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Absinthe is a popular GraphQL toolkit for building robust APIs in Elixir. Monitoring such APIs is essential to ensure performance, detect bottlenecks, and handle errors effectively. AppSignal offers a seamless way to monitor and gain insights into your Absinthe-powered GraphQL APIs, enabling you to keep applications performant and reliable.

Debugging a Python app can be frustrating, especially when an unexpected crash leaves behind nothing but a vague error message. A well-configured exception log can make all the difference, turning guesswork into clear insights. Here’s how to set up logging that actually helps.

Building dashboards one by one in Grafana can quickly become tedious. Clicking through the UI for every change isn’t exactly efficient. There’s a better way. The Grafana API lets you automate repetitive tasks and extend Grafana’s capabilities beyond the UI. If you're new to monitoring or managing a complex observability setup, understanding the API can make your workflow more efficient and scalable.

That moment when your production system goes down, and you're stuck piecing together logs from twenty different services? It’s frustrating and slow—especially when you need answers fast. SIEM logs help bring order to this chaos, giving you a structured way to track security events and system activity. But understanding how to use them effectively isn’t always straightforward, and most documentation can feel more complicated than the problem itself.

Security has been our top priority over the last year, and we’re rolling out major improvements to account and project access tokens to bring Rollbar up to today’s security standards. Newly created tokens will be stored in an encrypted format, inaccessible via the UI or API after being created, and you will be able to manually encrypt your existing tokens. This change to token storage will give you more control over who can submit, access or update data in your system.

Since our inception in 2003, ScienceLogic has been dedicated to empowering our partners with innovative solutions that deliver exceptional visibility and insights into their and their clients’ IT environments. Our mission is to help these organizations navigate complexity, transform inefficiencies into productive outcomes, and achieve and exceed their business goals.

Welcome to the world of networking, where seamless connections keep businesses running smoothly. Today, we’re diving into a common but often misunderstood issue: jitter. You might be wondering, what exactly is jitter? Simply put, it’s the variation in packet arrival times that can cause choppy video calls, laggy VoIP conversations, and disrupted online experiences.

Welcome to the March edition of the NiCE bi-monthly monitoring news! As the year starts to take full swing, we’re excited to bring you the latest updates, insights, and events to keep you at the forefront of IT monitoring. With significant developments, there’s much to explore, prepare for, and leverage in the coming months. Stay tuned!

Monitoring distributed systems is essential to keep your system running smoothly, efficiently, and reliably. With the growing reliance on distributed systems in everything from web services to cloud computing and large-scale applications, having a robust monitoring setup is crucial. Let’s dive into what distributed systems are, their different types, key characteristics, and how monitoring plays a critical role in maintaining their performance.

Monitoring is integral to understanding what is happening in your infrastructure, applications, or other observability projects. However, a common predicament developers can land themselves in is their observability stack becoming unwieldy and unmanageable due to a lack of streamlining and/or over-complicated code. To simplify your workload, it is important to streamline your monitoring.