Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

September 2022

Driving Efficiency with Custom APM Dashboards

Have you ever struggled to have efficient visibility into your APM and log data? Have you ever been called on to display real-time data to your Sales or Marketing department, only to find yourself fumbling over the numbers without a way to display relevant data? Look no further! Retrace collects huge amounts of data about your application’s health and performance, then provides a customizable display in one place – your customizable APM Dashboards.

How to Identify Unused, Wasted and Orphaned Azure Resources and Reduce Azure Cost?

Every article you find about reducing Azure cost will invariably mention ensuring any unused (especially PAYG) resources are identified and shut down/deleted. However very few actually will tell you “HOW” to do this. eG Enterprise has added new functionality to enable you to identify unused, wasted and orphaned Azure resources and services without the need to resort to hacking up KQL queries or PowerShell scripts.

Flask Monitoring and APM Benefits

Many renowned businesses use the well-known web framework Flask. Flask is quite famous among developers for making small and full-fledged applications. It is known for being a straightforward framework to learn hence why it is popular among established organizations. Monitoring your Flask application can be a challenge. Many important operations are happening inside of them, and if anything goes wrong, it can cause some damage.

Investigate critical alerts on the go with the Datadog mobile app

The Datadog mobile app provides real-time visibility into critical alerts, incidents, and application performance metrics across your entire environment, helping you troubleshoot directly from your mobile device. On-call engineers can quickly evaluate the conditions that triggered an alert, determine its urgency, and decide the next course of action—anywhere, anytime.

How to Monitor Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) Technology

One question many administrators are asking is: How can I effectively and efficiently monitor Azure Virtual Desktop technology? There are several options for monitoring Azure Virtual Desktop technology and this blog will cover some of the most popular ones. In this blog, we will focus on multi-session, native Azure virtual desktops.

An Open Source Observability Platform | SigNoz

Cloud computing and containerization have brought many benefits to IT systems, like speed to market and on-demand scaling. But it has also increased operational complexity. Applications built on dynamic and distributed infrastructure are challenging to operate and maintain. A robust observability framework can help application owners stay on top of their software systems. In this article, we will introduce SigNoz - an open source observability platform.

What is Distributed Tracing and How to implement it with Open Source?

Distributed tracing helps you track requests across services and understand issues affecting your application performance. In distributed cloud architecture, debugging performance issues is complicated. Distributed tracing gives visibility to teams on how a user request performs across different services, protocols, and cloud infrastructure. Let’s start with a brief overview of distributed tracing.

Digital Experience Management (DEM) and Your Salesforce.com: Everything You Need To Know

The post-pandemic world is more digital. Covid-19 fundamentally impacted how we live, work, interact, and shop. And while some of the structural trends (such as the rise in remote work or shifting consumer preferences) were already underway, the pandemic accelerated them by a significant number of years. The competitive landscape is digital, and the winners and losers are defined through the customer experience they provide.

Synthetic Monitoring of Microsoft AVD Service Levels

We recently announced a FREE ready-to-go standalone SaaS logon simulator tool for Microsoft AVD, available here. This joins our fully featured logon simulator available for use on-premises, as SaaS or in the cloud within our synthetic monitoring suite. A logon simulator, whilst a useful tool, should be used in conjunction with other synthetic and real user monitoring tools for a truly proactive IT strategy designed to prevent real users encountering issues and raising support tickets.

Flask Monitoring and APM Benefits

Many renowned businesses use the well-known web framework Flask. Flask is quite famous among developers for making small and full-fledged applications. It is known for being a straightforward framework to learn hence why it is popular among established organizations. Monitoring your Flask application can be a challenge. Many important operations are happening inside of them, and if anything goes wrong, it can cause some damage.

The future of OpenTelemetry | Q&A

OpenTelemetry is an open-source project under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation(CNCF) that aims to standardize the generation and collection of telemetry data. The telemetry data helps developer, DevOps and IT teams to keep a check on their application health. The telemetry data collected by OpenTelemetry consist of logs, metrics, and traces. Together, they are used for performance monitoring and observability in distributed systems. At SigNoz, we are building an OpenTelemetry native APM.

Current state of OpenTelemetry and how it fits in the DevOps ecosystem | Q&A

OpenTelemetry is an open-source project under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation(CNCF) that aims to standardize the generation and collection of telemetry data. The telemetry data helps developer, DevOps and IT teams to keep a check on their application health. The telemetry data collected by OpenTelemetry consist of logs, metrics, and traces. Together, they are used for performance monitoring and observability in distributed systems. At SigNoz, we are building an OpenTelemetry native APM.

The Leading Dynatrace Alternatives & Competitors

The Dynatrace platform is a software-driven monitoring platform that simplifies enterprise cloud complexity and accelerates the pace of digital transformation for enterprises. There are many top solutions on the market, but Dynatrace is one of the most popular for its ability to monitor both mobile apps and real users simultaneously. By offering a shared platform for understanding metrics, Dynatrace also helps developers, operations, and business teams improve performance.

How to Monitor IIS Performance

Are you looking to monitor the performance of your IIS web server? This guide will break down everything you need to know about monitoring and troubleshooting Microsoft’s popular web server. IIS performance monitoring helps you to proactively monitor the health of your IIS web server by collecting logs, traces, and metrics of the application performance and the underlying IT infrastructure.

