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July 2021

Spring Boot - Monitor your application with OpenTelemetry & SigNoz

In this video, we show a step by step process to monitor your Spring Boot application with OpenTelemetry. We use SigNoz as the backend and visualisation UI. SigNoz is an open source alternative to DataDog, NewRelic, etc. We natively support Opentelemetry based instrumentation. You can instrument any application written in a language/framework supported by OpenTelemetry and visualise metrics and traces in SigNoz.

Scout APM Announces Python Application Support for Error Monitoring Tool

Traditionally an APM tool, Scout has expanded its service offerings to now include error monitoring of Python web applications for more cohesive and actionable observability insights within a single platform. This new feature supports an overall better user experience by eliminating the need for multiple web-application monitoring services; Scout APM with Scout Error Monitoring offers performance and error insight and alerting within a single, integrated dashboard.

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The New Normal for Hybrid IT Solutions

The more things change, the more things stay the same. An idiom that's oddly comforting in its assurance that everything will remain balanced and undisrupted, and the winds of change-however ferocious-are somehow futile against the staunchness of the status quo. That said, I would suggest the creator of this idiom hadn't experienced a year like 2020 (and now 2021).

Detect any issue with Splunk APM before it turns into a customer problem

With 100% of spans and traces captured, Splunk APM meets any necessary business KPI’s and SLO metrics while investigating and troubleshooting transaction errors related to a backend application. Easily construct error budgets that measure performance of services today - learn how with this free trial Splunk Observability Cloud.

Citrix Tips for Troubleshooting

I recently saw a user asking on EUC Slack “is there a Domain controller response time in ?”. Unfortunately for him, his choice of monitoring product doesn’t include such metrics. However, it did make me wonder if Citrix admins are aware of the importance of getting metrics about Domain Controllers, simply because many EUC monitoring tools fail to monitor them.

Latest Cisco AppDynamics App Attention Index Reveals Brands Have Only One Shot to Win Over Customers

Cisco AppDynamics today released the latest report in its App Attention Index research series, revealing consumer reliance on applications and digital services has soared since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Secret to a Successful Hybrid Application Migration

Planning a hybrid application migration? There’s plenty to deal with already, and now your manager wants to know—how are you going to make sure that the migration is a success? The secret is to take a subjective judgment and turn it into an objective one. As you probably know, there is no way that you can guarantee a problem-free migration. Don’t leave it up solely to how your boss or anyone else feels about the migration.

Best Practices for Infrastructure Management and Monitoring

A well-functioning IT infrastructure and application fleet is one of the core elements to powering a successful modern business. But how can we ensure it’s indeed well-functioning? Continuous monitoring is one of the methods to ensure an infrastructure setup is managed successfully.

The Secret to a Successful Hybrid Application Migration

Planning a hybrid application migration? There’s plenty to deal with already, and now your manager wants to know—how are you going to make sure that the migration is a success? The secret is to take a subjective judgment and turn it into an objective one. As you probably know, there is no way that you can guarantee a problem-free migration. Don’t leave it up solely to how your boss or anyone else feels about the migration.

Partner Speak: Why Atos chose eG Innovations to proactively monitor its customers' virtual workspaces

Atos needed deep insights into the entire chain of components necessary for a virtual workplace to do its job properly, with a particular emphasis on user experience. This is exactly the kind of requirement that eG Enterprise is built for, which is what prompted Atos to start using the product five years ago. Sietze Vrind, a business manager at Atos says they’ve “never regretted it for a moment.”

Understanding and Debugging Applications Using the Service Map

Elastic APM is an application performance monitoring system built on the Elastic Stack. Elastic APM makes it easy to pinpoint and fix performance problems quickly. In this video, you will learn what distributed tracing is, how it can be used to better understand your environment, and how service maps give you a quick overview of your architecture.

Monitor containerized ASP.NET Core applications with Datadog APM

ASP.NET Core is an open source web development framework that enables you to develop .NET applications on macOS, Linux, and Windows machines. The introduction of .NET Core in 2016 dramatically increased the number of ways to build and deploy .NET applications. This means that you need the ability to easily monitor application performance across a wide variety of platforms, such as Docker containers.

The Reviews Are In-SolarWinds AppOptics Is Top Rated From TrustRadius

SolarWinds® AppOptics™ has officially been announced as a 2021 Top Rated award winner from the customer review site TrustRadius. As one of only three products to win this award in the application performance management (APM) space, our team behind AppOptics would like to thank the customers who helped make this happen. Because unlike other awards, Top Rated is determined by the verified reviews of our users and their experiences with AppOptics.

End-to-End Monitoring of Citrix Infrastructures: FAQs

The webinar included a live demonstration of how our eG Enterprise solution provides an end-to-end view of the Citrix deployment including the Citrix ADCs, Delivery Controllers, License servers, Virtual App servers, Virtual Desktops, and other Citrix tiers including WEM, AppLayering, and others. Citrix Cloud is also supported.

Application Lifecycle Management: A Comprehensive Guide

Discipline is the key to success for all companies doing well in their field or reaching a trillion-dollar valuation. They manage the software and update it very frequently when it comes to providing services. So how are they able to manage it and keep their software updated every moment? The answer is ALM—Application Lifecycle Management. ALM includes the people, the software, the tools, and the processes included in software development, from planning to deploying it for end customers.

Distributed Tracing for Kafka Clients with OpenTelemetry and Splunk APM

This blog series is focused on observability into Kafka based applications. In the previous blogs, we discussed the key performance metrics to monitor different Kafka components in "Monitoring Kafka Performance with Splunk" and how to collect performance metrics using OpenTelemetry in "Collecting Kafka Performance Metrics with OpenTelemetry." In this blog, we'll cover how to enable distributed tracing for Kafka clients with OpenTelemetry and Splunk APM.