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Why UX Friction is Killing Your Growth (...and How to Fix It)

Jan 11, 2025 By Germain UX Team In Germain UX

Ever clicked around a website, got frustrated, and just left? Yeah, so have 88% of users. Once they have a bad experience, they don’t come back. (Google) Friction is the thing that ruins smooth experiences. It makes people abandon carts, close apps, and shake their heads at slow-loading pages. And the worst part? Most businesses don’t even realize it’s happening. Let’s talk about what UX friction really is, how to spot it, and—most importantly—how to fix it.

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Raygun: It's time for time boards!

Jan 9, 2025 By Ollie Bannister In Raygun

We’re excited to announce our latest feature, Timeboards, which will transform how you analyze your software issues and bottlenecks. This powerful enhancement to our dashboard system offers an alternate way to visualize your dashboard data by synchronizing time across all dashboard tiles.

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Datadog on LLMs: From Chatbots to Autonomous Agents

Jan 9, 2025 By Datadog In Datadog

As companies rapidly adopt Large Language Models (LLMs), understanding their unique challenges becomes crucial. Join us for a special episode of "Datadog On LLMs: From Chatbots to Autonomous Agents," streaming directly from DASH 2024 on Wednesday, June 26th, to discuss this important topic. In this live session, host Jason Hand will be joined by Othmane Abou-Amal from Datadog’s Data Science team and Conor Branagan from the Bits AI team. Together, they will explore the fascinating world of LLMs and their applications at Datadog.

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Raygun's 2024 in review: New features that empower developers

Jan 8, 2025 By Rowan Tandy In Raygun

As 2024 wraps up, we’re taking a moment to look back at the updates and tools we launched to make your life as a developer and Raygun user easier. This year, we focused on enhancing how you monitor errors, track performance, and optimize user experiences. Here’s a breakdown of the key features we shipped in 2024.

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Monitoring in the Age of the Internet: DEM, IPM, and APM-What You Need to Know

Jan 8, 2025 By Gerardo Dada In Catchpoint

Gartner recently published the first ever Magic Quadrant for Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM). This landmark report raises important questions about what DEM is and why we need a new category now. It also prompts discussions about how DEM, Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM), and Application Performance Monitoring (APM) relate to each other and what roles they play in modern monitoring strategies.

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Engineering AI systems with Model Context Protocol

Jan 7, 2025 By Reilly Oldham In Raygun

On November 26, 2024, Anthropic released the Model Context Protocol (MCP)-an open standard for data exchange between applications and data sources. MCP simplifies how Large Language Models (LLMs) interact with external tools and data, addressing the challenges developers face when integrating AI into their systems. At Raygun, we've been exploring agentic workflows to improve productivity and saw real potential in MCP. This post will explain how MCP works, what we've implemented, and where we think the standard is headed.

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Datadog Kubernetes Autoscaling

Jan 7, 2025 By Datadog In Datadog

Learn how you can rapidly optimize your Kubernetes clusters.#shorts.

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DataDog vs Prometheus - Comprehensive Comparison Guide [2025]

Jan 2, 2025 By Ankit Anand In SigNoz

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.

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Kibana vs. Grafana - A Scenario-Based Decision Guide [2025]

Jan 2, 2025 By Favour Daniel In SigNoz

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.

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Top 14 ELK alternatives [open source included] in 2025

Jan 2, 2025 By Ankit Anand In SigNoz

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.

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