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A Guide to Visual Regression Testing With Playwright and How to Get Started

I’m pretty sure that you’ve had a situation where you deployed a major UX change on your web app and missed the most obvious issues, like a misaligned button or distorted images. Unintended changes on your site can cause not only a sharp decline in user satisfaction but also a large fall in sales and customer retention. By identifying and resolving these discrepancies before the update went live, you could have prevented these outcomes.

How to Create Great Alerts

We’ve all been guilty of it. Creating rules and filters to hide those alerts that, for the most part, are just noise. Only then to have notifications about a legitimate issue also get swept up by those same filters. There’s only so many times we can break concentration and disrupt productivity before getting fed up with false positives and ignoring everything completely.

Observability vs. Monitoring: Decoding Key Distinctions

In the evolving digital landscape, transformation has become a necessity for businesses in order to stand out and remain competitive. As per stats records, around 91% of businesses use digital technologies and platforms to run their business more successfully. With excessive dependency on digital technologies, there also comes the challenge of navigating through the complex web of dependencies and interactions.

Cloud vs On Premise: Comparison Chart for Network Management

Few contemporary topics have led to greater debate among networking professionals than cloud-based networking and, by extension, cloud-based network monitoring and management solutions. From its niche beginnings with distributed organizations, cloud-based network management has been adopted by organizations ranging from SMB to large, carpeted enterprises. However, traditional on-premise (aka on-prem) solutions persist, helping give customers unprecedented choice when shopping for a solution.

Monitoring an Open Banking Flow With Playwright & Checkly

Open banking offers users a way to have easier access to their own bank account information, like via third-party applications. This is achieved by allowing third-party financial service providers access to the financial data of a bank's customers through the use of APIs, which enable secure communication between the different parties involved.

How to Monitor Your RabbitMQ Performance Using Telegraf

Monitoring RabbitMQ is essential for maintaining the health, performance, and reliability of your messaging infrastructure. It empowers you to take proactive measures, prevent downtime, and deliver a seamless messaging experience for your applications and users. Monitoring helps you keep an eye on the performance metrics of RabbitMQ, such as message rates, queue lengths, and resource utilization.

How Cribl Helps the UK Public Sector Manage Challenges Around Growing Data Costs and Complexity

As the Data Engine for IT & Security, Cribl helps organisations overcome several challenges, including : In this first blog, we will concentrate on how Cribl can help the UK public sector deal with ever-rising data volumes whilst controlling costs.

AI at Splunk: Trustworthy Principles for Digital Resilience

There’s no doubt AI will radically reimagine the way we live, work and interact. It will empower new ways to solve business challenges and deliver customer value, but such a widespread impact requires a holistic approach. Building AI responsibly is one thing, but embedding trust into every aspect of our AI strategy is another entirely – and that’s what Splunk sets out to do.

How to do continuous profiling right with Grafana Pyroscope's Ryan Perry (Grafana Office Hours #26)

Ryan Perry, co-founder of Grafana Pyroscope, talks to us about how to do continuous profiling right. Ryan is also an Engineering Director at Grafana Labs, and he discusses the main concerns in continuous profiling and how to avoid those pitfalls. Pyroscope is an open-source project for aggregating continuous profiling data about your system's resources. He is joined by Developer Advocates Nicole van der Hoeven and Paul Balogh.