Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

November 2021

Announcing: Code-level insights with Azure Repos

How many times have you been aware of an error or performance issue, but lacked the ability to quickly uncover the root cause and determine why it happened in the first place? One of the most powerful ways to do this is by surfacing code-level insights right where you need them, alongside the context needed to take action. By using our latest integration with Azure Repos, you’ll be able to get to the ‘why’ of issues, faster – all directly within Raygun.

Microsoft Teams on Citrix: Configuration and Deployment

Since early 2020, there has been a massive growth in the number of active Microsoft Teams users and organizations deploying Teams; now, there are more than 200 million monthly active users across the globe. With an increase in market share, it’s one of those applications that you either expect an organization to be already using or planning to deploy out to their environment sooner rather than later.

Best Practices to Monitor Node.js Performance

Built on the V8 JavaScript engine of Chrome, Node.js is a very lightweight, open-source framework with minimum modules. And since it is an asynchronous system by default, it is faster than most other frameworks. DevOps still need Node.js monitoring to ensure performance better than other frameworks. In order to understand how relevant Node.js still is, note that PayPal, Reddit, LinkedIn, Amazon, Netflix and other high-use, high-visibility service providers use the framework.

What is APM? Overview and Features (The Beginner's Guide)

Application performance monitoring (APM) extends observability beyond system availability, service performance, and response times in current, cloud-native contexts. Organizations can improve user experiences at the scale of modern computing by using automatic and intelligent observability. User experiences in software applications are monitored and managed using APM technologies.

Troubleshoot Javascript (in real-time)

Javascript execution analysis on dev environments is easy—just use Google Developer or some other free tools. However, getting the same level of analysis while your application is being used by a real user is much harder. You can’t possibly ask the end-user to help you troubleshoot. Even if you did, the user probably wouldn’t know what to do and they definitely wouldn’t be impressed by your organization.

Product Growth KPIs Dashboard for Enterprises

There can be as many as 64 important business metrics for your company to track (according to nTask). That can sound daunting. But if your organization doesn’t have the capacity to track all of them, it should at least track the most important ones according to its business model, stage and focus areas. For example, key product metrics not only provide information to product managers, but also other relevant stakeholders across the organization.

This Month in Datadog: November 2021 (Episode 6)

Datadog is constantly elevating the approach to cloud monitoring and security. This Month in Datadog updates you on our newest product features, announcements, resources, and events. This month we put the Spotlight on Network Device Monitoring, along with highlighting the many announcements and guest presentations from Dash.

Monitoring Elastic Enterprise Search performance using Elastic APM

Elastic APM is a free, open and powerful observability tool that provides intelligence into application performance for a myriad of production applications (e.g., throughput, error rates, latency, resource usage, transaction traces). You can now enable Elastic APM integration to gain deep insight into the performance behaviors of your Elastic Enterprise Search deployment!

Four powerful Alerting workflows

Since its release last month, Alerting has quickly ingrained itself into the incident response workflow at some of the most technically advanced companies in the world. We’re here to empower your team to do the same. In this blog, we’ll run through four common alerts that you can implement today to ensure you’re maximizing the full potential of Alerting.

Datadog vs. Dynatrace vs. Scout

Application Performance Monitoring is undoubtedly the hottest tool to accelerate any product’s growth in the modern market. The term has grown from a simple performance tracking operation to full-fledged infrastructure, network, and application observability. This evolution has only helped bring more and more growth into products. It is essential to choose the best-suited monitoring solution for your apps since observability involves way too many moving pieces.

Partner Integration - Dynatrace with PagerDuty and Rundeck

Deliver perfect software experiences with real-time intelligence into customer satisfaction and behavior, your applications, and the performance of your hybrid multi-cloud. AI-powered root-cause analysis automatically identifies customer facing performance issues and pinpoints the root-cause within seconds. Open APIs allow ingestion of 3rd party metrics and enable complex system integrations. In this demo, Rob Jahn shares a sophisticated incident remediation workflow incorporating intelligence from Dynatrace, automation in Rundeck, and incidents in PagerDuty.

Tip of the Month: Experience Journey Map

When it comes to business-critical functions of your applications, sometimes the best indicator of performance is in the step-by-step user journey. Watch this ‘Tip of the Month’ video to leverage experience journey mapping in AppDynamics, and learn to interpret expected user behavior and deviations that might indicate performance issues in the most important areas of your application.

