How to Validate Edge Cases: A Kubernetes Guide
Learn how to identify & resolve edge cases when testing complex systems and the best ways to prepare a test suite to validate performance.
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August 2023
Grafana JSON API: How to import third-party data sources in Grafana Cloud
Have you ever wanted to test out Grafana Cloud but don’t have any available data to monitor? Well, have no fear! With the Grafana JSON API plugin, you can query publicly available JSON endpoints. The JSON API is a wonderful way to start using Grafana Cloud. You can quickly see data in action, and there are a multitude of things you can build, analyze, and monitor using the JSON API.
NaaS and the API economy
In our previous blog, we looked at the rise of the API economy. In this instalment we explore how APIs are transforming the provisioning of connectivity through the move to Network-as-a-Service (NaaS).
What is Synthetic Monitoring?
Synthetic monitoring enables developers to simulate real user interactions to validate an application's performance and correctness. Checkly's Monitoring as Code offers a unique synthetic monitoring solution that enables you to control and automate your entire monitoring infrastructure in a single workflow.
Introducing Error Groups to the Raygun API
We’re excited to announce an important extension to our API. After rigorous research, testing, and feedback, we’ve launched the Error Groups endpoints. This powerful new addition aims to enhance your monitoring experience and better handle errors across your applications. Our primary aim with the introduction of these endpoints is to offer you a more detailed view into your applications’ error groups, and to offer a way to update their statuses using the API.
The Key to Scalable Kubernetes Clusters | Load Test by Simulating Traffic
Discover how simulating heavy traffic based on real usage can accelerate and improve your load tests, and cut through complexity in your Kubernetes apps.
Implementation Guide and Use Cases for Setting Up API Endpoint Monitoring
This video delves into the configuration of API Endpoint monitoring. We'll explore: Even delving into advanced scenarios like employing a logic app to monitor the well-being of integrated systems.
How Cimpress Approaches Holiday Load Testing
Jeff Kwan, Principal Software Engineer, discusses how and when his team at Cimpress (parent company of Vistaprint) starts preparing for holiday load testing.
Why the "Start Small" Approach Breaks Down When It Comes to Load Testing
A common approach in software is to start small, then move to bigger initiatives, but it's often easier said than done. The theory breaks down in production, which is why devs need new approaches.
Understanding the API economy
APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) have been around for decades, but although the concept emerged as far back as the 1940s, it wasn’t until the early 2000s and the efforts of eBay, Salesforce, and Amazon that really put them on the map. APIs today are ubiquitous - any company developing software will likely have an API for customers and partners - and research suggests the majority of enterprises consuming APIs are focused on strategies for easier consumption and management of APIs.
New API authentication Pandora FMS
Pandora FMS external API is used to integrate third party applications with Pandora FMS and now we will be able to authenticate against it using the Bearen Token. It is a type of identification through HTTP headers that allows that each registered user in our Pandora FMS server can generate its own identifier of unique correspondence to make calls to the same API. In today's video we are going to show you how to generate these identifiers of the users of our server and how to make calls to the API with this identifier.
How to create custom assertions with Playwright's "toPass()" method
Learn how to use Playwright's "toPass" method to create auto-repeating and asynchronous assertions.
eCommerce Load Testing (Step 3): Build the Environment
In this webinar clip from "Ensuring performance: How major retailers leverage user traffic to validate code changes", Speedscale Co-founder, Nate Lee, explains what to consider when building the environment, including backend dependencies and data. He covers how service mocking can help companies test at a higher velocity in today's complex development environments.
eCommerce Load Testing (Step 4): Generate Load & Repeat
In this webinar clip from "Ensuring performance: How major retailers leverage user traffic to validate code changes", Speedscale Co-founder, Nate Lee, explains the final step: generating load and repeating the process with the goal of testing continuously and at a higher velocity.
Replicating Traffic: Use Cases & Benefits
In this webinar clip from "Ensuring performance: How major retailers leverage user traffic to validate code changes", Speedscale Co-founder, Nate Lee, talks about why traffic-based testing (unlike manually writing script tests) can help companies move faster and test at the speed of development. He covers the top use cases and benefits of leveraging traffic as the new way to test.
