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12 OpenTelemetry-Compatible Platforms You Should Know in 2025

OpenTelemetry has transformed how engineering teams implement observability. This vendor-neutral framework for collecting metrics, traces, and logs has become indispensable for several reasons: Elimination of vendor lock-in Organizations can switch observability providers without changing instrumentation code, enabling greater flexibility and negotiating power with vendors.

Application Debugging in Sentry with Flags, Tracing, and Seer

In this video, Cody takes you on a tour or fixing problems in the Unborked marketplace using Flags, Traces, and Seer! Sentry is all about giving you options when it comes to debugging - whether its using the dev toolbar to manage feature flags on the fly, using replays and tracing to dive deep into whats happening in your application, or even using Seer (in beta) to pull all the context from your application together - everything from traces, to errors, to stack traces and more - and give you a root cause of what went wrong, and pull a PR to fix it.

Pandora FMS Stands Out in G2 Spring 2025 Reports: 35 Key Recognitions in Monitoring and Cybersecurity

Madrid, April 2025 – The monitoring and observability platform Pandora FMS has been recognized in 35 leading reports in the G2 Spring 2025 edition, solidifying its position as one of the most versatile solutions for managing complex IT infrastructures, hybrid environments, and critical operations.

How to keep Ingress NGINX Controller metric volumes manageable and still meaningful

The Ingress NGINX Controller is a widely used Kubernetes component for managing HTTP and HTTPS traffic routing. While it provides powerful observability through Prometheus metrics, it’s also notorious for generating an excessively high number of time series. The root cause lies in how the controller labels its metrics—tracking requests across multiple dimensions such as ingress name, host, path, status code, and upstream response times.

Common Downtime Causes and How Website Monitoring Can Help

Downtime only shows up at the most inconvenient moments — like right after a 'quick deploy' or during the five minutes you dared to step away. Maybe it’s a traffic spike hammering one endpoint and taking the rest down with it. Maybe it’s that 'small change' you confidently shipped straight to prod. Either way, users can’t reach your site, and now you’re debugging live in production.

Australia Is Investing in Resilience - Are Businesses Ready?

The 2025-26 Australian Federal Budget sets out a clear priority: building a stronger economy and a more resilient nation. That includes investment in critical infrastructure, skills and services to help Australians navigate ongoing uncertainty. More than $3 billion has been committed to upgrade the National Broadband Network (NBN), extending high-speed fibre to 95% of homes and businesses.

How to get alerted when your EC2 instance shuts down

Some of your most critical infrastructure runs on AWS EC2, so it's pretty damn important to know when your EC2 instances shut down. Sure, chances are someone in your organisation will start kicking and screaming within 30 minutes of a particularly important instance shutting down, but we can do better than that. When it comes to monitoring and customers (whether inside your org or outside), being proactive wins you a lot of points.