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A Guide to Database Optimization for High Traffic

A Guide to Database Optimization for High Traffic

Learn how to optimize your database for high traffic, ensuring performance, scalability, and reliability under heavy load.

Prathamesh Sonpatki

Datadog vs Dynatrace: A Comprehensive Comparison

Datadog vs Dynatrace: A Comprehensive Comparison

Compare Datadog and Dynatrace to find the right observability solution for your team, balancing flexibility, scalability, and automation.

Anjali Udasi

MongoDB vs Elasticsearch: Key Differences Explained

MongoDB vs Elasticsearch: Key Differences Explained

Learn the key differences between MongoDB and Elasticsearch, and understand when to use each for your database and search needs.

Anjali Udasi

Fluentd vs Fluent Bit – A Comprehensive Overview

Fluentd vs Fluent Bit – A Comprehensive Overview

Fluentd vs Fluent Bit: Discover the key differences, use cases, and how to choose the right tool for your log processing needs.

Prathamesh Sonpatki, Anjali Udasi

Top 5 Open Source SIEM Tools for Security Monitoring

Top 5 Open Source SIEM Tools for Security Monitoring

Explore open-source SIEM tools to enhance your security monitoring. Learn about features, deployment, and how they compare to commercial solutions.

Anjali Udasi

Filebeat vs Logstash: Key Differences for Your Logging Needs

Filebeat vs Logstash: Key Differences for Your Logging Needs

Explore the key differences between Filebeat and Logstash to choose the right tool for your logging setup and optimize performance.

Anjali Udasi

Kibana vs Grafana: Key Differences and Use Cases

Kibana vs Grafana: Key Differences and Use Cases

Kibana and Grafana offer unique strengths: Kibana excels in log analysis, while Grafana shines in time-series data and infrastructure monitoring.

Anjali Udasi

Extracting Account-Level CDN Metrics from Akamai Logs with Last9

Extracting Account-Level CDN Metrics from Akamai Logs with Last9

Learn how to extract and analyze account-level CDN metrics from Akamai logs using Last9 for real-time insights and better customer tracking.

Prathamesh Sonpatki, Aditya Godbole

Getting the Most Out of Tracing Tools for Observability

Getting the Most Out of Tracing Tools for Observability

Maximize your observability with tracing tools to track requests, identify bottlenecks, and optimize system performance across services.

Anjali Udasi

What is ELK: Core Components, Ecosystem & Setup Guide

What is ELK: Core Components, Ecosystem & Setup Guide

Learn about the ELK Stack’s core components, extended ecosystem, and setup guide for efficient log management and data analysis.

Anjali Udasi

8 Datadog Alternatives Worth Considering in 2024

8 Datadog Alternatives Worth Considering in 2024

Explore eight options for different monitoring needs and budgets. Whether for microservices or APM, these alternatives enhance observability affordably.

Anjali Udasi

Prometheus Alternatives: Monitoring Tools You Should Know

Prometheus Alternatives: Monitoring Tools You Should Know

What are the alternatives to Prometheus? A guide to comparing different Prometheus Alternatives.

Gabriel Diaz

Top 10 Platform Engineering Tools in 2024

Top 10 Platform Engineering Tools in 2024

Check out these 10 tools that are making a real difference in how teams build, manage, and scale their platforms in 2024.

Prathamesh Sonpatki

2024's Best Cloud Monitoring Tools: Updated Insights

2024's Best Cloud Monitoring Tools: Updated Insights

Get a detailed look at the top cloud monitoring tools of 2024. Compare leading solutions to understand their features and performance, helping you choose the best fit for your cloud infrastructure.

Anjali Udasi

Rethinking Anomaly Detection: Focus on business outcomes

Rethinking Anomaly Detection: Focus on business outcomes

From the trenches at Games24x7 — Sanjay, on how Reliability engineering should drive core business metrics

Sanjay Singh

Comparing Popular Service Mesh Offerings

Comparing Popular Service Mesh Offerings

An in-depth look at several service mesh offerings and comparison based on their features, licensing and pricing, architecture, and user experience.

Last9

Introducing Levitate: Uplift Your Metrics Management

Introducing Levitate: Uplift Your Metrics Management

Managing time series databases is hard. We've evolved to services, yet monitoring lags. Our solution powers critical workloads at a lower cost.

Nishant Modak

Battling Alert Fatigue

Battling Alert Fatigue

What is Alert Fatigue and techniques to reduce it

Last9

SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs: Understanding Key Service Metrics

SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs: Understanding Key Service Metrics

A guide to set practical Service Level Objectives (SLOs) & Service Level Indicators (SLIs) for your Site Reliability Engineering practices.

Last9

Sample vs Metrics vs Cardinality

Sample vs Metrics vs Cardinality

When dealing with Time Series databases, I always got confused with Sample vs Metrics vs Cardinality. Here’s an explanation as I have understood it.

Piyush Verma

How to calculate HTTP content-length metrics on cli

How to calculate HTTP content-length metrics on cli

A simple guide to crunch numbers for understanding overall HTTP content length metrics.

Saurabh Hirani

Comparing Popular Time Series Databases

Comparing Popular Time Series Databases

A comparison of all the popular time series databases. Prometheus, Influx, M3Db, Levitate.

Abhi Puranam

We’ve raised a $11M Series A led by Sequoia Capital India!

We’ve raised a $11M Series A led by Sequoia Capital India!

Exciting news! We've secured an $11M Series A funding round led by Sequoia Capital India to fuel our growth and innovation at Last9!

Nishant Modak

How to Improve On-Call Experience!

How to Improve On-Call Experience!

Better practices and tools for management of on-call practices

Prathamesh Sonpatki

Best Practices for Postmortems: A guide

Best Practices for Postmortems: A guide

The ins and outs of conducting an effective postmortem. Ready templates and examples from leading organizations around the world!

Prathamesh Sonpatki

Choosing Effective SLIs

Choosing Effective SLIs

Practical advice to choose an effective SLI.

Akshay Chugh

The origin of Service Level Objectives

The origin of Service Level Objectives

Service Level Objectives (SLOs) dominate the software industry, but where did they come from?

Akshay Chugh, Piyush Verma

Latency SLO

Latency SLO

How do you set latency-based alerts? A common approach is 95% of requests completed in 350ms, but is it really that simple?

Piyush Verma

Services; not Server

Services; not Server

Gone are the days of yore when we named are our servers Etsy, Betsy, and Momo, fed them fish, and cleaned their poop.

Nishant Modak, Piyush Verma

Much That We Have Gotten Wrong About SRE

Much That We Have Gotten Wrong About SRE

An illustrated summary of Developers ➡ DevOps ➡ SRE

Piyush Verma

Latency Percentiles are Incorrect P99 of the Times

Latency Percentiles are Incorrect P99 of the Times

What are P90, P95, and P99 latency? Why are they incorrect P99 of the times? Latency is for a unit of time and the preferred aggregate is percentile.

Piyush Verma

SRE Tooling – the Clever Hans fallacy

SRE Tooling – the Clever Hans fallacy

Chef or Ansible? Terraform or Pulumi? Python or Ruby? Last9 or Last9? Discover how building new tools links to the tale of a horse that could do math!

Piyush Verma