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Monitoring Django application performance with OpenTelemetry

Django is a popular open-source python web framework that enables rapid development while taking out much of the hassle from routine web development. It also helps developers to avoid common security mistakes. As such, many applications are built with Django. Django is very popular among web developers and has a huge community behind it. It gives web developers ready-to-use components for common things that you will need to accomplish for a web application.

Latest top 17 API monitoring tools [open-source included]

Choosing the right API monitoring tool is critical. How do you know which is the right API monitoring tool for you? Here are the top 17 API monitoring tools, including open source tools for API performance monitoring. In this article, we will review the top 17 API monitoring tools which you can use for monitoring your APIs. But first, let’s have a brief overview of APIs.

Grafana vs Splunk - Key Features and Differences

Grafana and Splunk are both used as monitoring tools. But while Grafana is majorly used as a data visualization tool, Splunk is an enterprise security and observability platform. Monitoring tools are essential for any business that wants to have visibility into its IT infrastructure. They provide real-time data that can be used to identify and troubleshoot problems. Grafana and Splunk are two of the most popular monitoring tools on the market. So, which one is better for your business?

Beyond deployment: The ongoing challenges in application performance monitoring implementation

In the age of digital acceleration, application performance monitoring (APM) acts as a sentinel, empowering organizations to maintain, analyze, and optimize the health of their digital ecosystems. However, as organizations navigate the intricacies of distributed architectures, hybrid cloud deployments, and dynamic workloads, they confront a complex terrain marked by data proliferation, siloed environments, and a scarcity of skilled personnel.

DataDog vs Prometheus - Comprehensive Comparison Guide [Updated for 2024]

Both DataDog and Prometheus are application monitoring tools aimed to improve application performance. While Datadog is a cloud-based SaaS solution, meaning there's no need to install or maintain any infrastructure, Prometheus is an open-source tool that requires manual download and installation on your infrastructure. Let us compare DataDog and Prometheus to see which tool suits The biggest difference between Datadog and Prometheus is that while Prometheus is open-source, Datadog is proprietary.

Podcast - The Power of Observability and Automation of Citrix Technologies with eG Innovations

The Citrix Ready team recently recorded a podcast with eG Innovations for their Tech Fusion podcast series. Hosted by Neil C. Hughes from The Tech Blog Writer, Wendy Howard from eG Innovations’ pre-sales, and Manjunatha Gali from Citrix Ready discussed how eG Enterprise enhances and goes beyond native Citrix monitoring tools with its unique observability and automation features. You can listen to the podcast: They covered a wide range of topics, including.

Self Hosted Retrace - For your Data Governance, Centralised Control needs

Our customers can now get a self hosted Retrace, where their own data will never leave the Azure cloud environment. Stackify by Netreo will deploy and manage the Retrace platform that includes infrastructure components and software. Customer will get the access to the Retrace within their corporate domain, rather than public internet.

OpenTelemetry Nestjs Tracing Implementation Guide [2024 Updated]

Nestjs is a Nodejs framework for building scalable server-side applications with typescript. It makes use of frameworks like Express and Fastify to enable rapid development. It has gained wide popularity in recent times, and many applications are making use of the Nestjs framework. Using OpenTelemetry client libraries, you can monitor your Nestjs application. Monitoring your Nestjs application is critical for performance management.

Spans - a key concept of distributed tracing

Spans are fundamental building blocks of distributed tracing. A single trace in distributed tracing consists of a series of tagged time intervals known as spans. Spans represent a logical unit of work in completing a user request or transaction. Distributed tracing is critical to application performance monitoring in microservice-based architecture. Before we deep dive into spans, let's have a brief overview of distributed tracing.