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An Exploration of Runtime Metrics: Node's Event Loop

May 6, 2020 By Bruce MacNaughton In SolarWinds

What Are Runtime Metrics? Runtime metrics can help us understand how an application is performing. SolarWinds® AppOptics™, a SaaS-based, full-stack infrastructure and application monitoring tool, now reports four categories of runtime metrics: CPU, memory, garbage collection times, and event loop times. Each metric category provides a view into how resources are used by an application.

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The Massive DevOps Efficiency Problem No One Wants to Talk About

May 5, 2020 By Jina Na In AppDynamics

How do you juggle release speed and quality while still accelerating the pace of innovation? The first step is streamlining your DevOps approach.

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Datadog vs. InfluxDB

May 5, 2020 By Al Sargent In InfluxData

If you’re responsible for monitoring, chances are you’ve heard of Datadog. Like InfluxDB, Datadog is a monitoring platform for cloud applications, bringing together data from containers, servers, databases, and third-party services. InfluxData and Datadog approach monitoring from different starting points. InfluxDB is an open-source time-series data platform that can be used for a range of use cases, one of which is monitoring.

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Identifying EC2 Right Sizing Opportunities for Cost Optimization | Datadog Tips & Tricks

May 4, 2020 By Datadog In Datadog

In this video, you’ll learn how to identify right sizing opportunities for your EC2 instances utilizing Datadog metric dashboards. Optimizing your cloud footprint for cost efficiency can be a huge task, especially for large and scaling environments. Utilizing time series data and toplists, Datadog dashboards allow you to see chronically underutilized EC2s in your AWS environment. Template variables allow you to sort EC2s by teams and instance types, so you quickly identify the scope of cost saving opportunities across your organization.

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Gartner's Critical Capabilities for 2020: Helping Business Leaders Understand the Value of APM

May 4, 2020 By Adrienne Jack In AppDynamics

The biggest takeaway from Gartner’s 2020 Critical Capabilities report: Business leaders have a larger stake than ever in APM buying decisions.

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The Expensive History of APM

May 4, 2020 By Patrick Hubbard In SolarWinds

When done well, application performance monitoring (APM) is a magical and irreplaceable tool. However, over the years, enterprises have sometimes paid dearly to implement it. APM’s task seems simple enough—replace emotional user anecdotes about application performance with quantifiable, actionable data. But the devil can certainly be in the details with APM.

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Distributed tracing using Jaeger with Cassandra

May 1, 2020 By Ankit Nayan In SigNoz

With microservices becoming popular, tracing is increasingly more important in debugging production software. In this post, we take you through a step by step guide on setting up Jaeger over Kubernetes with Cassandra storage.

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Show germainAPM Dashboards in a rotative presentation mode (great for war rooms)

May 1, 2020 By Germain UX In Germain UX

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germainAPM filtering

May 1, 2020 By Germain UX In Germain UX

germainAPM's filtering mechanism allows you to perform big data search across your data sources

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NodeJS Instrumentation - Adding Custom Tags to Spans | Datadog Tips & Tricks

Apr 30, 2020 By Datadog In Datadog

In part 1 of this 4 part series, you’ll learn how to use manual instrumentation to add additional detail to traces. We’ll add new tags, or attributes, to the spans generated by our NodeJS application, allowing for more insightful data visualizations in App Analytics.

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