How Modern Retailers Approach Software Testing (4 Steps)
In this webinar clip from "Ensuring performance: How major retailers leverage user traffic to validate code changes", Speedscale Co-founder, Nate Lee, shares how modern retailers are thinking about and approaching software testing in increasingly dynamic and complex environments.
eCommerce Load Testing (Step 2): Capture Traffic
In this webinar clip from "Ensuring performance: How major retailers leverage user traffic to validate code changes", Speedscale Co-founder, Nate Lee, explains what comes next after selecting the business-critical APIs to test first: capturing traffic. Capturing traffic for the service can be done through tools like Speedscale, GoReplay, VCR, K6, and JMeter.
What is an API Gateway?
API Gateways are vital components in today's digital landscape, facilitating seamless communication between systems and applications. To ensure optimal performance, monitoring API Gateways is crucial. MetricFire offers a comprehensive monitoring platform that tracks and analyzes key metrics, providing real-time insights into performance indicators such as latency, error rates, and throughput.
eCommerce Load Testing (Step 1): Begin with your checkout and payment APIs
In this webinar clip from "Ensuring performance: How major retailers leverage user traffic to validate code changes", Speedscale Co-founder, Nate Lee, shares which APIs should be focused on first and the reasons why.
Trace Propagation and Public API Endpoints in .NET: Part 1 (Disable All)
The W3C trace context specification is an amazing standard and a massive leap in standardization of telemetry correlation in the current climate of microservices being the de facto for new systems (that’s a debate for another day).
The Darkside of GraphQL
GraphQL is a query language for APIs that provides a powerful and efficient way to query and manipulate data. As powerful and versatile as GraphQL is, its downside is that it can be vulnerable to certain security threats. In this presentation, we will discuss the security vulnerabilities associated with GraphQL, from the basics to more advanced threats, and how to best protect against them. After this presentation, attendees will have a better understanding of security vulnerabilities in GraphQL, as well as an understanding of the steps needed to protect against them.
Ensuring performance: How major retailers leverage user traffic to validate code changes
As featured on CMG.org: Software development and testing is ultimately all in preparation for go-live. But what if you could predict how your go-live could go wrong? In this webinar, learn how traffic-based tests and mocks can accurately simulate peak load conditions, ensure performance, and increase your top line revenue.
Checkly Advances Monitoring as Code with New User-Centric Features
Checkly, the leading provider of monitoring solutions powered by a Monitoring as Code (MaC) workflow, has unveiled two groundbreaking features: the Activity Log and Code Exporter. These innovative features not only enhance transparency and simplify the adoption of MaC practices but also mark a significant step forward in Checkly's commitment to advancing the MaC movement, offering users an end-to-end workflow that integrates seamlessly with modern software development practices.
Monitoring as Code in Your Software Development Lifecycle
When we launched the Checkly CLI and Test Sessions last May, I wrote about the three pillars of monitoring as code. Code — write your monitoring checks as code and store them in version control. Test — test your checks against our global infrastructure and record test sessions. Deploy — deploy your checks from your local machine or CI to run them as monitors.
Integrate Monitoring as Code into your Software Development Lifecycle
Learn how the new Checkly features (code exporter and activity log) enable you to integrate Monitoring as Code into your Software Development Lifecycle. Define and debug your monitoring resources during development, test your preview deployments and start monitoring productions with ease.
Synthetic Monitoring: What is it, Challenges, and How to Get Started
With Infrastructure as Code and service-oriented development, a modern web app can consist of countless moving parts developed by multiple development and DevOps teams. When establishing a high-velocity development environment, the main question is, "How can you guarantee a stellar end-user experience when lots of engineers are constantly pushing and deploying code?" Solid, easy-to-write, and clearly defined monitoring practices are the only answer to this question.
How to monitor connector's API Connections in Logic Apps?
Let us consider a scenario where a Logic App is used to communicate with SharePoint through API connections, known as connectors. When configuring the connector, it communicates with Azure AD, retrieving a username and password and continuously refreshing the authentication token. When the Logic App calls the connector, it performs operations like uploading files to SharePoint.
CNCF & Cimpress | Leverage user traffic to automate load testing this holiday season
Learn the biggest obstacles with load test automation, and how existing user traffic holds the key to scaling eCommerce software safely, and fast.
Monitor gRPC calls with OpenTelemetry - explained with a Golang example
gRPC (Google Remote Procedure Call) is a high-performance, open-source universal RPC framework that Google developed to achieve high-speed communication between microservices. gRPC has Protobuf (protocol buffers) by default which would format or serialize the messages to a specific format that will be highly packed, highly efficient data. By its virtue of being a lightweight RPC, gRPC is suited for many use-cases. gRPC can be considered a successor to RPC, which is light in weight.