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Two Quick Ways to Create Spans with Kamon Telemetry

If you already had some experience with Kamon, you probably saw Kamon create Spans automatically for a lot of stuff, including HTTP server requests, database calls, actor messages, and more. But what happens when you want to create Spans for methods or code blocks that Kamon doesn’t instrument automatically? Let’s look at the two simplest ways to create Spans programmatically with Kamon.

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How IT Investment Will Be Revolutionized in 2021

Have you ever seen or heard a word repeated so often it begins to lose its meaning? This phenomenon is called "semantic satiation," and it's something I'm sure we've all experienced over the past 12 months. While special mention must go to "the new normal" and "social distancing," I'd like to throw a hat in the ring for a word that once most commonly appeared before "capacitator" in one of Doc Brown's rants in Back to the Future: "flux."

Application Monitor: Checking Everything that Matters

Application monitor solutions are not novel but rather an evolutionary technology. These types of solutions answer the problems that most developers and DevOps teams encounter when building an application. Application monitor solutions help determine potential defects so developers can take corrective actions quickly. Hence, building an application is no longer complete without application performance monitoring (APM) solutions.

Good Catch: Partner Monitoring

Operating in today’s digital economy often involves dealing with an extensive network of third-party providers and partners. Common types of partner networks include affiliates, vendors, suppliers, marketing platforms, and payment gateway providers. Partner networks involve tracking and analyzing data from multiple providers, each of which creates thousands of metrics and billions of events each day.

Azure Monitor for Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD)

At the end of March 2021, Microsoft released Azure Monitor for Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) for General Availability. Built upon Azure Monitor Workbooks to give insights into the Windows Virtual Desktop environment, including: Connection Diagnostics, Connection Performance, Host Diagnostics, Host Performance, Utilizations, Users, Clients and Alerts.

How to Measure Network Performance: 5 Network Metrics

As more companies continue to rely on SaaS and cloud applications to run their businesses, it becomes important for them to ensure their network infrastructures can withstand the demand, and that they’re able to offer their services quickly and reliably. Continuous network monitoring can help you ensure that your network is always performing at its highest level. So, we’re running you through exactly how to measure network performance, and what network metrics you should be looking at.

Build a CircleCI Dashboard to visualize all your CI/CD data

If you’ve checked out SquaredUp for SCOM/Azure and decided for one reason or another that it wasn’t the right tool for you, you are in for a treat! Our latest free tool, Dashboard Server, addresses many of the same pain points, but this time, for a variety of platforms not tied to SCOM or Azure. On the flip side, if you’re currently using SquaredUp for SCOM/Azure, don’t click away!

What is IaaS? How IaaS Different from SaaS and PaaS?

The cloud is a hot topic for everyone from small companies to multinational corporations, but it's also a vast term that covers a lot of online ground. It's more important than ever to appreciate the differences and benefits of the different cloud providers when you consider moving your company to the cloud, whether for application or infrastructure deployment. Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) is a cloud-based service that provides virtualized computing resources to businesses over the internet.