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Kubernetes and OpenTelemetry are both CNCF projects, and both are closely associated with modern microservice architecture. Despite their connection, there isn’t a single cohesive solution to monitoring your Kubernetes cluster with OpenTelemetry. Large teams that use complex clusters in production have generally ended up building their own tools for monitoring both their infrastructure and application code.

A Request Metrics customer asked for some help troubleshooting poor scores on their Core Web Vitals, specifically the Largest Contentful Paint. I did a deep dive on their site and recorded my debugging session, so you can see how I went about finding the root cause.

We are thrilled to announce that, for the third consecutive year, Datadog has been named a Leader in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for APM and Observability. We believe that this placement reflects Datadog’s continued commitment to understanding our customers’ most complex challenges and building products and services that give them the visibility they need into their applications.

The Prometheus alerting model is a flexible tool in every observability toolkit. When enhanced with Grafana data sources, you can easily alert on any data, anywhere it might live, using the battle-tested label semantics and alerting state machine that Prometheus defines. Often, engineers want to see patterns in their alerts over time, in order to observe trends, make predictions, and even debug alerts that might be firing too often.

Event Hubs is Microsoft’s cloud-native real-time event streaming service. For Event Hubs to work, data must be pushed to or pulled from it. That is where Cribl Stream comes in. Event Hubs is a source and destination inside Cribl Stream and the control for how you route, shape, and transform your data from Event Hubs. But, one does not simply Stream into (or from) Event Hubs. There is a lot that goes into architecting an Event Hubs Source.

If you operate any website, there is nothing more frustrating - and annoying - than getting a message that your website is down. There can be many reasons why you are experiencing downtime, but the results are usually the same; lost revenue, customers going to competitors, and either IT staff running about or angry calls to your host or ISP. Every organization wants to avoid downtime when it comes to their website.

When the Gartner Magic Quadrant Report came out in 2022, we did the professional equivalent of a spit take, then cheered wildly. NOT ONLY did they include observability for the first time ever in their newly revamped 2022 Magic Quadrant for APM & Observability, but they also put us in the Leader Quadrant—our debut appearance!

Consistent performance and continuous improvement: these are the fundamentals we should aspire to in the world of cloud software delivery. We focus on ensuring our systems become more consumable, enjoyable and innovative. We seek to make customers’ lives easier and more productive through incremental achievements, and doing a better job, every day.

In today's interconnected world, network performance is critical for businesses of all sizes. Whether you are a network administrator, a system engineer, or an IT professional, ensuring the smooth operation of your network is vital to maintaining productivity and delivering a seamless user experience. However, diagnosing and troubleshooting network issues can be a complex and time-consuming task. That's where Visual Traceroutes come into play.

With employees relying heavily on network connectivity and digital tools to carry out their day-to-day tasks, monitoring the network experience of internal users has a direct impact on their productivity, efficiency, and overall satisfaction. Effective internal digital experience monitoring involves tracking and analyzing various aspects of the network performance and connectivity that employees rely on to perform their jobs effectively.