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February 2024

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Demystifying Java Lambda Expressions

Feb 29, 2024 By Arun Aravamudhan In eG Innovations
SRE and IT Operations play a critical role in ensuring reliable, high-performance applications. Yet, SREs (Site Reliability Engineers) often face ‘thrown-over-the-wall’ code deployments to operate without having insights into the code-level features. In my previous article (“Is your Java Observability tool Lambda Expressions aware?”), I delved into one such code-level feature: Java lambda expressions which replace anonymous inner classes.
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SigNoz Launch Week - Day 3 - Frontend Monitoring

Feb 29, 2024 By SigNoz In SigNoz
Welcome to SigNoz Launch week! In day 3 we will focus on monitoring frontend with SigNoz. We will take examples on how to monitor web vitals of your application and monitoring errors in client applications. This will be followed by a discussion with our maintainers on nuances of building performant frontend application for data dense products like SigNoz. Do tune in!
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How Complyt used Datadog's Cloud Cost Management to reduce their cloud spend

Feb 28, 2024 By Datadog In Datadog
Learn how the team at Complyt was able to integrate Cloud Cost Managament in a matter of hours and quickly pinpoint underutilized services to cut their cloud spend in half. CCM delivers cost data where engineers work and with resource-level context like CPU, memory, and requests — easily scoped to their services and applications — so that they can take action and spend effectively.
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Cultivating Your Tech Garden: Enriching APM with Synthetic Monitoring

Feb 27, 2024 By Cinthia Portugal In Checkly
Welcome to the Tech Garden, a place where our monitoring tools, like to diverse flora, contribute to a thriving digital ecosystem. Our journey starts with the foundational roots of Application Performance Monitoring (APM), crucial for initial growth and stability, like the roots beneath our fruit trees.
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SigNoz Launch Week - Day 1 - Logs Explorer

Feb 27, 2024 By SigNoz In SigNoz
Welcome to SigNoz Launch Week 1.0! This is our first launch week, and we’re excited to introduce you to some cool new features in SigNoz. We ship fast but often miss sharing the story behind these features with our community. Launch week for us is an opportunity to share the behind-the-scenes of new features that we have built in the recent past. Our open-source maintainers will share the story on the whats, whys, and hows of new upgrades to SigNoz!
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APM From a Developer's Perspective

Feb 26, 2024 By Jessica Kerr In Honeycomb
In twenty years of software development, I did not have the privilege of being on call, of tending to my software in production. I’ve never understood what “APM” means. Anybody can tell me what it stands for—Application Performance Monitoring (or sometimes, the M means Management)—but what does it mean? What do people use APM for?
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What Is Application Performance Monitoring?

Feb 20, 2024 By admin In Zenoss
Applications serve as the backbone of countless operations, driving productivity, customer experience and business success. Tracking and managing their performance is therefore critical to maintain continuity and efficiency, enabling IT teams to proactively identify and resolve issues before they lead to downtime and potential revenue loss. That’s where application performance monitoring (APM) comes in.
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What Is Application Performance Monitoring?

Feb 16, 2024 By Rox Williams In Honeycomb
Every business is a software business. And by software, we don’t mean code—we mean running software serving customers in production. Those customers may be internal to the company, they may pay you money, or they may represent attention that increases ad revenue—either way, making them happy is your business. And your fast, reliable software makes them happy. Application performance monitoring, also known as APM, represents the difference between code and running software.
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Cisco Live EMEA '24 - Let's talk Full-Stack Observability!

Feb 15, 2024 By AppDynamics In AppDynamics
Listen in on this conversation with Ronak Desai - Cisco AppDynamics SVP and General Manager for Full-Stack Observability where he discusses recent innovations such as the advancements with Digital Experience Monitoring and why DEM is important, Cisco AI Assistant and how Cisco leverages AI, and the Cisco Observability Platform with its huge number of developer led modules. Chapters.
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Top 13 Open Source APM Tools [2024 Guide]

Feb 14, 2024 By Ankit Anand In SigNoz
Choosing the right APM tool is critical. How do you know which is the right one for you? Here are the top 13 open source application performance monitoring(APM) tools which can solve your monitoring needs. Open source APM tools have added benefits over their SaaS counterparts. Open source tools are more transparent as you can verify its source code, and you can use it without going through the pains of taking approvals usually required for using a third-party vendor tool.
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Monitoring Kafka with OpenTelemetry including client side monitoring

