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Debugging Serverless Functions with Lightrun

Developers are increasingly drawn to Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS) offerings provided by major cloud providers such as AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and GCP Cloud Functions. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has estimated that more than four million developers utilized FaaS offerings in 2020. Datadog has reported that over half of its customers have integrated FaaS products in cloud environments, indicating the growth and maturity of this ecosystem.

Grafana Alerting: 12 ways we made creating and managing alerts easier than ever

Since the release of Grafana 9.0, we have been listening to feedback for Grafana Alerting from both our customers and the Grafana community forums. We have heard many of your recommendations, suggestions, and frustrations and have made significant improvements to Grafana Alerting since it became generally available last year. Here at Grafana Labs, we are always striving to improve our product and provide the best possible experience for our users.

Analyze causal relationships and latencies across your distributed systems with Log Transaction Queries

Modern, high-scale applications can generate hundreds of millions of logs per day. Each log provides point-in-time insights into the state of the services and systems that emitted it. But logs are not created in isolation. Each log event represents a small, sequential step in a larger story, such as a user request, database restart process, or CI/CD pipeline.

Analyzing Heroku Router Logs with Papertrail

What are some common problems that can be detected with the handy router logs on Heroku? We’ll explore them and show you how to address them easily and quickly with monitoring of Heroku from SolarWinds Papertrail. One of the first cloud platforms, Heroku is a popular platform as a service (PaaS) that has been in development since June 2007.

First Steps to Building the Ultimate Monitoring Dashboards in Logz.io

Cloud infrastructure and application monitoring dashboards are critical to gaining visibility into the health and performance of your system. But what are the best metrics to monitor? What are the best types of visualizations to monitor them? How can you ensure your alerts are actionable? We answered these questions on our webinar Build the Ultimate Cloud Monitoring Dashboard.

10+ Best Status Page Tools: Free, Open source & Paid [2023 Comparison]

Communication with our users is very important. You want them to be aware of the new features that your platform exposes, exciting news about the company, but also about the status of the services that you are building for them. This includes information about all the functionalities and the infrastructure and applications behind them – when they work correctly and efficiently and when they don’t.

Common Event Format (CEF): An Introduction

In the world of software engineering, monitoring and logging are two essential processes that help developers keep track of the performance and behavior of their applications. To facilitate this process, several logging formats have been developed over the years, including the Common Event Format (CEF). In this blog post, we will take a closer look at what the Common Event Format is, how it works, and why it is important.

How to Monitor HTML Canvas for Load and Uptime

Before diving into how to monitor HTML Canvas, let’s define it. HTML Canvas is a powerful feature of HTML5 that allows developers to create and manipulate graphics, animations, and other visual effects using JavaScript. It’s a blank slate on which you can draw whatever you want, making it an excellent tool for creating interactive and dynamic web content.