DevOps Articles

Separate your monitoring from your primary infrastructure to avoid dangerous blind spots. Cloud providers' internal monitoring fails when their infrastructure fails, leaving you debugging outages without visibility. TrackJS hosts on dedicated hardware separate from major cloud providers for true ...

A fictional tale exposing the anti-developer nature of metered logging: Sarah gets locked out of LogCorp during a critical outage because adding debugging logs pushed them over quota, forcing an emergency upgrade during crisis. TrackJS rejects this model, pricing by site traffic instead of error ...

TrackJS switched from failing Mandrill to Mailgun after years of increasing email delivery problems. Key lessons: make failures visible through chat alerts, avoid abstractions until you need them, and sometimes big changes become unavoidable when dependencies deteriorate.

Learn from GitLab's outage by making production environments visually obvious. TrackJS shares Ansible snippets to turn Linux command prompts and Windows UI chrome bright red in production, preventing dangerous "wrong server" mistakes.

TrackJS has experienced unacceptable infrastructure problems due to Azure instability. We're migrating to dedicated hardware with automated infrastructure to improve availability and performance in the coming weeks.