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RED Metrics & Monitoring: Using Rate, Errors, and Duration

The RED method is a streamlined approach for monitoring microservices and other request-driven applications, focusing on three critical metrics: Rate, Errors, and Duration. Originating from the principles established by Google's "Four Golden Signals," the RED monitoring framework offers a pragmatic and user-centric perspective on service assurance and service performance.

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Guide: Monitor and Optimize Application Performance

Every millisecond your application takes to respond can decide whether a user stays or leaves. But here’s the catch, you can’t improve what you can’t see. Behind every slow page load, failed API call, or random spike in latency lies a story your application is trying to tell. Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is how you listen to that story.

10 Best Log Monitoring Tools

Log monitoring stands as the backbone of resilient, secure, and high-performing digital operations. Every digital service, application, cloud platform, and network device leaves behind a trail of log files, containing raw, unstructured data that chronicles system events, user actions, errors, security activities, and business transactions. For organizations striving to achieve operational excellence, these logs are more than archives; they're the heartbeat of every mission-critical system.

Microsoft Teams Troubleshooting for Teams Performance and Connection Issues

How many times has this happened? You're on a Microsoft Teams call, and your call disconnects, lags or freezes. so you go to Google to look up how to solve the problem. Well look no further! If you're using Microsoft Teams, there are proven ways to troubleshoot those pesky performance and connection issues that are putting a damper on your team's collaboration.

Tech Talk #10 Building a VictoriaMetrics PaaS: Setting up Metrics, Logs, and Traces

From Blueprint to Reality This episode is designed to be a practical, step-by-step guide. We will show you how to leverage the VictoriaMetrics Kubernetes Stack—our "easier button"—to simplify the deployment process and get your components running quickly.

Introducing Obkio's Visual Traceroute Tool

Introducing Obkio's New Visual Traceroute: See Your Network Issues, Not Just Hops After years of evolution, we're launching the most advanced Visual Traceroute we've ever built, now fully integrated into the Obkio app. The Journey: What's New:✓ Fully integrated visual network mapping✓ Historical timeline that actually remembers✓ Correlated with Network Performance and SNMP data✓ No extra setup required✓ See the complete story of network issues, not just individual hops.

From Datadog to Checkly in minutes

Looking to cut your Datadog bill and modernize your monitoring workflow? In this session, Dan Giordano and Giovanni Rago show how to migrate your Datadog synthetic monitors to Checkly in minutes, unlocking Playwright, Monitoring-as-Code, and AI-powered automation. Timestamps: Intro — Why Migrate from Datadog Dan introduces the session, what will be covered, and who it’s for.

Show me the (meeting) money: How to monitor the real-time costs of a meeting in Grafana

This meeting could’ve been an email. It’s a phrase most of us have said (or at least thought) at some point in our careers. For me, that realization hit years ago while working for a government organization. I’d frequently sit through long, agendaless meetings that seemingly went nowhere. I wasn’t sure why I was there. And because I’m an engineer at heart, I started to wonder: what were these meetings actually costing the organization?