Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Welcome to week 2 of GrafanaCONline 2021! There are three more days of programming that you can tune into live by registering here. You will also be able to watch all the videos on demand after GrafanaCONline ends on June 17. Here’s what you missed on Day 3 of GrafanaCONline.

Like a bratty teenager, traditional monitoring answers your questions, but does so in a terse, unhelpful manner: Why is my page slow? Guess it’s the API call. It’s a 504 thing — you wouldn’t understand. Ok, so why is the API call slow? Ask your DB query. Gosh! You need a better conversation with your code — one which gives you contextual clues about your application’s performance.

[Denver, CO] - Scout APM, a leading provider of Application Performance Monitoring (APM), announced the release of Scout Error Monitoring for Ruby applications on June 1, 2021. Scout APM provides developers and application administrators software performance insights by delivering key web application performance metrics.

If you’re feeling burnt out or drained at work, you’re not alone. Burnout is an all too common feeling in the information technology industry, especially now that work-life balance has become a bigger challenge due to remote work. Burnout leads to people feeling overwhelmed and chronically exhausted, which in turn can increase stress levels, reduce well-being, and affect you physically and mentally.

If it’s not broke, don’t fix it… or so the saying goes. But at RapidSpike that just doesn’t cut the innovative mustard, so we’ve redesigned our website, overhauled our branding and done it all with the intention of highlighting the core functionality behind the RapidSpike site for the customer’s benefit. Here’s what we did and why.

Modern web applications can be complex. A typical application stack usually involves several components spread across different layers. For example, HTML5 and AngularJS can make up a site’s front end. User inputs and queries from the front end can be passed on to containerized microservices running on a middleware, which in turn could pass the queries to a back-end database. Systems like WAFs and LDAP servers can be used for security and authentication.

In incident management, observability is the ability of an organization or team to infer a system's internal state from its external outputs.

Ensuring a productive remote workspace was one of the main priorities of many enterprises and organization in 2020. A majority of the global workforce across different industry verticals, including the healthcare industry, were forced to work remotely. Healthcare organizations had to quickly update infrastructure and software to support the shift without compromising productivity.