Before we go ahead with the topic, the readers must have some prior knowledge about web development and Middleware. As observed by its name, Web development is a field of computer science. The developers are responsible for developing websites, whether they are for the internet, intranet, single-page website, blog sites, or complete social media platforms. Middleware acts as a glow-in as it provides the path between the front end and back end of a computer or android based application.

For over a decade, Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) has been a popular managed database service companies have used to set up, operate, and scale databases for web and mobile applications. However, modern, high-scale applications can have upward of tens of thousands of clients. This means that maintaining direct connections between the database and application can quickly begin to consume more resources than the query executions themselves.

Helm is a package manager that makes it easy to deploy and manage Kubernetes applications. Our new Helm integration allows you to monitor the availability and status of the Helm-managed applications deployed in your Kubernetes clusters. In this post, we’ll show you how you can visualize the status of your Helm releases and use monitors to notify you of important changes in your Helm environment.

You may have previously heard about OpenTelemetry (also known as OTel) if you have looked into improved ways of standardising different data types. In this article, we’ll delve into the key things you need to know about OpenTelemetry and how this unified standard may become the future of how logs, metrics, events and traces are all handled.

This article will discuss API Monitoring, the definition of APIs and how they would affect your business if there is a failure, and how to protect APIs or your services. Everything on the web is powered by an API nowadays. APIs are an essential part of the web to connect different services that help customers complete their actions. This article will help you understand the importance of API and why API monitoring is a business necessity.

Telegraf, InfluxData’s open source data collection agent, is a key tool for managing data pipelines. Users around the world rely on Telegraf’s flexibility to collect, clean, transform, and send data. But even with Telegraf’s immense popularity, we continue to look for ways to make it even easier to use. That’s why, when we launched InfluxDB University, we knew that Telegraf would be a key ingredient.

Whether you’ve just started your observability journey or haven’t started one at all, Techstrong Research is here to help the industry gain insights into observability with their “Observability at the Speed of Innovation 2022” survey, sponsored by StackState. Techstrong Research, an industry analyst and consulting group focused on the business outcomes of disruptive technologies, is researching where organizations are in their observability journey.

Having joined Grafana Labs as one of our first data & analytics hires, I spent much of my time in the first few months considering how we should structure our data stack to optimize for a quick path to value, while allowing our small data team to scale going forward.

Why full-stack observability is crucial for brands to deliver the seamless digital experiences that vacationers now demand

The high volume and high rate of transactions in the adtech market pushes vast amounts of data through the entire ecosystem, 24×7. Regardless of its place in the market – advertiser, ad exchange, ad network, or publisher – each has thousands or even hundreds of thousands of metrics that measure every aspect of the company’s business. Monitoring these metrics can prevent incidents from impacting the business.

When I talk with Splunk customers, their challenges sometimes sound like trying to find a needle in a stack of needles. Feel the same way? The answers you need are out there, hidden in your data. Our job is to help you find them. Securing your networks, keeping them up and running and maximizing efficiency are key priorities. You also face the challenges of speeding up development and driving innovation to stay competitive.

My name is Sancho and I am the person who started developing Pandora FMS in 2004. I want to tell you why Pandora FMS Open Source exists and why the community is so important to me.

This is the second post in my blog series about MkDocs. If you haven't already, head over to Creating a documentation site with MkDocs since this post will build upon the site we created in that post. In this post, I'll show how to easily host MkDocs-driven sites on GitHub Actions.

We’re delighted to announce that Lightrun for Web IDEs is now available for our beta users! Lightrun for the Web is now supported in three different IDEs: If you want to check out the individual plugins, check out the respectable documentation articles: Lightrun’s users are now able to connect to their live applications directly from the browser, without having to download one of our dedicated plugins – and enjoy the full suite of Lightrun features right in the browser.

We were introducing the Profiles feature! You can now have the same account on multiple profiles or teams with this feature. Our customers requested it, and we delivered it!

Kubernetes is currently the de-facto container orchestration system on the market. Both small and large companies adopt it, and all major cloud providers offer it as a service. However, Kubernetes is a complex and layered platform, so you can’t just jump into it. There are three essential stages for each application: design, deployment, and operation. This blog post will focus on operation, where you need to monitor and troubleshoot your deployed applications.

As organisations increasingly send their logs to one service, their metrics to another and their traces to a third location, they remain unable to gain a unified view across all of their data types. This is because as multiple tools are used to achieve similar goals for different data types the issue of tool sprawl quickly arises.

