In order to comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), application access, transaction and system logs need to be monitored. Fluentd is an open source, distributed logging and aggregation framework.

2016 being the year of DevOps, IT organizations are already looking at scale-out and economies of scale, while e-commerce companies have understood the impact of agile delivery and zero downtime of their applications. As Gartner predicted, it is becoming a mainstream strategy employed by 25 per cent of Global 2000 organisations.

Cloud computing has started making a profound impact on the application development. Mobile and web based application development companies have significantly benefited by developing and rolling out their applications on clouds. But application downtimes and development process can delay the lab to market cycle.