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appsignal

Project Managing Multiple Applications with AppSignal

Mar 12, 2025 By Michael Kurt In AppSignal
As a project manager for a small Rails agency, I find it challenging to keep track of every client’s application. Is the site live? Is it stable? Do we have a silent issue that frequently rears its head? AppSignal makes things like anomaly detection, uptime monitoring, and issue resolution easy, even for a non-technical project manager!
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lightrun

Flowing with Your Code: How Lightrun's Dynamic Traces Help Debug Complex Application Flows

Mar 12, 2025 By Barark Ben Ari In Lightrun
Debugging software, whether during development or incident investigation, often begins with a manual and error-prone process. Developers typically scatter logs and snapshots across the codebase, allowing them to trigger multiple times. They then inspect the outputs and sift through the results to identify those relevant to the issue under investigation. Developers tend to group results that stem from the same user request or transaction.
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New Storage Support in SolarWinds 2025.1! | HPE Alletra, Dell PowerStore & More!

Mar 12, 2025 By SolarWinds In SolarWinds
New in SolarWinds Platform 2025.1! We’ve added support for HPE Alletra 5k, 6k, 9k, GreenLake for Block, and Dell PowerStore Q models — giving you deeper visibility into your storage infrastructure. In this quick walkthrough, SolarWinds Evangelist Chrystal Taylor dives into the HPE Alletra support now live in our online demo, showing you how to explore: Cluster performance & health Storage details (block, file, hardware) LUNs and more!
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last9

Performance Impact of High Cardinality in Time-Series DBs

Mar 12, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Time-series databases have become the backbone of modern observability, financial analytics, and IoT systems. But there's a common challenge that can bring even the most robust systems to their knees: high cardinality. When your database starts tracking millions of unique values across various dimensions, performance doesn't just dip—it can collapse entirely. Let's understand the technical details of what happens when cardinality spikes and how you can architect your systems to handle it.
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last9

Syslog Monitoring: A Guide to Log Management and Analysis

Mar 12, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Relying on syslogs to debug issues at odd hours? It happens to the best of us. A solid syslog setup isn’t just about collecting logs—it’s about making them useful. This guide walks through setting up syslog, configuring it for better visibility, and using monitoring techniques that actually help when things go wrong. No fluff, just practical steps you can use right away.
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last9

Prometheus Port Configuration: A Detailed Guide

Mar 12, 2025 By Prathamesh Sonpatki In Last9
Setting up Prometheus should be straightforward, but when metrics stop flowing, it’s usually something simple—like a port issue. Misconfigure it, and suddenly, your whole monitoring setup feels like a guessing game. This guide breaks down how to configure Prometheus ports properly, whether you're sticking to defaults or need a custom setup.
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honeybadger

Easy debugging with Laravel breadcrumbs and Honeybadger

Mar 12, 2025 By X/Twitter Author Twitter In Honeybadger
If you're building web applications and care about your users, Laravel breadcrumbs can help you debug why you're seeing an error, giving you greater insight into what users are experiencing. It's easy to take advantage of this feature and add breadcrumbs without much extra configuration, especially if you're already using Honeybadger. Here's a quick walkthrough.
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Reading Flame Charts for Web Performance

Mar 12, 2025 By Request Metrics In Request Metrics
Learn how to decode flame charts in this essential Concepts of Web Performance tutorial with Todd Gardner from Request Metrics. Perfect for entry-level web developers, this quick guide demystifies the intimidating flame charts found in Chrome DevTools that visualize your browser's main thread activity. Discover how to identify performance bottlenecks by understanding the color-coding system—gray for browser tasks, blue for HTML parsing, purple for layout and paint operations, dark yellow for script compilation, and light yellow for JavaScript execution.
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grafana

Telemetry pipeline management at any scale: Fleet Management in Grafana Cloud is generally available

Mar 12, 2025 By Edwin Onattu In Grafana
We announced Fleet Management in Grafana Cloud last year to solve the pain points that come with managing dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of telemetry collectors across departments and environments. And today we’re excited to announce that Fleet Management is generally available for all Grafana Cloud users who need help managing telemetry collector deployments at scale.
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