The latest Jaeger v1.35 release introduced the ability to receive OpenTelemetry trace data via the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP), which all OpenTelemetry SDKs are required to support. This is a follow-up to the previous announcement to retire Jaeger’s “classic” client libraries. With this new capability, it is no longer necessary to use the Jaeger exporters with the OpenTelemetry SDKs, or to run the OpenTelemetry Collector in front of the Jaeger backend.

PlanetScale is a serverless, MySQL-compatible database platform powered by Vitess. PlanetScale handles database scaling while also providing you with the tools to increase your development velocity, such as branching, non-blocking schema changes, automatic backups, built-in connection pooling, as well as a helpful interface and CLI. Datadog’s new integration gives you deep visibility into your PlanetScale databases, so you can optimize your usage and costs.

In this article, we look at the core concepts of SAP digital transformation, its role in enhanced decision making, and how hyperautomation could be the secret to creating a competitive advantage for your organization. Once seen as a costly legacy system for many organizations, SAP is no longer the ‘unwieldly’ application it once was.

The article Healthchecks.io Hosting Setup, 2022 Edition was recently on Hacker News. I was answering questions in the comments section. Here’s a recap of some of the questions and my answers. I’ve edited some of the questions for clarity.

Yep, you read that right, THE fastest. Like the Usain Bolt of check rates, just without the Olympic gold medal to back it up (but it’s safe to say that if there was a gold medal for quickest check rates, we would win gold). So what does this actually mean? It means that your website will be checked almost constantly; every 30 seconds depending on the plan that you pick.

After two years of virtual editions, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe returned as a hybrid event, with its in-person portion held in Valencia, Spain, from May 16-20. As platinum sponsors of this year’s conference, Datadog held a booth where we showcased the latest updates to our Kubernetes monitoring solution, including the new Kubernetes resources overview, improved OpenTelemetry support, and the latest version of the Datadog Operator for Kubernetes.

Every IT administrator knows that users typically complain of two things: the network doesn’t work or it’s slow. When your network isn't working, it’s usually because something is down and we can rely on Network Fault Monitoring tools to notify us. But where do we start when users complain of poor performance? And what tools are available to help us? In these situations, Network Performance Monitoring tools might be just what you need.

WordPress powers more than 455 million websites globally (some 37% of the total) and dominates a staggering 62% share of CMS (content management systems) platforms. It also offers more than 54,000 plugins to customize your site. However, as with any new process or tech, such as your new business text messaging tool, things may not always go right. What are the most common errors that can occur with WordPress and adversely affect your website?

Lumigo uses IntelliJ IDEs everywhere. The back-end developers love their PyCharm and us frontend developers use WebStorm all the time. No doubt that it’s one of the most popular IDE’s out there. One of the perks at Lumigo is that as employees, we can use 10% of our working time to invest in personal projects or do cool things for self-development and innovation.

In this tutorial, we will go through a working example of a NestJS application auto-instrumented with OpenTelemetry. In our example we will use a simple application that outputs “Hello World!” when we call it in the browser. We will instrument this application with OpenTelemetry’s Node.js client library to generate trace data and send it to an OpenTelemetry Collector. The Collector will then export the trace data to an external distributed tracing analytics tool of our choice.

Amazon Kinesis is the real-time stream processing service of AWS. Whether you got video, audio, or IoT streaming data to handle, Kinesis is the way to go. Kinesis is a serverless managed service that integrates nicely with other services like Lambda or S3. Often, you will use it when SQS or SNS is too low-level. But as with all the other services on AWS, Kinesis is a professional tool that comes with its share of complications.

Eleven basic checks and one status page. That’s all you see when looking over the account usage of the Uptime.com account you are now managing for your company. When you logged in for the first time you saw a dashboard with cards and metrics, labeled with titles that don’t obviously connect to services you offer. Your first clicks were to navigate to view the subscription – maybe your plan details can give you some guidance. Does this sound like you?

The software is getting more and more complicated and so is the infrastructure behind it. It is no longer what it used to be with a single web or application server and a database backing it up. Throughout the years, the infrastructure has become more and more complicated. We have multiple databases, queues, datastores, search engines, and configurations. We want to incorporate continuous delivery and automated testing and deploy everything easily.

