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Would it be possible to monitor a bunch of on premise servers running on similar hardware and serving the same apps (but for different clients)?

More specifically, how would that look and work from an sre/product/devops perspective?

Thanks!

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Highlight can monitor server-side web apps; I'm assuming that's what you're running on those servers? I'd suggest instrumenting the common application code with our backend SDKs and deploying that change to all on-premise servers. Alternatively, you can run an OpenTelemetry collector (https://www.highlight.io/docs/getting-started/backend-loggin...) on each server to stream logs.

Yep. Very possible. You can send us logs via Fluent bit, Otel, and many other specifications. The easiest way to differentiate between logs would probably be to send a "service name" that's different between your servers.

If you'd like to ask questions synchronously or over email, I'm a jay [at] highlight [dot] io.

Looks like Vadim beat me to it. Note what he said about running an OTEL collector. That's probably the best approach given they're onprem.

Thank you both!

I'll have a better look at the docs tomorrow and try it out.

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