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Best Open Source Application Monitoring Tools

As businesses grow and develop, so must the tools that help manage them. Application monitoring tools provide enterprises with a way to keep track of the health and performance of their applications and ensure that everything is running smoothly. Application monitoring tools have a wide range of capabilities and data that enterprises can use to help answer questions about the current state of an application.

What Are Unit Economics and How Are They Calculated?

Cloud spend is a significant line item in every company’s IT budget, and controlling it is especially important in today’s challenging economic climate. A steep decline in share prices, valuations, and a slowdown in venture capital funding have led CEOs to cut costs within their large line items, reduce their workforce, and reevaluate their unit economics — especially their margin per customer. The question is, how many organizations know their margin per customer?

What is Response Time Analysis?

When choosing between multiple software applications, users will always go with the fastest one (assuming they’re all equally reliable). As a software developer, once you have ensured your application's overall quality, robustness, and reliability, its acceptance and reputation among users depend primarily on how fast and responsive it is. Therefore, it is vital to equip your analysis toolkits with measures that speak of an application’s speed.

Collect critical AWS metrics faster with Sysdig

Today, we are excited to announce support for Amazon CloudWatch Metric Streams. This support will enable our customers to ingest metrics from AWS CloudWatch in real time, increase metric and state fidelity and time to ingestion while decreasing MTTR, and support cloud metrics at scale without the need to customize or re-configure new AWS service metrics. In this blog, we dig deep into.

Feature Spotlight: New Microsoft CQD Saved Searches

The Microsoft CQD is rich with Teams data but for IT professionals, toggling between multiple dashboards can leave you feeling as though you might not have the visibility into Teams performance that you would like. For IT teams, configuring custom dashboards in Elasticsearch can take time and not always yield the results you are looking for.

Outage Alert: Top 5 Outages of Q2 2022

We are halfway through 2022 and one thing is certain – downtime is here to stay. In fact, trends are showing the frequency of downtime is increasing, along with the severity and wide-spread impact. Consumers and businesses are more interconnected and reliant on technology and software than ever, from remote business communication to simply listening to your favorite podcast on your way to work.

What Is eBPF? A Guide To Improved Observability & Telemetry

Extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) is an exciting technology that provides secure, high-performance kernel programmability directly from the operating system. It can expose a wide range of applications and kernel telemetry that is otherwise unavailable. But with operating systems frequently processing very large volumes of network data, even with an efficient framework and cheap eBPF program runs, costs can add up quickly.

TL;DR InfluxDB Tech Tips: Migrating to InfluxDB Cloud

If you’re an InfluxDB user you might be considering migrating your workload to InfluxDB Cloud. You probably want to free yourself from the responsibilities associated with managing and serving your OSS account. Perhaps you are finding that you simply cannot scale your OSS instance vertically to meet your needs. Maybe you want to use all of the Flux functions that are available to you in InfluxDB Cloud.

How to build a dashboard for AppDynamics

We’re excited to announce that we’ve just released SquaredUp Dashboard Server 5.6! This Dashboard Server release covers multiple features that have been highly requested by the community. Prioritizing this user feedback, we’ve added some exciting new visualizations, features and enhancements. Read on to learn about the latest updates, or catch the full webinar recording at the bottom of the blog for a detailed demo by Senior Solutions Engineer Ashley Thompson.

How to monitor Zookeeper with OpenTelemetry

We are back with a simplified configuration for another critical open-source component, Zookeeper. Monitoring Zookeeper applications helps to ensure that the data sets are distributed as expected across the cluster. Although Zookeeper is considered to be very resilient to network mishaps, monitoring is inevitable. To do so, we’ll set up monitoring using the Zookeeper receiver from OpenTelemetry.