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Datadog vs Sentry - key features, differences and alternatives

Are you struggling to choose between Datadog and Sentry for your application monitoring needs? Datadog and Sentry are widely recognized for their roles in monitoring applications. Although they share some common features, they serve distinct purposes. Datadog excels in overseeing application performance and providing comprehensive system observability, while Sentry specializes in pinpointing and reporting application errors.

Improving Web Performance in China - with Chinafy and Catchpoint WebPageTest

This is a guest blog written by the Chinafy Team. Most people in the website space would have heard of the term Great Firewall of China. What those people won’t really know, though, is what that means. For context, most websites don’t work the same way in China that they do elsewhere. Due to the way the China internet is designed, most websites take a long time to load and fail to function properly.

What Makes for a 'Good' Pair Programming Session?

Software changes so rapidly that developing on the cutting edge of it cannot fall to a single person. When it comes to asynchronously disseminating information about projects, code comments, PR conversations, Slack, RFCs, and other investigatory documents do a wonderful job, but no amount of async communication replaces the magic of two brains bouncing ideas off of each other.

Break the network barriers: OpManager MSP, the award-winning solution

We are happy to announce that OpManager MSP has been awarded with three prestigious awards under the MSP category. These awards stand as a true testament to the trust we’ve cultivated among our users, reflecting our unwavering commitment to delivering a solution that consistently meets and exceeds their expectations. OpManager MSP’s ability to effectively address a wide range of IT challenges and provide users with a positive experience is a key factor in its success.

Break the network barriers: OpManager, the award-winning choice for MSPs

We are happy to announce that OpManager has been awarded with three prestigious awards under the MSP category. These awards stand as a true testament to the trust we’ve cultivated among our users, reflecting our unwavering commitment to delivering a solution that consistently meets and exceeds their expectations. OpManager’s ability to effectively address a wide range of IT challenges and provide users with a positive experience is a key factor in its success.

Top GCP cost management tools in 2024

Top GCP cost management tools in 2024 The cloud offers unparalleled scalability and agility, but keeping your Google Cloud Platform (GCP) bill under control is a challenge. Here’s where having a GCP cost management tool comes in—your secret weapon for optimizing your cloud spend and maximizing value.

Bypassing CDNs to Avoid Cache Monitoring Issues

Availability monitoring and alerting is a vital part of any organization’s reliability strategy. Monitoring the current and most recent version of a webpage is essential to guarantee that visitors are seeing the most up-to-date content and information, and by the same token, that the monitoring solution is checking the most up-to-date version of a page. This is where browser caching in the context of CDNs (content delivery networks) can occasionally cause monitoring headaches.

How to visualize Azure Resource Graph data with KQL

Using SquaredUp, you can query Azure Resource Graph with KQL to pull Change history, Azure Service Health and maintenance schedules. For the uninitiated, Azure Resource Graph is a series of tables holding information on Azure resources and how they are related. Its data is used many places within Azure itself (such as the Azure Portal’s native search) and it’s data can help us with many use cases as it is designed to help with queries at scale.

VictoriaMetrics Anomaly Detection: What's New in H1 2024?

With this blog post, we are excited to introduce a quarterly “What’s New” series to inform a broader audience about the latest features and improvements made to VictoriaMetrics Anomaly Detection (or simply vmanomaly). This first post will cover both Q1 and Q2 of 2024. Stay tuned for the next content on anomaly detection.