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Death to APM and Logging Silos by Mick Emmett Sematext has combined the power of SPM and Logsene in a single pane of glass – a unified view into all the key bits of operational intelligence every DevOps engineer needs: server and application performance metrics, logs, events, anomalies, alerts, ChatOps integrations, etc.  In other words, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Metrics + Logs Correlation using SPM and Logsene Together in One UI This video demonstrates how the SPM + Logsene combination solves the problems of having too much data to manage yourself and the disconnect when metrics and logs are siloed.  We address two of the most common problems — and their solutions — below the video. Problem 1 – Big Data, Big Burden: Servers, Containers, Apps, and Devices spew out more and more data: more metrics, more logs, more events. Collecting and storing ... (more)

Docker Swarm | @DevOpsSummit #DevOps #API #Docker #Microservices

Docker Swarm: Collecting Metrics, Events and Logs By Stefan Thies Docker Swarm is a cluster manager for Docker.  When accessed via the Docker API by Docker API Clients or Docker command line tools, a Docker Swarm cluster looks just like a single Docker Host.  Docker Swarm distributes containers to multiple nodes using various deployment strategies in the cluster scheduler. Having in mind that a Swarm cluster looks like a single Docker Host from the API point of view, it should be very easy to monitor Docker Swarm with existing Docker monitoring tools!  Connecting a monitoring age... (more)

Docker Monitoring Support By @seti321 | @DevOpsSummit #DevOps #Containers

by Stefan Thies Containers and Docker are all the rage these days.  In fact, containers — with Docker as the leading container implementation — have changed how we deploy systems, especially those comprised of micro-services. Despite all the buzz, however, Docker and other containers are still relatively new and not yet mainstream. That being said, even early Docker adopters need a good monitoring tool, so last month we added Docker monitoring to SPM.  We built it on top of spm-agent – the extensible framework for Node.js-based agents and ended up with spm-agent-docker. Monitor... (more)

Introducing AppMap | @DevOpsSummit #DevOps

Introducing AppMap by Mick Emmett [Note: This post is part of a series on Transaction Tracing — links to the other posts are at the bottom on this post] As mentioned in the Transaction Tracing for Performance Bottleneck Detection and Transaction Tracing Reports and Traces posts, when you enable Transaction Tracing in SPM you will also automatically get: Request Throughput Request Latency Error & Exception Rates AppMap Today we’re happy to officially introduce AppMaps. What’s AppMap? As you can see below, AppMap is a map-like visual representation of your complete application archi... (more)

Processing Metrics, Logs and Traces at Scale | @DevOpsSummit #DevOps

Processing Metrics, Logs and Traces at Scale - DevOps Talk by Mick Emmett If topics like performance monitoring and processing metrics, log management, and distributed transaction tracing — at scale, no less! — interest you, then you’ll want to check out what Sematext founder Otis Gospodnetić had to say at this week’s DevOps Summit in New York City. Talk Summary Application metrics, logs, and business KPIs are a goldmine. It’s easy to get started with the ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana) — you can see lots of people coming up with impressive dashboards, in less than a... (more)