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6 Surprising things you can learn from our APM survey

In the summer of 2021, eG Innovations joined forces with the DevOps Institute to run an APM survey to find out how the industry would look in the new normal. The 2021 APM survey was conducted over three months between July and September. Over 900 people from DevOps, SREs, and ITOps backgrounds participated and we got a broad spectrum of responses.

Deploy SigNoz using Helm charts, 500+ members on our slack community - SigNal 08

Welcome to SigNal 08, and the last SigNal issue of 2021! 🥳 This month, we made numerous PRs improving our product experience, added new awesome contributors, and launched a new initiative to discover better UX for our users. We also crossed 500+ members on our Slack community! 🥳 Wrapping up 2021, let’s see what Humans at SigNoz were up to in the month of December!

Datadog vs. Splunk vs. Scout | How Do They Compare?

Every day the world is changing in terms of technology. A new innovation happens every second, and software and websites are becoming more and more advanced. We can now access almost every service on the internet, and software needs to be maintained as a top priority so that customer service will not get hindered. Software monitoring, however, is not an easy task. It is a 24x7 business because any user can face an issue at any time.

How to Monitor Microsoft Teams

There is no doubt about it that the events of 2020 triggered a huge surge in the use of unified communication products. In the consumer space, everyone and their grandmother became familiar with Zoom; in the enterprise space though, many took advantage of their Microsoft licensing to leverage Teams meetings and calls as a primary communication mechanism. This, in turn, has focused a lot more attention for system administrators on how to monitor Microsoft 365 (O365) and Teams in particular.

How Product Teams and CTOs Can Create Customer Delight

Customer satisfaction is about meeting customer expectations, customer delight is about exceeding them. Building customer delight into your product means going above and beyond simple customer satisfaction in ways that build a long-term emotional connection and loyalty towards your company. And customer delight matters.

New Relic vs. Appdynamics vs. Scout APM

New Relic and Appdynamics were the two most dominating APMs in the software industry some years back. But after the advancement of technology, software monitoring tools started capturing the market. Due to some lack of functionalities, customers have begun switching to different tools because now they have a perfect solution for their particular use case.

How Product Teams Can Decrease Shopping Cart Abandonment Rate by Improving UX

Checkout optimization can increase conversions by 36% (according to Sleeknote). And if your company struggles with a high cart abandonment rate, you’ll have to work on enhancing your user experience by removing blockers that lead to your customers abandoning their shopping carts. And for that, you will need to leverage qualitative and quantitative user research.

Monitoring AWS EC2 Cloud Instances with AWS CloudWatch

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale cloud computing easier for developers. Amazon EC2’s simple web service interface allows you to obtain and configure capacity with minimal friction. It provides you with complete control of your computing resources and lets you run on Amazon’s proven computing environment.

This Month in Datadog: December 2021 (Episode 7)

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. To learn more about Datadog and start a free 14-day trial, visit Cloud Monitoring as a Service. This month we put the Spotlight on Datadog Sensitive Data Scanner which is now generally available.