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What is Infrastructure Monitoring?

Infrastructure Monitoring can be a powerful tool for engineers to analyze, visualize and comprehend if a backend is affecting users, by collecting health and performance data from containers, servers, databases, virtual machines, and other backend components in a tech stack. Within this article, we will outline what Infrastructure Monitoring is, how it works, what Infrastructure Monitoring as a Service is, and some benefits of the solution.

APM vs Tracing vs Observability

Application Performance Monitoring (APM), tracing, and observability are fundamental software development and system management approaches. Each of these three concepts uniquely ensures that your applications operate, efficiently, smoothly, and reliably. Your organisation will more than likely already adopt one of these approaches, or even two, potentially all three.

Grafana Tempo 2.3 release: faster trace queries, TraceQL upgrades

Grafana Tempo 2.3 has been unleashed upon the world, bringing with it the latest iteration of the vParquet backend! Tempo 2.3 has a little bit of everything, but the headline item here is vParquet3 and new features that improve search speeds. Watch the video above for all the details, or continue reading to get a quick overview of the latest updates in Tempo. If you’re looking for something more in-depth, don’t hesitate to jump into the changelog or our Grafana Tempo 2.3 release notes.

Ask Me Anything WhatsUp Gold and Flowmon Integration

Watch the Ask Me Anything: WhatsUp Gold and Flowmon Integration webinar where you will learn how to leverage Flowmon’s NPMD/NDR within WhatsUp Gold to view details about your traffic analysis through the same interface you use to monitor your infrastructure. We’ll discuss the benefits of the integration and how fewer tools means better MTTR, more efficiency, and better/faster diagnosis for your business.