Welcome to another edition of What’s New in Sysdig in 2022! The “What’s new in Sysdig” blog is now under my control! Hello, I’m Wes MacKay, a Sales Engineer based out of Dallas, TX working with the Sysdig US West Corporate team. I’m way too passionate about containerization, personal cloud storage, and automating my home life. In my spare time, I’m always looking for better Thai and Sushi restaurants in my area.

Here at Grafana Labs, we’re always looking for ways to provide our customers with a choice of platforms where they can run Grafana Enterprise Logs (GEL). As part of that mission, we’re pleased to announce that we’ve added Red Hat OpenShift 4.x support to GEL. GEL, as you may know, is a leading enterprise logs solution.

Herrenknecht AG is a technology leader in mechanized tunneling systems. Engineers at Herrenknecht set out to build an industrial internet of things (IIoT) platform that provided insight into live and historic data for all their tunnel boring machines (TBMs). These machines have thousands of sensors generating high velocity data, sometimes in remote areas with limited connectivity.

We love to write and ship code to help developers bring their ideas and projects to life. That’s why we’re constantly working on improving our product in sync with developer needs to ensure their happiness and accelerate time to awesome. This is the first in a blog series covering our product’s latest features — features that we think will save you time and effort when building with time series and InfluxDB.

Technical talent is in high demand. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 94% of organizations reported difficulty finding qualified IT staffing.

eG Enterprise is a single pane of glass that provides monitoring and oversight of every layer and tier of your IT infrastructure. However, this does not mean every user in the organization has the same view of the IT infrastructure or needs to use the tool in the same way. In fact, controlling a user’s view of the monitored applications and infrastructure, as well as their privileges to perform tasks and access data via Role-Based Access Control, is a critical feature for our customers.

In the late 1960s, there was a rock band called Ten Years After and I liked the name the first I heard about them. I wanted to use "Splunk and the Financial Services Industry: Ten Years After" as the title of this blog entry, but it’s been more than ten years since I wrote the first Splunk Blogs entry on Splunk and the Financial Services Industry. As you can tell, a lot has changed since then and more than a decade is an internet lifetime in technology.

What if Aiven doesn’t provide the Apache Kafka® connector you want? Read on to learn how to use an external connector, to gather Twitter messages into Kafka.

Application performance monitoring (APM) solutions were designed to catch anomalies in an application or website's backend and provide meaningful insights to rectify issues in real time. Lately, though, APM solution providers have been left playing catch-up to be more inclusive of newly emerging technologies and the operational challenges they bring. OpenTelemetry (OTel) simplifies the issues caused by the demands of modern applications.

After creating your Logz.io account, the first step for onboarding is to send you log, metric, and trace data. Logz.io makes this flexible – allowing for multiple ways to get data into your Logz.io account depending on your use case and technology stack. Today, we’re excited to announce another easy and fast way to get AWS metric data into Logz.io: by setting up a CloudWatch metrics stream and a Kinesis Firehose.

Did you hear the news? Graylog is on a mission to help make your IT environment and data more efficient and secure by making it super easy to uncover the answers stored in your machine data. At Graylog, coming up with solutions to problems faced by IT and Security professionals is what drives us. Our teams are always working on ways to add meaningful functionality that increases productivity so you can focus your resources on the innovation and core competencies that you’re known for.

This article was originally published in The New Stack. Given how volatile Bitcoin price is, an automated alerting system can be valuable for preserving our attention and sanity. We can pay attention to Bitcoin only when the price action is interesting. Momentum, that is buying an asset that has done well in the past, has been one of the most persistently effective trading strategies — see Clif Asness: “Value and Momentum Everywhere” and Tzouvanas (2019).

Most people in the world are familiar with legal tender paper money — also known as fiat currency — and how to access it online through a bank website, ATM, or mobile app. The idea of “digital money” or cryptocurrency — such as Bitcoin — remains a relatively new concept.

Our team has been working hard on building exciting new features like our DataMap, advanced Tracing UI, and more that will give you even greater power to monitor and visualize your data. Get caught up on everything that’s new and improved in the Coralogix platform!

Monitoring is an essential function of enterprise SRE teams and a critical component of business service deliverability. Its importance has only grown as enterprise environments and technologies continue to evolve at a rapid pace. Unfortunately, traditional monitoring is no longer enough.

Since its emergence in the mid-2000s, the cloud computing market has evolved significantly. The benefits of reliability, scalability, and reduced set-up costs have created a demand to fuel an ever-growing range of “as-a-service” offerings, resulting in an option to suit most requirements. But despite the advantages, the question of cloud or on-premise remains valid.

