2024 has been an incredible year for the Alokai Console , filled with exciting updates. We’ve listened closely to our users and worked hard to roll out features that deliver exactly what you need and make your daily workflows more smooth and efficient than ever before.
Whether you’re tackling incidents, optimizing performance, or managing deployments, the Console has grown to be an even more reliable and versatile tool.
Let’s dive into the key updates we’ve made this year and see how the Console has evolved to better support your ecommerce operations.
What is Alokai Console and who is it for?
If you’re using Alokai Cloud , Alokai Console is an essential tool for you and your team! It serves as the central hub for monitoring and managing ecommerce infrastructure, providing insights into performance, incidents, and deployments.
Designed for developers, operations teams, and administrators, the Console simplifies complex workflows in composable architecture by unifying data from the Alokai Storefront, Alokai Cloud, and connected APIs, for example your ecommerce backend or CMS integrations.
Whether you’re troubleshooting issues, optimizing performance, or ensuring compliance, the Console delivers the tools you need to maintain seamless operations.
Key features released in 2024
This year, we introduced several new features and improvements to make the Console even more powerful and user-friendly:
Overview page with key metrics
The new Overview page offers a centralized view of your infrastructure’s key performance indicators, including system health metrics, error summaries, and deployment statuses. This page is designed to save time by providing teams with immediate visibility into critical areas that require attention.
Instance overview page in Alokai Console
For instance, you can monitor the health of your applications, spot performance trends, and quickly assess incidents all from one place. By consolidating this data, the Overview page reduces the need to switch between different sections, helping teams make faster, more informed decisions.
Explore the Overview feature in our documentation
Enhanced incident management
We’ve expanded incident alerting to include 40X and 50X error codes as well as out-of-memory alerts, enabling real-time notifications about critical system errors. Learn more about setting up alerts !
This improvement ensures that your team is notified about critical issues immediately, allowing you to address them before they escalate.
Memory leak alerting
Frequent memory leaks in frontend applications often lead to unnecessary resource scaling, impacting both performance and costs.
Memory leak alerting identifies these issues early, ensuring teams can resolve them before they cause larger problems. Understanding memory leak alerting helps you optimize your implementations and reduce resource costs.
Automated performance audits
With the introduction of Performance Audits , you can now compare performance metrics across different deployments automatically. This feature helps pinpoint how specific changes impact performance, enabling faster troubleshooting and better decision-making.
Audit logs
Audit logs provide comprehensive insights into system activities, helping administrators monitor compliance with security policies and diagnose errors efficiently.
These logs also assist in identifying vulnerabilities and improving overall system security. This feature is particularly valuable for teams working in regulated industries, like healthcare.
Failed deployment information
Deployment failures can disrupt workflows and delay progress. With failed deployment information now available, teams can quickly diagnose and address issues, ensuring smoother release cycles and fewer interruptions.
Deployment management
We’ve introduced deployment versions for each instance, along with deployment rollbacks and status tracking. These features give teams more control over their deployments, ensuring smoother operations and the ability to revert changes quickly when needed.
Logs' improvements
We’ve significantly enhanced the logging experience:
Improved UI for better usability;
Enhanced filtering capabilities;
Performance optimization;
Ability to download fetched logs;
Refined default views for logs, making it easier to find what you need.
CDN metrics
For customers using our CDN, the Console now includes detailed metrics such as cache hit ratio, fill rate, bandwidth, requests per second, and response code breakdowns. These metrics offer actionable insights to optimize CDN usage and performance.
These insights provide a better understanding of CDN performance and help optimize its usage.
What’s next?
2024 has brought meaningful updates to the Alokai Console, directly addressing user challenges. These new features streamline workflows, improve issue resolution, and provide teams with enhanced tools for managing ecommerce infrastructure effectively.
If you’re already using the Console, explore these features to resolve issues faster and refine your processes. For those considering Alokai, the Console offers a clear advantage in managing complex ecommerce setups efficiently.
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