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Intercom’s mission is to build better communication between businesses and their customers. With that in mind, they began their journey away from metrics alone and towards complete observability. The first step was tooling, and they learned quickly that trying to work with multiple solutions was not the answer.

This article would not be possible without the contribution of Lars Stegman. The OPC UA Client Listener Plugin was his own contribution to a long-standing issue. Telegraf now includes a new plugin highly anticipated by the community. The OPC UA Client Listener Plugin. So you might be asking yourself: what is the big deal? There was already an OPC UA Plugin — how is this different?

At InfluxData, one of the common questions we regularly get asked by developers and architects alike the last few months is, “How does InfluxDB compare to MongoDB for time series workloads?” This question might be prompted for a few reasons. First, if they’re starting a brand new project and doing the due diligence of evaluating a few solutions head-to-head, it can be helpful in creating their comparison grid.

Remember the last time you tried to visit a website or pay a bill and the spinner just kept going and going? That site needed uptime monitoring! “Uptime monitoring” refers to the practice of tracking a website’s availability and performance quality over time. This type of monitoring includes services that report on the availability of a website or server. Monitoring tools ensure that your website or server is running smoothly.

AppSignal is a strong supporter of open-source technology. We owe so much of our modern world to the unseen, hard-working software developers who build and maintain the many technologies that make everything from reading this article to sending a message from your phone possible. That's why we're investing in OpenTelemetry, the open-source standard for telemetry data collection, rather than developing our own independent standard.

IBM Integration Bus was one of the first messaging middleware applications to be developed and it has gone through many iterations to reach the stage we are at today with App Connect Enterprise. Like any software application, it has become more feature-rich as time has passed and each iteration has marked a new milestone in the capabilities that it has delivered. We will trace some of the evolutionary paths of IBM Integration Bus to see how it came to be where it is today.

As of 2022, 49% of enterprise workloads and data are in a public cloud, and that number is expected to increase by 6-7% over the next year. Why? With big cloud moves come big benefits: optimized performance, reduced management overhead, and cost savings on data centers. However, it also comes with the struggle to get a handle over never-ending data growth. Customers are looking to Cribl to help route and process that data at scale and need a seamless way to get started within minutes.

Are you trying to choose between Grafana and Splunk, but can't find enough information about their capabilities? In this blog, we highlight the details of why a user should select Grafana OR Splunk as part of their monitoring stack and what are the user benefits of each. Also, you can check out what it's like to make your own Grafana dashboard using our MetricFire free trial. Get onto the product in minutes and see if you prefer Grafana over Splunk.

In case you missed it, last month, we had the pleasure of setting foot in Detroit, Michigan, for another KubeCon. The Mezmo team joined 7,000+ people in the Huntington Place Exhibit Hall in the Motor City for Kubecon + CloudNativeCon NA 2022 from October 24-28.