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In today’s digital landscape, the performance and reliability of messaging systems are paramount for business operations. Systems like IBM MQ play a crucial role in ensuring seamless communication between different parts of an application, impacting everything from transaction processing to customer experiences. To optimize these systems, it’s essential to focus on robust monitoring, efficient troubleshooting, and effective tuning techniques.

Four years ago, we stepped on some big toes with our developer-first performance monitoring. Since then thousands of software teams have adopted our modern APM solution. But while Performance checks off a lot of boxes, some dev teams juggle separate tools for metrics, leading to a fractured experience. And honestly, what good is a metric without all the context you get from Sentry? Not very – it makes tying problems back to underlying errors or performance issues unnecessarily difficult.

Wherever end-user success is critical to a business, your website’s functionality needs diligent testing. Therefore web application monitoring is required for many organizations. Conducting web application monitoring can also offer a whole host of additional advantages to organizations. For example, tracking user interactions and behaviors within the web application aids your organization in understanding how users engage with your application.

As a new company poised to transform the financial services industry with its modern money movement platform, Moov wanted an equally modern observability platform as part of the company’s operational tech stack. With Moov's platform hosted in Google Cloud, it uses a diverse range of technologies to allow clients to accept, store, send, and spend money. The integration of numerous software providers further amplifies the complexity of each transaction.

DevOps professionals know that ensuring optimal application performance is paramount. More and more customers and prospects interact with companies online, and any hiccup can impact your bottom line. What’s more, companies continue to leverage cloud-native apps for improved flexibility and resource optimization. All of which means that Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools need to evolve.

This post explains how databases optimize queries, which can result in queries running hundreds of times faster. While we focus on one specific query type that is important to InfluxDB 3.0, the optimization process we describe is the same for any database.

Behind the scenes of any IT infrastructure lies the ongoing challenge of monitoring and managing never-ending systems, applications, and network devices. As an IT professional, your task list always includes staying ahead of potential issues, minimizing downtime, and navigating disruptive alerts.

We know monitoring your AWS environment can be difficult, which is why we’re thrilled to tell you about a new application we’ve built to make the entire process easier, more efficient, and more intuitive. We’ve offered AWS monitoring capabilities for some time, but with the AWS Observability application in Grafana Cloud, we’ve distilled our collective efforts into a more integrated and potent solution.