Application slowdowns or outages interrupt the user experience and web performance. This significantly impacts brand reputation, leading to customer churn and a heavy dent in the competitive edge. This is where Application Performance Monitoring (APM) comes in. APM tracks application performance to ensure a positive user experience. Real User Monitoring (RUM) and Synthetic Monitoring are two approaches to analyzing your app’s performance and the digital experience they provide.

Effective monitoring is crucial for maintaining system health and performance. Prometheus has grown in popularity as a an open-source monitoring solution, gaining traction among developers and operations teams, especially in cloud-native monitoring environments. In fact, Kubernetes – the de facto industry standard for deploying and operating containerized applications – comes bundled with Prometheus.

Toward the end of Q1 2022, survey findings reported that Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing services had, for the first time, eclipsed Amazon Web Services (AWS) in some enterprise categories. According to the respondents, more enterprises preferred Azure because it integrates well with the many Microsoft products they already use. A second reason is that Azure is suitable for running on-premises and at the edge. Some organizations also use Microsoft Azure to avoid vendor lock-in to AWS.

The OpenTelemetry project is changing how organizations approach observability. It aims to standardize monitoring across different systems. OpenTelemetry—commonly referred to as OTel—provides APIs, SDKs, exporters, and collectors. It is making data collection, analysis, and utilization more efficient, leading to better decision-making and technology adoption.

Devart is excited to announce a major release featuring new SSIS Data Flow Components for Zendesk, SurveyMonkey, and Shopify. This update also introduces a new subscription model with flexible and cost-effective plans for users, along with expanded licensing options. Additionally, significant enhancements have been made to improve performance and functionality of the existing SSIS Data Flow Components that aim to help businesses take their data integration processes to a whole new level. In this release.