Feb 14, 2024 By SigNoz In SigNoz
In this video, you will see a demo of how to monitor Kafka with OpenTelemetry. We will instrument a NodeJS application using Kafka and get client side metrics like delay between producer emitting a message to consumer receiving it via distributed tracing. We will also get Kafka server metrics like consumer lag and plot it dashboards.
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Why ngrok Prioritized a Datadog Integration for Streamlined Monitoring of HTTP Events

Feb 14, 2024 By Datadog In Datadog
ngrok delivers instant ingress to your applications in any cloud, private network, or devices with authentication, load balancing, and other critical controls using their global points of presence. Hear from Chad Tindel, Field CTO & VP WW Solution Architecture, on why Datadog was their most requested integration and how it provides an easy pathway to ship application and traffic logs into one unified observability platform.
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Cisco AppDynamics for SAP in retail

Feb 14, 2024 By AppDynamics In AppDynamics
In this video, Matt Schuetze discusses the challenges retailers face during peak sales periods, along with shifting consumer behaviors. Their SAP systems must manage a wide gap between the highest stresses during peak times and the regular loads during off-peak seasons, exposing retailers to poor customer experience outcomes. He expands on how using AppDynamics for SAP to monitor, manage, and respond to these challenges in real-time help retailers protect their customers’ experience and support their ongoing pursuit of competitive edge.
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DataDog vs New Relic - The Real Winner [2024 Guide]

Feb 13, 2024 By Ankit Anand In SigNoz
Both DataDog and New Relic are popular monitoring tools that provide a wide range of products covering different aspects of application and infrastructure monitoring. In this post, I have compared Datadog and New Relic on important features like APM, log management, infrastructure monitoring, OpenTelemetry support, etc. info 💡 I instrumented a sample Spring Boot Application and sent data to Datadog and New Relic to evaluate my experience.
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Bridging the Gap: Overcoming Communication Challenges Between Helpdesk, SREs, IT Teams, and Database Administrators

Feb 13, 2024 By Wendy Howard In eG Innovations
One area where communication breakdowns commonly occur is between helpdesk / IT teams / SREs and database administrators (DBAs), especially when troubleshooting application problems associated with databases. Smooth communication between different teams is key to resolving application performance issues efficiently and speedily. However, it is usually inappropriate for helpdesk staff to have access to the database monitoring privileges and tools used by DB administrators.
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Datadog Conversations: Toyota's Shift to Software-First Mobility

Feb 13, 2024 By Datadog In Datadog
As the world’s largest automotive manufacturer and the leading software-first mobility company, Toyota leans on Datadog to achieve its goals of delivering value to customers and uplifting employees with new technologies and processes. Jason Ballard, IT Executive and General Manager, shares his top priorities for the enterprise in North America and offers his advice for how other leaders in the industry can transform their business.
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Advancing Observability Maturity: Core Benefits

Feb 12, 2024 By Eran Kinsbruner In Lightrun
One of the major trends in software development in the last decade has been “shifting left” responsibilities that have traditionally been under operation’s domain to earlier in the software development life cycle (SDLC). It first came in the form of DevOps where a lot of the software engineering best practices were introduced to the deploy, operate, monitor phases. Such examples include continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
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Latest Top 11 Log Monitoring Tools [Includes Open-Source]

Feb 10, 2024 By Debanjan Choudhury In SigNoz
For any software company, a log monitoring tool is a must for collecting, storing, and providing a centralized view of all logs from different applications and hosts for faster anomaly detection, incident resolution, and troubleshooting. They can also help detect security threats and provide audit trails. They are effective in capacity planning, decision-making, and ensuring optimized performance.
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This Month in Datadog: Dynamic Instrumentation, Log Pipeline Scanner, Network Device map, and more

Feb 9, 2024 By Datadog In Datadog
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. This month, we put the Spotlight on Dynamic Instrumentation..
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Livestream: Client side monitoring & metrics for Kafka using OpenTelemetry & SigNoz

Feb 9, 2024 By SigNoz In SigNoz
In this livestream, we will walk through a demo of how to get client side insights from Kafka using distributed tracing. We will take a NodeJS producer and consumer setup communicating via Kafka to show how one can instrument this with OpenTelemetry, and get metrics from a client perspective. We will also touch on getting Kafka metrics using OpenTelemetry receivers.
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OpenTelemetry Flask Instrumentation Complete Tutorial