Top 10 AWS Services Explained With Use Cases

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is one of the most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud service providers in the industry, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. A large spectrum of clients across verticals uses AWS to lower costs, become more agile and innovate faster. A recent survey estimates that AWS is the largest cloud service provider and accounts for 32% of the worldwide cloud services market.

Maintaining Operational Sanity Across 100+ AWS Accounts | Eric Mann / Ryan Tomac (Vacasa)

At Vacasa, AWS accounts represent the unit of isolation for distinct applications & services in our software ecosystem, providing security benefits and operational autonomy for our teams as we scale. Managing accounts at this scale requires strong DevOps practices to maintain security, operational sanity, and uniform observability across the system. In this talk, we’ll cover the benefits of such an approach, the practices that make it possible, and the important role Datadog plays.

Reverse Connect for Azure Virtual Desktops (AVD)

There’s something common between AVD and eG Enterprise. Can you take a wild guess? Listening on open TCP ports is an extremely bad practice for cloud architectures, as it exposes products and services to accepting incoming messages from malicious parties. This is something eG Innovations avoids in our own products (see details). This is also a best practice adopted by Microsoft for Azure Virtual Desktops (AVD).

11 Reasons Why You Should Migrate to Next-Generation DX APM

The current version of DX APM continues a long history of innovation for APM technology. More than two decades ago, the solution was the pioneer in byte code instrumentation. DX APM is now a next-generation solution for today’s complex and hybrid enterprise environments. Figure 1: Broadcom’s DX APM has evolved from Wily Technology’s invention of byte code instrumentation-based APM, which was introduced in 1998.

The Importance of Application Performance Monitoring.

In this digital era, applications are used on a daily basis to make our life easier. A lot of software applications are launched every day, continuously increasing competition in the market. There are thousands of applications available for a task. But, the success of any application highly depends on its performance. A good-performing application provides a flawless user experience to the customers.

An overview of key .NET 6 features

.NET 6 is finally here, giving us a new long term stable version of.NET Core. .NET 6 succeeds.NET 5, which was generally seen as a “skip version” by most of us, getting limited use compared to.NET Core 3.1. With this release, we get updates to both the runtime and the C# language. In this post, we’re taking a closer look at what we see as three of the most useful.NET 6 features.

New Relic vs. Sentry vs. Scout

In the digital economy, software applications have become a primary product for a large number of companies. On top of that, customers expect a flawless user experience from the applications as it evolves. To provide such a great experience, companies need to have powerful performance monitoring across their applications. We will discuss APM tools that are popular in the market right now and compare them in different aspects. Feel free to use these links to navigate the guide.

A Comprehensive Guide Of Website Navigation: How You Can Improve Your Site?

Do you want to give your visitors excellent navigation so they can land on their desired page correctly? Easy navigation around a website is of the up-most importance when it comes to website performance. In this guide we will share a detailed guide for you to make organized website navigations on your site.

We've been named a Customers' Choice for the third year in a row!

The market has spoken! ManageEngine has been named a Customers’ Choice in the 2021 Gartner Peer Insights ‘Voice of Customer’: Application Performance Monitoring report for the third time in a row. It’s an honor to be trusted and loved by customers all around the globe.

Crossed 5000+ GitHub stars, metrics generation from spans - SigNal 06

Welcome back to SigNal #6. Every month, SigNal from SigNoz gives you an update on what we've been building, shipping, and iterating. In the midst of sprint plannings, feature releases, and bug fixes, time just flew by, and here we are, with another monthly product update! Also, we crossed 5000+ GitHub stars this month.
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Alerting has landed: Never miss another mission-critical issue again

Time is of the essence when identifying and resolving issues in your software. The longer it takes for a fix to be deployed, the greater the consequences for your customers. Visibility and speed are core to what makes Raygun powerful and is why today we're excited to continue this journey with our latest feature - Alerting.

Datadog on Building Responsive UX

Datadog product designers and frontend developers have been working together to create a new, better UX for creating dashboards, which is one of the most important parts of using Datadog. A central part of this effort was building a new layout engine. Working on this project was a bit different from the usual feature work, so the collaboration cycle between our developers and designers had to change for us to more closely and quickly design, build, and test constraints and new ideas in the browser.