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The 5Ws (and 1H) of InfluxDB's Native MQTT Collector

MQTT is a messaging protocol used widely in the IoT space. Its publish/subscribe model is ideal for IoT because multiple devices can send data to a single MQTT broker, which MQTT clients can then access. The MQTT integration for InfluxDB’s native collector feature is a fast and easy way to create cloud-to-cloud data pipelines. Here’s the lowdown on using the Native MQTT collector. Who: Users and companies that rely on MQTT to provide time series data for their applications.

How to Monitor Aerospike with OpenTelemetry

With observIQ’s latest contributions to OpenTelemetry, you can now use free open source tools to easily monitor Aerospike. The easiest way to use the latest OpenTelemetry tools is with observIQ’s distribution of the OpenTelemetry collector. You can find it here. In this blog, the Aerospike receiver is configured to monitor metrics locally with OTLP–you can use the Aerospike receiver to ship metrics to many popular analysis tools, including Google Cloud, New Relic, and more.

SAP hyperautomation: SAP and the future of robotic process automation

In a post COVID landscape, the business world is increasingly focusing its attention towards task automation and digital first processes to allow them to save time, money and valuable business resources. As one of the key technology trends of 2022, hyperautomation is quickly becoming the main way organizations are achieving these goals.

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Core Web Vitals e-commerce analysis: part one

In 2021, Google introduced Core Web Vitals, three criteria to measure if a website is fast, stable, and responsive enough to give visitors a good digital experience. These factor into search ranking and have a powerful influence on customer behavior. But while Google has been urging the web performance community to get on board for more than two years, many are still falling short. We pulled data from the Chrome User Experience Report to conduct our own Core Web Vitals analysis, finding that even some of the largest e-commerce brands aren't passing these thresholds.

7 Critical Considerations for Evaluating Infrastructure Monitoring Platforms

I remember how excited I was to build my first Network Operations Center (NOC). It was a new idea at the time (yes, I know I’m dating myself), and boy, did we feel like we were cutting edge. The mere idea that we needed a place and a set of tools to monitor our entire infrastructure (because it’s never really been about just the network) was a big transition at the time. How things have changed.

Sematext | Front End Tools and Monitoring Solutions

Monitoring Multiple Sites and Web applications can be difficult without the correct toolset. In this video, we will look at two of Sematext's front-end monitoring solutions, Sematext Syntethics, and Sematext Experience. Sematext Synthetics is a synthetic monitoring tool that allows you to monitor your website's availability, yours and 3rd party APIs, and business-critical web transactions with robust synthetic monitoring and testing tools. Create an HTTP monitor or use a custom script to track and monitor your systems performance.