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December 2022

Monitoring Integrations with Third-party APIs

Accessorizing can completely turn around your look. Same way, the apps we make may also feel patchy sometimes, but then, if we bring in third-party resources - such as third-party API integrations, it can drastically enhance our application’s performance. These additional API integrations expand the functionality of your application tremendously, for example, you might add a real-time alerting feature to an analytics tool you built!

How to Deploy a D2iQ Kubernetes Platform Cluster Using ClusterAPI

This video will demonstrate how CAPI is used as part of the D2iQ Kubernetes Platform (DKP) installation, while deploying a DKP cluster. By simplifying Kubernetes deployment and management, DKP enables your organization to gain all the benefits of cloud-native Kubernetes while establishing a future-proof foundation for smart cloud-native innovation.

Multi-Cluster Lifecycle Management With DKP and ClusterAPI (CAPI)

This video will demonstrate how a D2iQ Kubernetes Platform (DKP) management cluster can be used to deploy new DKP clusters. In addition, we will also demonstrate how to attach an existing DKP cluster to a DKP management cluster, and put it under the management cluster's control, and how to detach and delete clusters under management control.

Serverless360 API Monitor and the Azure Management API

We have recently added the API Monitoring feature to Serverless360 and this opens up a wide range of monitoring opportunities. The principle of API Monitor is that you have an API endpoint that you want Serverless360 to periodically call and then you will make assertions against the response to check if the API is healthy or not.

Best Practices for API Versioning

As your experience and knowledge of a system grow, change becomes inevitable. Your application requirements change, your bug fixes require code changes, and your APIs evolve. A key challenge in the software ecosystem is managing changes—especially when they concern APIs. Because you’re likely using APIs in multiple applications, you must document all updates and changes made to your APIs. This is where API versioning becomes crucial.

Update: Expanding our new API functionality

Today we continue on our journey towards being API-first with two new updates – non-expiring tokens and regenerating API keys. As you may have seen, late last month we made the exciting announcement about the launch of our Public API. Delivering a world-class API is a core focus here at Raygun. We’re on a mission to give you greater control over how you can extract, manipulate, and visualize the powerful insights surfaced in Raygun, so that you can use them in exciting new ways.

Introducing our new API and Metrics servers upgrades

We are all about providing the best web deployment experience on the market. Working to ensure that our product is delivering the quality we promise with regular product updates and new features being introduced all the time. And that’s exactly why we’re here! We’re delighted to share the new version of our API server and Metrics server, designed to optimize transparency, crons, builds and sources operations control- to name but a few. Ready to find out more? Keep on scrolling.

How to Bypass TOTP-Based 2FA Login Flows With Playwright

Testing applications behind a login flow is cumbersome. And it gets even worse when there’s two-factor authentication (2FA) involved. Many people work around this problem by disabling it or implementing wild hacks. Automating a 2FA-based login flow is just too hard! I thought that for a long time, too. But I must admit — I was wrong.

How Locus Decreased Customer-Reported Issues by 95% With Synthetic Monitoring from Checkly

Learn how Locus uses advanced synthetic monitoring from Checkly to ensure the reliability of its Dispatch Management Platform Locus.sh is a leading-edge technology company solving one of the most challenging global supply chain problems: last-mile logistics. Locus' order-to-delivery dispatch management platform helps enterprises transform their last-mile logistics operations into growth centers.

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The Role of Kubernetes in Production Traffic Replication

Organizations are starting to realize that simply writing tests to generate traffic is simply not good enough. Rather, production traffic replication is now necessary, where you record traffic from your production environment and then replay it in your development environment. To match the modern principles of this testing methodology, it makes sense to also utilize modern infrastructure, like Kubernetes. Some benefits of using Kubernetes for production traffic replication are the ability to: Additionally, load generators are ephemeral. These reasons-and a few more besides-will be covered later in this post, but let's first take a deeper look at what production traffic replication is.

How Load Testing and Mocks Work Together

If you’ve worked with load testing before, you know that there are a lot of things to consider. Whether or not you should combine load testing and mocks is one of those considerations. Getting to the answer requires knowledge of your infrastructure and your development procedures, which will all influence what questions you need to ask yourself.

Announcing Incident Management and Updated Dashboards

Over the last few years, many customers have asked us to update our current public dashboards with new features so they can more effectively communicate what is happening with their checks to external customers or internal users. We’ve taken that input to heart, and we’re pleased to announce the availability of redesigned dashboards for Checkly.

How to Get Started with Software Testing

You’ve forgotten to add frontend validation to number fields, and now people are getting an error when they enter text into those fields. However, this is an issue that’s easily preventable—by implementing a proper test that checks for edge cases, but how do get started with software testing? Avoiding bugs in production is just one advantage of testing, it also helps you be more confident about your applications, opens up the potential for a full CI/CD pipeline, and much more.

The Case for Monitoring as Code

You build it; you own it! It’s a simple mantra that has driven software development for years. The days of writing software and throwing it over the wall to operations teams are over. Instead, software development teams take ownership of what they do and own their own software operations. There is just one problem: Monitoring tools have not yet adopted the developer workflow. As a developer, the repository is the center of the workflow. It's the one single source of truth.

API Monitoring in SigNoz - Monitoring Key APIs with Dashboards

More about SigNoz: SigNoz - Monitor your applications and troubleshoot problems in your deployed applications, an open-source alternative to DataDog, New Relic, etc. Backed by Y Combinator. SigNoz helps developers monitor applications and troubleshoot problems in their deployed applications. SigNoz uses distributed tracing to gain visibility into your software stack. If you need any clarification or find something missing, feel free to raise a GitHub issue with the label documentation or reach out to us at the community slack channel.

4 API Security Best Practices To Safeguard Sensitive Data

Thanks to the increasing usage of different software solutions, API usage has become an everyday practice. As such, API security is a more prevalent issue in app development than ever before. SaaS companies have an average of 350 integrations, whereas major SaaS companies like Slack, Zoom and Shopify have 2,000+ integrations. This is great for developers and end users, as Application Programming Interfaces (API) make life easier.