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Erin Baez / December 10

Getting Started Quickly with CakePHP Logging

This post is yet another installment in the series where we show you how to quickly get started logging, one platform at a time. We’ve already covered C#,Java,Ruby, Python, andC++, and the last one was…
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Wei-Li Liu / December 5

Sending GCP StackDriver Logs to Scalyr

Stackdriver aggregates metrics, logs, and events from Google Cloud infrastructure and various other resources on the platform. Those observable signals offer valuable insights to your applications and systems, and those signal data can be easily…
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Erin Baez / December 3

Grafana Tutorial: A Detailed Guide to Your First Dashboard

Releasing an app or a new feature to the public for the first time is one of the most exciting (and scary!) parts of being in a development team. You hope that the app is…
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Kevin Woods / December 2

Using Keyword Indexing to Make Log Data Searchable is Flawed

For a long time, it was believed that keyword indexing is required to create a scalable log data store. In fact, keyword indexing is an older method for creating a searchable data store and is…
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Erin Baez / November 26

AWS Lambda With Java: A Simple Introduction With Examples

AWS Lambda is a way to run code without thinking about servers. But even though you may not have to think about servers, you do have to think about how you program for AWS Lambda.…
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Erin Baez / November 19

Getting Started Quickly With Dart Logging

This is yet another post in which we’ll show you how to get started with logging in a programming language or framework. Throughout the series, we’ve covered a lot of different languages and platforms: C#,…
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Dave McAllister / November 19

Introducing the Scalyr Grafana Plugin

Grafana is an open-source visualization tool that is commonly used in presenting time-series data. While focused on time-series, Grafana can be used to display many things, as this dashboard by Cameron McCloskey shows: https://grafana.com/blog/2019/10/29/how-to-set-up-this-next-level-personal-home-dashboard-in-your-kitchen/ But…
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Erin Baez / November 12

Navigating DevOps Conflicts: Who Owns What?

DevOps changes the way organizations deliver software. However, a DevOps adoption sometimes adds subconscious boundaries to the organization. For instance, who owns infrastructure now? Are developers able to create infrastructure resources on-demand? Or do they…
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Erin Baez / November 5

Prometheus Tutorial: A Detailed Guide to Getting Started

Prometheus has become the most popular tool for monitoring Kubernetes workloads. Even though the Kubernetes ecosystem grows more each day, there are certain tools for specific problems that the community keeps using. Prometheus is one…
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Erin Baez / October 29

A Simple, Detailed Introduction to Google Cloud Functions

By now you may have heard of serverless functions, also called cloud functions. Often these are AWS lambda functions, but did you know Google Cloud has these serverless functions too? This post will guide you…
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