Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

June 2023

Improving the Elastic APM UI performance with continuous rollups and service metrics

In today's fast-paced digital landscape, the ability to monitor and optimize application performance is crucial for organizations striving to deliver exceptional user experiences. At Elastic, we recognize the significance of providing our user base with a reliable Observability platform that scales with you as you’re onboarding thousands of services that produce terabytes of data each day.

What is High Cardinality Data?

While reading a GitHub issue on the OpenTelemetry Collector about trying to send two versions of a metric, one with higher and one with lower cardinality, it occurred to me that we’ve never written on this blog about what is high-cardinality data exactly and how it matters to your OpenTelemetry observability. High-cardinality data refers to a dataset or data attribute that contains a large number of distinct values relative to the total number of data points.

Application-Centric EUC Monitoring is Key to Digital Employee Experience (DEX)

Taking an application-centric approach to monitoring EUC technologies is essential to ensuring success and optimal DEX (Digital Employee Experience) when delivering desktops and apps via VDI / DaaS or from the Cloud. The EUC (End User Computing) community in recent years has increasingly focused on user experience and DEX (Digital Employee Experience) as key measures of success. Any EUC service ultimately needs to ensure users are satisfied and can work productively.

Modernizing your APM solution with a unified observability platform

DevOps can get complete visibility into application performance and various components of web application using application performance monitoring (APM). And APM insights depend on how well you can observe your application stack, using comprehensive metrics, distributed traces, and detailed logs. Join our webinar to learn how Site24x7's APM Insight offers in-depth visibility to troubleshoot performance issues and provide reliability to your app users around the world.

SigNoz - Open-source alternative to Dynatrace

If you're looking for an open-source alternative to Dynatrace, then you're at the right place. SigNoz is a perfect open-source alternative to Dynatrace. SigNoz provides a unified UI for metrics, traces and logs with advanced tagging and filtering capabilities. In today's digital economy, more and more companies are shifting to cloud-native and microservice architecture to support global scale and distributed teams.

Application Monitoring 101 - Developer's Top Five Tips for Monitoring Application Performance

Learn the top five tips for monitoring ASP.NET app performance and validating deployments from Stackify founder Matt Watson. The webinar covers: How to monitor overall application performance and availability How to monitor key application metrics How to monitor for new errors and error rates How to monitor slow SQL queries, web services, and dependencies How to monitor browser side performance.

Cloud Native Application Observability - Trace-Logs Correlation

There is a brand new feature for Cloud Native Application Observability (formerly known as AppDynamics Cloud) that will reduce the effort it takes to resolve performance issues within business transactions. We are improving modern application troubleshooting by aligning traces that are performing sub-optimally with their associated logs so one can effortlessly discover the root cause. Watch how we quickly identify poor-performing business transactions, their associated traces, and spans, to the relevant logs pertinent to fixing performance issues, never having to switch tools or the context.

eG Innovations achieves Amazon Web Services (AWS) Digital Workplace Competency status

We are delighted to be able to share that eG Innovations has become one of a very small number of partners to have achieved the AWS “Digital Workplace Competency” award following a lengthy and rigorous technical audit process. The designation differentiates eG Innovations, alongside EUC vendors such as Citrix and VMware, as having a solution that meets AWS’s own standards for enterprise software.

The 4 Best Datadog Alternatives for 2023

If you work as a CTO, then you already know that having robust monitoring and analytical tools for your technology stack is a prerequisite to getting your job done right. Many companies that started off using Datadog discovered that it can become prohibitively expensive and complex when they needed to scale. As such, there are a lot of people out there currently seeking out alternatives.

13,000+ GitHub stars, new Trace and Logs Query Builder, Correlated Signals & more - SigNal 25

Welcome to the 25th edition of our monthly product newsletter - SigNal 25! Our team shipped important upgrades to SigNoz, like new trace and logs query builder. We also attended many events and had a small get-together after months. Let’s dive in to see what humans at SigNoz were up to in the month of May 2023.

Popular CSS preprocessors with examples: Sass, Less, Stylus and more

As a stylesheet language, CSS has limited capabilities when it comes to writing logic, organizing code, and performing other computational tasks. CSS preprocessors provide a solution to this problem. While CSS has improved a lot in recent years with the introduction of custom and logical properties, math and color functions, new pseudo-classes, and other enhancements, there are still many good reasons to use CSS preprocessors.

Observability in Nutanix AHV environments and Hyper Converged Infrastructures (HCI)

Today, I’ll cover the benefits of monitoring and observability in Nutanix AHV environments and Hyper Converged Infrastructures (HCI) and how observability can help IT teams run cost-efficient, performant Nutanix deployments. Modern enterprises need infrastructures designed for resilience, cost-effectiveness, and application performance. Organizations are adopting hybrid multi-cloud strategies and looking to simplify and optimize on-premises and data center operations.

API update: User invitations

Today, we’re excited to share the latest endpoint release for the Raygun API, user invitations. With this release, customers can now use the API to automate the process of inviting new team members to Raygun. With unlimited seats included in every Raygun account, one of the best ways to get the most out of Raygun is to add more team members to your plan.

Monitoring your Nextjs application using OpenTelemetry

Nextjs is a production-ready React framework for building single-page web applications. It enables you to build fast and user-friendly static websites, as well as web applications using Reactjs. Using OpenTelemetry Nextjs libraries, you can set up end-to-end tracing for your Nextjs applications. Nextjs has its own monitoring feature, but it is only limited to measuring the metrics like core web vitals and real-time analytics of the application.

Complete Guide to tracing Kafka clients with OpenTelemetry in Go

OpenTelemetry can be used to trace Go applications that use Kafka to find 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. Apache Kafka introduced the ability to add headers to Kafka messages from version 0.11 onwards.

An open source OpenTelemetry APM | SigNoz

OpenTelemetry is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation(CNCF) project aimed at standardizing the way we instrument applications for generating telemetry data(logs, metrics, and traces). However, OpenTelemetry does not provide storage and visualization for the collected telemetry data. An APM that can ingest telemetry data collected by OpenTelemetry can help you set up a robust observability stack.

Redis Monitoring | 101 Guide to Redis Metrics Monitoring

Monitoring Redis for performance issues is critical. Redis is famous for its low-latency response while serving a large number of queries. There are certain key metrics that you can monitor to keep track of your Redis instance performance. In this guide, we will go through key Redis metrics that should be monitored and ways to collect these metrics with in-built Redis tools.

Monitoring AWS End User Computing (EUC) Technologies with eG Enterprise

We are delighted to share that eG Innovations has become one of a very small number of partners to have achieved AWS’s “Digital Workplace Competency” award following a lengthy and rigorous technical audit process. This designation differentiates eG Innovations from other AWS EUC monitoring vendors as having a solution that meets AWS’s own standards for enterprise software.

Top 11 MYSQL monitoring tools in 2023 [open-source included]

Database monitoring is a critical component in your application performance monitoring. Apart from application code issues, database issues are one of the most common reasons for a bad user experience. MySQL is one of the most popular open-source DBMS that businesses have widely adopted. MySQL monitoring tools can help you identify potential issues with your database, keep a continuous check on your database instances, improve performance and detect and alert you about real-time issues.

Performance Ratings and Experience Scores for Meaningful Alerting and Rapid Observability

Administrators and IT management are increasingly leveraging simple quantifiable KPI indicators such as “Performance Ratings” to gain rapid overviews and track key outcomes. Modern IT architectures are designed and built to scale and be resilient. Systems are now usually built to handle failover and auto-scale up and down to handle varying demand and workloads with very different properties and needs.