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April 2023

10 Best Application Performance Monitoring Tools to Keep Your Apps in Top Shape

In today's digital world, applications are the backbone of many businesses. From web-based software to on-premises applications, they allow organizations to streamline their operations, increase productivity, and improve customer experiences. However, with the growing complexity of applications and the increasing demand for seamless performance, it has become crucial to monitor their performance continuously.

Coralogix Deep Dive - Tracking Every Interaction with Tracing and APM

Coralogix Tracing and APM functionality offers a unique troubleshooting experience, with rich information density, without the need to context switch, with native support for Serverless, Kubernetes, EC2 and many other services, as well as an elegant, living architecture diagram that gives instant visibility to even the most complex components of your system.

What is Windows Event Log?

Event logging for Microsoft Windows provides a standard, centralized way for applications and the operating system to record important software and hardware events. The event-logging service (eventlog) stores events from various sources in a single collection called an event log. The system administrator can use the event log to help determine what conditions caused the error and the context in which it occurred. TechTarget have an excellent overview of Windows event logs available.

Datadog Universal Service Monitoring Demo

See how you can get instant visibility into the health of your entire fleet of services—without requiring you to change a single line of code. By automatically discovering, mapping, and monitoring every service and dependency, Universal Service Monitoring allows you to detect issues faster, monitor service performance and SLOs across entire environments, and centralize all the knowledge about your services in a single place.

Challenges in Choosing an APM tool for Fintech Companies in India due to RBI Guidelines

As the growth lead of an open-source APM tool, I keep interacting with developers from companies of all shapes and sizes. I recently talked with a developer from a fintech startup in India. The startup provides a payment processing platform that enables businesses to accept payments from customers worldwide. For them, monitoring is critical, but the dev shared how limited they were when exploring an APM tool for their application. The reason? Reserve Bank of India.

Exciting New Additions to the eG Enterprise Mobile Application

Our latest release of eG Enterprise, version 7.2 is accompanied by significant enhancements and new features for our popular eG Enterprise mobile app for iOS and Android. These apps allow administrators to access the eG Enterprise administrator console on the go and receive meaningful alerts and push notifications with click throughs to deep diagnosis rather than dumb text messages.

Retrace Logging Benefits

More than just APM, Logs inside of trace requests. Centralised Logging allows logs from many sources such as servers, files, applications all into Retrace. Search for log, go straight into trace. Tagging allows to group logs (based on client, developer etc.). Search and filter with any text, tag, regular expression. Save searches. Retrace allows unlimited users, all users can use saved searches. Live Tailing - what's going on the servers at any one time

The Three Pillars of Observability: Metrics, Logs and Traces

Metrics, Logs and Traces are often referred to as The Three Pillars of “Observability“. The term observability has been used in control theory to refer to how the state of a system can be inferred from the system’s external outputs. Applied to IT, observability is how the current state of an application can be assessed based on the data it generates. Applications and the IT components they use provide outputs in the form of metrics, events, logs and traces (MELT).

Monitoring your Express application using OpenTelemetry

Nodejs is a popular Javascript runtime environment that executes Javascript code outside of a web browser. Express is the most popular web frameworks that sits on top of Nodejs and adds functionalities like middleware, routing, etc. to Nodejs. You can monitor your express application using OpenTelemetry and a tracing backend of your choice.

Monitor your Nodejs application with OpenTelemetry and SigNoz

OpenTelemetry can auto-instrument many common modules for a Javascript application. The telemetry data captured can then be sent to SigNoz for analysis and visualization. OpenTelemetry is a set of tools, APIs, and SDKs used to instrument applications to create and manage telemetry data(Logs, metrics, and traces). For any distributed system based on microservice architecture, it's an operational challenge to solve performance issues quickly.

Java performance optimization tips: How to avoid common pitfalls

In this post, we’ll be delving into Java performance optimization, providing you with essential tips to write faster and more efficient code. If you’re reading this, you’re probably already aware of the importance of performance engineering and the need to optimize your code to ensure speed for all users, but even the most seasoned and performance-aware programmers can get tripped up.

Managing Monitoring and Alerting during IT Maintenance

Alerting is a critical feature in monitoring and observability products. The monitoring platform continually tests systems and applications for metrics crossing thresholds, key events in logs and the other warning signs of issues. Alerting ensures that help desks, administrators and IT Ops teams know about issues, or impeding issues and handle communications and remediation rapidly.

Set up application monitoring for your Node JS app in 20 mins with open source - SigNoz

In this article, learn how to setup application monitoring for Node.js apps with our open-source solution, SigNoz. Node.js tops the list of most widely used frameworks by developers. Powered by Google's V8 javascript engine, its performance is incredible. Ryan Dahl, the creator of Node.js, wanted to create real-time websites with push capability. On Nov 8, 2009, Node.js was first demonstrated by Dahl at the inaugural European JSconf.

A Comprehensive Comparison of New Relic and Scout APM

When it comes to getting to the root of a performance problem, nothing beats the lightning-fast speed and precision of Application Performance Management (APM). But choosing between New Relic and Scout can be like navigating a labyrinth of options and considerations. With New Relic, you'll get a top-of-the-line tool that's perfect for some situations, while Scout's streamlined approach fits like a glove in others.

Introduction to Prefix Featuring OpenTelemetry

Prefix puts the power of OpenTelemetry in the hands of developers, supercharging performance optimization for your entire DevOps team. With unmatched observability across user environments, new technologies, frameworks and architectures, Prefix simplifies every step in code development, app creation and ongoing performance optimization for your apps and your team!

12,000+ GitHub stars, better search capabilities, and a more intuitive Logs tab - SigNal 23

Welcome to our monthly product newsletter - SigNal 23! Last month, our team worked on improving the search capabilities across multiple tabs. We also made the logs tab more intuitive by adding color coding in the logs view. We presented SigNoz at an observability-focused meetup and crossed 12,000+ GitHub stars. Let’s dive in to see what humans at SigNoz were up to in the month of March 2023.
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Building vs. buying a digital experience monitoring tool

It's usually possible, and often tempting, to build your own tools. For engineers in particular, there's a strong appeal to having total control over a custom-built product that will perfectly meet your specific requirements. Raygun itself originally came from an internal tool we built to monitor errors in a different product. But as our business matured and we started to think more strategically, we recognized the hidden, lingering costs to our DIY approach, and began to believe that internal tools were a misuse of the time and skills of our development team.

Citrix Logon Simulator Updates - eG Enterprise v7.2

Our latest release, eG Enterprise v7.2 has added a number of enhancements to our leading logon simulators. A large number of our Citrix customers rely on this popular tool to actively test and benchmark the speed and success of logons repeatedly even when no real users are accessing systems.

What is Context Propagation in Distributed Tracing?

In modern microservices-based applications, it is difficult to get an overview of how requests are performing across multiple services, infrastructure, and protocols. As companies began moving to distributed systems, they realized they needed a way to track requests in their entirety for debugging applications. Distributed tracing is a technology that was born out of this need.

New APM Capabilities Help Optimize Application Performance Across Monoliths or Microservices

With the goal of helping you get to the “why” faster, Splunk Observability recently announced several new enhancements to reduce noise and provide more visibility when isolating problems in your environments. Specific to applications and services, whether you operate monolithic or microservices architectures our releases help you easily investigate problems in complex environments. Here’s a roundup of the recent Splunk APM capability releases, and helpful links to help get started now.