How to Add an APM Service | SolarWinds Observability Tutorial
For the latest live and on-demand product training, visit the Customer Portal: https://customerportal.solarwinds.com/login
Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud
The Place Where Modern Operations & Technology Come Together
March 2024
Elevating Data Sovereignty with Stackify Self-Hosted Retrace
Stackify’s commitment to serving a broad array of industries is evident from its varied customer portfolio. From BigBank and Big Pharma to Logistics Supplier and Retail Bank, the Self-Hosted Retrace has proven adaptable and essential across different sectors. This versatility not only demonstrates the solution's robustness but also its capacity to meet your industry-specific demands, affirming Stackify's role as a critical tool in the optimization of IT infrastructures globally.
AI realism (part one)
Emotions are running high about AI technologies. In this 2-parter, I do my best to make a rational case on the reality of AI, and how we can respond to it. This is part one; part two next week. We seem to be struggling to have pragmatic discussions about advancements in Artificial Intelligence. It’s hard to hear calmer voices over the detractors and breathless enthusiasts.
Cloud migration vs modernization - What's the difference?
Cloud migration vs modernization – What are the nuances? Cloud migration involves moving applications and data to the cloud often with minimal changes to their architecture. Cloud migration projects usually aim to leverage cloud infrastructure for benefits such as scalability, flexibility and reduced on-prem maintenance.
Application Performance Monitoring as Technical Debt Consolidation
Slow code is everywhere—or maybe "anywhere. "Slowness" is a spectrum. Sometimes, you triumphantly move performance bottlenecks so that the bar for "slow" always gets lower. In our experience, though, things often trend in the other direction.
What is Application Performance Monitoring?
In this "Observability in Action" video, Andreas Prins, CEO of StackState, unveils the significance of Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and the results delivered. APM is pivotal for maintaining service levels, detecting application issues, ensuring customer satisfaction, and achieving a swift Mean Time To Repair. Andreas explores how StackState's APM solution transcends typical monitoring tools by offering.
The Business Case for OpenTelemetry - APM for Modern Applications
DevOps professionals know that ensuring optimal application performance is paramount. More and more customers and prospects interact with companies online, and any hiccup can impact your bottom line. What’s more, companies continue to leverage cloud-native apps for improved flexibility and resource optimization. All of which means that Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools need to evolve.
eG Enterprise Monitoring Now Available on the IGEL App Portal
For several years, eG Innovations has been providing advanced AIOps-powered monitoring and observability to customers leveraging IGEL-powered devices in VDI and DaaS environments. Our out-of-the-box metric thresholds, alerting, dashboards, and reporting ensure IT teams can proactively avoid end-user support calls and tickets and ensure organizations get optimal performance from their IGEL investment. IGEL and eG Innovations recently announced the availability of eG Enterprise on the IGEL App Portal.
How to decide between cloud and on-premise monitoring
Application performance monitoring systems tend to be available in two modes: on-premise and cloud-based SaaS. Which is the “right” choice? Well, it depends on your situation, but overall cloud-based SaaS offerings have significant benefits when compared to on-premise. However, it’s not always so simple. The right selection depends on the facts on the ground.
Analyzing OpenTelemetry apps with Elastic AI Assistant and APM
OpenTelemetry is rapidly becoming the most expansive project within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), boasting as many commits as Kubernetes and garnering widespread support from customers. Numerous companies are adopting OpenTelemetry and integrating it into their applications. Elastic® offers detailed guides on implementing OpenTelemetry for applications. However, like many applications, pinpointing and resolving issues can be time-consuming.
RIP Xamarin: Adding .NET MAUI to Real User Monitoring
We’re constantly seeing frameworks evolving and churning, and in May 2024 we’ll see the end of Xamarin after 12 years. The deprecation of Xamarin means we need to ensure that MAUI is equipped with the tools and functionalities that developers have come to rely on Xamarin for. At Raygun, that’s Real User Monitoring (RUM).
APM Metrics: The Ultimate Guide
How your software applications perform is an extremely important factor in determining end-user satisfaction. APM metrics are the key indicators that help business-critical applications achieve peak performance. This article explains APM metrics, their importance, and the core APM metrics used by modern software systems to measure and optimize the performance of their applications.
Datadog on Data Science
In this episode we'll visit the world of predictive analytics and machine learning and uncover how these cutting-edge technologies are transforming the way Datadog monitors and improves its services. We’ll focus our conversation on two key aspects: using advanced statistical methods for proactive monitoring and the strategic implementation of machine learning for algorithm enhancement.
The Ultimate Guide to API Monitoring in 2024 - Metrics, Tools, and Proven Practices
According to Akamai, 83% of web traffic is through APIs. Microservices, servers, and clients constantly communicate to exchange information. Even the Google search you made to reach this article involved your browser client calling Google APIs. Given APIs govern the internet, businesses rely on them heavily. API health is directly proportional to business prosperity. This article covers everything about API monitoring, so your API infrastructure’s health is always in check ✅.
