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How to Monitor SaaS Environments with Synthetic Monitoring

Today, we bring you a quick and straightforward overview of "How to Monitor SaaS Environments with Synthetic Monitoring." Whether you're a seasoned professional or a beginner in the SaaS world, understanding the basics of synthetics monitoring can give your SaaS environment a significant boost. In this short video, we're cutting through the clutter and going straight to the point. No deep dives, no overwhelming details – just a crisp, concise look at how synthetics monitoring works. Perfect for those just starting out or anyone in need of a quick refresher.

Elastic Search 8.10: Powerful personalized search powered by a comprehensive connector catalog

Elastic Search 8.10 brings programmatic personalization of your search experiences to a new level while expanding the open code integration catalog with knowledge base and communication systems connectors. These new features allow customers to: Elastic Search 8.10 is available now on Elastic Cloud — the only hosted Elasticsearch® offering to include all of the new features in this latest release.

Getting started with OpenTelemetry instrumentation with a sample application

Application performance management (APM) has moved beyond traditional monitoring to become an essential tool for developers, offering deep insights into applications at the code level. With APM, teams can not only detect issues but also understand their root causes, optimizing software performance and end-user experiences. The modern landscape presents a wide range of APM tools and companies offering different solutions. Additionally, OpenTelemetry is becoming the open ingestion standard for APM.

How to monitor SaaS Environments with a Google Chrome Plugin

Explore the capabilities of this Chrome plugin, the 'Elastic APM JavaScript Injector'. This tool injects the Elastic APM JavaScript agent into any web page, allowing you to gather crucial performance metrics right in your browser. In this video, we walk you through the installation process, demonstrate how to set up your Elastic APM server URL, and show you how the plugin works in the background to measure performance metrics. Please remember, always respect privacy policies and only monitor sites you have explicit permission to monitor. Happy Monitoring!

Logging in Docker Containers and Live Monitoring with Papertrail

Docker’s power and versatility have cemented its place in developers’ and administrators’ toolkits. Along with this widespread adoption comes the critical need for effective logging in Docker containers. However, once you scale beyond a single container on a single machine, effectively capturing and working with logs from Docker presents a challenge. The native docker logs command quickly becomes inadequate, and you’ll need a more scalable solution.

Observability for the Public Sector: Greater Visibility for a More Resilient Digital Future

Observability continues to prove its worth. In The State of Observability 2023, the annual research report Splunk created in partnership with the Enterprise Strategy Group, we share the characteristics that set the observability leaders (those with a mature observability practice) apart from the rest.

Mezmo Logging vs Coralogix Logging: Features, Pricing and Support

Mezmo, formerly known as LogDNA, offers log analytics without any native capabilities around metrics and tracing data. While Coralogix’s full-stack observability supports logs, metrics, tracing and security data, for the purpose of this comparison with Mezmo, we will focus primarily on logs.

The Ultimate Guide to ELK Log Analysis

ELK has become one of the most popular log analytics solutions for software-driven businesses, with thousands of organizations relying on ELK for log analysis and management in 2021. In this ultimate guide to using ELK for log management and analytics, we’re providing insights and information that will help you know what to expect when deploying, configuring, and operating an ELK stack for your organization. Keep reading to discover answers to the following.

10 Best Splunk Alternatives [2023 Comparison]

In the website monitoring and observability space, there are few names that hold as much weight as Splunk. Established in 2003, Splunk is highly focused on log data visualization and analysis but offers a wide range of tools to help you monitor your applications. All of that being said, just because it’s been around a while doesn’t mean that it’s right for everyone.