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May 2022

Celery worker | Tutorial on how to set up with Flask & Redis

Celery worker is a simple, flexible, and reliable distributed system to process vast amounts of messages while providing operations with the tools required to maintain such a system. In this tutorial, we will learn how to implement Celery with Flask and Redis. Before we deep dive into the tutorial, let’s have a brief overview of Celery workers.

This Month in Datadog: Episode 11

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. To learn more about Datadog and start a free 14-day trial, visit Cloud Monitoring as a Service | Datadog. This month we put the Spotlight on automated root cause analysis with Watchdog RCA.

Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) in eG Enterprise

eG Enterprise is a single pane of glass that provides monitoring and oversight of every layer and tier of your IT infrastructure. However, this does not mean every user in the organization has the same view of the IT infrastructure or needs to use the tool in the same way. In fact, controlling a user’s view of the monitored applications and infrastructure, as well as their privileges to perform tasks and access data via Role-Based Access Control, is a critical feature for our customers.

OpenMetrics vs OpenTelemetry - A guide on understanding these two specifications

OpenMetrics and OpenTelemetry are popular standards for instrumenting cloud-native applications. Both projects are part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and aim to simplify how we generate, collect and monitor services in a modern cloud-native distributed application environment. Let's have a look at how both the standards are aiming to help solve the observability conundrum.

3 key benefits that prove OpenTelemetry is the future of APM

Application performance monitoring (APM) solutions were designed to catch anomalies in an application or website's backend and provide meaningful insights to rectify issues in real time. Lately, though, APM solution providers have been left playing catch-up to be more inclusive of newly emerging technologies and the operational challenges they bring. OpenTelemetry (OTel) simplifies the issues caused by the demands of modern applications.

Complete guide to GraphQL in Angular [with example]

GraphQL is a query language and server-side runtime for APIs developed by Facebook in 2012. In this guide, we will implement an Angular Apollo GraphQL client with the help of a sample To-Do app. Before we demonstrate how to implement the Angular GraphQL client, let’s have a brief overview of the Angular framework and GraphQL.

New and improved Python error grouping

Raygun has a long history of continually improving the quality and capability of our Crash reporting grouping logic. Across thousands of customers, it’s essential to help teams quickly discern where to allocate their resources to fix bugs, resolve performance issues, and create better experiences for customers. Today, we’re pleased to launch a new and improved grouping system for Python.

AVD - Azure Virtual Desktop - Usage Trends and Statistics

Technology advancements have now made it possible for organizations to adopt virtual desktop technologies in a hassle-free manner, from the cloud. Microsoft’s multi-session Windows desktop technologies supported on Azure cloud allow admins to provision virtual desktops on-demand. Integration with Azure Active Directory and FSLogix ensures secure access with efficient profile management.

AlertOps Partners With Cisco AppDynamics to Enhance Major Incident Resolution

Chicago, IL – May 17, 2022 AlertOps, a major incident response management platform, announced today a new technology integration partnership with Cisco AppDynamics, the leading Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and full-stack, business-centric observability solution. This new relationship empowers AlertOps and AppDynamics, joint users, with intelligent alerting, escalation policies, workflows, and scheduling to rapidly remediate major incidents.

Tracing a Ruby application with OpenTelemetry for performance monitoring

Ruby on Rails is a popular MVC framework for creating web applications. It is necessary to monitor your Ruby applications for performance issues. In today’s cloud-native and microservices-based architecture, it is difficult for engineering teams to troubleshoot performance issues. Tracing your application can give the much needed context required to troubleshoot performance issues.

Implementing OpenTelemetry in a Rust application for performance monitoring

OpenTelemetry can be used to trace Rust applications for performance issues and bugs. OpenTelemetry is an open-source project under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) that aims to standardize the generation and collection of telemetry data. Telemetry data includes logs, metrics, and traces. Rust is a multi-paradigm, general-purpose programming language designed for performance and safety, especially safe concurrency.

Monitor your Elixir application with OpenTelemetry and SigNoz

OpenTelemetry can be used to instrument your Elixir applications to generate telemetry data. The telemetry data can then be visualized using an observability tool to monitor your Elixir application performance. In this tutorial, we will use OpenTelemetry Elixir libraries to instrument an Elixir application and then visualize it using SigNoz. Somewhere during the lifetime of an application, it's inevitable that it will have some performance issues.

How to Move Ahead of the Three Pillars of Observability

The acceleration in digitalization, also due to the pandemic, has brought an organization’s business and IT teams and strategic goals closer together than ever before. Chief Information Officers (CIOs) have existed since the early 1980s and, until recently, their typical role was primarily focused on managing the technology infrastructure. But in a post-pandemic world, that role is now expanding beyond traditional IT responsibilities.

Auth, Org management, Exceptions monitoring & a team workation - SigNal 12

This is our 12th monthly product newsletter, and every month our team has shipped code to make SigNoz better for our users. Our latest release is special! It is not only packed with much-awaited user-requested features, but it is also the first time our team met in person to ship a release together. Yes, after 12 months of seeing each other on Zoom, we finally got a chance to see each other in person during our week-long workation.

Troubleshooting Slow Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) Logons

In order to troubleshoot slow Azure Virtual Desktop logons, it is helpful to have a complete understanding of the application and how it operates. Here, we will outline the architecture and key components of AVD, the impact of DNS on the connection flow, and how eG Innovations offers time saving tools to troubleshoot problems with AVD before they negatively impact your organization’s productivity.

Guide To APM For Marketers

Image source: Unsplash.com With an increasing number of applications and populated data, monitoring becomes crucial since businesses are challenged to satisfy millions of users simultaneously. In order to detect performance problems in a timely manner, companies require APM tools to collect and process app and user data that is being generated continuously.

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How to implement a Blameless Postmortem (part two)

This is Part 2 of a two-part series on Blameless Postmortems. The previous article went into why blameless postmortems are so effective; this second part goes into detail on how to build your own postmortem process and kick it into overdrive. Read Part 1 here. So you've read our first installment and recognized the value of the blameless postmortem for efficiency, culture, and output. Now you're ready to get off the blame train and kickstart a blameless postmortem process of your own. Where to begin?

Design choices in ingesting 1 million events/s using Opentelemetry and SigNoz

In this video, Pranay will walk through different design considerations which should be taken into account in ingesting huge amount of data using Opentelemetry into SigNoz. He also presents some performance benchmarks we were able to achieve in ingesting around 1mn events/s This talk was originally presented at Kubernetes Community Days Bangalore 2022

Agents of Transformation: Talking about cloud migration with AppDynamics GM Linda Tong and Match.com's Garrick Linn

Finding true love is never easy — nor is migrating to the cloud during a pandemic. Learn how Match.com, with help from AppDynamics, deftly managed its digital transformation while helping humans make meaningful connections.

You build it, you own it - Microservices operations with Datadog Service Catalog (Brooke Chen)

Managing microservices requires understanding many dependencies, both technical and operational. Join Brooke Chen of Datadog as they introduce Service Catalog, a new view combining telemetry, performance, topology, and metadata to enable at-a-glance understanding of even the most complex microservices architectures.