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Everyone in web performance talks about CrUX—what the heck is it?! CrUX, or the Chrome User Experience Report, is Google’s initiative to measure how websites perform for their real users. It’s not just another test, it’s a window into the actual experience people have when they visit a site. Wait—didn’t Googlebot and PageSpeed Insights already do this? Are they going away? Not exactly.

Incident updates on the public status pages of your cloud providers are often the first indication that they might have an outage. Providers also post updates about upcoming and ongoing maintenance on their status pages. Thus, monitoring your cloud status pages becomes crucial to your business operations. This article will guide you through the process of effectively monitoring such status pages.

Monitoring and observability tools are critical for organizations to keep their systems running efficiently. Grafana and Splunk are two leading platforms that cater to various observability needs, but they differ significantly in functionality, user base, and cost. This article will explore their features, strengths, and limitations to help you choose the right tool for your use case.

In the digital environment nowadays, network observability is a necessity, comparing to the past years. IT professionals demand tools that provide unparalleled accuracy, transparency and reliability. Progress Flowmon, a solution that sets the standard in network observability, delivers on these demands without compromise. Our rigorous evaluation reveals why Flowmon is an ideal choice for professionals who prioritize data integrity, accuracy and operational transparency.

The best DevOps and SRE teams have shifted their approach to monitoring and logging their systems. These teams debug problems cohesively and rationally, regardless of the system’s complexity. Gone are the days of having a slew of logs that fail to explain the cause of alerts, system failures, and other unknowns.

No organization has remained the same small old place over time. It may expand both horizontally and vertically. As the organization’s size increases, so does the number of assets in use. This may challenge IT managers to manage the increasing asset lot daily, from maintaining up-to-date technology with reduced costs to ensuring the assets are secured and meet regulatory compliance.

Calling all Splunk Cloud Platform admins! At Splunk, we are constantly working to improve the way we service our customers. We understand that maintenance windows, while necessary, can sometimes be impactful to your operations. That is why we’re excited to announce a significant upgrade to our maintenance experience, designed to provide you with greater control and minimal impact.

A definitive guide on adding cluster label to all Kubernetes metrics.

In a previously released YouTube video, I explained how and why Playwright fixtures perfectly match with page object models. Combining the two allows you to hide setup instructions and keep your tests clean. Page object models no longer have to be initialized in every test case. To be upfront — I'm a fixture fanboy! But what if you need to pass additional configuration to your page object models? When options are hidden in a fixture, you can't configure how a class is initialized, right? Wrong!

In the fast-paced world of e-commerce, real-time monitoring is crucial for staying ahead of disruptions. At StatusGator, we provide early alerts about service outages, often before they are officially recognized. Here’s a look at the top 5 e-commerce IT outages we detected recently.