Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

The Datadog mobile app enables you to check your alerts and dashboards from anywhere, so you can triage issues—and stay up to date—regardless of whether you have access to a laptop. You can now be even more productive when responding to issues while away from your keyboard by declaring incidents and notifying responders directly from your mobile device.

Digital experience monitoring (DEM) is software dedicated to monitoring end-user experience. To do this, DEM software tracks user data, resources, and applications to highlight areas of performance for improvement; from site navigation to product usability.

When building a microservices system, configuring events to trigger additional logic using an event stream is highly valuable. One common use case is receiving notifications when errors are seen in one of your APIs. Ideally, when errors occur at a specific rate or frequency, you want your system to detect that and send your DevOps team a notification. Since AWS APIs often use stateless functions like Lambdas, you need to include a tracking mechanism to send these notifications manually.

Welcome to week 2 of GrafanaCONline 2021! There are three more days of programming that you can tune into live by registering here. You will also be able to watch all the videos on demand after GrafanaCONline ends on June 17. Here’s what you missed on Day 3 of GrafanaCONline.

Like a bratty teenager, traditional monitoring answers your questions, but does so in a terse, unhelpful manner: Why is my page slow? Guess it’s the API call. It’s a 504 thing — you wouldn’t understand. Ok, so why is the API call slow? Ask your DB query. Gosh! You need a better conversation with your code — one which gives you contextual clues about your application’s performance.

[Denver, CO] - Scout APM, a leading provider of Application Performance Monitoring (APM), announced the release of Scout Error Monitoring for Ruby applications on June 1, 2021. Scout APM provides developers and application administrators software performance insights by delivering key web application performance metrics.

If you’re feeling burnt out or drained at work, you’re not alone. Burnout is an all too common feeling in the information technology industry, especially now that work-life balance has become a bigger challenge due to remote work. Burnout leads to people feeling overwhelmed and chronically exhausted, which in turn can increase stress levels, reduce well-being, and affect you physically and mentally.