Introduction In ad-tech, logs are not “nice to have.” They are the product’s heartbeat. Every impression, every click, every bid request — everything generates logs. Multiply that by millions of requests per minute, and you’re suddenly dealing with millions of events and TB’s of logs per day. That’s exactly where one of our...
When we run Elasticsearch in production, one of the common issues is imbalance in "shards". There may be one node in the cluster that is out of disk space, while a few nodes with no shards on them. For example, here is a node with all the shards: Node Shards Disk Used Disk % Free Space PESD222 957 329.1 GB 32% 694.2...
It is painfully inefficient to check metrics across a large collection of AWS accounts (development, staging, uat, production, etc.). This is a major time waster, not just a small irritation. In addition to wasting valuable engineering time, you run a much higher risk of missing an alert that could result in a full-blown outage every time...
Introduction If you have a Java application running in Kubernetes, sooner or later you will want to know what’s really going on inside the JVM. And, is heap memory close to exhaustion? Is the garbage collection process busy? Are we slowly moving towards an OOM error? Without oversight, you’re essentially flying blind. In this guide,...
What is AWS Cloudwatch synthetics?AWS synthetics is a tool powered by AWS Cloudwatch which allows you to create and manage canaries. It is a real time monitoring tool which helps you to detect problems by mimicking a real user behaviour. What are canaries? Canary in the context of AWS cloudwatch is a small script that runs at...
Introduction When companies move to the cloud, most think the hardest part is the migration itself. Truth is — that’s just the start. Over the past few years, we’ve worked with startups, large-scale platforms, and everything in between. What have we learned? Cloud without solid DevOps is like buying a sports car but never changing...
Introduction Logs coming from different services often follow inconsistent formats, naming conventions, and structures. This makes it difficult to search, analyze, and correlate events across your systems. Datadog Log Management solves this challenge with Pipelines, Processors, and Standard Attributes, which let you extract key fields,...
Imagine downloading a promising app – only to face slow loading, crashes, or lag. Most users won’t give it a second chance. They uninstall and never come back. In a world of endless choices and ever-shorter attention spans, success in mobile app development services hinges on performance. An app has just a few seconds to impress....
Introduction It is very crucial for the website to be up and running all time without any failure. Prometheus provides a feature of Blackbox Exporter that probe the endpoints using HTTP, TCP, DNS, HTTPS and ICMP protocols. If the exporter is setup with the Prometheus, you can scrape the services and see if they are up and running and can...
In the fast-paced era of the digital revolution, organizations are increasingly adopting cloud technology to accelerate innovation, drive operational efficiency, and gain business flexibility. However, managing a cloud environment is not a one-time activity. As businesses expand their horizon and dependency on the cloud for various...
Business conditions are continuously changing with the current technological development placing firms in competition without warning of imminent operational challenges such as cyber threats and disruptions. One critical strategy that has emerged to address these challenges is business resiliency, which can be defined as the ability of a...
Introduction Ensuring that applications and services run smoothly is critical for sustaining operational efficiency and business continuity. As enterprises undertake digital transformation, the need for effective monitoring and alerting systems has increased substantially. These systems not only serve to keep services functioning...