In today’s fast-paced IT landscape, efficient application performance monitoring is essential. IT teams need real-time insights, interactive data visualization, and a seamless user experience to detect and resolve issues swiftly. With the latest enhancements to ManageEngine Applications Manager’s dashboard, monitoring is now smarter, faster, and more intuitive than ever before.

As any good cook knows, if you want to create a top-notch dish, you have to use the best ingredients. So when the engineering team for Cookidoo — an online platform and app that features more than 80,000 guided recipes for the Thermomix, an all-in-one kitchen small appliance — realized the observability tool they were using to monitor the platform wasn’t delivering what they needed, they decided to switch to Grafana Cloud and OpenTelemetry.

We consistently roll out helpful updates and fun features in Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform powered by the open source Grafana LGTM Stack (Loki for logs, Grafana for visualization, Tempo for traces, and Mimir for metrics). In case you missed them, here’s our monthly round-up of the latest and greatest Grafana Cloud updates.

In our increasingly serverless world, observability isn’t just a “nice to have”—it’s essential. Serverless functions such as AWS Lambda bring incredible benefits, but they also introduce complexities, especially around monitoring and debugging. In a previous article, I provided a quick, practical guide for sending AWS Lambda traces to Grafana Cloud using OpenTelemetry.

We’re all looking for ways to improve on our incident response. We investigate various metrics and methodologies—all in the name of making sure our customers see the reliable and performant systems we’ve sought to build. In fact, all these efforts are leading us, as an industry, to finally realize the power of surprising anomalous events in our systems. They give us an opportunity to reexamine our expectations and see how our models of the sociotechnical system differs from reality.