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

Azure AD Monitoring Tips and Strategies

The Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is Microsoft’s cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) service and an identity provider (IdP). Azure AD is the backbone for authentication in Microsoft 365 and for thousands of cloud-based SaaS applications. Azure AD provides several features for your organization and one of the features is the Microsoft Identity Platform.

Synthetic testing: A definition and how it compares to Real User Monitoring

Performance monitoring is critical for a healthy software application. If you don’t have synthetic testing or real user monitoring in place, opportunities for performance optimizations are slipping through the cracks. With the guidance of a monitoring tool, on the other hand, you could be fixing problems such as slow-loading pages within the hour. The two main types of application monitoring are Real User Monitoring (RUM) and synthetic testing (or synthetic monitoring).

Datadog on Profiling in Production

Depending on your chosen programming language and stack, you may have never used a profiler in production. The very idea of using a profiler in production for a web service may seem unrealistic, due to the amount of overhead involved. After all, aren’t profilers extremely computationally expensive to run? Despite a reputation for being computationally expensive, many programming languages have examples of profilers built to run in production. The importance of seeing how your application behaves in production is critically important to understanding how it performs in the real world.

5 Capabilities You Should Look for in an Application Performance Monitoring Tool

With the rapid pace of change in applications and the infrastructure they run on, it’s more important now than ever to monitor what’s happening. Using an application performance monitoring (APM) tool can help provide the necessary visibility and insight you need for proactive and reactive problem resolution. But whether you’re looking for a replacement or have no monitoring in place, where do you start?

Advanced filters on the upcoming Traces tab, 40+ PRs and getting featured - SigNal 09

Hola! Welcome to SigNal 09, where I will run you through the updates of the first month of 2022! The focus of the month was our upcoming brand new Traces page. It will enhance the application debugging experience manifolds with powerful filters to see your data across different dimensions. We also launched our Technical Writer Program. The idea is to educate our community more about SigNoz, OpenTelemetry, and distributed tracing among other things.
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What is MTTR? Resolve incidents faster through ops, alerting and documentation

When downtime strikes any distributed software deployment or platform, it's all hands on deck until the lights are green and service is restored. This process, from the recognition of a problem to a deployed solution, has most commonly been defined as MTTR - mean time to resolution. In just the last few years, DevOps and site reliability (SRE) professionals have developed sophisticated new models for how they work and audit their successes. In 2022, MTTR is one of the most widely-used software performance success metrics.

How to get the optimal image size for web

If you’ve ever started a project to improve the load times for your website, web app, or mobile app, your heart is in the right place — but your efforts might not be. For many technology leaders, the first instinct is to blame code and infrastructure. They dive deep into optimizing front-end code, scale infrastructure resources, or migrate to a new type of database-as-a-service offering that promises to process requests a few milliseconds faster.

Better together: Rollbar and Datadog

Modern software development is a high-pressure affair. Competition means getting to market faster with higher quality code and being able to release software quicker, monitor it and both find and fix problems quickly. By using modern tools and building a new approach and workflow to allow for monitoring, observability, and intelligent and actionable alerts it is possible to achieve faster release cycles with higher code quality.