Observability Blogs

SignalFx is the only real-time cloud monitoring platform for infrastructure, microservices, and applications. Read our blog and keep up on the latest advances in monitoring and alerting best practices.

Reducing Alert Noise: Rates of Change

Teams often rely on a jumble of monitoring tools for each infrastructure silo and each layer of the stack. That means configuring and performing maintenance on multiple systems, with little insight across data sources. Cloud-based monitoring is the best way to deliver meaningful and timely service-level insights...

Monitoring modern infrastructure poses fundamentally new challenges in terms of data volume and velocity. Collecting the metrics emitted by machines is only the first step. To extract value from that data, we need a method of expressing service, team, or business goals against that stream of data...

Monitoring modern infrastructure poses fundamentally new challenges in terms of data volume and velocity. Collecting the metrics emitted by machines is only the first step. To extract value from that data, we need a method of expressing service, team, or business goals against that stream of data.

Monitoring modern infrastructure poses fundamentally new challenges in terms of data volume and velocity. Collecting the metrics emitted by machines is only the first step. To extract value from that data, we need a method of expressing service, team, or business goals against that stream of data.

SignalFx is the only real-time cloud monitoring platform for infrastructure, microservices, and applications. Read our blog and keep up on the latest advances in monitoring and alerting best practices.

SignalFx is integrated with Couchbase, a distributed NoSQL document store that’s specialized for backing web applications using JSON documents. We’ve created a collectd plugin that connects to Couchbase’s statistics API and collects statistics about each Couchbase cluster, node, and bucket.

Monitor Windows with SignalFx. SignalFx is now integrated with Windows. We monitor Windows systems using our open-source PerfCounterReporter tool, which makes it easy to collect metrics. Start by downloading and running the PerfCounterReporter installer.