Feb 9, 2024 By Ankit Anand In SigNoz
In this article, we will use OpenTelemetry to instrument a sample Flask app for traces. Flask is one of the most popular web application frameworks of Python. It consists of Werkzeug WSGI toolkit and Jinja2 template engine. Instrumentation is the biggest challenge engineering teams face when starting out with monitoring their application performance. OpenTelemetry is the leading open-source standard that is solving the problem of instrumentation.
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Monitoring apps based on Falcon Web Framework with OpenTelemetry

Feb 9, 2024 By Ankit Anand In SigNoz
Falcon is a minimalist Python web API framework for building robust applications and microservices. It also compliments many other Python frameworks by providing extra reliability, flexibility, and performance. Using OpenTelemetry, you can monitor your Falcon applications for performance by collecting telemetry signals like traces. Instrumentation is the biggest challenge engineering teams face when starting out with monitoring their application performance.
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Elastic APM for iOS and Android Native apps

Feb 9, 2024 By Akhilesh Pokhariyal, In Elastic
Elastic APM for native apps provides auto-instrumentation of outgoing HTTP requests and view-loads, captures custom events, errors, and crashes, and includes pre-built dashboards for data analysis and troubleshooting purposes Elastic® APM for iOS and Android native apps is generally available in the stack release v8.12. The Elastic iOS and Android APM agents are open-source and have been developed on-top, i.e., as a distribution of the OpenTelemetry Swift and Android SDK/API, respectively.
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The Top 9 Dynatrace Alternatives & Competitors in 2024

Feb 9, 2024 By Favour Daniel In SigNoz
Are you looking for a Dynatrace alternative? Then you have come to the right place. In this article, we will go through the top 9 Dynatrace alternatives. First, let's briefly discuss what Dynatrace offers and why you might consider other solutions. Dynatrace is a leading observability and application performance management (APM) platform, providing deep insights into application performance and reliability.
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Datadog on Kubernetes Autoscaling

Feb 9, 2024 By Datadog In Datadog
Datadog, the observability platform used by thousands of companies, runs on dozens of self-managed Kubernetes clusters in a multi-cloud environment, adding up to tens of thousands of nodes, or hundreds of thousands of pods. Also, this infrastructure is used by a wide variety of engineering teams at Datadog, with different features and capacity needs that may also change overtime.
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Monitoring Django application performance with OpenTelemetry

Feb 8, 2024 By Ankit Anand In SigNoz
Django is a popular open-source python web framework that enables rapid development while taking out much of the hassle from routine web development. It also helps developers to avoid common security mistakes. As such, many applications are built with Django. Django is very popular among web developers and has a huge community behind it. It gives web developers ready-to-use components for common things that you will need to accomplish for a web application.
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Latest top 17 API monitoring tools [open-source included]

Feb 8, 2024 By Sai Deepesh In SigNoz
Choosing the right API monitoring tool is critical. How do you know which is the right API monitoring tool for you? Here are the top 17 API monitoring tools, including open source tools for API performance monitoring. In this article, we will review the top 17 API monitoring tools which you can use for monitoring your APIs. But first, let’s have a brief overview of APIs.
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Beyond deployment: The ongoing challenges in application performance monitoring implementation

Feb 7, 2024 By Applications Manager In ManageEngine
In the age of digital acceleration, application performance monitoring (APM) acts as a sentinel, empowering organizations to maintain, analyze, and optimize the health of their digital ecosystems. However, as organizations navigate the intricacies of distributed architectures, hybrid cloud deployments, and dynamic workloads, they confront a complex terrain marked by data proliferation, siloed environments, and a scarcity of skilled personnel.
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DataDog vs Prometheus - Comprehensive Comparison Guide [Updated for 2024]

Feb 7, 2024 By Ankit Anand In SigNoz
Both DataDog and Prometheus are application monitoring tools aimed to improve application performance. While Datadog is a cloud-based SaaS solution, meaning there's no need to install or maintain any infrastructure, Prometheus is an open-source tool that requires manual download and installation on your infrastructure. Let us compare DataDog and Prometheus to see which tool suits The biggest difference between Datadog and Prometheus is that while Prometheus is open-source, Datadog is proprietary.
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Podcast - The Power of Observability and Automation of Citrix Technologies with eG Innovations

