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New API endpoints for deployments

This enhancement is part of Raygun’s 12 Days of Christmas 2024. Over the next few weeks, we’ll share daily updates on bug fixes and feature improvements inspired by feedback from you, our customers. These are the small but impactful changes you’ve asked for, designed to make Raygun faster and easier to use. Check back tomorrow for the next update and see how we’re leveling up your experience one day at a time! Our special thanks to Andrew from the U.K.

How I reduced an API call from >5 seconds to under 100ms

Given that 100% of the databases I have interacted with in my professional career have been SQL databases, my data-based mental model (please enjoy my pun) has always defaulted to a relational one. However, when spinning up a tiny side project in 2020 (a bot to provide interactivity to my Twitch stream), my data-storing requirements didn’t call for a relational model at the time, so I chose a NoSQL solution: MongoDB.

New API endpoint to delete all source maps

This enhancement is part of Raygun’s 12 Days of Christmas 2024. Over the next few weeks, we’ll share daily updates on bug fixes and feature improvements inspired by feedback from you, our customers. These are the small but impactful changes you’ve asked for, designed to make Raygun faster and easier to use. Check back tomorrow for the next update and see how we’re leveling up your experience one day at a time! Our special thanks to Kelvin from the U.K.

What are Preview Environments?

Local preview environments are transforming how developers test and validate code changes before merging them into the main codebase. Acting as temporary cloud environments, they provide a production-like setting where new features and bug fixes can be tested in isolation, catching issues early and streamlining the development code review process. These environments are crucial for enhancing development velocity, especially in CI/CD workflows used by DevOps engineers and QA teams.

Easiest Way to Monitor Your API Endpoints Using Telegraf

Monitoring the health of your API endpoints is crucial to keeping your applications running smoothly and ensuring users have a reliable experience. Keeping an eye on 4XX and 5XX status codes can help you spot issues like client errors, misconfigurations, or server problems before they get out of hand. Plus, setting up alerts for when these errors spike allows you to react quickly, fix problems, and maintain a high-quality service that your users can count on.

Prometheus Blackbox Exporter vs Kuberhealthy for K8s monitoring

We all implement tools to monitor our nodes and keep our entire cluster up and running. But how often do updates, failures, or errors mean that users suffer outages, even though our status boards look green? As Kubernetes has enabled more complex microservice architecture, the gap between the state of the dashboard, and the health of services for the user, has grown wider.

API update: Manage source maps

We’re thrilled to announce the latest endpoints for the Raygun API - Source maps. This new release allows developers to efficiently add or remove their sourcemaps, with increased flexibility and control over their Raygun platform. The Raygun API now gives you multiple endpoints to manage your JavaScript source maps, making handling error tracking for your web apps easier than ever.

The new "toMatchAriaSnapshot" assertion and Aria in Playwright

Dive into the latest Playwright 1.49 release with Stefan Judis, Playwright ambassador, as he discusses "toMatchAriaSnapshot", a new assertion for end-to-end page validations. In this video, Stefan discusses using recommended Playwright locators, the importance of ARIA and accessibility in end-to-end testing and demonstrates the new "toMatchAriaSnapshot" assertion.