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

Why is Network Monitoring and Network Log Management So Crucial?

Without Network Monitoring, there is no good way to get a real-time view of your connected environment. But with Network Monitoring reports, you can look backwards to spot problems and trends. Just as vital are logs that deepen this rear-view mirror look, as they contain all the data for all the elements you are monitoring.

Sending NGINX Logs to Honeycomb is Darn Easy

Written by Andrew Puch and Brian Langbecker You use NGINX as a proxy for your application, and you want to leverage your favorite features in Honeycomb to help make sense of the traffic data. Have no fear: Honeycomb is more than capable and ready to help! Things you will need: Before you start with the instructions, let’s discuss a lightweight tool called Honeytail. This utility will tail log files, parse the various formats, and send the data to Honeycomb.

Dashboards that Replace your Release Manager

Back in my day, our offices used to have an “open concept” layout – just rows of desks. And at the end of every row was a 720i LCD TV showing 4 to 5 key metrics we’d watch after every release with great concern. While those wallboards sure were beautiful, we rarely had a clear view on how a release was trending. With our latest update to Dashboards, we’re joining form and function with Release Health widgets and a new release filter.

APM correlations in Elastic Observability: Automatically identifying probable causes of slow or failed transactions

As a DevOps engineer or SRE, you are often faced with investigating complex problems — mysterious application performance issues that happen intermittently or to only certain portions of your application traffic — that impact your end users and potentially your company’s financial targets. Sifting through hundreds or even thousands of transactions and spans can be a lot of tedious, manual, and time consuming investigative work.

3 ways to implement Zero Trust in a legacy environment

Trust is a very fickle partner to rely on in the IT sector primarily due to the incessant barrage of security threats from both external and internal actors. This is why government, enterprise, and other types of organizations hold cybersecurity as a top priority as hackers discover ever more ingenious ways to stay under the radar.

Exoprise Customers Achieve Significant ROI With SaaS and Digital Experience Monitoring

Exoprise end-user experience management solutions for Microsoft 365, SaaS, and collaboration apps deliver cost savings, increased productivity, and elevated employee experience in times of growing hybrid/mobile work.

Monitor user-facing bugs with LambdaTest's subscription in the Datadog Marketplace

As your products and client base scale, maintaining effective test suites and providing rapid response to user-facing issues becomes increasingly challenging. Without thorough testing, bugs are more likely to go undetected, which creates poor user experiences and slower release cycles. LambdaTest is a cloud-based platform that supports real-time and automated testing for over 3,000 browsers, real devices, and operating systems.

Swift Package Manager for Raygun4Apple

Raygun4Apple can now be added to your project using the newer Swift Package Manager, instead of Cocopods. Raygun4Apple provides Crash Reporting and Real User Monitoring for iOS, tvOS & macOS. Users of Raygun4Apple can now add it to their project by adding a reference to our GitHub repository. If you are not familiar with Swift, You might also want to check out Apple’s guide on how to add Swift packages in xcode first.

Business-to-Business Middleware (B2B Integration) Market is Booming Worldwide with Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, etc.

The latest updated report published by Data Lab Forecast of COVID-19 titled “global Business-to-Business Middleware (B2B Integration) market analysis and forecast 2022-2030” includes information regarding the market share, industry’s growth prospects, scope, and challenges. The study comes up with the research objectives, detailed overview, import-export status, market segmentation, market share, and Business-to-Business Middleware (B2B Integration) market size evaluation.

Retrace - Much More Than Your Average APM Tool

Finding the root cause of application performance issues is the crux of every app troubleshooting exercise. So why don’t more APM tools provide great root cause analysis? The trouble is – pun intended – the cause of a slow application can come from different sources, many outside the application itself. So APM tools that focus on the ‘A’ may never truly find the root cause.