Let’s check out together the features and improvements related to Pandora FMS new release: Pandora FMS 762. Remember that this is an LTS, we only have two of them a year, they are stable.

We had a fantastic time at the Kafka Summit in London this year. It was so great to be meeting everyone face to face again after such a long break. It was interesting to see how people had progressed with their Kafka implementations. At the 2019 event people were just getting started trying out Kafka in small test environments but no one had enough production experience to know understand their needs for management at scale and production support.

While SEO (search engine optimization) includes a variety of different elements to deliver measurable results, one of the foundational pieces of a good SEO strategy is keyword research. Since keywords and phrases are the actual targets that connect potential visitors to your website, finding ways to ensure your site places as highly as possible for relevant search terms is the linchpin for all other elements of SEO strategy.

Monitoring and visibility are dead. If you don’t have Full Stack Observability (FSO) you may as well just pack up and go home. Your business will fail, and you will be unemployed with no hope for the future. At least, that is what vendors currently pitching FSO would have you believe. But what is full-stack observability? Observability is the current buzzword in the monitoring industry, and full-stack observability is what vendors are currently focusing on.

NGINX is one of the most widely used reverse proxy servers, web servers, and load balancers. It has capabilities like TLS offloading, can do health checks for backends, and offers support for HTTP2, gRPC, WebSocket, and most TCP-based protocols. When running a tool like NGINX, which generally sits in front of your applications, it’s important to understand how to debug issues. And because you need to see the logs, you have to understand the different NGINX logging mechanisms.

If you have an on-call rotation, you want it to be a healthy one. But this is sort of hard to measure because it has very abstract qualities to it. For example, are you feeling burnt out? Does it feel like you’re supported properly? Is there a sense of impending doom? Do you think everything is under control? Is it clashing with your own private life? Do you feel adequately equipped to deal with the challenges you may be asked to meet? Is there enough room given to recover after incidents?

As failures are a common part of any system’s lifecycle - what would be the Root Cause Analysis for this type of problem? If you build and deploy a system, there are high chances that you'll have to deal with a failure in the near future. However, what matters is how you handle such failures. As an organization, you need to have pre-formulated strategies to handle failures as and when they occur.

HTTP stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol and is the backbone of the World Wide Web. HTTP/2 is the second major version of the HTTP protocol, which offers a performance improvement over its prototype. The new protocol has been in development for a long time, with the first draft published in 2012 and it was finalized in 2015. In recent times, HTTP is the obligation that boards almost all of the networks.

A notable tool that renders the fortune of a web is Round Trip Time, which is also known as Round Delay Time. The time taken for a network request for a data packet and the flourishing of that data is the round trip time. The duration of RTT is calculated in milliseconds. RTT can be diagnosed and prompted by pinging a specific address. The time takes for an internet request to hit a destination and to lapse back to the primary resource.

At Grafana Labs, we’ve seen an increasing number of customers who are scraping hundreds of millions of active time series but need a solution to reliably store and query such a huge amount of data. So in March, we announced our new open source TSDB, Grafana Mimir, the most scalable, most performant open source time series database in the world.

Does the worst case scenario for your company include alert fatigue from false alarms? Maybe it should. No one likes a false positive when it comes to infrastructure monitoring, and false flags are especially irritating because you have to respond to a problem that doesn’t actually exist. Just how bad are false positives? Let’s break down what these annoying little mistakes add up to for your team. You might be surprised to learn just how much they are hurting your DevOps pipeline.

As CEO of Cribl, one of my greatest privileges is to spend time on the road and on calls with our customers hearing about their needs and challenges. Cribl is a focused company. We build software for observability and security. With this lens, it becomes clear the industry is neglecting to address the unique needs of our users. There are many reasons, most of which are simply that vendors tend to come at a user’s problem through the lens of their existing technology.

We are pleased to announce we have closed our Series D round of funding, led by Tiger Global with participation from existing investors IVP, CRV, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia, and Greylock Partners. In this round, we raised $150M, bringing our total raised to over $400M. This new fundraising round further validates the value we provide to customers.

Many CXOs believe that Web3 will power the next paradigm shift and transform the world. As a result, they are accelerating their learning curve to spot opportunities and leapfrog to next-gen business models that will catapult their organizations to new heights. But is there really an urgency to explore what Web3 can offer?

