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Monitorama 2022: the good, the bad and the beautiful (Part 2)

ICYMI, this year’s Monitorama marks a return to the in-person event following a pandemic hiatus. In Part 1 of this series, I shared what it was like to navigate a tech conference in the post-pandemic world and the most engaging themes of the conference including tracing, SLIs, OpenTelemetry, and more. Now for Part 2, let’s dive into the talks. As usual the Monitorama talk selection team did a bang-up job. Every talk was interesting, but a few jumped out at me for some very specific reasons.

Splunk Snags Six 'Best of' Awards From Customer Reviews on TrustRadius

Splunk is honored to be the recipient of a series of six new awards from TrustRadius—all based on customer reviews. In this round, TrustRadius grants its “Best of” Awards to the top three products per Best Feature Set, Best Value for Price and Best Relationship in each respective category.

Synthetic web tests - Moving up the stack

In this short explainer and demo, Kentik's Phil Gervasi shows how Kentik is moving up the stack to monitor application activity on the network. Phil explains the differences between proactive and passive network monitoring and demonstrates three new synthetic tests that relate to app performance monitoring. Kentik's suite of application-focused synthetic tests give you proactive visibility into application activity on your network. Using the HTTP test, Page Load test, and Synthetic Transaction Monitoring, you can monitor a user's digital experience and troubleshoot problems as they happen.

Founder & Friends: How to get the most out of Raygun (Live Demo)

In our first-ever episode of Founder & Friends, we go straight to our VP of Product, Zheng Li, for best-practice tips and advice for getting the most out of Raygun.‍ Raygun is known for its quick and easy setup, but there are some simple and lesser-known ways to set you and your team up for success. In this live demo, we make sure your account is optimized for your workflow, captures quality diagnostics (without the noise), and quickly alerts you to problematic code.

What is OpenTelemetry? What OTEL means for Observability in 2022

The growth of technology has led to more efficient and relevant digital experiences, and customers continue to expect more out of those interactions. That’s true no matter their location and no matter which device they choose to use. Companies that cannot provide these kinds of personalized interactions for their customers find themselves falling behind the competition as technology continues to advance.

Tracking Core Web Vitals with Honeycomb and Vercel

Google’s Core Web Vitals (CWVs) are used to rank the performance of mobile sites or pages. It’s easy to see when your CWV scores are low, but it’s not always clear exactly why that’s happening. In Honeycomb’s new guide, Tracking Core Web Vitals with Honeycomb and Vercel, you can learn how to capture, analyze, and debug your real-world CWV performance using a free Honeycomb account.

The Benefits of a More Modern, Agile, & Efficient Operations for MSPs

In today's business and IT environment, marked by constant change and transformation, if you’re a managed service provider (MSP), you are probably struggling to keep up. You’re faced with the need to modernize your operations, but the speed at which you can do so is constrained by years of accumulated complexity and chaos.