Erik Dietrich, Author at Scalyr

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Erik Dietrich / April 7

HTTP Monitor: What It Is and Why You Need It

One day, one of our main web APIs was down, and the first person that knew it was my boss. We were so worried about bringing the API up that we never paid attention to…
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Erik Dietrich / March 17

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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Erik Dietrich / March 3

Getting Started Quickly With PHP Logging

The previous articles in this series covered the basics of logging in C#, Java, Python, Ruby, Node.js, and JavaScript. In this post, I’ll show you how to use logging techniques in yet another very popular…
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Erik Dietrich / February 17

Network Traffic Monitoring: The 8 Best Tools Available to You

Sales, pre-sales, human resources, the company cafeteria: they’re all online. If the network is down, employees are angry and customers have gone elsewhere. That’s why network traffic monitoring is a critical part of maintaining a…
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Erik Dietrich / February 10

Get Started Quickly With Spring Boot Logging

In the same vein as Get Started Quickly With Kotlin Loggingand Getting Started Quickly With C# Logging articles, we’re headed across the coffee shop to look at logging in the context of the Java Spring…
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Erik Dietrich / February 3

Java Exceptions and How to Log Them Securely

As a security consultant, I perform assessments across a wide variety of applications. Throughout the applications I’ve tested, I’ve found it’s common for them to suffer from some form of inadequate exception handling and logging.…
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Erik Dietrich / January 21

What Is a Site Reliability Engineer? Should You Become One?

Although site reliability engineering has been around for a while, it has only recently gained fame in general software circles. But there are still a lot of questions as to what a site reliability engineer…
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Erik Dietrich / December 16

Apache Access Log: A Detailed Introduction

What is the Apache access log? Why do you need it? Let me share a story. I remember starting my first blog years and years ago. I paid for hosting and then installed a (much…
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Erik Dietrich / November 25

What Is Log Aggregation and How Does It Help You?

In order to understand the idea of log aggregation, you need to understand the pain it alleviates. You’ve almost certainly felt this pain, even if you don’t realize it. Let’s consider a scenario that every…
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Erik Dietrich / November 18

Get Started Quickly With C# Logging

If you’re interested in getting started with C# logging as quickly as humanly possible, you’ve come to the right place. Today, we’ll look at just how to do that. Don’t worry, we’ll get into comprehensive…
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