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Monitoring your Nextjs application using OpenTelemetry

Nextjs is a production-ready React framework for building single-page web applications. It enables you to build fast and user-friendly static websites, as well as web applications using Reactjs. Using OpenTelemetry Nextjs libraries, you can set up end-to-end tracing for your Nextjs applications. Nextjs has its own monitoring feature, but it is only limited to measuring the metrics like core web vitals and real-time analytics of the application.

Atlassian Confluence Monitoring on Microsoft SCOM

As part of a customer project, we developed a custom Confluence Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM). This tailored solution enables IT operations teams to monitor key performance and health metrics of Confluence environments, ensuring knowledge-sharing platforms remain available and performant.
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The Network-First Advantage: How Fabrix.ai Redefines Observability from the Ground Up

Modern enterprises today often find themselves in a peculiar predicament: they are drowning in a deluge of telemetry data—including logs, metrics, and traces—yet paradoxically remain blind to what truly matters. Despite making substantial investments in observability tools, teams frequently find themselves reacting to incidents rather than proactively preventing them, with alerts flooding dashboards often devoid of critical context.

The Architecture Loop: How Early Can We Decide Speed, Stack and Scale?

In 2025, many companies are reckoning with the true cost of microservices, especially as cloud bills grow and engineering teams face coordination fatigue. The move back to monoliths is gaining traction, particularly for startups and mid-sized businesses who need: ‍ At Scout APM, we’ve been thinking about these shifts not just from a monitoring perspective, but from a broader architectural one.

Is it the network... or the CDN?

When performance issues strike, the finger pointing begins. But here's the catch: CDNs aren't just "someone else's responsibility." They directly impact the user experience, and if they're misbehaving, your network team will be the first to get the call. That’s why CDN monitoring is essential. CDNs are dynamic and performance can vary dramatically across regions, ISPs, or even end users. When something goes wrong, it looks like a network issue, unless you have visibility into CDN behavior.

7 critical Active Directory metrics every IT admin should monitor

Across vast enterprise networks, Active Directory (AD) serves as the foundational layer for identity and access management. It's the critical service enabling user authentication, managing authorizations, and ensuring smooth operations across your network. Given its central role, any hiccup in AD can lead to widespread outages, security vulnerabilities, or frustrating user experiences.

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