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The latest News and Information on Monitoring for Websites, Applications, APIs, Infrastructure, and other technologies.

Graphite for Node.js Monitoring

In this article, we will look at how to monitor Node.js applications using Graphite and StatsD and plot the visualizations on a Grafana dashboard. Node.js is a popular framework for creating microservices. Its asynchronous nature allows for high scalability and low latency, especially for I/O bound tasks. However, it is important to have a proper monitoring setup for any application which is running in a production environment.

Using Data for Good: The Web Vitals Index

RapidSpike is committed to revolutionising website reliability, performance, and security — to make the web faster, safer, and easier for everyone to use. With the direct correlation between website speed and conversion now widely acknowledged, even marginal gains of 0.1% could represent millions of extra revenue for the UK’s largest brands.

Stackify by Netreo Receives "Best in Show" for Performance Monitoring in the 2023 SD Times 100

Stackify by Netreo received top honors from SD Times for Performance Monitoring in the 2023 SD Times 100. Each year, SD Times editors recognize leaders in the industry across 10 different categories and designate companies with “Best in Show” honors. Retrace APM is a full lifecycle APM solution and the driving force behind the successful placement within the SD Times 100 each of the past 5 years!

A Strategic Approach to Replacing Data Historians

Recently, I wrote an article discussing why industrial organizations should migrate from legacy data historians to modern, open source technologies. The reasons for such a migration remain valid; however, it dawned on me that such a heavy-handed approach is not always right for every organization.

It's Official, Scout is SOC 2 Certified

Valued customers, friends, and Scout APM users: Our goal has always been to provide you with the peace of mind of knowing your systems are healthy and serving your customers as expected. While security has always been paramount to us, we’ve recently made it official. We are thrilled to share with you a recent significant achievement for our team and those who trust us with their data. After many months of hard work, we have obtained our SOC 2 certification!

Catchpoint Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM) Capabilities for AIOps are now available in the BMC MarketZone program

The Catchpoint IPM solution enhances the BMC Helix Operations Management portfolio for Internet Resilience by providing complete visibility into the Internet stack across internal and external networks.

Don't Let Observability Inflate Your Cloud Costs

We saw a shift this year in how the technology sector honed in on sustainability from a cost perspective. In particular, looking at where they’re spending that revenue in the infrastructure and tooling space. Observability tooling comes under a lot of scrutiny as it’s perceived as a large cost center—and one that could be cut without affecting revenue. After all, if the business hasn’t had a problem in the last few months, we mustn’t need monitoring—right?

Grafana 10 release: New panels, Grafana as code updates, data correlations, and more

We are beyond thrilled to announce the arrival of Grafana 10, which was highlighted during the GrafanaCON 2023 keynote. The latest major release of the popular visualization and monitoring tool, which now has more than 20 million users around the world, is not just about introducing new features. Grafana 10 is also about enabling you to achieve more — more analysis, more collaboration, more insights, more efficiency and, of course, more beautiful dashboards. Grafana: download now!

GrafanaCON 2023 Day 1 Recap: Grafana 10 release, Grafana Loki updates, IoT monitoring, and more

From IoT monitoring to green IT, the first full day of GrafanaCON 2023 covered a lot of ground. It all kicked off with the keynote address, where Torkel Ödegaard, Grafana Labs CGO and co-founder — and the creator of Grafana — officially unveiled our latest major release, Grafana 10, alongside Director of Engineering Mihaela Maior.