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Monolithic (Legacy) vs. Microservices Application Development

Understand the differences for development between legacy, monolithic, and microservices applications and the inherent pros and cons that each one holds.

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11.23.21 / application monitoring

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Blog / Engineering / 11.18.21

Windows Event Log Best Practices for Operations Teams

Learn how to use Windows Event logs to identify the root cause for system failures, performance and configuration issues that lead to outages, or service disruptions.

Blog / Engineering / 10.27.21

What Is an OTEL Collector?

An OTEL collector is one of the core components of OpenTelemetry. Learn about the architecture, deployment, and best practices of collectors.

Blog / Engineering / 09.23.21

NodeJS Application Manual Instrumentation for Distributed Traces

Learn the instrumentation steps for distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry for NodeJS.

Blog / Engineering / 09.16.21

What Are JSON Web Tokens?

A JSON web token (JWT) is a URL-safe method of transferring claims between two parties. The JWT encodes the claims in JavaScript object notation and optionally provides space for a signature or full encryption.

Blog / Engineering / 09.01.21

Java Application Manual Instrumentation for Distributed Traces

Use this guide to write a Java application emitting traces using the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) Specification. All you need is a basic understanding of developing applications with Java.

Blog / Engineering / 08.19.21

DotNet Application Instrumentation for Distributed Traces

Use this guide to write a DotNet (.Net) application emitting traces using the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) Specification. All you need is .NET Framework 4.6.2+ or .NET Core 2.1+ and a basic understanding of developing applications on the .Net framework.

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Blog / 12.03.21

4 Steps to Making Observability Real for Your Team

Here are some Unified Observability best practices your team should implement to improve visibility into your application’s code.

Blog / 11.29.21

Introducing LM Concierge

Introducing LM Concierge; the most robust, exclusive support and services offering for Enterprise customers to take their LogicMonitor journey to the next level.

Blog / 11.23.21

Monolithic (Legacy) vs. Microservices Application Development

Understand the differences for development between legacy, monolithic, and microservices applications and the inherent pros and cons that each one holds.

Blog / 11.22.21

LM Well: How to Support Mental Health and Wellbeing

LM Well exists as a space to share resources, tools, and personal stories in order to get to know one another as whole people. See how we support mental health.

Blog / 11.17.21

Employee Spotlight: Rylee Cross

Rylee Cross, a mid-market Sr. account executive talks about her experiences working at LogicMonitor.

Blog / 11.12.21

Implementing SLAs, SLIs, and SLOs in an observability suite

Take a closer look at how SLA, SLI, SLA, and SRE play roles in choosing an observability suite and using it to make data-driven decisions.

Blog / 11.09.21

Observability for Banks and Financial Services Organizations: Top 4 Challenges and How Monitoring Can Help

Banks and financial institutions are rethinking how they deliver services. As mobile banking becomes the norm and traditional brick-and-mortar banking fades to a specialized service, banking institutions have to become much more agile and competitive. Learn more!

Blog / 11.05.21

3 Ways Ops Teams Benefit From LM Logs

Understand the benefits that the LogicMonitor technical operations team has experienced with LM Logs and how it can directly apply to the log challenges facing today's greater ITOps and DevOps teams.

Blog / 11.02.21

REST vs CRUD

CRUD and REST are two of the most popular concepts in the API industry. Learn what REST and CRUD are, the basic principles that govern them, and their similarities and differences.

Blog / 10.29.21

LogicMonitor Is Hispanic Proud

Rene Dominguez, Workplace Experience Specialist at LogicMonitor, shares how LogicMonitor values and supports the Hispanic community.

Blog / 10.22.21

Logging Ain’t Easy 😒…But It Could Be 😏

At LogicMonitor, we use our own LM Logs to be both proactive and reactive in our monitoring, so we know that ease of use is essential to our team’s productivity. Logging tools shouldn't hinder Ops teams, they should empower them.

Blog / 10.20.21

SRE vs. DevOps: What Are the Differences and How Can They Work Together?

SRE and DevOps have emerged as two of the most critical approaches to success. While they often take different approaches to technology, they play complementary roles that can streamline processes.

Blog / 10.12.21

Employee Spotlight: Athena Partch

Athena Partch, an associate software engineer in Santa Barbara, California, talks about her experiences working at LogicMonitor.

Blog / 10.08.21

What Is Kubernetes Pod Disruption?

Occasionally, Kubernetes pod disruptions may occur within a system, either from voluntary or involuntary causes. Kubernetes pod disruptions are more likely to occur in highly available applications and prove to be a concern for cluster administrators who perform automated cluster actions.

Blog / 10.07.21

Logs for Ops

There is a new transition underway that is gaining momentum and the ever transitioning log is now coming full circle with the re-emergence of logs in the day-to-day operations center workflow. See how!

