In the previous entries in our series, we've discussed technologies crucial to various stages of enterprise software development. In this installment, we'll cover Monitoring and Logging tools, integral for maintaining performance and troubleshooting issues in your system.
What is Monitoring and Logging Tools?
Monitoring and logging tools provide you with an overview of what's happening inside your system. They help track down errors and performance issues that can impact user experience or even bring down your whole service.
Let's delve into twelve popular Monitoring and Logging tools:
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Splunk
Splunk is a software platform to search, analyze and visualize the machine-generated data gathered from the websites, applications, sensors, devices etc. which make up your IT infrastructure and business
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ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
The ELK Stack is a robust solution for search, analysis, and visualization of data. Logstash collects and parses logs, Elasticsearch indexes and stores the information, and Kibana presents the data in visualizations that provide actionable insights.
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Graylog
Graylog is a leading centralized log management solution built to open standards for capturing, storing, and enabling real-time analysis of terabytes of machine data.
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Prometheus
A robust toolkit for monitoring and alerting, Prometheus offers multi-dimensional data model, flexible query language, efficient storage, and integration with many popular support services.
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Nagios
Nagios is a widely used open-source tool for comprehensive monitoring. It can monitor applications, services, operating systems, network protocols, system metrics, and network infrastructure.
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Zabbix
Zabbix is an open-source monitoring software tool for networks, servers, virtual machines, and cloud services. It offers real-time monitoring of thousands of metrics collected from different servers.
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DataDog:
DataDog is a monitoring service that brings together data from servers, databases, applications, tools, and services to present a unified view of the applications that run at scale in the cloud.
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Sentry
Sentry is an open-source error tracking tool that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real-time. It intercepts and logs exceptions and errors, providing an easy-to-use interface for viewing and tackling persistent issues.
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New Relic
New Relic's application monitoring gives you detailed performance metrics for every aspect of your environment. You can track user experiences, databases, and individual components.
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AppDynamics
AppDynamics, a part of Cisco, is a full-stack, business-centric observability platform that helps technologists prevent digital performance issues.
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PagerDuty
PagerDuty is an incident management platform that provides reliable incident notifications via email, push, SMS, and phone, as well as automatic escalations, on-call scheduling, and other functionality to help teams detect and fix infrastructure problems quickly
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AWS CloudWatch
Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring service for AWS resources and the applications you run on Amazon Web Services. You can use it to collect and track metrics, collect and monitor log files, and respond to system-wide performance changes.
By employing these tools, you ensure the robustness and reliability of your system. With the right monitoring and logging tools, you can detect and solve issues faster, often before users even notice there was an issue.
In our next installment, we will discuss Quality Assurance and Testing tools. Stay tuned!