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Grafana is a popular open-source tool for visualizing and analyzing data from various sources. It provides a platform for creating interactive, customizable dashboards that display real-time data in various formats, including graphs, tables, and alerts. When powered by Mezmo's Telemetry Pipeline, Grafana can access a wide range of data sources and provide a unified view of the performance and behavior of complex systems.

At a recent training session, Jeli spent a great deal of time covering incident retrospectives and what makes an incident worthy of studying. My colleague Ben Hartshorne asked a fascinating question, which I’ll paraphrase here: That caught me by surprise. We had a great discussion, and it made me consider approaches I hadn’t before.

If you want to deliver an outstanding user experience you must know the differences between DEM and RUM. In this modern world, businesses are embracing digitization to provide better services to their customers. However, customer expectations and preferences have changed drastically over time. To address customer demands, businesses have started investing in systems and applications that enhance the user experience.

OpenTelemetry was launched in May 2019, as a merger of the OpenCensus and OpenTracing projects. The open-source, vendor-neutral project resides within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), which virtually ensures its longevity and widespread adoption. In fact, OpenTelemetry has gained significant traction in recent years, with support from many major cloud providers and the tech industry.

What do network operators want most from all their hard work? The answer is a stable, reliable, performant network that delivers great application experiences to people. In daily network operations, that means deep, extensive, and reliable network observability. In other words, the answer is a data-driven approach to gathering and analyzing a large volume and variety of network telemetry so that engineers have the insight they need to keep things running smoothly.

Today we have exciting news for Grafana customers with Flight SQL data sources: Now there is a new community plugin available for Grafana that allows it to communicate with Flight-SQL-compatible databases. Flight SQL is a client-server protocol developed by the Apache Arrow community for interacting with SQL databases. It utilizes the Flight RPC framework and the Arrow in-memory columnar format.

When you sign into the Roblox platform, you get 30 million immersive experiences, ranging from concerts to fashion shows to, of course, video games. But when the observability team at Roblox logs on, they’re not playing around. The Roblox observability engineers are responsible for keeping more than 214 million monthly users happy and engaged by making the wildly popular gaming platform highly available around the world.

Catchpoint and ITOps Times break down 6 critical topics you need to understand to ensure Internet Resilience for your business in this bi-weekly microwebinar series, each lasting less than 10 minutes. Explore each of the topics in the series: In this second installment, we’ll dive deeper into the world of Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM). Learn how IPM can help you proactively find and fix issues in your Internet Stack before they impact the business.

In today’s fast-paced and highly-competitive gaming industry, providing a seamless and enjoyable gaming experience is essential to retain users. Games need to be responsive, offer high-resolution graphics, continuous uptime, and handle a huge amount of transactions. Having strong log analytics solution is essential to improve performance, identify issues, and fine-tune the player experience.

Regardless of an organization’s industry or size, virtually every critical business activity or service is at least partly reliant upon network connectivity. When network performance slows or issues arise that halt critical end-user services, it can be very costly to an organization. Lost employee productivity, eroded customer loyalty, and reduced sales can all be among the ramifications for even relatively brief service interruptions.