Erin Baez, Author at Scalyr

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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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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 2

AWS Lambda With Python: A Simple Introduction With Examples

We’ve previously covered AWS Lambda using Java. Today, we’ll take a look at Python. If you’re unfamiliar with AWS Lambda, it’s what we call a Function-as-a-Service offering from Amazon. A FaaS system hides all the…
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Erin Baez / December 26

Predictive Modeling: A Simple, Practical Introductory Guide

Whether you call it predictive modeling, machine learning, or artificial intelligence, it consumes considerable attention in the technology press—and for good reason. Effective predictive modeling enhances business capabilities while improving scale and reducing staff resources.…
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Erin Baez / December 22

Jaeger Tracing Tutorial: Get Going From Scratch

The Jaeger tracing system is an open-source tracing system for microservices, and it supports the OpenTracing standard. We talked about OpenTracing and why it’s essential in a previous post. So now, let’s talk more about…
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Erin Baez / December 17

Prometheus and Grafana: Capturing and Displaying Metrics

Metrics can be an incredibly powerful tool for running your software. The combination of Prometheus and Grafana continue to stand out as great, low-cost options to plug this power into new and existing applications. Both…
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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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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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