Retrace Tips & Tricks #001: How to install Retrace to a Windows Server
This presentation outlines the various options for installing the Retrace Agent, with a focus on the manual installation process.
Apache Spark at Scale #datadog #shorts #security #observability
Datadog is an observability and security platform that ingests and processes tens of trillions of data points per day, coming from more than 22,000 customers. Processing that amount of data in a reasonable time stretches the limits of well known data engines like Apache Spark. In addition to scale, Datadog infrastructure is multi-cloud on Kubernetes and the data engineering platform is used by different engineering teams, so having a good set of abstractions to make running Spark jobs easier is critical.
Cisco AppDynamics for SAP in Healthcare: an analysis of challenges and solutions
In this video, Matt Schuetze delves into the role of Cisco AppDynamics for SAP in addressing the challenges in healthcare, biotech, and life sciences, including security, privacy, cost management, and the critical nature of patient-facing applications—as well as managing diverse systems across individual medical practices, electronic medical records (EMR), and SAP ERP systems. With App Dynamics, transactions can be tagged, traced, and followed, ensuring sustained connectivity and security in the SAP environment.
Beyond APM: What Datadog Won't Tell You with Leon Adato of Kentik
APM tools promise a unified observability platform, yet they inherently focus on internal metrics, traces, and logs. This internal focus, while valuable, misses critical dimensions of the user experience and network performance that are essential for a complete understanding of application behavior in real-world scenarios. With Kentik you can dive deep into your network performance and find problems before they affect your users.
Scaling success: Navigating the challenges of autoscaled applications with Site24x7 APM Insight
Have you ever found yourself wishing for a magical solution to handle the unpredictable ebb and flow of user traffic on your cloud-hosted platforms? Organizations today face the ever-present challenge of effectively managing fluctuating levels of traffic on their platforms. Enter application autoscaling, a concept in modern resource management that allows organizations to seamlessly adjust their resources in response to spikes or lulls in user activity. But what exactly is autoscaling?
Sponsored Post
How to improve INP (the newest Core Web Vital)
From the first introduction of Core Web Vitals, Google has maintained that these user experience metrics will keep evolving. Since 2022, the Google team has been testing Interaction to Next Paint (INP), a new interactivity metric, and asking for feedback from the development community. Late in 2023, they announced that INP would replace FID as a Core Web Vital. The transition to INP is effective from March 2024.
Grafana vs Splunk - Key Features and Differences
Grafana and Splunk are both used as monitoring tools. But while Grafana is majorly used as a data visualization tool, Splunk is an enterprise security and observability platform. Monitoring tools are essential for any business that wants to have visibility into its IT infrastructure. They provide real-time data that can be used to identify and troubleshoot problems. Grafana and Splunk are two of the most popular monitoring tools on the market. So, which one is better for your business?
8 Kubernetes application performance monitoring challenges and how to solve them
Kubernetes is a widely-adopted platform that manages the containers that host an application. Instead of handling nodes and containers individually, it groups all workloads as orchestrated layers. This abstraction simplifies the overall complexities involved, making the application easier to manage.
Launch Week, Upgrades to Metrics & Query Builder & Access Token Management - SigNal 34
Welcome to the 34th edition of our monthly product newsletter - SigNal 34! Last month was full of action. We did our first launch week, and we were thrilled to see the response. We have shipped some amazing features recently. Let’s see what humans of SigNoz were up to in the month of February 2024.
SigNoz Launch Week - Day 5 - Access Token Mgmt & Onboarding
Welcome to last day of SigNoz Launch Week! We will start with a chat with Ankit (CTO, SigNoz) about the evolution of SigNoz, our focus on OpenTelemetry and belief in open-source. Post that we will deep dive into recently released Access Token management feature which will help users programmatically access data stored in SigNoz and unlock powerful use cases. Then we will showcase our new SaaS onboarding flow which makes getting started with SigNoz much easier. We will also discuss the process we follow for improving our documentation & onboarding flow.
How Complyt is using Datadog APM and distributed tracing to reduce application response times
Learn how Complyt is using Datadog Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and distributed tracing to turn data into knowledge and reduce application response times by more than 80%, which enabled them to meet SLAs for their largest customers.
What's new at Datadog? #datadog #shorts #observability #security
What’s new at Datadog? An advanced feature to search and filter traces; measuring users who regularly engage with your app over time; and a centralized system for tracking, triaging, and addressing security issues.
SigNoz Launch Week - Day 4 - Logs Pipeline
For day 4, we will showcase the recent work we have done in Logs Pipeline. With Log Pipelines, you can transform logs to suit your querying and aggregation needs before they get stored in the database. Pipelines provide a way to modify the structure and content of log data without needing to change application code or redeploy components. By extracting relevant attributes from logs, pipelines enable more efficient analysis.