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March 2021

9 Things We Learned From the Digital Workspace Survey

The Digital Workspace Survey conducted by eG Innovations and xenappblog is one of the largest surveys of its kind, generating over 1,050 responses from IT professionals around the world. 62% of the respondents worked for organizations using digital workspaces for their employees. The remainder came from various types of organizations providing support for digital workspaces. Below are just a few highlights from the report which is packed with insights.

Cisco Secure Application: from the engineers who built it

Today, protecting your digital business starts with the application. Discover why runtime application self protection solutions (RASP), like Cisco Secure Application, is a game changer for application and security teams. Learn how you can simplify vulnerability management, block attacks in real-time, and save time.

Leveraging APM to Conquer Custom App Management Troubles

Though you might use custom-made apps for many reasons, there’s only one reason you deploy them: off-the-shelf solutions just can’t get the job done. Whenever operations are too complex for a commercial application already in place or whenever a new kind of digital business is launched, a custom app is necessary. This is true no matter what the business model is.

Build an Application-Aware Infrastructure with Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer

For many organizations, applications are the business. But not all companies are aware just how critical an optimal infrastructure is to application performance. AppDynamics + Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer supports intelligent, highly collaborative problem-solving between AppOps and InfraOps teams to build a truly application-supportive infrastructure for the modern enterprise.

IT Spring Cleaning: Making the best of the current situation

Spring is just around the corner. And since we're at home a lot right now due to the coronavirus pandemic, it's all the more worthwhile to take some time for spring cleaning. But it's not just in our own four walls that the winter grumpiness should disappear; the IT landscape is also in need of a digital spring cleaning.

5 Key Capabilities That Your VMware Horizon Monitoring Solution Must Have

The success of any digital workspace technology depends on the user experience and VMware Horizon is no exception. There are many aspects of user experience. When a user first connects, the logon must happen quickly. When the user launches a client application (e.g., Microsoft Outlook, Google Chrome, etc.), the application must be available for user interactions within seconds.

Elastic APM PHP Agent 1.0 released

We are proud to announce the 1.0 release of the Elastic APM PHP Agent! If you are interested in this work, please try the agent and let us know how it works for you and what features you miss! The best way to give feedback and ask questions is in our discussion forum, or if you find an issue or you would like to submit a pull request, jump to our GitHub repository. The agent is Apache-licensed, and we are more than happy to receive contributions from the community!

What Does Server Monitoring Mean in 2021? A Look at Modern Server Options and How to Monitor Them

A few years ago, monitoring was simple. We had all our servers somewhere in the data center; we just had to install a monitoring tool and gather all the data from every server. Things changed when we started moving to the cloud and then to containers. Today, we often need to monitor a variety of different sources. A “server” can be a physical machine, virtual machine, container, or even a serverless application. Therefore, our approach for monitoring needs to change.

Top VMware Horizon Performance Challenges for VM Administrators

Over the last year, most organizations have deployed or expanded digital workspaces to support employees working from home. One of the most popular technologies for digital workspaces is VMware Horizon. In this blog, we discuss the top performance challenges that administrators of VMware Horizon deployments have to tackle.

Announcing the All-new Kamon APM Service Map

Kamon APM wakes up today with a new home page for all your observability data: the all-new Kamon APM Service Map! The Service Map shows a real-time representation of all your microservices and the dependencies between them, combined with health status and easy access to the most important bits of data from your entire infrastructure.

Application-Centric and Database-Centric Monitoring: Why You Need Both

How would you like it if your application shut down or started running slow without any warning? Let’s say, for instance, users who like your application try to access it, but aren’t able to. How would you know whether low traffic to your site is because users weren’t satisfied or because they simply weren’t able to access it? Users definitely won’t be satisfied when your application starts crawling with long response times.

Improve Business KPIs with Splunk APM Business Workflows

One of the biggest challenges that DevOps teams face is how to connect their efforts with the priorities of business leaders. In conversations we’ve had, developers and SREs discussed how they need to show business and engineering leaders that they are investing their time solving the right problems, and how solving these problems lead to overall better business outcomes.

Sumo Logic extends its APM to browser

Over a year ago we decided to invest heavily in Application Observability, understanding the modern observability platform must unite logs, metrics, and traces in one analytics layer to better serve reliability use cases. We have also advocated a modern trend to acquire tracing data via open source industry standards like OpenTelemetry without vendor lock-in.

New10: Monitor hybrid cloud environments, troubleshoot serverless production workloads with Datadog

Pavel Kruhlei, Quality Engineer lead of New10 talks about how Datadog allowed them to resolve performance issues in their serverless applications, as well as increase visibility into their hybrid environment with Datadog.
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Gain more visibility into code performance with Raygun APM for Node.js

Raygun has been busy building our best-in-class APM so you can provide flawless digital customer experiences. By adding Raygun Application Performance Monitoring to your monitoring suite, your team will gain more visibility on code and server performance, achieve a faster time to resolution with finer granularity, and reduce infrastructure costs by optimizing existing services. Raygun is a developer-friendly product that surfaces more diagnostic details than other APM solutions. Combined with our usage-based pricing, we have the ability to provide companies like Olo with millions of customers with cost-efficient and powerful APM.

Monitoring PHP Application Performance: A Step-by-Step Guide

Today we’re here to show you the ropes on PHP monitoring. You’ll learn how to monitor the performance of your PHP applications. But why is doing this valuable in the first place? It used to be common for application performance to be considered a non-functional requirement. Things have changed, though. Nowadays, more and more software professionals have come to think of performance not as a nice-to-have, but as the most important must-have.

Expert Guide to Redis Monitoring

Redis is an open source. in-memory data structure store with blazing performance that’s used as a database, cache, and message broker. Redis is licensed under BSD (Berkeley Source Distribution), which means it can be used for free with some minimum use restrictions. It supports a good number of abstract data structures, such as strings, maps, lists, and so on. Redis, which is used as a database to store data, is fast in performance.