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What is Core Web Vitals and How to Monitor It

It used to be simple to improve the performance of a website. However, the introduction of client-side JavaScript has opened up a whole new world of ways for websites to be painfully slow. Measuring this increased slowness will require the development of new measurements. They're known as the Core Web Vitals by Google. Google announced Core Web Vitals in May 2020, a set of three indicators that serve as the gold standard for evaluating a website's user experience.

VoIP Service Provider and Titanium 3CX Partner, Amplisys, uses Obkio to Monitor End-User Network Performance

Learn how Obkio works with 3CX partner and VoIP Provider, Amplisys, to create a streamlined network monitoring and troubleshooting process to quickly and proactively support every one of Amplisys’ VoIP customers for impeccable customer satisfaction and support.

Dash 2021: Guide to Datadog's newest announcements

Today at Dash 2021, we announced new products and features that give your team even greater visibility into the health and performance of your code, databases, CI/CD pipelines, and more. Now, you can monitor network devices, get visibility into your services' golden signal metrics without touching a single line of code, and integrate third-party tools into our platform with Datadog Apps. We expanded RUM to include iOS error tracking, Session Replay, and Watchdog Insights.

Introducing Network Device Monitoring

For many organizations, the success of their business depends on their ability to maintain on-prem or hybrid infrastructure. For instance, some companies rely on data centers for security reasons or to support their large, static workloads, while others must execute their critical business processes as close to the edge as possible to ensure minimal latency.

Extend your Datadog functionality with Datadog Apps

Last year, we launched the Datadog Marketplace, which lets Datadog partners develop and trade applications that provide custom monitoring solutions for specific use cases. Now, we’re pleased to announce Datadog Apps, which introduces even further customizability to the Datadog platform. With Datadog Apps, you can now build and share your own Datadog UI features that seamlessly combine functionality from your third-party tools with the full range of Datadog’s monitoring capabilities.

Historical log analysis and investigation with Online Archives

To have full visibility into modern cloud environments, businesses need to collect an ever-growing avalanche of log data from a range of highly complex data sources. Indexing logs is key for real-time monitoring and troubleshooting, but it can quickly become expensive at high volumes, meaning that organizations often must choose which logs to index and which to archive.

Use funnel analysis to understand and optimize key user flows

Monitoring frontend performance and user behavior is essential to ensure that your application is functioning optimally. Datadog RUM enables you to collect key user data and correlate all of it with frontend performance metrics to track how your pages’ performance affects user behavior.

ScienceLogic Announces Integration with ServiceNow Service Graph Connector Program

ScienceLogic announces it has joined the ServiceNow® Service Graph Connector Program by integrating its ScienceLogic SL1 connector with Service Graph, helping customers to quickly, easily and reliably load third-party data into the system, enabling data quality, timeliness and scalability.

Start Real-Time Monitoring of Microsoft Outlook in 5 Minutes

Microsoft Outlook is the premier enterprise productivity application that has become ubiquitous with managing every aspect of a employees workday. According to Wikipedia, there are around 400 million users for Outlook. You can install Outlook as a standalone desktop app that connects to Exchange Server – Online or On-premises (still!) or the full featured Outlook Web Access (OWA).

Web, Citrix, Windows, Mobile:2 Steps A Universal Automator

Did you know, 86% of customers are willing to pay more for an amazing user experience . But how do you ensure your applications are always performing at their best? Slow performance in your applications can significantly impact employee productivity and end-user experience. With 2 Steps you can increase your observability across your applications and are not limited to only monitoring web applications.