The performance of a applications and company's infrastructure is critical to its success. We all know how crucial logs are when it comes to diagnosing performance and availability issues. Is troubleshooting, however, the sole function of logs? Obviously not. You've probably discovered they're vital in other ways as well throughout the years. The visualisation of business dashboards is another use of logs. Here's why JSON logging is the ideal format for storing logs.

Wondering whether your struggles with the data lake, cloud data platform, or analytics at large are typical? Are you ahead or behind the curve? ChaosSearch recently commissioned a survey to understand the advantages and setbacks organizations face today in these areas, and we’re excited to share a sneak peek of the results. To uncover more detailed findings from our research, sign up to receive the full report once it’s available here.

One of the most popular Node.js web frameworks is Express.js. It enables you to rapidly and easily create APIs and other web applications. However, constructing a server is only half the battle; the other half is keeping it running. You should read the logs to have a solid grasp of what's going on with your application.

As a programming language, PHP is a developer favorite. An essential PHP programming best practice is how to log to console in PHP. Today, we’ll lay out how you do that. PHP is one of the most popular server-side scripting languages for building web applications because it’s easy to use. But no matter what you build, logging errors is key to ensuring a short code-test-learn feedback cycle. PHP is uniquely designed to be good for building web applications.

Datadog is one of the most highly rated tools for network monitoring, application performance monitoring & log analysis. The platform is highly rated by engineers for its wide range of useful features, high integrability and support of both custom configurations and reporting dashboards.

When it comes to comparing all of the best solutions for log management and analysis it can be incredibly difficult to compare key features and pricing per annum side by side to see what solutions you should consider trialling.

The ELK Stack has millions of users globally due to its effectiveness for log management, SIEM, alerting, data analytics, e-commerce site search and data visualisation. In this extensive guide (updated for 2021) we cover all of the essential basics you need to know to get started with installing ELK, exploring its most popular use cases and the leading integrations you’ll want to start ingesting your logs and metrics data from.

This week we released a new case study that describes how the world-leading education technology provider Blackboard empowered digital learning throughout COVID, and in particular, the role log analytics played. Committed to supporting learners throughout their lifelong journey, Blackboard Inc. serves higher education, K-12, business and government clients around the world with learning management systems (LMS) and other digital education products.

Error handling is one section of our job that we tend to neglect, especially when working on something new, interesting, or something we just need to get working. We’ll handle errors later, we say — and that’s often a big lie. But that’s not even the worst part. The problem comes when we decide to ‘quickly’ add some code to handle our errors and completely forget about the importance and relevance of a properly constructed error message.