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Monitoring Sidekiq Job Performance with AppSignal

When my Sidekiq job starts failing or slowing down, I often feel frustrated, especially if I don’t know how to fix it. If you’re using Sidekiq to run your background jobs, you know what I’m talking about. It’s a vital element of your stack, handling everything from data exports to password reset requests. It runs silently in the background, and most of the time, you’re not even giving it a second thought.

LogicMonitor Advances Autonomous IT with No Blind Spots, Trusted AI, and Closed-Loop Action

LogicMonitor’s latest innovations span the entire platform to deliver the operational foundation enterprises need for Autonomous IT—complete visibility from infrastructure to end user, AI that reasons in full context, and closed-loop automation that moves from detection to resolution. Over 90% of organizations rely on at least two to three monitoring solutions—and many enterprises operate five or more.

Context-Driven AI You Can Trust: How Edwin AI Earns Confidence in Production

Most legacy AIOps investments underdeliver because the AI lacks context, not capability. LogicMonitor’s latest innovations expand Edwin AI’s contextual intelligence across every dimension, so recommendations are accurate, explainable, and trusted by the teams that need to act on them. Reduce incident resolution time with AI that understands your environment—not just your alerts.

How to Monitor Windows with Icinga Webinar

Managing Windows environments without proper monitoring means flying blind. In this hands-on webinar, we show you how to get Icinga for Windows up and running and make the most of its powerful built-in features for monitoring your Windows servers and workloads. This webinar was held on April 23, 2026. We walk you step by step through the installation process, cover the core components of Icinga for Windows, and show you how to configure meaningful checks so you can detect issues before they become outages.

Eliminate Toolchain Silos. Orchestrate Real-Time Results.

ConnectALL Intelligent Toolchain Automation Stop managing silos. ConnectALL automates your toolchain, synchronizes data in real time, and ensures every workflow is aligned, governed, and optimized for business value. Strategic Portfolio Management, SPM, ValueOps, Business Outcomes, AI, Planning, Portfolio Management.

Stop Guessing: Align Strategy to Outcomes with Strategic Portfolio Management

Clarity Strategic Portfolio Management 70% of digital investments fail due to poor alignment. See how Clarity by Broadcom connects strategy to execution, helping leaders prioritize, optimize resources, and deliver ROI. Strategic Portfolio Management, SPM, ValueOps, Business Outcomes, AI, Planning, Portfolio Management.

Two years without cookies on the site, here's where we ended up

In January 2024, I wrote about removing all advertising cookies and user tracking from sentry.io. It was eight months into the decision at the time, and we were still figuring out what broke and what surprised us. That post struck a nerve: it became one of the most-read things we’ve ever published, probably because everyone building or running a product on the web was watching the same cookie deprecation timeline and wondering what would actually happen if someone just ripped the bandaid off.

N+1 Queries in Rails: A Guide to Detection and Prevention

N+1 queries are the most common performance problem in Rails applications. ActiveRecord’s lazy loading means every belongs_to, has_many, and has_one association is a potential N+1 waiting to happen. The good news is that Rails gives you multiple ways to fix them, and tools like Scout can find them automatically. This guide covers everything a Rails developer needs to know about N+1 queries: what they are, how to fix them, how to prevent them in CI, and how to detect them in production.