NORBr is the #1 global distributor of payment services for digital merchants, allowing customers to connect, manage, and benchmark all their payment services through a single API and single platform. NORBr creates the perfect match between digital merchants and payment companies via a no-code routing engine to send transactions to the best-performing payment service providers. … [Read more...] about NORBr leverages Elastic to keep payments on track and improve key business metrics
Metrics
Beginner’s Guide to Prometheus Metrics
Over the past decade, Prometheus has become the most prominent open source monitoring tool in the world, allowing users to quickly and easily collect metrics on their systems and help identify issues in their cloud infrastructure and applications.Prometheus was originally developed by SoundCloud when the company felt their metrics and monitoring solutions weren’t meeting their … [Read more...] about Beginner’s Guide to Prometheus Metrics
Why metrics, logs, and traces aren’t enough
Identifying performance bottlenecks and wasteful computations can be a complex and challenging task, particularly in modern cloud-native environments. As the complexity of cloud-native environments increases, so does the need for effective observability solutions. Organizations typically rely on the established three pillars of observability –– metrics, logs, and traces –– to … [Read more...] about Why metrics, logs, and traces aren’t enough
Phantom Metrics: Why Your Monitoring Dashboard May Be Lying to You
Whether you’re a DevOps, SRE, or just a data driven individual, you’re probably addicted to dashboards and metrics. We look at our metrics to see how our system is doing, whether on the infrastructure, the application or the business level. We trust our metrics to show us the status of our system and where it misbehaves. But do our metrics show us what really happened? You’d be … [Read more...] about Phantom Metrics: Why Your Monitoring Dashboard May Be Lying to You
Perf8: Performance metrics for Python
We're building this neat service in Python to ingest data in Elasticsearch from various sources (MySQL, Network Drive, AWS, etc.) for Enterprise Search.Sucking data from a third-party service to Elasticsearch is usually an I/O-bound activity. Your code sits on opened sockets and passes data from one end to the other. That's a great use case for an asynchronous application in … [Read more...] about Perf8: Performance metrics for Python
Analyze your application’s AWS service metrics with Elastic Observability
The transition to distributed applications is in full swing, driven mainly by our need to be “always-on” as consumers and fast-paced businesses. That need is driving deployments to have more complex requirements along with the ability to be globally diverse and rapidly innovate.Cloud is becoming the de facto deployment option for today’s applications. Many cloud deployments … [Read more...] about Analyze your application’s AWS service metrics with Elastic Observability
Improving DevOps Performance with DORA Metrics
Everyone in the software industry is in a race to become more agile. We all want to improve the performance of our software development lifecycle (SLDC). But how do you actually do that? If you want to improve your performance, first determine what KPI you’d like to improve.DORA metrics offer a good set of KPIs to track and improve. It started as a research by the DevOps … [Read more...] about Improving DevOps Performance with DORA Metrics
Announcing Logz.io Alert Manager for Metrics Monitoring
Logz.io alerts are a critical capability for our customers monitoring their production environment. By keeping a watchful eye for data that indicates an issue – like spiking memory metrics or 3xx-4xx response codes – alerting quickly notifies engineers that something is going wrong. Setting an actionable alert to immediately notify engineers of oncoming problems can be the … [Read more...] about Announcing Logz.io Alert Manager for Metrics Monitoring
GCP Integrations for Metrics with Logz.io
Logz.io has dedicated itself to encouraging and supporting cloud-native development. That has meant doubling down on support for AWS and Azure, but also increasing our tie-ins with Google Cloud Platform – GCP. Recently, our team added dozens of new integrations for metrics covering the gamut of products in the GCP ecosystem. GCP MetricsGoogle Cloud comprises many services that … [Read more...] about GCP Integrations for Metrics with Logz.io
Shipping AWS EC2 Metrics to Logz.io
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (a.k.a., EC2), is no doubt the core current computing infrastructure. It sits at the heart of AWS, the main kind of structure for housing virtual machines and containers for development and operations. Applying standards of observability with EC2 logs and obviously EC2 metrics (or any kind of AWS metrics for that matter) will inform you on if you … [Read more...] about Shipping AWS EC2 Metrics to Logz.io