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Users nowadays demand the greatest possible experience, which implies top-notch performance. Smooth scrolling, prompt interaction responses, a fast page load time, and flawless animations are all things they anticipate. Local profiling to identify performance issues is convenient, but it only provides a limited amount of information. While things may run smoothly on our high-end developer machines, the user may be dealing with poor hardware and a bad experience.

If you are running a website or have a live application, you will have to ensure that the digital experience for your end-user is seamless. That is where Synthetic Monitoring can help. Any bad experience, delay, or even a glitch could hurt your budget. Industry experts unanimously agree that it is best to ensure that the web pages load as quickly as possible.

New open source database details the software that cloud service providers typically silently install on enterprises’ virtual machines — often unbeknownst to customers. If cloud services weren’t complicated enough for the typical business today to properly configure and secure, there’s also a lesser-known layer of middleware that cloud providers run that can harbor hidden security flaws.

Many organizations manage applications that are supported by a large number of services in multiple environments, ranging from the cloud to their own data centers across the globe. As these organizations scale and accelerate service adoption, the volume of telemetry data in their environments multiplies every year.

Say you have a new code base to study or picked up an open source project. You might be a seasoned developer for whom this is another project in a packed resume. Alternatively, you might be a junior engineer for whom this is the first “real” project. It doesn’t matter! With completely new source code repositories, we still know nothing… The seasoned senior might have a leg up in finding some things and recognizing patterns.

Cribl Packs are, in my opinion, our most exciting feature. Packs encapsulate the deep log processing capabilities and enable sharing of the best practices with customers, Worker Groups/Fleets, and the Community. Ease of sharing enables consistent configurations across distributed deployments of Cribl Stream or Cribl Edge. All users can leverage Packs–and should! If you collect Microsoft Windows Logs, use Palo Alto Networks or share logs via Syslog, Packs are for you.

Honeybadger's new incident management feature lets you report incidents in real time, schedule alerts for upcoming maintenance, or retroactively insert an update for past incidents.

Most companies today have a “cloud first” computing strategy. According to Foundry’s April 2022 report outlining their 2022 Cloud Computing research, 92% of businesses globally have moved to the cloud. What’s more, the percentage of companies with most or all of their IT infrastructure in the cloud is expected to leap from 41% today to 63% in the next 18 months. As companies move more workloads onto various cloud platforms, cloud budgets continue to increase.