The latest News and Information on Monitoring for Websites, Applications, APIs, Infrastructure, and other technologies.
On any given day, network administrators have to contend with significant challenges. They often struggle with key questions: How do I ensure I’m spotting traffic anomalies? How do I use our resources most efficiently? How can I intelligently plan for network capacity upgrades? By employing network flow monitoring, administrators can gain accurate insights into these topics.
Logs are imperative for troubleshooting, performance analysis, health monitoring, and application integrity and security. Log management tools clearly understand how users interact with apps and systems and provide insight into improving software reliability, increasing productivity, reducing risks, and ultimately improving the user experience. Through log management tools, users can further integrate and enrich all of their logs, making queries quicker and more effective.
Telecommunication organizations need to ensure they have the necessary resources and technology to maintain service uptime SLAs. Increased regulations and emerging technologies forced telecommunications companies to evolve quickly in recent years. These organizations’ engineers and site reliability engineering (SRE) teams must use technology to improve performance, reliability and service uptime.
Grafana Faro and xk6-browser are both new tools within the Grafana Labs open source ecosystem, but the pairing is already showing a lot of potential in terms of frontend monitoring and performance testing. Faro, which was announced last November, includes a highly configurable SDK that instruments web apps to capture observability signals that can then be correlated with backend and infrastructure data.
SonarQube is a tool for static code analysis that integrates with your existing CI pipelines to run quality checks on your codebase as it changes. As you develop and release new code, constant monitoring of code quality is crucial to ensure compliance, stability, and security. SonarQube’s Clean-As-You-Code philosophy helps to avoid technical debt by running regular code checks and alerting you to any problems early on.
User experience is key to ensuring the success of your website. There are many metrics that help you gauge and improve it, but Core Web Vitals are probably the most important ones. They are a set of real-world, user-centered metrics that quantify key aspects of the user experience. By measuring dimensions of web usability such as load time, interactivity, and the stability of content as it loads, Core Web Vitals help you understand how your website is doing in terms of performance.
“If you are a managed service provider (MSP) in Switzerland, your customers are very likely Swiss customers, so they speak the local language, and they want their data to be in Switzerland, and they want your service provider to comply with all the Swiss regulations. And the same is true in 190 other countries, especially after last year,”
