Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Exciting news: it’s now possible to build a custom distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector and remotely manage it with BindPlane. Though not all of BindPlane’s capabilities are available when managing a custom distribution (yet), it’s #prettycool, as it cracks open the door for teams looking to BYOF (bring your fleet), and manage them with our OTel-native telemetry pipeline.

Xamarin has been a popular choice for cross-platform mobile development, but Microsoft’s shift to.NET MAUI has developers seeking alternatives. Uno Platform is an open-source.NET framework for building apps across mobile, desktop, web, and embedded devices. Raygun CEO John-Daniel Trask interviewed Uno Platform’s Francois Tanguay and Sasha Krsmanovic on a recent Founder & Friends podcast. They discussed Uno Platform’s advantages over Xamarin and its productivity benefits.

This guest post comes from long-time Raygun customer Midtrans, a leading payment gateway in Southeast Asia. As Midtrans grew, so did the number of applications requiring error monitoring. To tackle the challenges of scaling and standardizing Raygun across multiple teams and services, they created a custom Spring Boot starter for Raygun. Now, Midtrans is excited to share this open-source Spring Boot auto-configuration with the community.

In today’s fast-paced world, industries with highly sensitive and specialized needs require precise monitoring to stay ahead. Whether you’re in Finance & FinTech, Government & Defense, Healthcare, or Telecommunications, the challenges of ensuring robust and reliable systems are significant. That’s where NiCE comes in.

In today’s fast-paced digital world, customer satisfaction is the top priority of every other business. To ensure that customer stays satisfied with your service and application at all times, businesses must work on reducing their downtime and guarantee quick resolutions. Excessive downtime can be expensive for any business and its brand reputation. Hence, adapting practices that eliminate issues responsible for downtime is crucial for maintaining seamless IT operations.

This headline is maybe a little surprising, even for Nexthinkers. We’re known for being conservative and letting our work do the talking. At Nexthink, we first created the DEX category, then rolled out the world’s most capable and holistic DEX platform, and then delivered year on year as the most successful DEX vendor in the market. Something to do with our Swiss heritage perhaps – an emphasis on diligence and execution, rather than on singing our own praises.

Staying on top of client networks is no walk in the park for MSPs these days. With the growing reliance on cloud apps, distributed workforces, and constant technology changes, network environments have become exponentially more complex. Without rock-solid network management practices, disruptions and plummeting productivity become inevitable for clients. This makes it more crucial than ever for MSPs to level up their networking game.

Picture a calm Tuesday morning at the office. You login to your desktop, ready to tackle the week, when suddenly the screen goes blank. The IT systems are down—your heartbeat just skipped a beat. Now picture an alternate scenario where before you even realize there’s a problem, it’s already being solved. This isn’t just wishful thinking—it’s the reality for businesses that partner with a Managed Service Provider (MSP).

We recently released our initial State of Cloud Costs report, which identified factors shaping the costs of hundreds of organizations that use Datadog Cloud Cost Management to monitor their AWS spend. The report reveals several widely applicable themes, including the ways in which resource utilization, adoption of emerging technologies, and participation in commitment-based discount programs all shape cloud environments and costs.

Today I want to show you how you can attach your screenshots directly to Playwright's test reports. Imagine you have a simple Playwright test that navigates to Checkly. You take a screenshot and store it in screenshots/home.png. Then, you click a link in the main navigation, expect a specific heading to be visible, and take another screenshot. When you run this test using npx playwright test, the test passes, and you find the screenshots in the /screenshots directory.