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API Monitoring: A Complete Introduction

At the most basic level, application programming interface (API) monitoring checks to see if API-connected resources are available, working properly and responding to calls. API monitoring has become even more important (and complicated) as more elements are added to the network and the environment evolves, including multiple types of devices, microservices as a key part of application delivery, and, of course, the widespread move to the cloud.

How to deploy a Hello World web app with Elastic Observability on Azure Container Apps

Elastic Observability is the optimal tool to provide visibility into your running web apps. Microsoft Azure Container Apps is a fully managed environment that enables you to run containerized applications on a serverless platform so that your applications scale up and down. This allows you to accomplish the dual objective of serving every customer’s need for availability while meeting your needs to do so as efficiently as possible.

A Proactive Approach to Network Performance Management

In our digitally-driven world, networks serve as the backbone of every organization's operations. Whether you're a business, a healthcare facility, an educational institution, or a government agency, the efficiency and reliability of your network infrastructure can make or break your daily operations.

Sept 13, 2023: SF Python Meetup - API Documentation: How Sentry Designed Custom Tooling

On September 13, 2023, Sentry hosted SF Python for a developer meetup in San Francisco. In this talk, Josh Ferge, Senior Software Engineer at Sentry, shared his experiences and insights on Sentry's journey of API documentation for their Django application. He talked about the various things they’ve tried, including: Schema / Example generation using dynamic tests; Writing OpenAPI JSON manually; Django Rest Framework & autodoc tooling around it; Problems with DRF serializers & performance, leading to Sentry custom implementation of schema generation using Python typing.

Transforming Observability with Elastic AI Assistant: A Proactive, AI-Driven Approach

Discover how Elastic AI Assistant is transforming the world of observability by offering proactive, AI-powered insights that help SRE teams manage complex systems more efficiently. Say goodbye to manual, reactive processes and hello to a proactive, AI-driven approach with the Elastic AI Assistant for Observability.

Optimize your infrastructure with CloudNatix and Datadog

CloudNatix is an infrastructure monitoring and optimization platform for VMs, containers, and other cloud resources. Customers can use CloudNatix’s Autopilot feature to automatically configure and run infrastructure optimization workflows that allocate and run their resources more efficiently. CloudNatix can take action to auto-size Kubernetes and VM workloads, defragment Kubernetes clusters, and create harvest pods from unused VMs, among other key optimizations.

Gain the Visibility Needed to Hold Last-Mile ISPs Accountable: How AppNeta Can Help

In relatively short order, the adoption of cloud services and hybrid work models went from exception to ubiquity. This has fundamentally changed the nature of the networks users rely upon—and created an entirely new set of challenges for IT and network operations teams. More than ever, business services and interactions are reliant upon network connectivity that spans a diverse mix of the public internet and third-party networks.

Frontend vs Backend Performance: Which is Slower?

Kent C Dodds made a claim on Twitter (X) that the “biggest performance problems are probably backend, not frontend related.” Is this true? Some websites have slow backends, for sure. Others have slow frontends. A few unfortunate sites are slow in both. But as of today, right now in 2023, which is the bigger performance problem for most teams, the frontend or the backend? I wanted to explore it with some real data from the web.