Telemetry Pipeline Insights & Observability Best Practices
Making the Switch to Apica Synthetic Monitoring
Monitoring application performance is more important than ever. With an ever-growing catalog of applications in need of support, and IT architecture increasing in complexity, ensuring the ideal user experience is a tremendous challenge. Traditional performance monitoring solutions have limited visibility and can’t keep up with evolving enterprise needs to ensure SLAs are met. The digital … Read more
Demystifying Prometheus for Beginners
Metrics are the primary means of representing your system’s general health and any other valuable information for monitoring, alerting, and observability. Despite the Kubernetes ecosystem growing by the day, the community continues to rely on particular technologies to ease operation workloads. One of them is Prometheus. Prometheus bridges the gap between monitoring and alerting. What … Read more
Tail logs live and debug production issues faster
For all the productivity gains created by DevOps, there’s a nasty side effect. Short release cycles, lots of infrastructure changes, and developer-driven changes to live environments make for a recipe for frequent production issues. When problems occur, developers are being pulled to troubleshoot, which can be painful. Have you ever been on a production server … Read more
Partner Stories: Reducing Log Ingest by 90%
Guest post originally published by Greg O’Reilly on Visibility Platforms’ blog. In late 2021 we kick started a project with a customer who had shown an interest in reducing log ingestion costs and reached out to us via Linkedin. Like many others, this customer had a combination of popular logging platforms in place that were … Read more
Replaying Historical Log Data On Demand
It’s likely that you already know how helpful logs can be in analyzing the inner workings of your IT environments. Beyond that, you may be familiar with the concept of using log data for debugging issues, identifying threats, or gaining context of performance bottlenecks. Log data from a single data source can fulfill a variety … Read more
The apica.io Changelog: January 2022
In January, the apica.io team shipped plenty of new features, enhanced existing ones, and squashed a few bugs to make your Active observability and data pipeline control and storage experience using the apica.io platform better than ever before. This blog captures the key features and enhancements we pushed last month. If you’d like to receive … Read more
Kubernetes Logs 101
Understanding your Kubernetes cluster’s internal dynamics is critical for system and application performance. Reading, analyzing, and evaluating your logs allow you to fine-tune your applications and maintain system stability. Logs can be beneficial while diagnosing issues and monitoring cluster performance. Kubernetes logs are different from typical apps and services. By executing apps per server, Kubernetes … Read more
Combining The Powerful Forces of Compliance and Observability
Containers, services, and cloud-based apps have changed the way companies produce and deliver products and services and do business worldwide. This has altered the attack surface, necessitating highly different security techniques and technologies to prevent the disclosure of sensitive data and other cyber threats. Regulatory compliance has also changed, making it even more critical for … Read more
6 Ways to Protect Sensitive Data in Logs
In May 2018, Twitter stated that they detected a vulnerability that unintentionally entered user credentials into their logging system. A year later, Facebook urged all users to change their passwords after discovering readable passwords on internal data storage. Although there was no data compromise in either occurrence, the data was still logged. Even if there … Read more
4 Main Benefits Of Log Management
You may need to commit more effort and resources to ensure that your IT infrastructure is appropriately monitored and protected as it becomes more extensive, more dispersed, and more complicated. Log management includes log monitoring and analysis that is one major approach to keep an eye on the health of your infrastructure. Data from log … Read more
Top 5 log management tools for 2022
Plain-text log maintenance is a thing of the past. While plain-text data is still helpful in certain situations, it pays to invest in reliable log management tools and systems to help your business gather and process important infrastructure data and improve code quality. Logs are tough to handle yet necessary in any production system. It … Read more
Detecting Log4j vulnerability in your log streams with LogFlow
What’s Log4j? What is it used for? Log4j is a widely used Java logging library used in many Java enterprise applications. Because logging is so fundamental to every application, the impact of the Log4j vulnerability is quite broad. More likely than not, if you have java code embedded in your software stack, you are impacted … Read more