Blog / 09.30.21

Q3 Roundup – What’s New With Logs? Let’s Log About It!

LogicMonitor has enhanced its logging abilities to include 1 year retention, hot storage, expanded log collection, and more. See the enhancements!

Blog / 09.29.21

What Is Distributed Tracing?

Distributed tracing is an emerging DevOps practice that makes it easier to debug, develop, and deploy systems. Learn more!

Blog / 09.21.21

Employee Spotlight: Bheeni Kapoor

Bheeni Kapoor, Human Resources Director in India, talks about her experiences working at LogicMonitor.

Blog / 09.09.21

What is IT Automation?

IT automation is the creation of repeated software processes to reduce or eliminate manual or human-initiated IT tasks. Learn more!

Blog / 09.09.21

How LogicMonitor Can Use Errors From Airbrake in Dashboards and Alerts

Integrating Airbrake’s metrics within LogicMonitor alongside existing infrastructure provides access to errors, context for troubleshooting and more.

Blog / 09.02.21

What It Means to Be Green at LogicMonitor

LogicMonitor is growing its green initiatives beyond increasing sustainability efforts and reducing carbon footprint. See how!

Blog / 08.26.21

What Will APM Look Like in the AIOps Era?

Application Performance Monitoring is evolving thanks to advances in AI. See how AIOps will mold the future of APM.

Blog / 08.25.21

The LM Internship Program: Striving to Be Better Every Year

In 2021, LogicMonitor looked to expand its Internship program with new and better opportunities for interns. See how!

Blog / 08.17.21

Python Logging Levels Explained

Learn about Python logging levels, as well as Python logging advantages, configuration, formatting and more.

Blog / 08.10.21

Employee Spotlight: Patrick Sites

Patrick Sites, a technical sales specialist in Colorado, talks about his experiences at LogicMonitor.

Blog / 08.06.21

Observability for Health and Life Sciences: Top 6 Challenges and How Monitoring Can Help

Explore some of the challenges in the health and life sciences space and the monitoring and observability trends in IT which are helping to address them.

Blog / 08.05.21

What is Observability?

Observability (often abbreviated o11y) is being able to tell what’s going on within the complex systems, processes, and microservices of an entire tech stack and/or application, purely from the existing data streams collected. Learn more!

Blog / 07.30.21

From College to Corporate: 3 Myths I Debunked During My SaaS Internship

What myths do you believe about tech companies, and more specifically, what myths do you believe about your future internship? Find out.

Blog / 07.29.21

The Comprehensive Kubernetes Glossary

If you’re working with Kubernetes and the thought of searching for each new term you come across seems exhausting, you’ve come to the right place! This glossary is a comprehensive list of Kubernetes terminology in alphabetical order.

Blog / 07.27.21

What Is Telemetry?

Telemetry is the process of gathering the performance data of any product and communicating it to a remote location for monitoring and analysis. This technique is commonly used to keep track of the performance of various products with ease. Learn more!

Bowen Cai, Sr. Product Manager at LogicMonitor

Blog / 07.21.21

Employee Spotlight: Bowen Cai

Bowen Cai, a Senior Product Manager in California, talks about his experiences at LogicMonitor.

Blog / 07.20.21

Observability for Retail: Top 3 Challenges and How Monitoring Can Help

Explore some of the challenges in the retail space and the monitoring and observability trends in IT which are helping to address them.

Blog / 07.16.21

Monitoring Outliers vs. Unbalanced Services

LogicMonitor is using outlier detection with research to determine a service's overall balance, providing additional metrics to find discrepancies in node utilization over time. See how!

Blog / 07.14.21

Meaningful Media: How LogicMonitor’s Media Club Supports Self-Learning

LogicMonitor created the CG Media Club to discuss topics that matter to People of Color, women, and pride members at LM. See how!

Blog / 07.08.21

An Introduction to OpenTelemetry

OpenTelemetry provides companies with a consistent mechanism for collection and format. Dive in and learn more about its uses and implementation.

Blog / 07.07.21

Observability for Manufacturing: Top 5 Challenges and How Monitoring Can Help

Explore tech trends in manufacturing, pitfalls and challenges, and how monitoring can help to ensure a smooth implementation of technologies.

Blog / 06.30.21

What Is the Future of Remote Infrastructure Management?

In this guide, learn the current state of remote infrastructure management, then discover what the future holds.

Blog / 06.24.21

Celebrating Pride Month at LogicMonitor

Hayley Love, Sr. Customer Success Manager at LogicMonitor, shares how LogicMonitor values and supports its LGBTQ+ community.

Blog / 06.22.21

Multitenancy: What You See vs. What They See

Learn about the intricacies of multitenancy, how it stacks up against other tenancy models, and its benefits.

