Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

October 2022

What is Kafka?

Apache Kafka is a popular open source platform for streaming, storing, and processing high volumes of data. In this video, we break down how Kafka works and how it’s able to provide you with a reliable, scalable, and highly performant service for managing events. We also touch on some key resources for effectively monitoring your Kafka deployments via Datadog.

Observability vs. Monitoring: What is the Difference?

For several decades, IT monitoring has been deployed in different forms. The focus of IT monitoring has been to gather metrics about the operations of an IT infrastructure’s hardware and software assets to ensure that all the key functions are being performed as expected to support applications and IT services. In the recent past, the term Observability has been used as a synonym for “modern monitoring”.

How To Grow Your WooCommerce Business In 3 Easy Steps

Brand loyalty might be on the decline, but ecommerce is on the rise. Ecommerce is on track to account for 24% of global retail sales by the end of 2026. Source: Statista And as businesses reach growth limits in their local markets, the industry is seeing more ecommerce brands expanding onto the global stage. 76% of online shoppers have made purchases on sites outside of their own countries.

Import Datadog Traces Into Honeycomb

Getting existing telemetry into Honeycomb just got easier! With the release of the Datadog APM Receiver, you can send your Datadog traces to the OpenTelemetry Collector, and from there, to any OpenTelemetry-compatible endpoint. Often, evaluating a new tracing solution requires re-instrumenting your applications from the ground up in a new vendor’s tooling. It’s a pretty high bar to clear just to see if a solution is worth adopting.

When Cloud Native Stacks Misbehave - Pitfalls and Lessons Learned | Itiel Shwartz (Komodor)

In this session, Itiel Shwartz will demonstrate common failure scenarios - both app and infra related. We will laugh a little and cry a little, and then cover monitoring, observability & troubleshooting best practices methodologies such as metrics, distributed tracing, logging, network visualization and more. But cheer up! We’ll wrap up by introducing some helpful tools, in order to find and fix issues as fast as possible.

Bringing "Blameless" to Traffic Court | J. Paul Reed (Release Engineering Approaches)

What do modern incident analysis techniques and moving violations have in common? This Quick Bite tells the story of taking the same retrospective techniques the most innovative technology companies in the world use to understand their operational incidents... to traffic court, to help us all understand what really happened? What happened next? Come find out!

Nodejs Performance Monitoring | Monitor a full-stack Nodejs application with open-source tools

Nodejs tops the list of most widely used frameworks for server-side programming by developers. Powered by Google’s V8 engine, its performance is incredible. As a result, Nodejs has now become a critical part of the technology stack of large-scale enterprises and startups. And as nodejs is based on Javascript, it is also easier to learn and begin with. Nodejs is a dynamically typed single-threaded programming language.

The Top New Relic Competitors

Platforms like New Relic simplify enterprise cloud complexity, accelerating digital transformation, and simplifying cloud management. Their company serves over 10,000 businesses worldwide with AIops, distributed tracing, browser monitoring, infrastructure monitoring, and synthetic monitoring solutions. As a result of New Relic's lack of onboarding support, some engineers have complained about burnout while implementing the solution.

Coming soon! Raygun Alerting's Microsoft Teams integration

Microsoft Teams is a popular integration request for our Alerting feature, and the Raygun team is busy at work making this feature available to all our customers. We will be notifying all our customers when this feature is available. You are also welcome to keep an eye out for the launch announcement in our Changelog. Since it’s such a popular integration request, we thought we’d share some specs and screenshots with you as we progress through the work.

SOAP vs REST vs JSON - a 2023 comparison

SOAP vs REST vs JSON are comparisons that are frequently made in discussions about web services. While SOAP and REST are both leading approaches to transferring data over a network using API calls, JSON is a compact data format that RESTful web services can use. Deciding whether you should create a SOAP vs REST API is an essential question if you are planning to provide a web service. Each architectural style has its own use cases, benefits, and limitations.

Biggest Mistakes Companies Make When Evaluating & Purchasing APM Software

Most modern companies that offer web or mobile apps use APM at some stage to enhance their growth. APMs help you to understand what's going on inside your app. It helps you know when something breaks, and it also helps you learn how to make sure it doesn't happen again. However, choosing the right APM solution for your product is complex. If you select the incorrect tool, you may discard it because it will not enable you to meet your observability objectives.

How to Improve Your Spotify Adoption

The ecommerce industry is booming. While the pandemic accelerated the need for businesses to digitalize, advancements in technology and the surge in available marketplaces also helped ease buying and selling online. According to Shopify, the ecommerce industry is expected to grow by almost $11 trillion by 2025. Online stores are popping up every day – with an estimated 12-24 million ecommerce sites globally.

Monitoring the AVD Broker

A legacy way to deploy applications and desktops on Azure was often to put some Server 2022 VMs (Virtual Machines) in Azure running the standard RDS (Remote Desktop Services) roles – session hosts, brokers, gateway etc. and then pay the compute costs for your session hosts, brokers, and gateways, set up a public IP address and open ports.

How to Monitor and Troubleshoot Multi-cloud Applications

Multicloud and hybrid cloud applications are deployed on multiple cloud vendor platforms, including on-premises private cloud. While these platforms offer tremendous benefits by providing a reliable and scalable platform for fuelling digital transformation, they also add significant monitoring complexity. Site reliability engineers (SRE) need multicloud monitoring visibility to: Why is this important?

Datadog on gRPC

Datadog, the observability platform used by thousands of companies, is made up of hundreds of services that communicate over the network using gRPC, an RPC framework, making it a critical component for Datadog’s reliability. As teams investigated incidents related to their services, they discovered that some of them were gRPC related. But, were there common patterns to those incidents? Could we use them to learn more about gRPC and how to use it better?

Monitor application performance from the Datadog mobile app

When you’re on-call for a critical service and get alerted to an issue that could impact customers, you need quick access to key performance metrics in order to effectively troubleshoot. But all too often, digging into this data requires you to switch from your mobile device to a laptop, restricting your ability to troubleshoot on the go and disrupting your routine.

First page of Hacker News, 9000+ GitHub stars, improved dashboards and documentation - SigNal 17

Welcome back to our monthly product updates - SigNal! So happy to share with everyone that we were trending on the first page of Hacker news over the weekend, and the whole team was so upbeat about it. Last month, we shipped a lot of dashboard and documentation improvements to make SigNoz better for our users. We also participated in conferences, gave talks on open source, and sipped a lot of coffee! Let us see what humans of SigNoz were up to in the month of September 2022!

Django Monitoring and APM Benefits

Django is growing to become one of the most popular web frameworks, and it's built on top of Python, among the easiest programming languages to start with. As the number of companies releasing Django apps increases, it is natural that the need for Django monitoring will also increase. In this guide, we will share the benefits of implementing monitoring in a Django application. Without further ado, let's begin!

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Core Web Vitals e-commerce analysis: part two

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.