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If you are part of an engineering team, monitoring the performance of your CI/CD pipelines is a high priority. With the SquaredUp GitHub plugin you can view key metrics for your GitHub repos and workflows all within a single pane of glass. We also have plugins for Jira, Circle CI, Azure DevOps and more. So even if you are using many different tools you can still get an end to end view of your processes.

Andrew Dedesko is a backend software engineer with 13 years of experience. He became very interested in metrics and alerting after being woken up countless nights while on call. Outside of work, Andrew likes cycling, camping, making s’mores, and pancakes. Adriano Mariani is a software engineer with three years of experience specializing in backend software development. Currently, Adriano is working at Kijiji on SEO-related initiatives.

Keeping your servers online is always important for the health of your business and keeping users happy. Essentially, if you are keeping an eye on your servers, you can proactively fix problems before they blow up rather than fighting them as they arise. Setting all this up can be a breeze or a bit of a headache, depending on your servers, what metrics you're tracking, and your expertise. Either way, MetricFire’s got your back!

Ruby and Rails are great tools that allow you to create complex web applications quickly. Well, some kinds of complex web applications. While they excel at traditional, monolithic, server-rendered applications, they fail to excel at delivering real-time or distributed services. This is why it's so handy for Rubyists to learn a programming language like Go. Go is designed to write lightweight services that handle lots of inbound connections.

We are happy to announce our latest project at MetricFire: a brand-new CLI tool! Get ready to start monitoring your systems in one step - no need to modify any configuration files manually. Just run a terminal command, follow the prompts, and forward your system metrics to Hosted Graphite in minutes. In this article, we’ll share an overview of the Hosted Graphite CLI, why we’re making it, and how we’re making it.

When I joined Checkly as Junior People Operations Manager, one of the benefits that immediately stood out to me was the Learning & Visiting budget. I found myself wondering—how is this budget actually being used across the company? At the start of the year, many of our team members plan how they’ll use their learning budget—whether to enhance professional skills or pursue self-driven projects. With flexible guidelines, we encourage them to invest in what matters most.

Checkly has always helped you monitor your APIs and web services, ensuring they stay fast, reliable, and available. But application reliability doesn’t stop there—databases, message queues, and mail servers all play a crucial role in your infrastructure. To provide full application reliability, we’re expanding into network monitoring with TCP checks. Now, you can monitor critical non-HTTP services directly in Checkly—without adding extra tools to your stack.

As mobile gaming evolves, players have higher expectations for seamless experiences, real-time interactions, and cross-platform accessibility. Whether you’re developing games for iOS, Android, or another mobile operating system, maintaining and optimizing the performance of your game is critical for player retention. For instance, if a mobile game becomes laggy or begins to drop frames during gameplay, players will grow frustrated and abandon the game altogether.

As an Azure admin, it is of critical importance that you keep an eye on how much cost you are incurring running your workloads in the cloud. You also want to have sight of any deployed resources that are not contributing to business and accumulating cost over time. Using a dedicated Azure plugin, SquaredUp dashboards will help you understand your Azure costs across services, resources, locations and apps – so you can keep tabs on how much you're spending and identify opportunities to save costs.

If you’re reading this, chances are you’re already familiar with OpenTelemetry (OTel)—the open-source standard for collecting observability data. But what about OpenTelemetry agents? How do they work, and why do they matter? This guide unpacks everything you need to know about OTel agents—where they fit in your stack, how to set them up, and common pitfalls to watch out for. Let’s get into it.