AppSignal now offers Apollo Gateway support, giving you span-level gateway performance insights to enhance Apollo Gateway performance in your Node.js applications. In this blog post, we'll give you a whistle-stop tour of how to instrument and monitor Apollo Gateway requests in your Node.js application.

OpenTelemetry has emerged as a key open source tool in the observability space. And as organizations use it to manage more of their telemetry data, they also need to understand how to make it work across their various environments. This guide is focused on scaling the OpenTelemetry Collector deployment across various Linux hosts to function as both gateways and agents within your observability architecture.

Kubernetes 1.30, the latest release from the Kubernetes project, introduces several significant updates that enhance the orchestration capabilities of the platform. This release continues the trend of evolving Kubernetes into a more robust, scalable, and secure system for managing containerized applications across diverse environments. Below, we delve into the key updates in Kubernetes 1.30.

If your organization is looking for guidance on IT Service Management (ITSM), there are many possible sources of help. Though some approaches are more popular than others, several ITSM frameworks can be useful to organizations. These procedures can be used alone or blended, so your organization can take what it needs from one or all of these ITSM best practice guidance bodies.

For someone experiencing a mental health or substance abuse crisis, receiving timely access to care is critical. Recognizing a growing need for behavioral health intervention, San Diego County launched its Telecare Mobile Crisis Response Team (MCRT) to provide no-cost, in-person support. “With mental health crises on the rise, counties are trying to figure out how to implement something that supports folks in the community,” said Bre Lane, Program Administrator at MCRT.

Website response time is a critical factor that impacts user experience and search engine rankings. This article explores the importance of website response time, its components, and how it differs from page load time. We'll also discuss the impact of slow response times and provide standards for good performance.

At Cycle, we've taken a distinctive approach to VPN services, integrating them at the environment level of our platform. In a landscape where complexity can escalate quickly, anchoring each VPN to an environment–a VPC spanning the nodes of a cluster– simplifies management and maintains a high level of isolation.

API requests are an essential part of modern software development, allowing applications to communicate and exchange data with each other. In this article, we'll explore what API requests are, how they work, and the various components that make up a successful API call.

Modern organizations face a challenge in handling the massive volumes of log data—often scaling to terabytes—that they generate across their environments every day. Teams rely on this data to help them identify, diagnose, and resolve issues more quickly, but how and where should they store logs to best suit this purpose? For many organizations, the immediate answer is to consolidate all logs remotely in higher-cost indexed storage to ready them for searching and analysis.

Website downtime can be a frustrating and costly experience for both website owners and visitors. This article will explore the common causes of website downtime and provide practical tips on how to prevent and minimize its impact on your website's availability and performance.