As engineers, we’ve all built dashboards, tuned alerts, and fought noisy monitoring systems. Tools like Elastic, Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix, or Nagios have shaped how we operate infrastructure for years. Yet modern distributed systems introduced a shift in mindset: monitoring is no longer enough. Enter observability, not as a buzzword, but as an operational necessity. This blog explains the difference clearly,…
Application servers such as WebLogic, JBoss EAP, WildFly, Tomcat, and WebSphere still run critical business applications in many enterprise environments. However, they are often monitored like basic infrastructure components: CPU, memory, disk, process status, and sometimes port availability. This is useful, but it is not enough. An application server can be up, the JVM can be running, and the port…
Both words, observability and monitoring, are often used interchangeably and without taking care of the difference. Monitoring Monitoring is alerting based on known, predefined metrics and log patterns. Events Examples of events are: Last example threshold could even be improved to consider the partition size as 10% remaining space is obviously not the same for a 1 GB partition (100…
