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Logging is one of your most important means for monitoring what’s going on inside your code. Everything, even the most trivial script, should communicate what’s happening inside. Fortunately, there’s an easy way to make those scripts write to your system logs: Python…
The BSD Syslog standard has been with us for a long time, and even with the advent of journald, it’s here to stay. Rsyslog logs messages to the network or to local disk with high performance. And, its client-server architecture and multithreaded…
Syslog-ng is a system logging application. It provides logical separation between applications and their log messages, so they can simply “fire and forget” log messages to a centralized process for reporting, analysis, and storage. In this post, you’ll learn the basics of…
Many things can happen when a user lands on a website. There are even times when user requests don’t reach a server, potentially giving you a false positive saying everything is OK. Long gone are the days when a website used only…
Monitoring and analyzing an application server’s logs is essential to ensure the efficiency of applications functioning on a server. Additionally, these measures provide support to resolve or prevent potential issues in a timely fashion. Tomcat is the most common web server in…
Log4net is one of the oldest and most traditional logging frameworks for .NET. It originally started as a port of log4j, a Java logging framework. Over the years, log4net acquired more capabilities. Currently, log4net has the status of a dormant project, but…
Setting up logging is often overlooked when developers build applications. However, logs provide meaningful information to help you understand what’s happening in your application—and more importantly, they can help you troubleshoot problems. Additionally, you can use logging data to track various metrics…
In the past, system logs such as Windows event logs were only accessed when something went wrong—they served the sole purpose of troubleshooting the system. However, the logging industry has grown beyond functioning only as a means for troubleshooting. Nowadays, logs contribute…
When developing software, the initial deployment is only the first step. As your software gains users, it’ll be important to understand what’s going on with your applications and how they’re being used. With a cloud provider such as Microsoft Azure, you have…
NGINX is the beating heart of your web application. Before a request goes to the code that eventually handles it, it passes through NGINX. In my experience, many companies treat NGINX as an afterthought. They neglect to set up things like NGINX…
