Errors and Logs: Configure Stackify API for .NET

You can log messages directly via the Stackify API without the use of a logging framework.  You can get more information at the Stackify Github page. Please note that we recommend using NLog, Serilog, or log4net. Those frameworks allow you to send your logs to multiple different outputs. If you decide to not use Stackify products in the future, your …

Custom Metrics: Overview

Using the Stackify Custom Metrics API, you can easily report, log, and monitor any number of custom metrics, business KPIs, and other important business or application events that could provide insights into application or user behavior. With Stackify, you can monitor, trend, and setup alerts for these important events, making them an actionable part of your overall application health picture. …

Custom Metrics: Configure for Java

Retrace supports the monitoring of custom metrics for Java web applications.  Metrics are reported to Stackify once a minute. They are only reported if you log a value within that minute time frame. See advanced settings below about overriding that default behavior. All metrics have a category and metric name. It is recommended to group similar metrics under a single category …

Release Notes: January 2015

Stackify’s January release includes a number of major improvements and features, along with full PHP logging support and Node.js app discovery.  Read on to see the new changes in Stackify. Log Collectors With the new log collectors feature, you can now easily configure the agent to upload Event Logs, Syslogs, PHP logs, or IIS request logs.  Navigate to the Settings …

Errors and Logs: Configure Web and Worker Roles Logs

If you are wanting to log directly via the Stackify API and want to control App Settings configuration from the Service Definition file, follow the steps below: The Service Definition File You will need to define the following properties in the ConfigurationSettings section of the Service Definition file as shown above: <ConfigurationSettings> <Setting name=”Stackify.ApiKey”/> <Setting name=”Stackify.AppName”/> <Setting name=”Stackify.Environment”/> </ConfigurationSettings> </WorkerRole> …