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What is an API Gateway?

API Gateways are vital components in today's digital landscape, facilitating seamless communication between systems and applications. To ensure optimal performance, monitoring API Gateways is crucial. MetricFire offers a comprehensive monitoring platform that tracks and analyzes key metrics, providing real-time insights into performance indicators such as latency, error rates, and throughput.

How to manually instrument iOS Applications with OpenTelemetry

In this tutorial, we dive into the practical application of OpenTelemetry in an iOS project built with SwiftUI. We demonstrate how to set up the OpenTelemetry SDK, generate spans, and send them to a configured OpenTelemetry collector. Our example application displays a random sentence every few seconds. Each sentence generation process is instrumented with OpenTelemetry spans, which include an attribute representing the word count of the sentence.

Monitoring Your Metrics with Aiven

In this tutorial, we'll explore the powerful monitoring capabilities offered by the Aiven platform. Monitoring metrics is crucial for ensuring the optimal performance and health of your databases. We'll dive into the various monitoring tools and features provided by Aiven, allowing you to track real-time metrics, analyze database performance, and gain valuable insights into your system. Whether it's monitoring CPU usage, query performance, or resource utilization, Aiven provides a comprehensive monitoring dashboard to help you stay informed and make data-driven decisions.

Monitoring Django Performance with Scout APM: A Step-by-Step Guide

Django is one of the most popular web frameworks for building applications. Its elegance and flexibility make it a favorite among developers, enabling them to craft intricate applications with ease. However, as applications grow in complexity and user traffic grows, the need for active performance monitoring becomes imperative.

How the user interface of Request Metrics differs from Google Analytics 4

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Troubleshooting Salesforce with Exoprise

In this tutorial video, we'll be walking you through troubleshooting end user experience issues with Salesforce utilizing Exoprise CloudReady Synthetics and Service Watch. With how Important salesforce is to organizations using it, it is critical to ensure its uptime and availability. Salesforce issues are extremely costly due to potential revenue loss, the cost of downtime for both customers and internal users, customer dissatisfaction, and many other impacts.

Exploring the Intelligence Gap: Robocop and Cyber Criminals

As technology professionals, we must consider the evolution of security and its connection to literature, such as George Orwell’s “1984” and Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World.” The digital threats we face are often unseen, lying dormant until they can be weaponized for both good and evil purposes. Advancements in machine learning and algorithms have revolutionized data analysis, allowing us to observe and analyze behavioral patterns both online and offline.

Best Practices for Collecting and Querying Data from Multiple Sources

In today’s data-driven world, the ability to collect and query data from multiple sources has become a very important consideration. With the rise of IoT, cloud computing and distributed systems, organizations face the challenge of handling diverse data streams effectively. It’s common to have multiple databases/data storage options for that data. For many large companies, the days of storing everything in the singular database are in the past.

How to monitor pool water levels from anywhere with Grafana

I’ve had a swimming pool at my house in Massachusetts since 2016. One of the problems that pool owners like myself face when we go on vacation or leave for several days is evaporation from the pool and the water level dropping below the skimmers. This can happen due to sunlight and warm temperatures. It can also happen when temperatures drop at night and the pool is being heated — the water temperature is warmer than the air, causing the water to evaporate.