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Introducing Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM)

A few days ago, I tried ordering lunch from a local restaurant. I went online, spent time looking at their menu, chose a few items, clicked “submit” and… got an error message. This experience is not unique. Earlier this week, when I tried to read the news, I got a message saying they’re experiencing a technical issue. You can see both messages below: We’ve all experienced such situations, and they can be very frustrating.

Lumigo: Troubleshooting AWS Serverless Applications

In this 2-hour follow-along workshop, you will learn how to add observability to a serverless application and troubleshoot problems such as Lambda timeouts, slow response time, cold starts, and debug errors in the business logic. AWS Serverless Hero, Yan Cui, will lead the workshop and will be available for a live Q&A throughout it. After the workshop, we will have breakout sessions where our serverless experts will help you implement monitoring and debugging in your own dev or production environment.

Flowmon: Tackling networking issues between users and Cloud apps

By extending the capabilities of traditional network visibility, cloud adoption no longer comes at the cost of losing control over the quality of mission-critical systems. Even when employees can connect to an app from a mobile phone via places like a crowded airport Wi-Fi, with Flowmon's support of the cloud-native Packet Mirroring function, NetOps can ensure smooth service.

Elastic: Getting started with Elastic Cloud on AWS for observability and ops

Elastic Cloud brings the power of enterprise search, observability, and security to your cloud environment. Learn how to easily deploy, maintain, and manage your cluster; upgrade or sync data quickly from a remote Elasticsearch cluster on a different cloud platform; and secure an Elasticsearch cluster on AWS using PrivateLink.

Flowmon: Power your digitalization with End-User Experience Monitoring

In the digital world, user-centricity is the one thing all successful modern applications have in common. But no matter how great the application is, users' experience - whether customers or employees - is instantly ruined if performance degrades. This webinar will explain the differences between four major approaches to application and user experience monitoring and show how to get true end-to-end coverage by combining them.

AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry will send metrics and traces to Datadog

Datadog has a long-standing commitment to open standards. Our integrations with OpenMetrics, JMX, and WMI, as well as our implementation of the tried-and-true StatsD protocol, enable you to collect data with the tools and libraries that fit best into your workflows.

Sophisticated phishing

Most of us can think of a time when we received a phishing email. In fact, most phishing emails are easy to identify, and automatically go to spam. However, in this ongoing pandemic, hackers are adopting advanced tactics that cleverly conceal their malicious intentions, and fly under the radar by leveraging the victim’s fear, anxiety, or plain negligence.

Web application performance monitoring: measuring and alerting

Everyone knows that web performance is everything for a quality user experience. Web performance affects conversion rates because users quickly form opinions based on a website’s or app’s responsiveness. In this article, we explore the importance of performance to your web application throughout the entire user journey, how to examine your web application performance results, and how to set up your web application monitoring to alert based on performance.

Track open source security exposure with Snyk and Datadog

Using open source code makes it easier to build applications, but the freely available nature of open source code introduces the risk of pulling potential security vulnerabilities into your environment. Knowing whether or not customers are actually accessing the vulnerable parts of your application is key to triaging security threats without spending hours fixing an issue that doesn’t affect end users.