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

Amazon WorkSpaces Applications In-Console Monitoring

Recently, Amazon announced WorkSpaces Applications in-console monitoring. This is a big shift forward for AWS, who is quietly building market share with their Amazon WorkSpaces Applications (previously called Amazon AppStream 2.0) virtual applications offering. This announcement validates that observability matters for Amazon WorkSpaces Applications customers – they need to see what’s going on in their virtual application and desktop fleets, hosts and sessions.

How MSPs Can Deliver Azure Monitoring as a Managed Service

Azure monitoring looks straightforward when managing a single environment. Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Azure Monitor Agent and Azure Policy provide a comprehensive set of tools for collecting and analysing telemetry. For a Managed Service Provider (MSP), however, the challenge changes significantly when the service needs to support dozens or hundreds of customers.

Are Server Prices Driving Cloud Migration in 2026?

For years, moving workloads to the cloud has been driven by scalability, flexibility and the desire to reduce the capital expenditure associated with running a data center. In 2026, however, there is another factor entering the conversation: the rising cost of buying and refreshing physical servers. The question is now whether rapidly increasing hardware prices are enough to push organizations that might previously have refreshed their on-premises infrastructure towards cloud alternatives.

How to troubleshoot JMX metric collection issues | Datadog Tips & Tricks

Missing JMX metrics make it hard to know what’s happening in a Java application, especially when vague errors or configuration mismatches make the cause difficult to diagnose. In this video, you’ll see how to troubleshoot common JMX metric collection issues and isolate the cause in less time.

Challenges and Limitations of Open Source Software

Open source software (OSS) offers organizations access to flexible, customizable, and often free software. It can reduce licensing costs and provide access to a large community of developers and users. However, open source does not automatically mean free, simple, secure, or risk-free. Organizations using OSS can face challenges around technical support, security, licensing, maintenance, functionality, and internal expertise.

Azure Virtual Desktop Monitoring: A Complete Guide

Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) puts the user’s desktop at the end of a long delivery chain: the Azure control plane, host pools, session hosts, profile storage, the network, and the endpoint on the user’s desk. Any one of them can make a session feel slow, and none of them looks broken from inside the others. That is why performance work on AVD starts with continuous monitoring across the whole chain rather than at either end of it. Azure Virtual Desktop Monitoring is what closes that gap.

Build incident response workflows with Datadog Bits Chat

See how Bits Chat turns a natural-language request into an automated incident response workflow. In this demo, Bits Chat builds a workflow that investigates a monitor alert, identifies whether a recent deployment caused the issue, rolls it back when appropriate, and sends a summary to Slack.
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Raygun APM Agent 3.0.14: faster, simpler, and ready for ARM64

Today we are releasing Raygun APM Agent 3.0.14 for Windows, Linux, and Azure App Service. This release is the result of a substantial modernization of the Agent, profiler, installers, and release pipeline. It makes Raygun APM easier to deploy, reduces overhead in several critical paths, adds native Linux ARM64 support, and lets developers investigate APM data through Raygun API v3 and the Raygun MCP server. If you are upgrading from version 2.3.0, there is much more here than a version-number change.

Azure Monitor for AVD: Gaps, Limitations & Fixes

Microsoft Azure Monitor is an essential platform service for monitoring Azure resources. It provides valuable telemetry, logs, metrics, and alerts that help administrators understand the health of their cloud infrastructure. For organizations running Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), Azure Monitor is usually the first monitoring service they deploy.

Digital Workspace Monitoring Software Comparison for Enterprise IT

As enterprises adopt hybrid work, IT teams face growing challenges in keeping the digital workspace fast and reliable. Employees access business applications through virtual desktops, SaaS platforms, cloud infrastructure, and physical endpoints, all of which contribute to the overall user experience. Monitoring these environments using disconnected native tools often leaves critical visibility gaps. Digital Workspace Monitoring closes those gaps.