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PostgreSQL Monitoring: The Best Tools and Key Metrics to Help Improve Database Performance

PostgreSQL is a popular open-source, object-relational database. As with any other data storage solution, capturing metrics is crucial for making sure your database is reliable, available, and performing optimally. This will help you dig deeper into database performance problems, do performance tuning, optimize queries and indexes, and make partitioning decisions. But that’s not all. You’ll also be able to set up alerts and plan for failures or upgrades.

Surprising ways page loading time affects your bottom line

Avid kite flyer, publisher, and postmaster Benjamin Franklin is believed to have coined the catchphrase, “time is money”. If only he had known just how relevant the phrase would become hundreds of years later, especially when it comes to the relationship between customer expectations of your website’s page load times and lost revenue. Page load time is the time it takes your browser to retrieve a page, with all content, and display it in full.

DX NetOps 21.2 Network Monitoring Software Continues to Improve Visibility with Expanded SD-WAN, SDDC, and SD-WiFi Coverage

DX NetOps 21.2 network monitoring software continues to innovate and improve the scale, speed, and simplicity of network operations with a focused set of high-value features and capabilities. The solution collects data (network faults, performance, events, and alarms) from SDN and WiFi controllers and orchestrators to deliver deep visibility into the health and performance of your modern network deployments. Additionally, the solution correlates data from different network streams.

How to Monitor Logs Guide With Recommended Automated Tools

Log monitoring is a practice used by IT administrators to organize, analyze, and understand a network’s performance. All network devices, including applications and hardware, create logs as they perform operations. Logs are like a device’s diary—they record every event and its critical information like user IP address, date and time, request time, and more.

Monitoring UV sensors on the International Space Station with Grafana

In space, there’s no atmosphere to protect against the sun’s ultraviolet radiation. Astronauts in orbit are exposed to the equivalent of eight X-rays a day, and the space stations and suits that protect them degrade over time due to radiation and other factors. Scientists working on the International Space Station (ISS) want to know more about ultraviolet (UV) radiation in orbit so they can design better materials.

Cherwell Monitoring in Production

I have been working on a couple of monitoring ideas for Cherwell. I didn’t see anything with a quick online search, and I enjoy authoring MPs to monitor applications, it is the closest I’ll get to 007. I’ve hit a major hurdle and I need to ask for a hand from the community. We have a lab environment that’s worked great while developing the Cherwell integration for Connection Center, however, it is not a good simulation for an actual deployment.

3 Incredibly Useful Metrics For Monitoring the Microsoft 365 Teams Desktop App

You use Microsoft Teams, correct? Microsoft 365 Teams Desktop app is a standalone program that performs the bulk of the resource and workload processing on a user’s computer. Data retrieval and verification for these applications happen on the client-side, and communication with the server are not continuous.

Monitor Vercel Serverless Functions with Datadog

Vercel is a deployment and collaboration platform that enables frontend developers to build high-performance Jamstack websites and applications. Vercel is also the creator of Next.js, a React framework developed in collaboration with engineers at Google and Facebook in 2016. Vercel users can leverage a built-in deployment tool that manages the build and rendering process, as well as a proprietary Edge Network that caches their sites for fast retrieval.

Monitor Microsoft 365 Client Apps in Real-Time

Microsoft 365 client applications such as Outlook, OneDrive, and Teams are standalone programs that perform the bulk of the resource and workload processing on a user’s computer. Data retrieval and verification for these applications happen on the client-side, and communication with the server is not continuous. Exoprise customers worldwide use the Office 365 client apps to manage their daily routine and work productively from home, HQ, or branch offices.