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API monitoring is a process that involves regularly checking the status and performance of APIs to ensure they are functioning correctly. APIs are crucial for the internet, and businesses depend on them extensively. The well-being of APIs directly impacts business success.

We are thrilled to announce that OpManager has been awarded with three distinguished awards under the Network Monitoring category. These awards stand as a true testament to the trust we’ve cultivated among our users. OpManager’s ability to effectively address a wide range of IT challenges and provide users with a positive experience is a key factor in its success.

Logs act as silent sentinels, recording every whisper of your application’s activity. They are invaluable chronicles illuminating system behavior, diagnosing issues, and providing crucial insights into your application’s health. However, the true power of logs lies not just in their existence, but in how they are formatted. Log formatting is pivotal in transforming these raw data streams into actionable intelligence.

How we organize nodes (and the Netdata agents that are running on those nodes) across different rooms should reflect our architectural decision because the room is a logical container with its own user members and notification rules. So if we are monitoring large infrastructure we should be consistent with these rules and one way to achieve this is to choose automation.

In software development, dynamic instrumentation is a powerful linchpin between the development and debugging workflows. With software complexity reaching unprecedented levels, it is also a key enabler in boosting developer productivity in the pursuit of building performant and error-free software. Let’s explore the concept of dynamic instrumentation and understand how it boosts software development processes with unparalleled insights into the source code.

Every moment counts when you’re managing incidents that can affect your services and customers. That’s why we’re excited to introduce a new bi-directional integration between Grafana OnCall and ServiceNow, a popular platform many large organizations rely on to help manage their incidents.

If protecting your file server's integrity is crucial, mastering how to monitor any changes in files and folders in a file server becomes a top priority. This guide takes you through critical steps to track alterations, set up security audits, and employ third-party software for advanced monitoring. Whether facing internal policy compliance or external cyber threats, learn how to immediately detect and react to any unauthorized change to maintain the security of your data.

Cribl offers a suite of tools designed to optimize data pipelines, with different components tailored for managing and orchestrating data flows at scale across different teams and data sources. One of the biggest problems with building and running a multi-team data engine is isolation. This blog will cover how we at Cribl have handled the challenge of data, configuration, and access isolation for growing teams.

Having a fast and reliable website or app is super important. Users want things to load quickly, and if they don't, they get frustrated and might leave. This is where performance monitoring can help. Performance monitoring means keeping an eye on how your website or app is working. It involves tracking things like how fast pages load, how often the site is up, and if there are any slowdowns. By monitoring these things, you can find and fix problems before your users even notice them.