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The latest News and Information on Application Performance Monitoring and related technologies.

ROI Benefits of APM Tools

Software applications have become crucial for business growth and success in today's world. However, as businesses become increasingly competitive, the necessity to provide top-notch software applications is also increasing. Additionally, as organisations gravitate towards developing extensive, feature-rich applications, they are witnessing an increase in software complexity – that can often cause things to get out of hand very quickly.

Monitoring - Best Practices for Alerting - New Whitepaper!

When evaluating a monitoring product, it is essential you fully understand its alerting capabilities. Alerting is a responsive action triggered by a change in conditions within the system being monitored. Typically, an alert can be defined by a condition to trigger the alert and an action defining what that alert should do when the trigger condition occurs.

Get Alerted to mission-critical issues directly in Slack

You’ve spoken and we’ve listened and as a result, the highly anticipated Slack integration for Raygun Alerting is here! Once integrated with Slack, you’ll receive customized error, crash, and performance alert notifications directly to the channel of your choosing. Reduce your Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR) and resolve issues in your code before your customers even notice.

Why APM distributed tracing is not enough for developers

Distributed tracing is a method of tracking requests as they propagate through a distributed system. A trace is built from spans. Each span represents an interaction, like an HTTP request, a DB query, a serverless function invocation, etc. A trace is essentially a tree of spans. Based on the collected span data, a distributed tracing platform can capture all the interactions between the different architectural components and tie them together with a trace ID.

Search all apps - understand the impact of an error across your entire tech stack

One of the most requested features for Crash Reporting has been the ability to perform a search across all of your applications rather than by one application at a time (the default behavior). It’s not hard to see why it’s a popular feature request - rather than manually performing the same search across many applications, it would be super handy to perform one search and understand the impact of the search results across all of your applications immediately.

What is Azure Advisor?

Azure Advisor analyzes your configurations and usage telemetry and offers personalized, actionable recommendations to help you optimize your Azure resources for reliability, security, operational excellence, performance, and cost. Azure Advisor is a free service and can be accessed via the GUI on the Azure portal where recommendations are collated and can be manually examined. Azure Advisor makes recommendations for potential improvements in several areas, including.

Application Observability, The Next Step in Application Performance Monitoring

Today’s cloud environments rely on microservices, service meshes, containers, and orchestration tools and are too complex for traditional tools to measure and monitor performance metrics effectively. The number of interdependent services—and the inherently ephemeral nature of cloud workloads—make it challenging to identify which metrics to monitor and issues to troubleshoot down to the root cause.