What is DevOps? A Comprehensive Guide

The term DevOps is a combination of the words “development” and “operations.” In practice, DevOps is a collaborative approach to the work that is performed by an enterprise’s IT operations staff and their application developers. Collaboration and communication between these two teams, who might otherwise function separately, are meant to increase the speed and quality of product or application releases.

IT Monitoring for Government

Today’s blog comes from Kevin Howell, CEO of UK partner – Howell Technology Group (HTG) about their work supplying secure cloud technologies and remote working solutions to government and regulated customers. HTG are a trusted industry leader in the UK, who offer virtual desktops, managed services and efficient modern workplace solutions. Their solutions are also available with the UK Government’s Digital Market place under the G-Cloud Framework.

Application Experience Depends on Your Network Experience

The network is designed to connect the organization’s users, partners, customers and visitors, but those connections are useless without software. While applications run on internal servers, end points and the cloud, the performance of the network in large measure defines the performance of the application, and this performance is what user experience and application experience (AX) is based on.

Engineering Building Blocks for a Digital Organization (Peter O'Donovan)

OneDigital started as a new organization within an existing enterprise, with an aggressive timeline to launch. Learn how they bootstrapped their engineering organization, set guidelines for communication and collaboration, and balanced the tradeoffs of their technology choices.

Raygun Real User Monitoring and User Privacy

Those who have been paying close attention might have recently noticed small changes in sessions, browsers and platforms lists on Raygun. If you’re using RUM to diagnose user experience issues in different browsers and operating systems down to the detailed versions you will have seen that those details are not always available, with browser versions listed more generally as Firefox 102.0 or Chrome 103.0, for example.

APM correlations in Elastic Observability: Automatically identifying probable causes of slow or failed transactions

As a DevOps engineer or SRE, you are often faced with investigating complex problems — mysterious application performance issues that happen intermittently or to only certain portions of your application traffic — that impact your end users and potentially your company’s financial targets. Sifting through hundreds or even thousands of transactions and spans can be a lot of tedious, manual, and time consuming investigative work.

Swift Package Manager for Raygun4Apple

Raygun4Apple can now be added to your project using the newer Swift Package Manager, instead of Cocopods. Raygun4Apple provides Crash Reporting and Real User Monitoring for iOS, tvOS & macOS. Users of Raygun4Apple can now add it to their project by adding a reference to our GitHub repository. If you are not familiar with Swift, You might also want to check out Apple’s guide on how to add Swift packages in xcode first.

Retrace - Much More Than Your Average APM Tool

Finding the root cause of application performance issues is the crux of every app troubleshooting exercise. So why don’t more APM tools provide great root cause analysis? The trouble is – pun intended – the cause of a slow application can come from different sources, many outside the application itself. So APM tools that focus on the ‘A’ may never truly find the root cause.

Augmenting APM with InfluxDB for Faster Issue Resolution

An enterprise IT company hosted a large industry event that drew attendees from all around the globe, including key technology leaders. Organizers knew that their IT offerings needed to be top notch to ensure attendees were happy when it came to event experience. The event application allowed attendees to browse and register for sessions at the event. So, organizers needed to be able to identify issues in real-time and fix them quickly.

Logs Management made available in the latest release, podcasts, office hours & more - SigNal 16

Welcome back to our monthly product updates - SigNal! The latest release of SigNoz is now available with Logs management. You can use SigNoz as your one-stop open source observability solution with logs, metrics, and traces under a single pane of glass. We also participated in podcasts, held office hours, and got featured as one of the top promising startups in the DevOps ecosystem. Let’s see what humans at SigNoz were up to in the month of August 2022!

What is N+1 query problem and how distributed tracing solves it?

N+1 query problem is a problem in database retrieval where the related entities of an object are queried individually from a database, leading to O(n) queries where n is the number of related entities of the object. Mouthful of words, I agree 🙂 Let’s take an example to illustrate what it means.

Top 15 Key Categories of Monitoring Metrics in Kubernetes and OpenShift Environments

Over the last couple of years, Kubernetes (often called K8s) has become the most popular and well-known container orchestration system for automating application deployment, scaling, and management. Scheduling containers at scale in a cloud-native ecosystem is central to the technology. Kubernetes itself is an open-source project, and as such presents challenges for many enterprises especially in regulated industries with strong security requirements and formal SLA commitments.

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Core Web Vitals e-commerce analysis: part one

In 2021, Google introduced Core Web Vitals, three criteria to measure if a website is fast, stable, and responsive enough to give visitors a good digital experience. These factor into search ranking and have a powerful influence on customer behavior. But while Google has been urging the web performance community to get on board for more than two years, many are still falling short. We pulled data from the Chrome User Experience Report to conduct our own Core Web Vitals analysis, finding that even some of the largest e-commerce brands aren't passing these thresholds.

Building a one-stop Open Source Observability Platform | OpenObservability Podcast

Pranay, one of the the co-founders at SigNoz, was recently invited as a guest speaker by Jonah Kowall, CTO at Logz.io on his OpenObservability Podcast. In the podcast, Pranay talks about the mission behind SigNoz - unifying traces, metrics, and logs in a single platform and interface. He also shared anecdotes about the evolution of SigNoz since its inception, the community adoption, and its contribution to SigNoz.