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APM vs Tracing vs Observability

Application Performance Monitoring (APM), tracing, and observability are fundamental software development and system management approaches. Each of these three concepts uniquely ensures that your applications operate, efficiently, smoothly, and reliably. Your organisation will more than likely already adopt one of these approaches, or even two, potentially all three.

What is Infrastructure Monitoring?

Infrastructure Monitoring can be a powerful tool for engineers to analyze, visualize and comprehend if a backend is affecting users, by collecting health and performance data from containers, servers, databases, virtual machines, and other backend components in a tech stack. Within this article, we will outline what Infrastructure Monitoring is, how it works, what Infrastructure Monitoring as a Service is, and some benefits of the solution.

What is Network Monitoring?

Today, more than ever, as IT environments become more diverse and complex, the need for an effective network monitoring solution has become paramount. However, with the digital environment, it’s constantly ever-evolving, so, these tools must keep pace with these changes to ensure they are still effective for users diagnosing issues and identifying bottlenecks within their network.

Create a logs app plugin with Grafana Scenes and Grafana Loki

Grafana’s plugin tools help developers extend Grafana’s core functionality and create plugins faster, with a modern build setup and zero configuration. Grafana Scenes, meanwhile, is a new front-end library, introduced with Grafana 10, that enables developers to create dashboard-like experiences — such as querying and transformations, dynamic panel rendering, and time ranges — directly within Grafana application plugins.