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The Top 9 Dynatrace Alternatives & Competitors in 2024

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.

Monitoring Django application performance with OpenTelemetry

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.

Latest top 17 API monitoring tools [open-source included]

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.

Beyond deployment: The ongoing challenges in application performance monitoring implementation

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.

Podcast - The Power of Observability and Automation of Citrix Technologies with 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.

DataDog vs Prometheus - Comprehensive Comparison Guide [Updated for 2024]

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.

OpenTelemetry Nestjs Tracing Implementation Guide [2024 Updated]

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.

Kibana vs. Grafana - A Scenario-Based Decision Guide [2024]

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.

Top 14 ELK alternatives [open source included] in 2024

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.