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Penetration testing is a type of software testing where skilled security professionals attempt to breach an organization’s systems and networks to identify vulnerabilities before malicious actors can exploit them.

The mandate is clear: Do more with less. But in IT, that’s often an impossible equation. Engineers are expected to deliver near-perfect uptime, resolve incidents instantly, and manage an increasingly complex tech stack—all while budgets tighten. Yet, despite your best efforts, you—or your team—are still chasing outages, drowning in alerts, and reacting instead of preventing.

PHP apps can be deceptively simple — until something starts slowing down. Maybe it’s a page load that takes a few seconds too long, or maybe your server costs are creeping up without a clear reason. That’s where performance monitoring comes in. In this guide, we’ll walk through how to monitor and improve the performance of a PHP application. You’ll learn how to use profiling and tracing to identify bottlenecks in your code, and how to optimize your app.

If your network feels sluggish, you're not alone. After years of battling slow connections, dropped calls, and frustrated end-users, I’ve learned one thing: network performance issues always have a root cause. Maybe your VoIP calls keep cutting out. Maybe cloud apps take forever to load. Or maybe your team complains about "the network being slow" — again. The problem? Networks don’t slow down for no reason.

If you need to monitor your application’s health, troubleshoot issues quickly, and ensure compliance with various security policies, application logging is compulsory. Without proper logging, identifying the root cause of failures, tracking suspicious activity, or optimizing application performance will become significantly more challenging, if not impossible.

Gartner recently released their 2025 Market Guide for Event Intelligence Solutions. Gartner states, “Event intelligence solutions (EISs) apply AI to augment, accelerate, and automate responses to signals or events detected from digital services.

We are excited to announce a powerful new feature in our Broken Links monitor: Troubleshooting. When we can’t crawl all your links, or you see unexpected gaps in the results, it can be tricky to know where to start. Our new Troubleshooting tab is here to help.

At Martello we’re thrilled to welcome DynamicCom as our newest partner. This marks a milestone for Martello marking our first entry into the UAE (Middle East) and Southern Africa markets. This partnership extends our global reach, as DynamicCom serves both direct customers and a large channel base of resellers across these regions.

You can’t throw a rock without hitting an online discussion about ‘vibe coding,’ so I figured I’d add some signal to the noise and discuss how I’ve been using AI-driven coding tools with observability platforms like Honeycomb over the past six months. This isn’t an exhaustive guide, and not everything I say is going to be useful to everyone—but hopefully it will clear up some common misconceptions and help folks out.

Grafana Cloud Frontend Observability is a real user monitoring (RUM) solution that provides immediate, clear, and actionable insights into the end-user experience of web applications. Understanding where those end users are located can provide valuable insights into frontend performance, error patterns, and overall user experience.