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Erin Baez / February 11

Getting Started Quickly With Groovy Logging

It’s time for yet another post in our series about how to get up to speed with logging. In today’s post, we cover Groovy logging. If you’re a regular reader, you’re used to how these…
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Erin Baez / February 4

Prometheus Metrics by Example: 5 Things You Can Learn

Once you’ve been able to install, configure, and run sample queries to explore metrics in Prometheus, the next step is to learn how to get the most of it. Perhaps you’re just evaluating whether Prometheus…
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Erin Baez / January 28

AWS Logging Best Practices: 3 to Add to Your Checklist

Logging and monitoring should be critical components of your organization’s IT governance. Without logging in place, troubleshooting technical issues is more difficult, and gaining operational insight and intelligence is almost impossible. Logging is as important…
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Erin Baez / January 21

Grafana Plugins: 7 That Are Worth a Look

We’re living in an incredible time for tech because everything we do online generates large amounts of data, starting from our browser history that’s then recorded in the web server logs behind every website we…
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Erin Baez / January 14

Getting Started Quickly With Android Logging

Here at the Scalyr blog, we’ve been publishing a long-running series of posts on how to get started logging. Each article in the series focuses on a specific programming language or framework. Today’s post covers…
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Erik Dietrich / January 12

Surprising Use Cases for Log Visualization

People commonly say that a picture is worth a thousand words. So I wonder if log visualization is worth a thousand log entries. The math equivalency might be a little hard to prove, but the…
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Erik Dietrich / January 8

Getting Started Quickly With Node.js Logging

Previously, we covered how to get started with logging in C#, Java, Python, and Ruby. Now, we’ll take a look at Node.js logging. As in the other articles, we’ll cover: How to log very basically.What…
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Erin Baez / January 7

Log4j2 in a Maven Project: How to Setup, Configure, and Use

Logging is an essential component of any good software development process. Through logging, you can detect and fix issues, understand the behavior of your users, and even obtain valuable business insights. However, logging involves many…
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Erin Baez / January 5

OpenCensus: Your Guide to Getting Started

OpenCensus is an open-source project started by Google that can emit metrics and traces when it integrates within application code to give you a better understanding of what happens when the application is running. Debugging…
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Erik Dietrich / January 4

Why Distributed Tracing Will Be So Important in 2020

Distributed tracing is the stitching of multiple requests across multiple systems. It is one of the best ways to track down unexpected problems.