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When an incident occurs, you need to assign a clear owner for a swift resolution. You can now more easily assign issues, filter by severity, and track their progress in AppSignal — all from one centralized place. In this post, we'll walk through improvements we've made to the assigned issues page to help your team collaborate effectively and improve app performance, one issue at a time.

As a project manager for a small Rails agency, I find it challenging to keep track of every client’s application. Is the site live? Is it stable? Do we have a silent issue that frequently rears its head? AppSignal makes things like anomaly detection, uptime monitoring, and issue resolution easy, even for a non-technical project manager!

You can now connect multiple Heroku apps to a single AppSignal instance with the AppSignal add-on. We've also improved our installation wizard to help you get up and monitoring even quicker, so you can start tracking your apps in no time.

We've enhanced our application performance monitoring capabilities to give you a granular view of your application's behavior with minutely metrics. Now, when you select specific time ranges in your charts, you can see short-term trends, spot anomalies faster, and gain deeper insights into your application's performance.

Managing team access to your organization's AppSignal account just got easier. We're excited to introduce our new Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) Single Sign-On (SSO) Business Add-On — a secure solution designed to integrate effortlessly with your existing identity provider. This powerful feature streamlines login processes and enhances secure access management across your organization, making single sign-on a breeze.

Absinthe is a popular GraphQL toolkit for building robust APIs in Elixir. Monitoring such APIs is essential to ensure performance, detect bottlenecks, and handle errors effectively. AppSignal offers a seamless way to monitor and gain insights into your Absinthe-powered GraphQL APIs, enabling you to keep applications performant and reliable.

Alerts and notifications are the backbone of any Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tool, ensuring your team is immediately aware of critical issues. At AppSignal, we’re always improving our toolkit to help you stay ahead of problems before they impact performance or reliability. We've made huge improvements to how you can manage your app notifications and alerts with AppSignal.

In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to integrate AppSignal with a Flask application running on AWS Fargate. Fargate is a serverless container service that allows you to run Docker containers in the cloud. By integrating AppSignal with AWS Fargate, you can monitor the performance of your Flask application and get insights.

We're excited to announce that AppSignal now offers improved monitoring for long-running streaming Rack responses. Our improved Rack response monitoring means you can gain deeper visibility into the health of your Ruby application's long-running responses, allowing you to catch errors that may arise minutes or even hours after a request's body is served. This new layer of observability results from a valuable contribution from Julik Tarkhanov, Director of Engineering at Cheddar Payments.

When a system runs slowly, our first thought might be that it’s failing. This common reaction underscores a key point: In the world of web applications, even milliseconds matter. Performance impacts user satisfaction and operational efficiency, making it a critical factor. In this article, we'll show you how to use AppSignal to monitor and improve the performance of your Flask applications.