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The latest News and Information on Application Performance Monitoring and related technologies.

Datadog vs. Dynatrace vs. Scout

Application Performance Monitoring is undoubtedly the hottest tool to accelerate any product’s growth in the modern market. The term has grown from a simple performance tracking operation to full-fledged infrastructure, network, and application observability. This evolution has only helped bring more and more growth into products. It is essential to choose the best-suited monitoring solution for your apps since observability involves way too many moving pieces.

Partner Integration - Dynatrace with PagerDuty and Rundeck

Deliver perfect software experiences with real-time intelligence into customer satisfaction and behavior, your applications, and the performance of your hybrid multi-cloud. AI-powered root-cause analysis automatically identifies customer facing performance issues and pinpoints the root-cause within seconds. Open APIs allow ingestion of 3rd party metrics and enable complex system integrations. In this demo, Rob Jahn shares a sophisticated incident remediation workflow incorporating intelligence from Dynatrace, automation in Rundeck, and incidents in PagerDuty.

Tip of the Month: Experience Journey Map

When it comes to business-critical functions of your applications, sometimes the best indicator of performance is in the step-by-step user journey. Watch this ‘Tip of the Month’ video to leverage experience journey mapping in AppDynamics, and learn to interpret expected user behavior and deviations that might indicate performance issues in the most important areas of your application.

Top 10 AWS Services Explained With Use Cases

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is one of the most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud service providers in the industry, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. A large spectrum of clients across verticals uses AWS to lower costs, become more agile and innovate faster. A recent survey estimates that AWS is the largest cloud service provider and accounts for 32% of the worldwide cloud services market.

Maintaining Operational Sanity Across 100+ AWS Accounts | Eric Mann / Ryan Tomac (Vacasa)

At Vacasa, AWS accounts represent the unit of isolation for distinct applications & services in our software ecosystem, providing security benefits and operational autonomy for our teams as we scale. Managing accounts at this scale requires strong DevOps practices to maintain security, operational sanity, and uniform observability across the system. In this talk, we’ll cover the benefits of such an approach, the practices that make it possible, and the important role Datadog plays.

Reverse Connect for Azure Virtual Desktops (AVD)

There’s something common between AVD and eG Enterprise. Can you take a wild guess? Listening on open TCP ports is an extremely bad practice for cloud architectures, as it exposes products and services to accepting incoming messages from malicious parties. This is something eG Innovations avoids in our own products (see details). This is also a best practice adopted by Microsoft for Azure Virtual Desktops (AVD).