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Learn the basics of Kubernetes microservices, including architecture and deployment tips to improve your cloud-native apps!

.NET 9 is releasing in mid-November 2024. Like every.NET version, this introduces several important features and enhancements aligning developers with an ever-changing development ecosystem. In this blog series, I will explore critical updates in different areas of.NET. For this post, I will look through advancements in System.Text.Json.

Understanding how real users engage with a web application or website is crucial for the success of any business. Analyzing this data reveals vital insights into user behavior, performance metrics, and the overall experience. However, this vast amount of information can be both a blessing and a curse. While it holds the potential for invaluable insights, it often becomes overwhelming, making it difficult for teams to pinpoint specific performance issues affecting user experiences.

Uptime.com offers Real User Monitoring (RUM) as part of every subscription plan. RUM reporting provides a variety of insights into how users experience your website, packaged in a single report that offers an intuitive snapshot of user experiences. While Uptime.com can provide metrics and monitoring of performance, RUM enables real-time monitoring, collecting metrics that show how users interact with your site and how satisfied they are with its speed and stability.

When your Internet connection starts acting up, it's frustrating, especially when you're trying to figure out whether the issue is on your side or your ISP’s. Identifying and fixing ISP issues can be tricky, but it's necessary to keep your business running smoothly and avoid downtime that hampers productivity.

In modern, distributed applications, shared standards for performance and reliability are key to maintaining a healthy production environment and providing a dependable user experience. But establishing and maintaining these standards at scale can be a challenge: when you have hundreds or thousands of services overseen by a wide range of teams, there are no one-size-fits-all solutions. How do you determine effective best practices in such a complex environment?

Managing telemetry data effectively is a serious challenge for today’s engineering teams. In our webinar, Telemetry Data Management: Tales from the Trenches, experts from Mezmo and DZone shared practical strategies for building robust telemetry pipelines that both streamline operations and turn raw data into a strategic asset.

When we talk about Real User Monitoring (RUM), it’s easy to get wrapped up in metrics—the hard numbers that tell us about our users’ experiences. But RUM is more than just data; it’s the foundation for improving performance, an essential key to user experience. The big question is: how do you accurately measure that experience across different kinds of applications?

We’ve improved the filter pane to include: Additionally, a new time-picker option lets you mix absolute and relative times and manually set the date and time to the second. Additionally, you can view your data in either UTC or your local time zone. Saved searches from Explore can now be used to create visualizations and dashboards in OpenSearch Dashboards, streamlining data analysis.

Businesses rely on accurate network monitoring data because the network is the backbone of IT infrastructure. Lacking internal or external communication about your network can be disastrous, especially if you provide digital goods or services. Network monitoring tools shouldn't be a "nice to have" that may or may not make this year's department budget. They are essential to monitoring performance, spotting anomalies, and identifying potential security issues.