Even worse is the case of one or more sub-systems failing and the technical team not being aware of it. In critical industries like banking, stock trading, etc., downtime can cost millions of dollars (or more) every minute, while in…
Introduction Developers rely on application performance management (APM) tools to determine how their applications perform pre- and post-deployment. Traditionally, APM tools, like many other applications before the rise of SaaS (Software-as-a-solution) solutions, were deployed on servers and developer machines. However, as SaaS solutions became more popular, these tools transitioned to the cloud. As with any…
Monitoring is essential to businesses to ensure a necessary system is up and running. Monitoring different aspects of your IT Infrastructure setup can cause a lot of tantrum if not done properly with the right tools. It doesn’t matter if you have a small or enterprise-level configuration, you can’t ignore the monitoring devices. Even if…
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