Feb 7, 2024 By Aditya Pawar In eG Innovations
The Citrix Ready team recently recorded a podcast with eG Innovations for their Tech Fusion podcast series. Hosted by Neil C. Hughes from The Tech Blog Writer, Wendy Howard from eG Innovations’ pre-sales, and Manjunatha Gali from Citrix Ready discussed how eG Enterprise enhances and goes beyond native Citrix monitoring tools with its unique observability and automation features. You can listen to the podcast: They covered a wide range of topics, including.
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Self Hosted Retrace - For your Data Governance, Centralised Control needs

Feb 7, 2024 By Stackify In Stackify
Our customers can now get a self hosted Retrace, where their own data will never leave the Azure cloud environment. Stackify by Netreo will deploy and manage the Retrace platform that includes infrastructure components and software. Customer will get the access to the Retrace within their corporate domain, rather than public internet.
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A Lightweight Open Source ELK alternative

Feb 6, 2024 By Ankit Anand In SigNoz
ELK is the acronym Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana, and combined, it is one of the most popular log analytics tools. Elastic changed the license of Elasticsearch and Kibana from the fully open Apache 2 license to a proprietary dual license. The ELK stack is also hard to manage at scale. SigNoz can be used as a lightweight alternative to the ELK stack.
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Cisco AppDynamics for SAP in Manufacturing: an analysis of challenges and solutions

Feb 6, 2024 By AppDynamics In AppDynamics
In this Cisco Cloud Observability video, Matt Schuetze delves into the complex challenges that define today's manufacturing business landscape—and how Cisco AppDynamics can integrate with SAP environments to address them. The video offers an essential understanding of the manufacturing industry’s challenges and the role SAP plays in it. Matt explains Cisco AppDynamics’ unique capability to link business process steps and flows to the underlying ABAP code and HANA database calls, providing a direct connection to user experience within the SAP environment.
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Will Broadcom's plans for VMware affect you?

Feb 6, 2024 By Rachel Berry In eG Innovations
It is an unsettling time for many of our partners and customers, particularly those leveraging VMware technologies such as VDI and server virtualization, with uncertainty of Broadcom’s plans after their recent acquisition of VMware and likely changes to licensing costs, SKUs, product availability and so on.
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OpenTelemetry Nestjs Tracing Implementation Guide [2024 Updated]

Feb 6, 2024 By Ankit Anand In SigNoz
Nestjs is a Nodejs framework for building scalable server-side applications with typescript. It makes use of frameworks like Express and Fastify to enable rapid development. It has gained wide popularity in recent times, and many applications are making use of the Nestjs framework. Using OpenTelemetry client libraries, you can monitor your Nestjs application. Monitoring your Nestjs application is critical for performance management.
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Spans - a key concept of distributed tracing

Feb 6, 2024 By Ankit Anand In SigNoz
Spans are fundamental building blocks of distributed tracing. A single trace in distributed tracing consists of a series of tagged time intervals known as spans. Spans represent a logical unit of work in completing a user request or transaction. Distributed tracing is critical to application performance monitoring in microservice-based architecture. Before we deep dive into spans, let's have a brief overview of distributed tracing.
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Kibana vs. Grafana - A Scenario-Based Decision Guide [2024]

Feb 6, 2024 By Favour Daniel In SigNoz
Both Kibana and Grafana are data visualization tools providing users capabilities to explore, analyze and visualize data with dashboards. The difference between Kibana and Grafana lies in their genesis. Kibana was built on top of the Elasticsearch stack, famous for log analysis and management. In comparison, Grafana was created mainly for metrics monitoring supporting visualization for time-series databases.
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Top 14 ELK alternatives [open source included] in 2024

Feb 6, 2024 By Ankit Anand In SigNoz
ELK is the acronym Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana, and combined together, it is one of the most popular log analytics tools. Elastic changed the license of Elasticsearch and Kibana from the fully open Apache 2 license to a proprietary dual license. The ELK stack is also hard to manage at scale. In this article, we will discuss 14 ELK alternatives that you can consider using.
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6 best practices for application performance monitoring

Feb 5, 2024 By Applications Manager In ManageEngine
In today’s digital era, where applications are the lifeline of many businesses, the importance of monitoring and observing their performance is undeniable. It’s not just about keeping systems up; it’s about understanding how applications behave and ensuring they meet the ever-growing expectations of users. Let’s take a look at six best practices in application performance monitoring that organizations can implement to set themselves up for success.
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Monitoring your FastAPI application with OpenTelemetry

