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Monitor Nginx with OpenTelemetry Tracing

At 3:47 AM, your NGINX logs show a 500 error. Around the same time, your APM flags a spike in API latency. But what's the root cause, and why is it so hard to correlate logs, traces, and metrics? When API response times cross 3 seconds, identifying whether the slowdown is at the NGINX layer, the application, or the database shouldn't require guesswork. That's where OpenTelemetry instrumentation for NGINX becomes essential.

OpenTelemetry at Grafana Labs: the latest on how we're investing in the emerging industry standard

Here at Grafana Labs, open source has always been core to what we do. So it should come as no surprise that we’re going all in on OpenTelemetry—an open source project that’s quickly becoming an industry standard for vendor-neutral telemetry.

MTTR, MTBF, MTTA & MTTF - Metrics, examples, challenges, and tips

When your system crashes at 3 AM and customers start flooding your support channels, every minute feels like an eternity. Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) measures exactly how long these painful moments last and more importantly, how you can make them shorter. MTTR tracks the average time between when a failure occurs and when your system is fully operational again. This metric directly impacts customer satisfaction, revenue, and your team's sanity during incident response.

The Ultimate Network Assessment Template for Your Business

In the fast-paced realm of IT businesses, it's easy to overlook the intricate web that powers your operations – your network infrastructure. Let's face it, most enterprises only give it the attention it deserves when something goes wrong. And by then, the issue has often snowballed into a full-blown crisis.

Why Use a Status Page Aggregator?

Managing multiple vendor dependencies has become a critical challenge for modern businesses. When your operations rely on dozens of third-party services, tracking their status individually becomes inefficient and risky. A status page aggregator solves this problem by consolidating all vendor status information into a single dashboard.

How to Choose the Best Vendor Monitoring Platform for Your Team

Modern businesses rely on dozens of third-party services to operate effectively. When AWS goes down, your application might crash. When Stripe has issues, payments fail. When Slack experiences an outage, team communication grinds to a halt. Vendor monitoring platforms help you track the health of these critical dependencies before they impact your operations. But with numerous options available, selecting the right platform requires careful evaluation of your team's specific needs and workflows.

The Case for Intelligent Automation in Network Operations

In the last decade or so, network infrastructure has undergone a massive transformation. With the rise of hybrid cloud, distributed applications, and software-defined everything, managing networks has become exponentially more complex. What used to be a stable, predictable environment is now a constantly evolving system of interconnected services, protocols, and devices, each with its own telemetry, APIs, and failure models.

Overview of Alerts, Real-Time Analysis, & Traceroute

Learn how Uptime.com alerts you the moment a check goes Up or Down, complete with technical details and root cause analysis for API and Transaction checks. Dive into Real-Time Analysis to track outage timelines and get detailed insight into every alert. Plus, see how Traceroute from global or private probe servers helps identify connection issues quickly and accurately. Stay informed. Respond faster. Resolve smarter.

Release v2.6: MCP Server, AI Insights Enhancement, Okta SCIM Integration, SNMP Monitoring and more.

Netdata 2.6.0 is here and it’s our most intelligent release yet! This version brings AI-powered monitoring, easier network visibility, and smoother enterprise integrations, all designed to help you troubleshoot faster and scale smarter. What's New: Netdata Referral Program Every referred user will get a 10% discount when they subscribe to Netdata Business or Homelab - and you will receive 10% of their subscription value (up to a max of 1000$ per space). You can refer an unlimited number of users, so there's no real limit to how much you can earn with the referral program.