Over the next couple of weeks (don't know exactly how many posts will turn out of this) I will blog about how we have developed our documentation site. The site is built on top of MkDocs, a custom theme, and a bunch of Markdown files. In this first post, I'll introduce you to MkDocs and help you get a basic site set up.

OpenTelemetry (OTel) is an emerging industry standard that dev teams use to instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry to better understand software performance and behavior. At Helios, we leverage OTel to provide developers with actionable insights into their code within distributed systems. We give them visibility into how data flows through their applications, enabling them to quickly identify, reproduce and debug issues in their flows.

For the next interview in our series speaking to technology specialists from around the world, we’ve welcomed experienced CTO, Leonard Trigg. Leonard is a member of the Harbourfront executive management team and serves as the firm's Chief Technology Officer. Joining the industry in 1995 Leonard has a background in enterprise technology, finance and operations. Leonard previously served as the Chief Operating Officer and Director at Vertex One Asset Management Inc.

The Particle platform enables companies to manage and program their IoT devices, bringing them to market quicker. To accomplish this, Particle developers needed to be able to collect telemetry data from a large number of edge IoT devices to measure performance. A key benefit of the Particle platform is its ability to scale from prototype to enterprise. Developers often prototype IoT devices using microcontrollers like Arduino or Raspberry Pi.

The monitoring and testing of public applications and APIs is challenging by itself. What should you test? How often should you run your tests? And who should be alerted? A scalable monitoring setup includes many hidden details, but technically it’s straightforward. Call public APIs and see if they do what they’re supposed to.

Today, we are excited to announce that the MySQL integration has received an important update, which includes a new pre-built MySQL logs dashboard and the Grafana Agent configuration to view and collect MySQL server logs. The integration is already available in Grafana Cloud, our platform that brings together all your metrics, logs, and traces with Grafana for full-stack observability.

As many of you may have read, Amazon has released C7g instances powered by the highly anticipated AWS Graviton3 Processors. As we shared at re:Invent 2021, we had the chance to take a little sneak peek under the Graviton3 hood to find out what even more performance will mean for Honeycomb and our customers.

Today we’re excited to introduce Mezmo: our new name and brand that represents the future of observability.

“We lost choice and control when we migrated to Splunk Cloud, but got it back when we adopted Cribl Stream.” The above quote is from a new Cribl customer talking about why they adopted Cribl Stream to manage observability and security data.

We offer a free trial period to ensure that our customers use MetricFire successfully. But often when someone signs up for a trial they may not know where to start. This is a guide on how to use your trial to test your data and see if MetricFire is right for your use case. Each use case is different so it is important to book a call with our technical support team so we can help you utilize your free trial optimally for you. Create a MetricFire account for free and see how our system works.

Debugging is an essential step in software development, as it allows developers to fix errors before releasing the software to the public. Debugging tools can be integrated into code editors, making the debugging process more efficient. This tutorial will show you how to debug node.js in Visual Studio Code.

Imagine this: You are an engineer at a startup. You are responsible for keeping all the applications running smoothly and safely in production. At first, you have things under control, but soon enough things start getting more complex.

With the release of Avantra 21.11.4, we’ve introduced a new step library feature to allow our Avantra Professional Edition customers to build complex and reusable automations faster. I think the best way to describe the benefits of a step is to create a simple implementation to guide you through the process. The step library allows users to create individual steps outside of a workflow that behave just as the standard, pre delivered steps do when creating a workflow.

Prescient Devices focuses on changing the way businesses think about and use edge data and industrial IoT. The company built Prescient Designer, an edge data solutions platform that gives organizations the boost they need to transform their IT/OT processes. Prescient’s products empower data engineers, system integrators, and innovators to easily design and orchestrate edge-to-cloud data solutions.

In the previous blog post I talked about how we are implementing the Oh Dear redesign. In this post I go into more detail on why and how we implemented a tailwind-like color system which supports all the colours used throughout the redesign.

Although modern iOS devices are capable of handling a wide range of intensive and complex tasks, the device may seem slow if you are not paying close attention to how your application operates. Performance improvements mentioned in this article are intended to make your code more readable and performant; however, select cautiously as per your needs. Oftentimes, altering or improving architecture and code refactoring takes more time and effort.

In the spirit of highlighting the importance of Status Pages and how they impact users, we gathered actual stories from various Uptime.com employees. A time in their lives where they landed on a company’s status page (outside of work) to investigate problems they were experiencing. Enjoy!

