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Parallelizing Queries with Rails 7's `load_async`

As you're likely well aware, Rails 7 was released last month bringing a number of new features with it. One of the features we're most excited about is load_async. This features allows for multiple Active Record queries to be executed in parallel which can be a great tool for speeding up slow requests. Since Rails introduces an entirely new infrastructure for load_async, Skylight's existing integration wasn't capturing all of these queries.

DeveloperWeek 2022: Front-end Code Observability: Errors, Performance, Web Vitals

Good user experience requires a well performing frontend application. Code observability on a frontend application—to understand errors and their relevancy, performance of transactions, and Web Vitals to quantify website quality—is complex. By watching this video on-demand, you'll learn more about the tools that are available to aggregate and organize relevant frontend data to provide necessary visibility on errors and performance to keep users engaged.

GCISD Accelerates Digital Transformation With LogicMonitor

In this case study video, LogicMonitor is joined by Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District to discuss the evolution of the education space through the digital transformation era. From keeping tabs on thousands of devices, consolidating a plethora of monitoring tools into one platform for greater visibility and ease of use, and leveraging AI powered alerting and forecasting, LogicMonitor provides GCISD with the enterprise-grade SaaS monitoring solution it needs to support its students 24/7, wherever they are learning.

Financial Services Customer Maintains 99.99% Uptime With LogicMonitor

In this case study video, LogicMonitor is joined by Abrigo, a software company for financial institutions, to discuss the evolution of the financial technology space through the digital transformation era. From supporting PPP loans throughout the pandemic to consolidating a plethora of monitoring tools into one platform for greater visibility and ease of use – LogicMonitor provides Abrigo with the enterprise-grade SaaS monitoring solution it needs to support its customers 24/7, around the globe.

Real-time drone tracking and management with Grafana

The number of internet-connected assets around us that are powering services and utilities in a wide array of sectors is rising at an exponential rate. As a result, it’s becoming critical for businesses that provide such services and utilities to have an observability stack tailored to the type of physical hardware devices that are generally deployed in swarms.

Tagging in a monitoring tool: what is it and how can it benefit your team?

As you start to have responsibility for more than a handful of SQL Server instances, you’ll need to get more organised. Everyone around you benefits if you’ve recorded basic things like what the server does and who is responsible for it, and we think that a great place to do this is in your monitoring tool (and, better still, if that’s SQL Monitor!).

How to Test Multi-Factor Authentication for Microsoft Teams

Our last blog introduced Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for synthetics and discussed how MFA works. Most of our customers use Microsoft Teams as their Go-To messaging and collaboration application. So in today’s article I will show you how to deploy the Teams Audio Video sensor in your environment with an MFA configuration. This will enable testing MFA while at the same time testing the performance of a Teams audio video conference.

Percepio Releases Tracealyzer 4.6 with Improved Zephyr and ThreadX Support

Percepio®, the leader in visual trace diagnostics for embedded systems and the Internet of Things (IoT), today released Tracealyzer 4.6 with official support for Zephyr RTOS and Microsoft Azure RTOS ThreadX. The new release also includes Percepio’s next generation trace recorder library with improved support for snapshot trace.

3 reasons top-notch infrastructure performance is critical for service providers

Brocade, a Broadcom Company, named 2/8/2022 as End-of-Support (EOS) for Brocade Network Advisor (BNA), the collection mechanism for Brocade fabrics. Broadcom recommends Brocade SANnav as a replacement for BNA. To continue providing industry-leading infrastructure intelligence, Galileo’s new v2 agent for Brocade will use the REST functionality to collect all the configuration and performance metrics required. Read on for all the details you need to know.