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Monitoring in the Age of the Internet: DEM, IPM, and APM-What You Need to Know

Jan 8, 2025 By Gerardo Dada In Catchpoint
Gartner recently published the first ever Magic Quadrant for Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM). This landmark report raises important questions about what DEM is and why we need a new category now. It also prompts discussions about how DEM, Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM), and Application Performance Monitoring (APM) relate to each other and what roles they play in modern monitoring strategies.
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Engineering AI systems with Model Context Protocol

Jan 7, 2025 By Reilly Oldham In Raygun
On November 26, 2024, Anthropic released the Model Context Protocol (MCP)-an open standard for data exchange between applications and data sources. MCP simplifies how Large Language Models (LLMs) interact with external tools and data, addressing the challenges developers face when integrating AI into their systems. At Raygun, we've been exploring agentic workflows to improve productivity and saw real potential in MCP. This post will explain how MCP works, what we've implemented, and where we think the standard is headed.
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eg innovations

What is Event Correlation? And Why Does Event Correlation Matter when Monitoring?

Jan 2, 2025 By Rachel Berry In eG Innovations
Event correlation in the context of an AIOps (Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations) monitoring tool, such as eG Enterprise, is the automated process of analyzing and linking related IT events to identify patterns, root causes, and significant incidents within complex IT environments. By correlating events from various sources (like servers, applications, networks, and databases), AIOps tools help IT teams manage alerts more efficiently, reduce noise, and address issues faster and more effectively.
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signoz

Comparing The Top 9 Datadog Alternatives and Competitors in 2025

Jan 2, 2025 By Ankit Anand In SigNoz
Answer a few questions to get personalized recommendations in 30 seconds Start Now The rising costs and complexities of monitoring cloud infrastructure are pushing many organizations to explore alternatives to Datadog. With monthly bills sometimes reaching thousands of dollars and feature sets that can be overwhelming, teams are looking for practical, cost-effective solutions that better fit their needs.
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DataDog vs Prometheus - Comprehensive Comparison Guide [2025]

Jan 2, 2025 By Ankit Anand In SigNoz
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.
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signoz

Kibana vs. Grafana - A Scenario-Based Decision Guide [2025]

Jan 2, 2025 By Favour Daniel In SigNoz
Both Kibana and Grafana are data visualization tools providing users capabilities to explore, analyze and visualize data with dashboards. The difference between Kibana and Grafana lies in their genesis. Kibana was built on top of the Elasticsearch stack, famous for log analysis and management. In comparison, Grafana was created mainly for metrics monitoring supporting visualization for time-series databases.
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signoz

Top 14 ELK alternatives [open source included] in 2025

Jan 2, 2025 By Ankit Anand In SigNoz
ELK is the acronym Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana, and combined together, it is one of the most popular log analytics tools. Elastic changed the license of Elasticsearch and Kibana from the fully open Apache 2 license to a proprietary dual license. The ELK stack is also hard to manage at scale. In this article, we will discuss 14 ELK alternatives that you can consider using.
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Top 11 Grafana Alternatives & Competitors [2025]

Jan 2, 2025 By Favour Daniel In SigNoz
Are you looking for Grafana alternatives? Then you have come to the right place. Grafana started as a data visualization tool. It slowly evolved into a tool that can take data from multiple data sources for visualization. For observability, Grafana offers the LGTM stack (Loki for logs, Grafana for visualization, Tempo for traces, and Mimir for metrics). You need to configure and maintain multiple configurations for a full-stack observability setup.
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