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January 2022

Top 10 Monitoring Features for Multi-Tenant Managed Service Providers (MSPs)

eG Innovations works with Managed Service Providers (MSPs) across the world, who use eG Enterprise to deliver value-added services to improve their customers’ resilience and business outcomes. Many of these service providers choose eG Enterprise for its secure and granular role-based multi-tenancy support. The service provider does not have to configure and maintain one instance of eG Enterprise for each customer.

Stackify vs. New Relic vs. Scout | APM Tool Comparison

Stackify Retrace primarily supports Java, .NET, PHP, Nodej.js, Ruby, and Python applications. New Relic supports Java, node.js, Python, Go, PHP, .NET, and Ruby. On the other hand, Scout APM supports Ruby, Python, Node.js, PHP, Elixir & Phoenix, in addition to Error Monitoring, Database Monitoring and External Services Monitoring.

Raygun Alerting: Monitor your latest deployment

Modern development teams are shipping code faster than ever before. Having visibility into the issues that will inevitably get introduced into your software is crucial for the development process. Latest deployments for Raygun Alerting helps with just that. Now, you can tick the latest deployment checkbox on all Raygun alert types to only monitor your latest deployment and resolve issues before your customers ever even notice.

Datadog Cloud Security Platform

Datadog's Cloud Security Platform—consisting of Cloud SIEM, Posture Management, and Workload Security—delivers real-time threat detection and continuous configuration audits across your applications, hosts, containers, and cloud infrastructure. Datadog derives security insights from your observability data, enabling security and DevOps teams to work together to detect, investigate, and remediate threats.

5 Ways to Improve Your Application Performance Monitoring

The world and technology keep evolving. Over time, applications with functions ranging from buying and selling online to holding meetings to keeping up with friends and family have progressed. Now, we are able to automate actions that used to be manual or at least perform them in the most efficient way possible. This automation is made possible through the use of our applications. Now imagine one of these applications stops working for just 10 minutes.

The Observability Pipeline

Today’s systems are more distributed, dynamic, and complex than ever before – plus, users have more expectations. Also, the historical reliance on an operations team to monitor, triage, and/or resolve issues has become untenable as the number of services increased. This means that many of the tools that were well-suited before might no longer be adequate.

How to save on your Azure Monitor and Log Analytics Costs

Thomas Stringer has a couple of great blog posts on how to understand your Azure monitoring costs and also on how to reduce your costs, see Azure Monitor Log Analytics too Expensive? Part 2 – Save Some Money | Thomas Stringer (trstringer.com). In the past I’ve blogged on How to calculate the Azure Monitor and Log Analytics costs associated with AVD (not an easy task!).

8 Best Sentry Alternatives You Should Try

Selecting the best sentry alternatives for error monitoring is likely to be difficult. It might be difficult to sort between the features, benefits, and drawbacks of many software companies and sellers. Let's talk about how to make this process easier by looking at the eight best alternatives to Sentry. Sentry is open-source application performance and error-tracking tool that allows developers to track and fix errors in real-time.

APM Insight: 2021 in Review

2021 was the year of hybrid work. An interesting year full of hope and thoughtfulness, 2021 saw increased office-based collaborations complementing our diverse remote workforce. Through this, we sought to look within to sort our processes and deliver what it takes to ensure the best monitoring experience for our customers worldwide. Here is a quick recap of the APM features we rolled out last year and a brief note on our plans for 2022.

Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) - 101

This is a multi-part series that covers monitoring Microsoft Azure Active Directory (AD). In this blog post, which is part 1 of the series, you will learn about and understand Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) and how it is different from an on-premises Active Directory (AD). As technology keeps evolving, companies increasingly look to technologies like Cloud Computing to expand, modernize and stay competitive, and in doing so companies can expose themselves to risks.

Pepperdata CEO Ash Munshi on the Future of Big Data APM in 2022

Recent data shows that the global APM (application performance management) market is booming. Currently valued at $6.3 billion, the global APM industry is expected to reach $12 billion by 2026. This growth indicates the increasing importance of monitoring, diagnosing, and improving application performance. Visibility and automation is key to sustaining the growth and evolution of APM.

OpsRamp Recognized Across Three Categories of the 451 Research Market Map for Application and Infrastructure Performance Monitoring

OpsRamp was one of only two vendors to be recognized in 451 Research’s Market Map for Application and Infrastructure Performance Monitoring (AIPM) in the categories of Infrastructure Monitoring, Event Correlation and Alerting. 451’s AIPM Market Map offers a holistic perspective on key emerging categories in the IT monitoring and observability space.

6 Surprising things you can learn from our APM survey

In the summer of 2021, eG Innovations joined forces with the DevOps Institute to run an APM survey to find out how the industry would look in the new normal. The 2021 APM survey was conducted over three months between July and September. Over 900 people from DevOps, SREs, and ITOps backgrounds participated and we got a broad spectrum of responses.

The Case for Frontend Performance Monitoring

Application Performance Monitoring has been a popular concept among developers and companies alike. APM data has helped product teams increase their growth and revenue manifold. Whether it is an issue affecting the availability of a service or a trend that suggests an incoming increase in user engagement, monitoring has always helped organizations get the best out of their product strategies.

Deploy SigNoz using Helm charts, 500+ members on our slack community - SigNal 08

Welcome to SigNal 08, and the last SigNal issue of 2021! 🥳 This month, we made numerous PRs improving our product experience, added new awesome contributors, and launched a new initiative to discover better UX for our users. We also crossed 500+ members on our Slack community! 🥳 Wrapping up 2021, let’s see what Humans at SigNoz were up to in the month of December!