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CPU-bound tasks can grind your Node.js applications to a standstill, frustrating users and driving them away. You must master the art of profiling your application to pinpoint bottlenecks, and implement effective strategies to resolve any issues. In this guide, we'll explore various techniques to help you identify and fix the root causes of your Node.js performance issues. Let's get started!

AppSignal now supports Solid Cache, giving you the same deep cache performance insights you'd get from other Rails cache stores. In this blog post, we'll give you a quick tour of Solid Cache, and how you can benefit from monitoring your app's cache with AppSignal.

In the realm of online management, staying vigilant about the expiration date of domain names is paramount. Uptimia's Domain Monitoring Tool emerges as a solution to streamline this process, providing timely alerts to prevent the oversight of crucial domain renewal deadlines.

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) now offers a high-performance storage class, S3 Express One Zone, that delivers consistent single-digit millisecond data access for your most latency-sensitive applications. Designed for your most frequently accessed datasets, S3 Express One Zone replicates and stores your data within a single AWS Availability Zone, scales to process millions of requests per minute, and uses hardware and software optimized for low latency.

In the dynamic landscape of IT services, staying ahead of the curve is not just a strategy but a necessity. For IT service providers already consulting clients on monitoring solutions, taking the next step to engage in an official partnership with Icinga can be a transformative move. Let’s explore the reasons why such a partnership can elevate your service offering and provide substantial benefits for both your business and your clients.

Various economic pressures on businesses have created a focus on new and innovative ways to manage operational costs. At the same time, businesses are looking at using IT to help manage overall business costs and increase income—for example, by supporting remote working, and in many cases, enabling e-commerce to replace closed retail outlets. Management of infrastructure to minimize downtime has two major benefits: reductions in support and maintenance costs and improvements in service levels.

AVD (Azure Virtual Desktop) has grown in popularity and for many reasons many organizations are choosing to consume AVD via a specialist Managed Service Provider (MSP). For the MSPs offering AVD, monitoring and troubleshooting AVD especially for multi-tenant environments is challenging and involves significant, costly and skilled effort using native tools such as Azure Insights or Azure Monitor.

Grafana Agent v0.38 has hit the digital shelves just before the holiday season! 🧑‍🎄 The elves over at Grafana Labs have been quietly working on Grafana Agent, with more than 50 updates for all SREs and developers to use — no matter if you’re on the naughty or nice list. This includes new features, improvements, bug fixes, and significant ease-of-use changes.

DevAlert 2.0, which is now immediately available from Percepio, is a major upgrade to our edge observability platform. The upgrade provides much improved diagnostic capabilities, including core dumps for Arm Cortex-M devices. This allows remote inspection of crashes, errors or security anomalies in full detail, including the function call stack, parameters and variables and with source code display.