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Maturity models have proved to be powerful tools for assessing performance and driving improvement in a wide range of industries and disciplines from cybersecurity and quality control to project management and HR. With hybrid and remote work here to stay, organizations now have a new kind of maturity to aspire to, one that has a significant and direct impact on business results: virtual collaboration maturity.

Financial services firms face a multitude of complex IT challenges. Banking is a 24×7 affair, and firms must ensure their infrastructure is “always on” — consistently running at the highest efficiency and reliability. Banking customers also expect frictionless experiences across mobile and digital banking services. Slow application response times and service outages are simply not an option. Commercial banking is also competitive.

AppSignal is a powerful error tracking and performance monitoring tool that can help you maintain reliability and speed in your Elixir applications. In this tutorial, the first of a two-part series, you'll learn how to integrate AppSignal into your Elixir application, configure it for error tracking, interpret error reports, and leverage AppSignal's features to debug and resolve issues.

At Grafana Labs we believe in shipping features early and often, and in recent years we’ve doubled down on that philosophy. We no longer wait for the yearly major release to give you access to the next big thing. Instead, we regularly make new features, bug fixes, and security patches available to our self-managing users (Grafana OSS and Grafana Enterprise) throughout the year.

With observIQ’s contributions to OpenTelemetry, you can now use free, open-source tools to easily aggregate data across your entire infrastructure to any or multiple analysis tools. The easiest way to use the latest OpenTelemetry tools is with observIQ’s distribution of the OpenTelemetry collector. You can find it here. In this blog, we cover how to use OpenTelemetry to monitor SNMP.

In our modern, digitally connected landscape where software stretches across diverse platforms and settings, trying to track a single request can seem like wandering through a maze with a blindfold on. This is where distributed tracing comes into play. It’s an essential technique that sheds light on the paths of digital transactions through complex systems, making the invisible visible. Distributed tracing offers many advantages for monitoring and fixing complex distributed systems.

Tens of thousands of companies in the world, across almost all industries, from midsize to large enterprises, rely on robust, efficient complex SAP systems to power their core operations. From sales to finance, from warehouse management to production planning and execution, business’s continuity, revenue, and customer success highly depend on processes running on enterprise resource planning (ERP) architectures.

Did you know that over half of global web traffic now comes from mobile devices? We have all struggled with a slow-loading mobile site at some point. It’s a common frustration, and that’s where mobile website monitoring comes into play. Today’s mobile-dominant landscape demands require that your website performs seamlessly across all devices.

Whether you are a solopreneur or the owner of a large business, think about the instances on your website or app when customers feel irritated, stuck, or frustrated on their mobile screens. Be it an app slowdown, broken flow, or irregular functionality, a mobile application performance issue can make or mar a business's reputation quicker than ever before, especially since mobile phones have become the primary screens for many users.