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Using Skylight to Solve Real-World Performance Problems [Part III: Code Triage]

Code Triage is an open source app built to help other open source projects. Popular open source projects receive a lot of bug reports, feature requests, and pull requests every day, and just reading through all of them can be a huge time sink for their maintainers. Here at Skylight, we are involved in a number of popular open source projects ourselves, so we understand this problem pretty well!

Stackdriver brings powerful alerting capabilities to the condition editor UI

We are excited to announce the beta version of our new alerting condition configuration UI. In addition to allowing you to define alerting conditions more precisely, this new UI provides an easier, more visual way to find the metrics to alert on. The new UI lets you use the same metrics selector as used in Stackdriver’s Metrics Explorer to define a broader set of conditions. Starting today, you can use that metrics selector to create and edit threshold conditions for alerting policies.

Sentry Raises $16 Million Series B from NEA and Accel

We recently raised an additional $16 million in funding from our partners at NEA and Accel. What are we going to do with these additional funds? Great question! For a long time Sentry has had a rigid, singular focus: given an application error, discover everything a developer needs to know about it and inform the team as quickly as possible.

The AppD Approach: Increasing Mobile Engagement with Business iQ

With 2.3 billion smartphone users worldwide, enterprises can’t afford to ignore the mobile channel. Last year, $2 billion of Black Friday’s total sales of $5.03 billion were spent on mobile devices. And mobile isn’t just about shopping. People are now spending equal amounts of time on mobile devices and desktop computers. Flurry Insights pegs the average time that people devote to mobile devices at 5 hours a day.

Finding slow ActiveRecord queries with Scout

Once your Rails app begins seeing consistent traffic, you're bound to have slow SQL queries. While PostgreSQL and MySQL can log slow queries, it's difficult to gleam actionable information from this raw stream. The slow query logs lack application context: where's the LOC generating the query? Is this slow all of the time, or just some of the time? Which controller-action or background job is the caller? Enter Scout.

The AppD Approach: Market-changing SAP Monitoring

AppDynamics’ unique, market-changing SAP Monitoring Agent is the only APM solution delivering code-level SAP visibility and real-user, business transaction performance monitoring. For enterprises running SAP business applications, our innovative agent can significantly improve service quality, cost of service, speed and innovation.

Apache SkyWalking provides open source APM and distributed tracing in .NET Core field

In many big systems, distributed and especially microservice architectures become more and more popular. With the increase of modules and services, one incoming request could cross dozens of service. How to pinpoint the issues of the online system, and the bottleneck of the whole distributed system? This became a very important problem, which must be resolved.