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

Top 10 DevOps Tools

Over the years DevOps has become quite the buzzword. Although DevOps has been challenging to describe because of its abstract nature, it’s described mainly as a culture change, where Dev and Ops teams collaborate to establish a more agile and reliable framework that counts on trust, transparency, and seamless communication to improve productivity and speed of software development from code commit to deploy.

How DevOps Benefits from Application Performance Monitoring (APM)

Competition is a funny thing. To gain or keep an edge against your competitors, you may need to push the envelope to use newer technologies and processes. But done wrong, that very technology or process could lead to your ruin. This is where we are with DevOps. The methodology that became popular in the mid-to-late 2000s is embraced by many companies . Done the right way, it will help your organization challenge its competition to keep up with customer and user demands.

Troubleshooting Web Application Performance Meltdowns: A Real World APM Use Case

Today, it’s a common practice to SSL-enable web applications and websites. It’s beneficial for SEO and it is also needed for compliance. Many regulatory compliance standards mandate that websites are using SSL certificates. A key part of SSL-enabling a website is the configuring the SSL certificate.

Why APM Is Central to DevOps Success

Imagine you’re driving a car, but there’s no windshield. You can’t see in front of you. On top of that, your car is full of friends looking out the side windows and yelling various things to you: “We should turn left!” “No, we should turn right!” “I’m pretty sure the next turn is in two miles.” In this scenario, how likely are you to reach your destination instead of ending up in a ditch or careening off a bridge?

Partnering with Render and Manifold

We’re thrilled that ScoutAPM is now available on Render via Manifold’s new Marketplace-as-a-Service offering. For those of you not familiar, Render is a new unified cloud platform that lets developers build and run all their websites, apps, static sites, background workers, and microservice APIs from one place at a lower cost than traditional cloud platforms.

Introducing unlimited dashboards - Now available on all plans

Raygun gathers a great deal of data about how users are interacting with your applications - from errors and crashes to users affected by performance problems. We help thousands of teams gain visibility into the health of their apps - and one of the best ways developers do that is with Raygun’s dashboards. When we first launched dashboards in 2017, we knew you needed them to be easy to use, customizable, and actionable.

Leveraging HashiCorp Consul and Datadog for Service Mesh Deployments

Service mesh is quickly becoming a standard for organizations making the transition to a microservice environment. As companies make this shift, there are three key considerations for deploying an effective service mesh: Networking, Observability, and Reliability. This webinar will focus in on the Observability component of service meshes, specifically tracing. Watch this webinar to learn how HashiCorp Consul and Datadog are collaborating to help users implement and monitor their service mesh deployments.

Software team KPIs for competitor beating software

Back in the bad old days of battleship grey UIs, rounded corners made up with GIF files and “Best Viewed With Netscape Navigator 3.0” badges, businesses just wanted their software teams to ship – quality be damned! In today’s modern software world, things are much different. Technology leaders are expected to deliver on time.