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The latest News and Information on Monitoring for Websites, Applications, APIs, Infrastructure, and other technologies.

Network Latency & How To Improve Latency

Cloud-based services have changed how individuals and businesses get things done. That doesn’t mean it’s all positive — there are some tradeoffs and compromises that come with cloud services and the internet. One major tradeoff is speed. For instance, if your website fails to load within three seconds, 40% of your visitors will abandon your site. That’s a serious dent for anyone doing business online. The culprit here is latency.

Database Observability Provides the Features Customers Need for Effective Monitoring

I began working with database customers back in the day with VividCortex until it was purchased by SolarWinds. Since then, I’ve had the opportunity to work with tons of our database solution customers as an account manager and now lead our DPM renewals initiative. In these roles, I’ve helped our customers transition from VividCortex to Database Performance Monitor (DPM) and now migrate into Database Observability.

Lumigo Releases 1-Click OpenTelemetry for Microservices Troubleshooting

Lumigo is excited to announce its microservice troubleshooting platform now provides developers and DevOps with the power of OpenTelemetry (OTel) with a single click. Lumigo has long been the leading troubleshooting platform for serverless, but now, users can harness its best-in-class debugging and observability platform for all microservices-based environments.

Lessons Learned from Managing Kafka Costs

You probably have seen ads where someone claims that their app can save you money by finding subscriptions you forgot about. I have a hard time imaging someone with $100s of dollars of expenses they forgot about, but I have had the occasional one that was missed. The problem is that people are inefficient when it comes to managing “stuff”. That is why there are so many places to store “stuff”.

Easily page participants to accelerate incident response in Grafana IRM

Incidents almost never happen in a vacuum. When you receive an alert about a potential issue, odds are pretty good that you’ll need to navigate between different tools and teams to get things resolved. Of course, timing is critical in these situations, so the easier it is to communicate — between both tools and teams — the better off you’ll be.

AppSignal Expands Monitoring Capabilities with Vector

We're excited to announce AppSignal support for Vector logs and metrics! AppSignal's Vector support allows you to expand your monitoring horizons beyond our standard language integrations, making it possible to leverage AppSignal to both monitor the performance and manage the logs of components of your stack that fall outside a standard application. With Vector, you can use AppSignal to monitor how your databases and Kubernetes clusters perform and metrics from many other sources.

Achieve proactive VM performance management with OpManager

Virtualization and the creation of many virtual machines (VMs) within the same infrastructure was the solution organizations came up with when faced with expansive, expensive networks that needed more hardware and thus more capital expenditure to host applications. While they resolved the bigger pain points, VMs still have to be monitored as they are heavy on resource usage.