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

Overcoming Kubernetes Monitoring Challenges with Observability

At Logz.io, we’re seeing a very fast pace of adoption for Kubernetes–at this point, it’s even outpacing cloud adoption, with companies running on-prem fully adopting Kubernetes in production. Why are companies going in this direction? Kubernetes provides additional layers of abstraction, which helps create business agility and flexibility for deploying critical applications. At the same time, those abstraction layers create additional complexity for observability.

How Monitoring as Code Reduces the Time to Detect and Resolve Issues

A web application or an API breaking is a matter of when, not if. Whether the cause is buggy code making it to production or infrastructure failing to support the software built upon it, incidents of varying severity are the norm rather than the exception, appearing frequently enough that the industry has coined the terms Mean Time To Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time To Recovery (MTTR).

Upgrading NPM and SAM to Hybrid Cloud Observability

This video discusses and demonstrates upgrading an Orion Platform installation running NPM and SAM, to Hybrid Cloud Observability – advanced license. The video discusses system requirements, installation methods and walks through a full demonstration of the upgrade. This video is suitable for anyone who wishes to understand more and see an upgrade from a module based install to Hybrid Cloud Observability.

Datadog's shocking bill of $65 million, pricing comparison of SigNoz with other tools - SigNal 24

Welcome to our monthly product newsletter - SigNal 24! Last month, our team worked on the upcoming trace and logs explorer page. With the new update, our users will be able to drive deeper insights into their application performance quickly. We also attended open source focused meetups and published a cost comparison blog comparing SigNoz with other popular observability tools. Let’s dive in to see what humans at SigNoz were up to in the month of April 2023.

Web Fonts and the Dreaded Cumulative Layout Shift

How frustrating is it when you’ve just landed on a web page, you click on a certain element and an ad or something else pops up and you end up clicking that thing instead? That’s a layout shift, which is bad for the user’s experience and the later they happen, the worse it is. Research from HTTP Archive shows that over 80% of websites use web fonts. Web fonts also cause layout shifts, if they’re not being loaded strategically.

NiCE Active 365 Management Pack 4.2

As more and more companies move towards Microsoft 365, it’s essential to have the right tools to monitor the platform effectively. Monitoring Microsoft 365 can be a complex task requiring advanced monitoring tools to ensure the smooth and uninterrupted functioning of the platform. This is particularly important for businesses that rely heavily on Microsoft 365 for daily operations.

How to monitor Oracle Database with Grafana Cloud

Oracle Database is an enterprise multi-model database system capable of handling large amounts of data across multiple database servers with support for a wide variety of workloads. It’s a widely used and proven database software, so we are incredibly pleased to announce that it now has a dedicated cloud integration in Grafana Cloud. With the Oracle Database (OracleDB) integration, you can monitor your database’s performance with ease.

Network Automation: Top Use Cases and Benefits

Network automation enables teams to use software to plan, develop, operate, or optimize networks with little or no human intervention. Effectively, network automation leverages some logic to execute “task A” when “event B” happens. Network automation can be used in a range of ways, anything from AI-driven network analytics to traditional health checks. Do you want to know how network automation can help your business? Keep reading.