Blog / 06.17.21

Employee Spotlight: Johan Averstedt

Johan Averstedt, a GTM Team Lead for Logs in Europe, talks about his experiences at LogicMonitor.

Blog / 06.15.21

How to Deal With Burnout in IT

Burnout is an all too common feeling in IT, especially now that work-life balance has become a bigger challenge due to remote work. Learn about some ways to mitigate stress.

Blog / 06.10.21

Going Beyond RMM for the Next Level of IT Service Management

Learn how to transform your MSP business to go beyond remote monitoring management towards IT Service Management.

Blog / 06.08.21

Unified Observability: A Business-Centric View

What does observability really mean to a digital business? Learn about the three pillars, the technical components and what it means for your organization.

Blog / 06.01.21

Observability From the Application to the Edge

Regional Sales Director Hass Johnson discusses observability and what providing visibility means for the future of IT.

Blog / 05.28.21

Celebrating Being an Asian American/Pacific Islander

Elise Gan, Human Resources Generalist, shares what it means to be an Asian American individual and what LogicMonitor does to support the community.

Blog / 05.27.21

How to Leverage IT Automation and Cloud To Put Customers First

LogicMonitor CRO Mark Banfield explains how you can leverage IT automation, SaaS-based applications, and the cloud to put your customers first.

Blog / 05.25.21

What Is Container Orchestration?

Container orchestration is the automated process of managing, scaling, and maintaining containerized applications. Learn more!

Blog / 05.20.21

How To Increase Efficiency by Empowering MSP Employees

What key initiatives can you do to empower MSP employees, keeping them happy and engaged? Learn the keys to employee success!

Josh Jones, Associate Account Executive at LogicMonitor

Blog / 05.18.21

Employee Spotlight: Josh Jones

Josh Jones is an Associate Account Executive for LogicMonitor in London. Here he shares his experiences working at LogicMonitor.

Blog / 05.11.21

Observability: It's the User Experience, Stupid!

The goal of observability is to deliver a flawless user-experience between metrics, logs, and tracing. See how UX drives observability.

Microservices Architecture — What Are Microservices?

Blog / 05.06.21

What Are Microservices and Why Use Them?

Microservices structure applications as a collection of loosely connected services, making it easier for developers to build and scale apps. Learn more!

Blog / 05.03.21

LogicMonitor’s Certified Ansible Content Collection Allows You To Do More With Less

LogicMonitor has added enhancements to our official Ansible integration, which is a robust, REST API-based integration that will help you to do more with less effort. See how!

Blog / 04.29.21

A Guide to AWS Certifications

Amazon Web Services certifications create new opportunities for career growth. Learn about the different AWS certifications and which is best for you.

Mayank Arora, Director, Channel Sales - APAC

Blog / 04.27.21

Employee Spotlight: Mayank Arora

Mayank Arora is a channel sales director for LogicMonitor in Singapore. Here he shares his experiences working at LogicMonitor.

Blog / 04.22.21

Q&A With Forrester Senior Analyst Rich Lane

LogicMonitor CRO Mark Banfield and Forrester Senior analyst Rich Lane discuss the importance of AIOps and more.

Blog / 04.21.21

Cultivating Wellness in a Global Health Crisis

Amidst the 2020 Global Health Crisis, LogicMonitor has introduced a series of initiatives to promote wellness for employees and beyond. See how!

Blog / 04.16.21

Learnings From a Not so Technical Person Working In Tech

Briana Friden, Talent Acquisition Specialist at LogicMonitor, shares advice on being a non-technical person working in a technical space.

Blog / 04.13.21

A Guide to Kubernetes Certifications

Kubernetes certifications create new opportunities for career growth. Learn about the different K8s certifications and which is best for you.

Blog / 04.09.21

Three Ways MSPs Can Benefit From Dynamic Thresholds

Dynamic thresholds can help MSPs more proactively prevent problems that result in business impact. See three ways dynamic thresholds add value.

Blog / 04.02.21

Celebrating [email protected]

LogicMonitor celebrated Women's History Month in March with a series of events and initiatives to empower women. See how!

Blog / 04.01.21

How to Add SaaS API Monitoring to LogicMonitor

Monitoring SaaS and their important metrics and statuses together allows for clarity on business impact. Learn what to monitor and how.

Ryan Kam, Chief Marketing Officer at LogicMonitor

Blog / 03.30.21

Why I’m Here: Adding Fuel to The LM Rocketship

Chief Marketing Officer Ryan Kam discusses his decision to join LogicMonitor and his intentions to tell the LogicMonitor story.

On Demand Video / 03.25.21

How to Achieve Unified IT Observability Amidst the Global Pandemic

Christina Kosmowski, President at LogicMonitor, shares five tips on how to power your business forward and achieve unified IT observability during uncertain times.