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I imagine everyone is long since tired and bored with their Loki 2.1 end of year/holiday gift, so I’m here today to bring some really exciting news. Loki 2.2 is released!!! New to Loki? Want a refresher? Owen Diehl and I did a webinar not long ago. Check out the on-demand video for a good overview of what Loki is capable of in 2021! Lots of new features are in this release, but worth celebrating in particular is that the single most requested feature for Loki has been added!

March Mobile Madness continues with Performance support for React Native. Our friend, Jenn Meung shares how Performance supports his mobile appliction. In addition to working with Sentry, I also contribute to Tour, a travel app which helps people plan trips with a drag-and-drop interface. Because Tour is built with React Native, we’ve always had issues accurately gauging how people use our app and its performance.

Sifting data can be fun for some people. Connecting the dots and finding correlations where they weren’t obvious before. It’s the crux of what drives people’s motivation in data science. It’s no different in any other field, especially in one involving systems observability, telemetry, or monitoring. And the best way to do that is to develop a fluency with query languages for different database structures and open source tools.

With many of us now relying on video calls as a main form of communication, many different applications are growing in popularity, including Amazon Chime. To ensure you always have the best video and call quality during meetings, we’re teaching you how to monitor Amazon Chime network performance.

ITSM is a hot topic for people who manage IT infrastructure. And due to the immense changes, we have experienced this past year, there are new developments that show where the industry is headed. ‘Automation’ has been all the craze for the past few years, but it is now more relevant than ever. Then there is ‘digital transformation’, the buzzword of 2021, which is a result of the rapid levels of digitization that all organizations are experiencing.

This article explains how to monitor service process on your service with Bleemeo using MySQL as an example. This feature is what we called "Key Process Monitoring" and is described by our documentation. Currently, you can monitor any service process automatically discovered by Bleemeo. All metrics are detailed in our documentation, in a few words, metrics related to memory, cpu, network and i/o used by this process are gathered by the agent.

Last week, we announced that Refinery, our platform-agnostic sampling solution, is generally available. But it’s always better to see it for yourself. Follow the steps in this HoneyByte to see how Refinery works by running it locally.

Pingdom is one of the most used website monitoring tools, with almost 15 years in the business. It excels at providing simple and reliable synthetics as well as real user monitoring. This monitoring tool provides a simple public status page, but as you might have noticed it’s quite limited. It only serves as a display of your uptime and response time history, not much more than that.