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4 Best Tools to Measure and Reduce Network Latency

If your network operations are slow and inefficient, you could be having issues with your latency. Latency measures how long it takes for data to move from one place to another. There are many reasons why you could be experiencing network latency—propagation time, transmission delays, and processing delays are all common causes of latency. When latency occurs, it negatively affects the performance of your network.

Risky Business: Implementing a Redundant Networking and Multi-CDN Monitoring Strategy

Last month, we partnered with AWS to put together a webinar on the importance of implementing a comprehensive redundant networking and multi-CDN monitoring strategy. You can replay the event in full here. In this article, we’ll recap the key takeaways covered by the panel of experts who included Leo Vasiliou, Director of Product Marketing at Catchpoint, and Steve Campbell, our Chief Strategy Officer.

DevOps State of Mind Podcast Episode 1: Trust, tooling, and a no-blame culture with LogDNA

Tucker Callaway is the CEO of LogDNA. He has more than 20 years of experience in enterprise software with an emphasis on developer and DevOps tools. Tucker fosters a DevOps culture at LogDNA by tying technical projects to business outcomes, practicing extreme transparency, and empowering every person in the company to contribute.

Generate span-based metrics to track historical trends in application performance

Tracing has become essential for monitoring today’s increasingly distributed architectures. But complex production applications produce an extremely high volume of traces, which are prohibitively expensive to store and nearly impossible to sift through in time-sensitive situations. Most traditional tracing solutions address these operational challenges by making sampling decisions before a request even begins its path through your system (i.e., head-based sampling).

Get planet-scale monitoring with Managed Service for Prometheus

Prometheus, the de facto standard for Kubernetes monitoring, works well for many basic deployments, but managing Prometheus infrastructure can become challenging at scale. As Kubernetes deployments continue to play a bigger role in enterprise IT, scaling Prometheus for a large number of metrics across a global footprint has become a pressing need for many organizations.

Logz.io Moves to Embrace OpenSearch at the Core of its Platform

As Logz.io prepares to hold its annual ScaleUP user conference tomorrow, celebrating another amazing year of customer success and continued advancement of our observability platform, we’ve got exciting news to share about our involvement with the OpenSearch project.

Real Time eCommerce Analytics: The Only Solution for the Holiday Season

Digital trade and eCommerce companies are generating transactions in more significant quantities than ever before. In 2020, eCommerce sales made up 19% of all worldwide retail transactions, representing $26.7 trillion in revenue. The cornerstone of any eCommerce company is providing a seamless, reliable experience where customers can log into a clean interface, browse products, and make purchases quickly and on-demand. Increased digitization after the pandemic has only heightened the stakes.

How to Measure and Improve Your Serverless Application's Health

This article will cover how the health of your serverless application can be measured and improved. Technology and its implementation methodology evolve with time very rapidly. Cost efficiency and productivity are the key drivers of technological evolution these days. With the advent of the cloud, infrastructure costs have been brought down significantly. Serverless technology adds icing to the cake!

11 Reasons Why You Should Migrate to Next-Generation DX APM

The current version of DX APM continues a long history of innovation for APM technology. More than two decades ago, the solution was the pioneer in byte code instrumentation. DX APM is now a next-generation solution for today’s complex and hybrid enterprise environments. Figure 1: Broadcom’s DX APM has evolved from Wily Technology’s invention of byte code instrumentation-based APM, which was introduced in 1998.