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Grafana is a monitoring system that helps you visualize your infrastructure and provides notifications when errors occur. It offers interesting features on some versions as it's the case on v7 and v8. We will go through some that are very interesting in particular Panel editor, Tracing UI, bar graph, and visualization. With MetricFire specializing in hosted monitoring, you can easily make a Grafana dashboard by booking a demo or signing on to the free trial immediately.

In recent years, the landscape of application development has experienced a paradigm shift, largely driven by the rise of containerization and microservices architectures. Amid this transformation, Express.js has emerged as a dynamic and versatile framework that stands as a one-stop shop for crafting robust web applications. Its popularity owes much to its minimalist approach, allowing developers to swiftly build APIs and web applications with ease.

Our friends at Tracetest recently released an integration with Honeycomb that allows you to build end-to-end and integration tests, powered by your existing distributed traces. You only need to point Tracetest to your existing trace data source—in this case, Honeycomb. This guest post from Adnan Rahić walks you through how the integration works.

When it comes to observability, your organization will have no shortage of options for tools and platforms. Between open source software and proprietary vendors, you should be able to find the right tools to fit your use case, budget and IT infrastructure. Observability should be cost-efficient, easy to implement and customers should be provided with the best support possible.

Splunk has become one of several players in the observability industry, offering a set of features and a specific focus on legacy and security use cases. That being said, how does Splunk compare to Coralogix as a complete full-stack observability solution? Let’s dive into the key differences between Coralogix vs Splunk, including customer support, pricing, cost optimization, and more.

Sentry developers work ridiculously hard to make sure that every update makes the developer experience better. And, just like you, we use Sentry to monitor…Sentry. While our issues feed seems under control, alerts aren’t popping off, and our releases are all healthy, our experience has taught us the undeniable value of taking a proactive approach to unseen customer-impacting issues.

Whatever the size of your network, as an engineer you will often notice a significant amount of log data being generated. This data will require centralizing for further analysis and management, which can be particularly challenging if you have varying log formats, such as plain text or HTML.

We’ve already demonstrated how to maintain a fresh and functional website. Now, let’s explore some examples of creative maintenance pages! Nothing brings a good scrolling session to a halt quite like stumbling upon a website maintenance page. While maintenance pages can be annoying interruptions, they can also serve as attractive temporary visuals for sites undergoing updates. Many brands even elevate these pages into imaginative and artistic displays.