Network monitoring is vital for operating an IT environment at optimal performance. As a result, organizations can improve operational efficiencies with a well-managed network while proactively maintaining a secure network. While remote work has made the network monitoring process more challenging, new cloud-based tools have extended IT teams' reach into home and remote offices to ensure employees are secure and productive.

Today, we are thrilled to share that the macOS integration has finally arrived for Grafana Cloud! Thanks to the joint efforts of Grafana Labs’ multiple teams, you can monitor your Mac and gather and visualize metrics and logs with ease. The integration is available in Grafana Cloud, our platform that brings together all your metrics, logs, and traces with Grafana for full-stack observability.

IT silos, which originated from operational processes that made sense in an on-premise world are still a fact today. It’s easy to understand how these silos, which segregate and isolate IT data and operations from other points in the infrastructure came about.

AppNeta by Broadcom Software is a SaaS platform that enables large enterprises to gain visibility into their business-critical applications as experienced from remote offices and to understand how the networks that drive them operate. Because of our network focus we often get compared to traditional monitoring solutions, but with a quick overview it should be easy to explain to others in your organization how we differentiate.

While network and application performance grow increasingly business critical, IT’s ability to track and control service levels continues to be diminished. The shift to hybrid and remote work means users are now highly reliant upon public internet connections, which require additional security at the network edge. Plus, the majority of apps, internal or external, are now cloud hosted.

We’re thrilled to announce the release of a new update to the Cloud Logging Library for Node.js with the key new features of improved error handling and writing structured logging to standard output which becomes handy if you run applications in serverless environments like Google Functions!

We’ve been talking about it for more than a year now, but the last few months have only affirmed the fact: hybrid work is here to stay. The myriad research that’s been conducted so far proves that not only do employees want the flexibility of hybrid work, but also that hybrid work has a huge potential to drive better business results.

Slack has become one of the most popular tools in recent years. Slack is used for a lot of work and communication in many industries. They're a crowd pleaser! We've integrated with Slack so you can get your alerts exactly where the action is!

A local area network, what we know more commonly as a LAN, is a network that comprises devices based out of the same geographic location, enabling communication between them. The virtual counterpart of a LAN is a virtual LAN, or VLAN. A VLAN augments a LAN, offering flexibility in making changes, higher scalability, and better security.

California trucking company, Quik Pick Express, improves overall IT network performance using ManageEngine OpManager, efficiently solving downtime and troubleshooting issues and saving $10,000 annually.

CIT LAO utilizes OpManager to optimize network performance and troubleshoot network issues before end users are impacted, saving time and effort.

A website's optimization for search engines and SERP ranking is one thing, but its quality assurance is another thing entirely. What's the use of ranking first on search engines but having a website that doesn't function? Website testing monitors if the website performs its functions as intended, assessing if the final output is good enough to present to end-users.

We frequently get asked questions about how to maintain and optimize SCOM. So here are the top SCOM questions we get asked and answers from the experts.

As Product Manager for Avantra it gives me great pleasure to announce that we’ve just released our newest version of Avantra, 21.11.5, packed full of features, fixes and security updates. For Avantra 21.11.5, we’ve especially been focusing on our automation engine and working with a number of our customers to incorporate their feedback and requirements into how Avantra works. Let’s dive into a few of the newest features that are the most exciting.

Sentry is a monitoring platform that allows developers to track errors and performance data. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to add Sentry to a Django application so that you can track and resolve any errors or performance issues that occur while your application is in production.

Dear Miss O11y, I’ve been told I need to use the OpenTelemetry Collector, but I have no idea what it is, or why I need it? Should I be using it? What value does it add? What the hell am I missing?

While you often read about the move to “the cloud,” the reality is that most organizations aren’t moving to a single cloud, but multiple cloud environments from multiple providers. There can be a range of reasons for companies to use cloud services from more than one provider today.

When you log in Oh Dear, you'll notice a new little search field in the header. When you click that, it opens up a nice command palette. You can use this to navigate to anywhere in our service quickly.

When Microsoft rolled out Windows 11 last fall, the announcement included what seemed like a relatively distant deadline: October 14, 2025, the date when Windows 10 support will end. Considering how many unexpected changes we’ve all experienced over the past few years, we understand if you’re hesitant to prepare for anything that’s not scheduled to take place until the year 2025.