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Performance Monitoring and more updates to Sentry for Electron

For those who aren’t that familiar with it, Electron is an open-source framework that allows developers to build cross-platform desktop applications in JavaScript. Some of the most popular desktop applications like VS Code, Slack, Discord, and Atom, are all built in Electron.

What are Suspect Spans?

Suspect Spans surfaces a list of spans that correspond to where the most time in a transaction is spent. Instead of clicking into every trace in an attempt to identify the bad actor, check out the Spans tab or Suspect Spans section in every transaction summary and jump directly to the span that needs your attention. In this video, we dive more into what suspect spans are, and we go through a demo of how you can also use Suspect Spans as a complement to your performance monitoring.

The Ugly Truth About (Most) Cloud Rightsizing Recommendations

Rightsizing is about finding the optimal cloud configuration options to ensure that you get the performance you need—within any given constraints you are operating under—at the lowest possible cost. This is a simple proposition, but deceptively so. For one thing, business requirements are constantly changing, meaning that your workloads must adapt to support them, which in turn changes their operating parameters.

Using Telegraf to send syslog metrics to Graphite

When you own and operate software, they generate various types of logs from disparate sources such as databases, servers, and applications. The metrics from these important digital assets are what companies monitor continuously. When they show you a sign of unreliability, companies need to take swift actions to fit the cause and prevent it from growing to a larger problem. The key to success in this activity is owning a good Syslog application and metrics software where you can clearly see metrics.

Introducing Cribl Stream

It took THREE rounds of approvals to say what we’re about to say: We’re dropping a Log 😳. Yes, we said it: we’re dropping the Log in LogStream. Cribl LogStream is now known as Cribl Stream to reflect the enhanced functionality it delivers. LogStream already processed a lot more than just Logs, so it’s now known as Cribl Stream. Today’s announcement isn’t just about a name change, though.

Decoding the robust Azure architectures with fail-proof monitoring

Have you just begun your cloud journey to Azure by moving away from on-prem? If so, it’s always better to opt for the right set of patterns and strategies for developing and monitoring your applications on the Azure cloud. In this webinar, Tord Glad Nordahl, Microsoft Azure MVP, exclusively exposed the secret sauce for building and monitoring innovative cloud-native applications. Major topics covered,

New Monitoring Features and Dashboards in eG Enterprise

Small thoughtful, beautifully packed gifts are the best – just like our UI features Sometimes it is the small things that infuriate IT users the most – those tiny annoyances in a GUI that make you use some annoying and clunky workaround several times a day. Our eG Enterprise product management team understands this, and as our customers know, we are always willing to consider even small feature changes to improve usability.