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LogicMonitor Leads the Pack in G2's Fall 2023 Enterprise Monitoring Reports

Building upon momentum from the first half of the year, LogicMonitor maintains several Leader rankings across G2 Fall 2023 Reports, including Grid Reports, across multiple categories. Released on September 12, 2023, G2’s Fall 2023 Reports award badges and recognition based on responses of real users featured in the G2 review form.

Grafana Scenes is generally available: start building highly interactive apps today

Grafana Scenes is a frontend library that allows you to effortlessly extend Grafana, enabling capabilities that were once deemed unattainable, or exceedingly challenging, for Grafana app plugin developers. We first introduced Grafana Scenes with the launch of Grafana 10 at GrafanaCON 2023. Now, after 3 months in private preview, we are excited to announce that we are graduating Grafana Scenes to general availability.

How to monitor SaaS Environments with a Google Chrome Plugin

Explore the capabilities of this Chrome plugin, the 'Elastic APM JavaScript Injector'. This tool injects the Elastic APM JavaScript agent into any web page, allowing you to gather crucial performance metrics right in your browser. In this video, we walk you through the installation process, demonstrate how to set up your Elastic APM server URL, and show you how the plugin works in the background to measure performance metrics. Please remember, always respect privacy policies and only monitor sites you have explicit permission to monitor. Happy Monitoring!

5 Best Network Vulnerability Scanners

Whether you work in banking, education, or run a small business, your network’s security is essential. After all, an insecure network can result in data breaches, theft, unauthorized access, poor network performance, a tarnished reputation, and more. To better understand the state of your network and bolster your network’s defense against current and potential threats, consider using network vulnerability scanners or detection tools to quickly detect existing loopholes.

Getting started with OpenTelemetry instrumentation with a sample application

Application performance management (APM) has moved beyond traditional monitoring to become an essential tool for developers, offering deep insights into applications at the code level. With APM, teams can not only detect issues but also understand their root causes, optimizing software performance and end-user experiences. The modern landscape presents a wide range of APM tools and companies offering different solutions. Additionally, OpenTelemetry is becoming the open ingestion standard for APM.

Fly.io with Sentry

When developers build and deploy their apps, understanding what’s slow or broken in production is more a necessity than a convenience. With Sentry, developers are able to quickly pinpoint and fix issues that impact their end users or business, and we want every developer to have the best error monitoring in place from the moment they deploy code to production. So we’re partnering with Fly.io to do just that.

Next.js vs. React Performance

In the early days of the web, the idea of performance was relatively straightforward. Pages were static, and the most dynamic thing you might encounter was a blinking banner ad. But as the web evolved, so did our ambitions. Today it's not just about building web pages anymore; it's about crafting experiences. Load speed time and search engine optimization (SEO) matter just as much as the content on the page. Thus, the choice between React and Next.js is an important one, with real-world implications.