APM is one of those buzzwords that is slowly becoming a necessity. Most people are still unsure what APM means and how it can help their services. But what is it? What does it stand for? And how can it help your services or digital products? This blog will answer your questions—and more.

On-call shifts are part of every developer’s job – we’ve all been there. It’s 3am, suddenly you get an alert for an issue occurring in production. The microservices landscape is complicated and finding the root cause of an issue is like looking for a needle in a haystack. How can you get to the root of what’s happening in the system so you can analyze and resolve the issue quickly and effectively?

Modern businesses are constantly looking for more efficiency and better performance in their daily operations. This is why embracing cloud computing has become necessary for many businesses. However, while there are numerous benefits to utilizing cloud technology, obstacles can get in the way. Managing a cloud environment can quickly overwhelm organizations with new complexities.

Get excited about Grafana Tempo 2.2! Not only is this release on time, but it is also chock full of TraceQL features and performance improvements. I was honestly a little shocked by how much we have accomplished in the last three months when summarizing the changelog.

Recently I came across the Maps module build and maintained by our community. The module displays host objects and annotations on openstreetmap using the JavaScript library leaflet.js. The module reads the coordinates for each host from custom variables and is able to group multiple hosts on the same location. There is already a guide on our blog that describes how you can use the module with human readable locations instead of numeric geolocations.

Since server outages can lead to a loss of customers, reputation, and other troubles and it is important to get information on the status of the server on time. MetricFire's Hosted Grafana and Graphite will help you monitor server load in a timely and efficient manner. Servers generate a large number of metrics and it is essential to not only track their values but also to observe their changes over time. There is also a possibility to correlate app statistics with server load metrics.

When it comes to monitoring Golang applications, there are various tools and practices you can use to gain insights into your application's performance, resource usage, and potential issues. By using OpenTelemetry for monitoring in your Go applications, you can gain valuable insights into the behavior, performance, and resource utilization of your distributed systems, allowing you to troubleshoot issues, optimize performance, and improve the overall reliability of your software.

As today’s businesses increasingly rely on their digital services to drive revenue, the tolerance for software bugs, slow web experiences, crashed apps, and other digital service interruptions is next to zero. Developers and engineers bear the immense burden of quickly resolving production issues before they impact customer experience.

We want machines in good working order, making products of superior quality. This isn’t news. But what is newsworthy is that routine maintenance can still lead to more downtime than necessary. Not all maintenance programs are created equally. Keeping capital equipment running doesn’t exist inside a vacuum of chance. Outside the fraction of unavoidable catastrophes, there’s much power in the decision-making process.

We're excited to announce that starting today, Spectate is free to use. With our free Hobby plan, we're aiming to be more accessible to hobby and freelance developers and system administrators. It allows you to become even more familiar with Spectate and the variety of features it offers such as uptime monitoring, domain monitoring and status pages - all for free!