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Observability strategies that work - and some that don't

Creating an observability strategy is a lot like playing with Legos: It takes small building blocks to create a bigger picture, but the slightest mistake could throw off an entire build — and often you realize it very late in the process and have to rip and repair the Hogwarts castle infrastructure you spent many days creating.

Adding Redis & MySQL to AppSignal for Node.js with OpenTelemetry

We've simultaneously launched 4 new integrations for Node.js: Redis, ioredis, MySQL, and MySQL2. This means that you can now see all the details of a query in the Event Timeline and Slow Query screens in AppSignal. Because we are a small and bootstrapped team, we've chosen to embrace OpenTelemetry as a means of expanding AppSignal's offering in the Node.js ecosystem.

See How Restorepoint Helps You Remediate After a Network Breach

This is our first blog in a three-part series, where we demonstrate the many features and benefits of using Restorepoint and the ScienceLogic SL1 Platform together. Today’s demo takes you through a network breach scenario—showing how to identify and remediate following an unplanned network device change.

Coming soon! A sneak peek at Raygun Alerting's Slack integration

The Slack integration is our #1 feature request for our Alerting feature, and the Raygun team has been busy at work making this feature available to all our customers. We expect this feature to be available around early - mid July 2022. Many of you, our curious customers, have asked for a preview of what’s to come. So we thought we’d share some specs and screenshots with you as we progress through the work.

How to Install Apache ActiveMQ on Debian 11

Apache ActiveMQ is a free and open-source message broker developed by Apache Software Foundation. It is one of the well-known message brokers that supports multiple protocols such as AMQP, MQTT, Stomp, and OpenWire. It is written in Java and fully compliant with JMS 1.1 standards. Apache ActiveMQ is one of the most popular message brokers that support different types of programming languages that can be deployed on multiple platforms.

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IT Automation is a Key to Reckoning the Challenges of The Great Resignation

The Great Resignation has been a time of reckoning and disruption for many businesses. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, more than 40 million people voluntarily left a job in 2021, the highest such rate in more than four decades.

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3 Reasons You Need a Digital Experience Monitoring Solution

Exoprise customers are already enjoying the full benefits of 24*7 active monitoring for their enterprise applications. Don't believe us? Take a look at one of our case studies. While synthetic monitoring (aka Active Monitoring) is great for proactively detecting SaaS, network, and Internet outages, the IT world has now switched to Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) solutions. Thanks to Covid, that took the world by storm.

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What is Business Transaction Tracking?

When conducting business online it is vital to be able to track all parts of any financial transactions conducted by your organization. Where different companies are working together on different steps in the process, this isn't always simple to achieve. It is important to ensure that there is an appropriate level of observability at the heart of all of your systems and that it is easy to track the result of business decisions to real-world actions.