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Articles and guides that help you make data-driven decisions
Agent Consolidation
Agent Sprawl

Tired of Agent Sprawl? Simplify Monitoring and Dev Experience

Picture a scenario where everyone in your office brings their printer. Some use inkjet printers, some use laser printers, and some barely work. They all require setup, take up space, and necessitate different levels of support. Most printers do the same thing: print documents, but no one shares them, and support teams are stuck fixing all of them. 

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What-is-Log-Analytics
Observability

What is Log Analytics?

A detailed overview of log analytics, what log analytics is used for, the many benefits associated with it along with Apica’s best practices.

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Observability

Observability Best Practices

The term “observability” has gone viral in the cloud industry, at least among IT professionals. Because it describes a group of concerns that more and

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Gathering logs from Google Autopilot
Kubernetes

Gathering logs from Google Autopilot

In any modern containerized workload setting, container orchestration is imperative. Purportedly, the majority of contemporary applications make use of containers and micro-service-based architectures. Google designed

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Uncategorized

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

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Kubernetes

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

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Why Machine Data Observability
Observability

Why Machine Data Observability

While data pipelines may move data, they cannot monitor it. These data pipelines are complicated systems that need a data observability architecture for continuous investigation

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The Best Open Source SIEM tools
Security

8 Best Open Source SIEM Tools

SIEM tools are fast turning into a must-have for security-focused businesses worldwide. With their proven abilities in threat protection, detection, and mitigation, SIEM systems are

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A Beginner's Guide to SIEM
Security

A Beginner’s Guide to SIEM

IT environments of any organization around the world are constantly under threats of cyberattacks. To stay safe and miles ahead of potential attacks, organizations continually

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Simplifying SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS

Cloud computing is everywhere. An ever-increasing number of businesses have turned to the cloud for their storage, compute, analytics, content management and business operations demands.

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How AIOps helps in Application Monitoring

There’s no one-size-fits-all approach regarding application monitoring, especially for companies using applications in various cloud environments. Companies are rapidly investing in microservices, mobile apps, data

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Log Management
Architecture

No-Index Log Management at S3 Scale

Database indexes are invaluable for information systems with low throughput, low latency, and high consistency requirements. Both compute, and disk space is required for creating

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What is AWS Firelens?
AWS

Firelens demystified

AWS Firelens is a log routing agent for Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) containers. Applications on ECS run as docker containers. Containers can be run on

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Need For Search
Observability

Need For Search

We are all accustomed to search. We search to find answers. In the log analytics world, those answers have improved customer retention, aided better decisions.

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Announcements

Apica is now a CNCF member

The Apica team is super excited to join CNCF. The Cloud-native computing foundation is a great community of cloud builders and projects that is shaping

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apica.io is officially GA

apica.io is officially GA Apica officially is now GA, See our press release – https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/Apica-log-insights-the-only-s3-powered-log-aggregation-and-analysis-solution-301002188.html A great milestone for the team. Stay tuned for more

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DDoS Aftershock: SEO Damage
Web

DDoS Aftershock: SEO Damage

A distributed denial of service attack, or DDoS, is a bad enough inconvenience concerning your company’s website and application performance, so it’s even more frustrating

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API Testing
Tutorial

API Testing: What Should You Really Test?

API TESTING SERIES Application Programming Interface (API) testing aims to secure and optimize communication between different platforms. This process examines many elements including debugging, identifying inconsistencies, pinpointing

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Performance Testing
Load Testing

What is Performance Testing

The rapid advancement of the internet has brought about remarkable changes in the way we access and share information. With ever-increasing user numbers, faster speeds,

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Web

Which Homepage Loads Faster?

Sometimes, you don’t need to have every last thing about website performance explained to you. Sometimes, you can just look at the world’s top websites

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Can my Application Scale?
Scale

Can my Application Scale?

Google Compute Engine (GCE) is relatively new to the world of Cloud Computing, as such, a common question we see how does this new cloud platform

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How to Prepare to Minimize the Effect of DDoS Attacks
Announcements

Industrifonden invests in Apica

[Stockholm, Sweden, June 28, 2011.] Industrifonden is investing SEK 10 million in Apica, which tests, analyzes, monitors and improves web performance. A current investor, KTH Chalmers Capital,

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