Ansible just got way more fun! Join our happy hour.

Wednesday, June 12th, 2013

Here at LogicMonitor we love our happy hours, and since we will be speaking at the upcoming AnsibleWorks Fest (or AnsibleFest) we thought of no better way to tie it off than over a drink. Our very own Jefff Behl, Chief Network Architect will be speaking at 5:05pm about the importance of ...

If a software release improves performance, and no one is there to measure it – do I still get a raise?

Tuesday, June 4th, 2013

One thing we frequently say is that you need to be monitoring all sorts of metrics when you do software releases, so you can tell if things degrade, and thus head off performance issues. You need to monitor not just the basics of the server (disk IO, memory, CPU, network), ...

What, Free Cisco?! (The real value of service)

Thursday, May 10th, 2012

by Cisco Arias In the modern world of consumerism, there are so many choices, noises and deals, it’s sometimes hard to calculate the real value of the products and services we purchase. At LogicMonitor, we try to make it obvious. I don't like to call our solution a "product" because for some ...

Eating our own Tomcat Monitoring dogfood

Saturday, December 24th, 2011

We received some alerts tonight that one Tomcat server was using about 95% of its configured thread maximum. The Tomcat process on http-443  on prod4 now has 96.2 % of the max configured threads in the busy state. These were SMS alerts, as that was close enough to exhausting the available threads to warrant waking ...

How Application monitoring saves you money

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

We here at LogicMonitor use our own service to monitor the various parts of our infrastructure, and doing so demonstrates the financial value that LogicMonitor brings. The more you instrument with LogicMonitor, the more power it has.  In the cases below, the information and alerts that LogicMonitor presented allowed us to ...