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Like the fit your friend got on ASOS? There’s a good chance Grafana Cloud had something to do with that. Each year, more than 20 million customers come to the UK-based online retailer to fill their digital carts, and they expect a seamless online experience as they shop and check out. ASOS can consistently provide that with the help of Grafana Cloud. “There are alerts set up for many of our customer-facing journeys,” said Dylan Morley, Lead Principal Engineer at ASOS.

Logs are more than just records. With proper log monitoring, they become the honey that sweetens observability. Observability is your ability to understand and optimize your system’s behavior. Turning raw logs into actionable insights requires the right tools, practices, and insights. This blog post is a guide on log monitoring key concepts and best practices for sweetening your observability.

The Observability Maturity Model helps organizations optimize systems by advancing through stages to improve reliability, performance, and troubleshooting.

At Coroot, we’re passionate about providing developers with the tools they need to build and maintain high-performing applications. Recently, we had the opportunity to help a team using FerretDB, the open-source document database offering MongoDB compatibility with a PostgreSQL backend, significantly improve their monitoring and performance. This is their story.

Learn how OpenTelemetry events enhance observability by providing detailed insights into application performance and system behavior.

Learn how to integrate gRPC with OpenTelemetry for better observability, performance, and reliability in microservices architectures.

Splunk AppDynamics, now part of the Splunk Observability portfolio, provides critical observability for traditional 3-tier/n-tier applications and helps IT Operations teams quickly discover root causes of issues before end-users even notice. AppDynamics complements Splunk Observability Cloud, which is optimized for observing cloud-native applications by DevOps and engineering teams.

Understanding and managing complex application performance, logs, and infrastructure metrics is crucial for modern IT teams. Datadog has become a leading solution for application performance monitoring (APM), log management, and infrastructure observability. However, its pricing and capabilities may not always align with every team's requirements.

The user experience demands a seamless and secure method while logging in. According to a 2023 report by Statista, 66% of users report ditching a website or application due to lagging or authentication issues. Typical users expect the login to be fast and secure, regardless of Single Sign-On (SSO) or Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA).

So, there I was, a newbie to.NET 9.0, Blazor, and Coralogix, standing on the precipice of observability in a world of production bugs and development mysteries. As an Agile enthusiast, I’m well versed in all things “observability” and how it’s a game-changer for root cause analysis, especially in today’s rapid, iterative development cycles. Observability is like getting X-ray vision into your application to understand what’s truly happening based on system outputs.