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Alert fatigue plagues cybersecurity and IT professionals, compromising their ability to respond effectively to genuine threats. This phenomenon occurs when an overwhelming volume of alerts desensitizes responders, leading to missed critical notifications and increased security risks. Understanding alert fatigue is crucial for organizations aiming to maintain robust security postures and operational efficiency.

OpenTelemetry can auto-instrument your Java Spring Boot application to capture telemetry data from a number of popular libraries and frameworks that your application might be using. It can be used to collect logs, metrics, and traces from your Spring Boot application. In this tutorial, we will integrate OpenTelemetry with a Spring Boot application for traces and logs. Before the demo begins, let's have a brief overview of OpenTelemetry.

In the world of DevOps and cloud engineering, a new buzzword has emerged: Platform Engineering. This concept has sparked discussions across the industry, with professionals debating whether it replaces traditional DevOps or adds value to it. In reality, Platform engineering transforms how software teams work. It builds on DevOps principles to create self-service tools that boost developer productivity. This approach streamlines workflows, enhances security, and cuts operational costs.

Today I’ll cover a few points on DEX vs. DEM. Many organizations have adopted Digital Employee Experience (DEX) Monitoring, and many Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM), some both. Sometimes the terms are used interchangeably, and sometimes these methodologies overlap. I’ll cover a few points that should hopefully clarify the differences and the overlaps.

This article compares OpenTelemetry and traditional APM tools with their strengths, weaknesses, and ideal use cases to help you choose the right solution for your application performance monitoring needs.

We recently released two new Raygun API endpoints that expose time series aggregations for particular metrics. They enable you to consolidate your company’s metrics into an external dashboard (such as Grafana, Tableau, or PowerBI), correlate errors and page performance with data points that Raygun cannot see, or even perform advanced data analysis.