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

Announcing self-serve SAML SSO: take control of your team's authentication

Managing user authentication and security for your team just got a serious upgrade. Raygun now offers self-serve security assertion markup language (SAML) single sign-on (SSO) — making it easier than ever to centralize and secure access to your Raygun account. SAML SSO is now available for all customers. If you’re on a Business or Enterprise plan, we offer this feature at no additional cost. On other plans? No problem—you can add SAML SSO for just $50/month.

Rich Logs Collector for Docker Compose Services with SigNoz

Our production services run on a Linux machine using Docker Compose, keeping our infrastructure simple and manageable. Docker Compose allows us to easily define and manage multi-container applications, providing a straightforward way to orchestrate services, which helps reduce complexity in our infrastructure. Recently, we decided to switch to SigNoz to gain more flexibility and control over our observability stack. Following the SigNoz setup guide, we used logspout to collect and forward logs.

Datadog on Cloud Workload Identities

Datadog operates dozens of Kubernetes clusters, tens of thousands of hosts, and millions of containers across a multi-cloud environment, spanning AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. With over 2,000 engineers, we needed to ensure that every developer and application could securely and efficiently access resources across these various cloud providers.

Unleashing the power of application performance management with OpManager Plus

A modern IT infrastructure has many layers—or stacks as we call it—that, together, are critical to running an organization. In this blog series, we’ll attend to each stack in turn, talk about why they matter, and how OpManager Plus is adept at providing visibility into each of them. Let’s start off with the first part, where we dive into the world of application performance management (APM) and understand its indispensable role in ensuring seamless IT operations.

How Appwrite integrated Raygun for bulletproof error reporting: lessons learned

This guest post comes from Appwrite, an open-source backend-as-a-service platform helping developers build secure apps faster. Appwrite chose Raygun’s API for direct, lightweight error reporting that avoids SDK bloat and dependency risks. In this post, they share their journey integrating Raygun, the challenges they tackled, and the impact on their production environment. We’re excited to share these insights from the Appwrite team!

Stop Guessing, Start Knowing: The Power of Integrated Logging and APM

‍ Let’s talk about something we’ve all experienced: a customer reports that their checkout process is “sometimes slow,” – or maybe you noticed an unexpected spike in response times. So, you dive into the logs, grep through thousands of lines, and try to match timestamps with your APM traces. Sound familiar? At Scout, we’ve seen countless engineering teams struggle with this disconnect between their logging and APM tools.

Use Datadog App Builder to peak, purge, or redrive AWS SQS.

This video aims to showcase how developers can self-serve from an application to simplify the management of their AWS cloud resources. Rather than switching between tools or reaching out to another team for help, developers can take action directly from their observability tool, enabling faster resolution of application issues. We will demonstrate how to build a simple app that allows them to minimize disruptions by quickly taking action on their SQS queues in AWS, using insights provided by Datadog.

How to Your Monitor Business Application Performance

Application performance monitoring is key to having business operations function well, and user satisfaction is at an all-time high as your company keeps ahead in the race. The result is frustrated users, lost productivity, and lost revenues. Proactive monitoring of some key aspects of your business applications puts you in a good position: you are able to identify issues before they can turn into major ones; optimize performance, and ensure smooth delivery of an end-to-end user experience. Here are some strategies and tools needed to effectively monitor application performance for your business.

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Guide for DevOps Teams in 2024

In today's rapidly evolving technology landscape, Application Performance Monitoring (APM) has become a critical component for DevOps teams striving to maintain high-performing, reliable applications. This comprehensive guide explores everything modern DevOps teams need to know about implementing and optimizing their APM strategy.