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Best practices for getting started with Datadog Network Performance Monitoring

Whether running on a fully cloud-hosted environment, on-premise servers, or a hybrid solution, modern services and applications are heavily reliant on network and DNS performance. This makes comprehensive visibility into your network a key part of monitoring application health and performance. But as your applications grow in scale and complexity, gaining this visibility is challenging.

Jaeger vs New Relic - Key differences, use-cases and alternatives

Jaeger and New Relic are tools used in the application monitoring and observability domain. While Jaeger is an open source tool under Cloud Native Computing Foundation, New Relic is a SaaS vendor in the observability domain. Let us explore the key differences between Jaeger and New Relic in this article. New Relic is an extensive SaaS tool and provides application performance as well as infrastructure monitoring. Jaeger provides an open-source solution for end-to-end distributed tracing.

A Comparison of 6 Airbrake Alternatives for Error Monitoring

We all need an application that can run smoothly, but this is not what we always get. After creating an application and putting it to use, you need to check and know when it faces exceptions/errors. As a result, this explains why the current market features several error tracking tools. Airbrake falls under the top-notch error monitoring tools used for log analysis and log management. However, it’s not without its problems.

Smart gardening with a Raspi and Prometheus

Let’s build a smart gardening system with Prometheus and a Raspberry pi. Having plants at home can reduce your stress levels and make your home look more delightful. Seeing your indoor oasis growing gives us a sense of accomplishment and makes us feel proud… until you see that first brown leaf. That’s when you start doubting your green fingers.

OpenSearch Queries: Query DSL and Beyond

OpenSearch has evolved rapidly since its fork from the source code of the last truly open source version of Elasticsearch. So far, the community’s work has focused on removing proprietary code from Elastic, including a number of things that were never purely open source themselves. These include some aspects of the querying languages and capabilities of Elasticsearch.

How Streamlining ITSM Operations Can Reduce Service Remediation Costs

When using Microsoft 365 services the main benefit of having a monitoring tool that can assess performance quality and identify issues is that it sends alerts into a ticketing tool such as ServiceNow for example, to initiate the process of remediating the problem. When you don’t have a monitoring tool in place then support tickets aren’t automatically sent and users must identify issues and send in tickets manually with little to no information on where the problem came from.

REST, API & Testing Terminology Everyone Should Know

So, you’re interested in reaping the rewards of API and automation, but you don’t know where to start? Have you heard people using the term “API” and wondered what it is? Maybe you have a vague idea, but you still have no clue what to do with one? You’ve come to the right place! We pulled together this terminology to help you gain a basic understanding of web services and web API, which will also help you grasp the major concepts of API Testing.

How to use AWS IoT SiteWise Edge and Grafana to collect and monitor industrial data on-premises

The AWS IoT SiteWise plugin for Grafana was created to enable AWS IoT SiteWise customers to visualize and monitor industrial equipment data using Grafana dashboards. Industrial customers use AWS IoT SiteWise to collect, process, and monitor their industrial data at scale. This plugin allows them to use Grafana dashboards to monitor this data, stored by AWS IoT SiteWise in the AWS Cloud.

Use Suspect Tags to improve App Performance

When you’re trying to optimize your application for performance, it helps to understand not only the number of people affected, but also user conditions of the slowest transactions, such as OS, browser type, and even connection type. When you’re looking at performance data, it can be hard to see the forest through the trees.