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Icinga Monitoring is the trusted "source of truth" for Scandinavian company NTE

We are proud of our many customers and users around the globe that trust Icinga for critical IT infrastructure monitoring. That´s why we´re now showcasing some of these enterprises with their Success stories. It´s stories from companies or organizations just like yours, of any size and different kinds of industries. Some of them are our long-standing customers, others have just recently profited from migrating from another solution to Icinga.

Incident communication best practices for an elevated user experience

Downtime is unavoidable, and incidents happen. Organizations need to be rapid and transparent in communicating incidents with their customers. Lack of timely communication can jeopardize the entire incident management process and increase user frustration. This guide provides rich insights into what incident communication is, why it's important, and best practices for effective incident management. What is an incident, and why is incident communication important?

Optimize Core Web Vitals for SaaS and Custom Apps

A set of metrics known as Core Web Vitals have become key indicators of website performance and user satisfaction. Monitoring and optimizing these metrics for web pages can be challenging. Today, we learn how to use synthetic and real-user monitoring to measure, analyze, and improve Core Web Vitals. Delivering a smooth user experience plays a pivotal role in determining website application success.

Why Every SRE and DevOps Beginner Needs a Status Page

So, you’ve ventured into the world of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and DevOps. Exciting, isn’t it? Yet, amidst the code, deployments, and system architectures, there’s a silent hero that often goes unnoticed — the humble status page. In this dynamic environment, it’s not just about keeping systems up but communicating effectively when they aren’t. That’s where Uptime.com steps in, like a superhero in a world of mortal website monitoring services.

5 Best Frontend Error Monitoring Tools

You have so many options for frontend error monitoring today, and they all do slightly different things. We looked at everyone and did a breakdown of the most important features for frontend, the problems developers run into, end user reviews, and pricing structures to see how the best vendors stack up.

Announcing Application Observability in Grafana Cloud, with native support for OpenTelemetry and Prometheus

The Grafana LGTM Stack (Loki for logs, Grafana for visualization, Tempo for traces, and Mimir for metrics) offers the freedom and flexibility for monitoring application performance. But we’ve also heard from many of our users and customers that you need a solution that makes it easier and faster to get started with application monitoring.

How Asserts.ai will make it even easier for Grafana Cloud users to understand their observability data

At Grafana Labs, our mission has always been to help our users and customers understand the behavior of their applications and services. Over the past two years, the biggest needs we’ve heard from our customers have been to make it easier to understand their observability data, to extend observability into the application layer, and to get deeper, contextualized analytics.

Grafana Beyla 1.0 release: zero-code instrumentation for application telemetry using eBPF

Just two months after introducing the public preview of Grafana Beyla, we are excited to announce the general availability of the open source project with the release of Grafana Beyla 1.0 at ObservabilityCON 2023 today. We’ve worked hard in the last two months to stabilize, stress test, and refine the features that were part of the public preview of this open source eBPF auto-instrumentation tool.