Feb 5, 2024 By Ankit Anand In SigNoz
FastAPI is a modern Python web framework based on standard Python type hints that makes it easy to build APIs. It's a relatively new framework, having been released in 2018 but has now been adopted by big companies like Uber, Netflix, and Microsoft. Using OpenTelemetry, you can monitor your FastAPI applications for performance by collecting telemetry signals like traces. FastAPI is one of the fastest Python web frameworks currently available and is really efficient when it comes to writing code.
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Improve Cloud Visibility with JFrog's SaaS Log Streamer

Feb 5, 2024 By Jay Kumar In JFrog
The beauty of deploying SaaS-based applications is that you don’t have to worry about building the infrastructure, hiring engineers to maintain it, staying on top of upgrades or worry about application security. Indeed, these are some of the main benefits you get by using a SaaS offering. However, the world of software is full of trade-offs, so, what do you lose out on?
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Elevate Your Shopify Design: 6 Steps to Improve Your Shopify Store Design

Feb 5, 2024 By Germain UX Team In Germain UX
As of 2024, there are over 4.8 million live websites powered by Shopify. With a substantial 16.36% of the global e-commerce market share since 2023, Shopify has firmly established itself as a powerhouse in the realm of e-commerce. In the U.S. market, its dominance is even more pronounced, commanding about 28% of the e-commerce software market last June 2023. This impressive growth trajectory highlights Shopify’s effectiveness in providing businesses with the tools they need to succeed online.
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How Autodesk engineers better service and own their infrastructure.

Feb 5, 2024 By Datadog In Datadog
Morgan Goose, Autodesk, shares how he and his team have democratized observability and made it a default offering for all their engineers. Autodesk is a global leader in software for people who design and make the world. That includes software for architects, builders, engineers, 3D artists, and production teams. To ensure the best customer experience, Autodesk has partnered with Datadog and is taking advantage of products like DBM to quickly identify and maintain the systems they instrument.
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Ensuring software quality with integration testing

Feb 2, 2024 By Deacon McIntyre In Raygun
Before the Raygun API limited release last year, we'd been consistently receiving requests for a public API for a long time, to provide a way for our customers to access their Raygun data programmatically. We're now proud to say we're providing a public API with a range of endpoints, but it took us a lot of planning and development to get here! In this post, I'd like to take you back to the beginning of development on our big API project. Specifically, I want to walk through the pivotal decisions we made around testing when we started development on the project, and how (and why) these have paid off.
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JS Toolbox 2024: Bundlers and Test Frameworks

Feb 1, 2024 By Ollie Bannister In Raygun
JavaScript is bigger than ever, and the ecosystem is nothing short of overwhelming. In this JS toolbox 2024 series, we’ve selected and analyzed the most noteworthy JS tools, so that you don’t have to. In part 1 of this series, we explored the foundations of any JavaScript project: Runtime environments and package management. In part 2, we focused on JavaScript frameworks and static site generators.
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Latest Top 13 Distributed Tracing Tools [perfect for microservices]

Feb 1, 2024 By Ankit Anand In SigNoz
Modern digital organizations have rapidly adopted microservices-based architecture for their applications. Distributed tracing tools help monitor microservices-based applications. Choosing the right distributed tracing tool is critical. How do you know which is the right one for you? In this post, we will cover the top 13 distributed tracing tools in 2024 that can solve your monitoring and observability needs.
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A Practical Guide to Logging in Microservices [Includes Best Practices]

Feb 1, 2024 By Vaishnavi Abirami In SigNoz
Microservices logging is the practice of tracking and recording the activities of specific services in a distributed microservices architecture. Logging is an important aspect of any software system, and it is more critical for a microservices architecture as there are many small, independent services interacting with each other.
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16,000+ Github stars, New Design Theme & Front Page of HN - SigNal 33

Feb 1, 2024 By Ankit Anand In SigNoz
Welcome to the first SigNal of 2024! It is a year that we’re looking forward to accomplishing great things. We recently crossed 16,000+ GitHub stars as we continue to be amazed by the support of the developer community in our mission of open-source observability. Let’s see what humans of SigNoz were up to in January 2024.
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