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OpenTelemetry MongoDB | Monitor and visualize your MongoDB database calls

OpenTelemetry libraries can be used to monitor MongoDB interactions. In this tutorial, we will learn how we can monitor MongoDB with OpenTelemetry libraries to analyze query execution and identify performance bottlenecks. Most modern applications have distributed architecture thanks to cloud and containerization. In cloud-native applications, it is necessary to track user requests across services and components like databases.

Jaeger vs Prometheus - Side by Side Comparison [Updated for 2023]

Both Jaeger and Prometheus are popular open-source application performance monitoring tools. While Jaeger is an end-to-end distributed tracing tool, Prometheus is used as a time-series database for monitoring metrics. Let's dive in to explore their key features and differences. Application performance monitoring is the key to keep your system's health in check. In today's digital economy, no business can afford to have failed or delayed completion of user requests.

Our key takeaways from the 2023 Gartner Market Guide for Unified Endpoint Management Tools

The 2023 Gartner Market Guide for Unified Endpoint Management Tools is here! This year’s report has been highly anticipated since Gartner retired the Magic Quadrant™ for unified endpoint management (UEM) tools last year. Organizations and IT professionals can use this research to understand the core capabilities to look out for when selecting a UEM solution, plus they’ll get insights into the future of the UEM market so they can align their investments accordingly.

Enhancing Microsoft Intune With Digital Experience Monitoring

Organizations today rely on mobile device management (MDM) solutions to secure and manage corporate resources across a diverse range of devices. One such platform is Microsoft Intune, which offers security, patch, and access control features for mobile and desktop devices. Today, we look at Microsoft Intune and how Exoprise Service Watch helps customers ensure Intune is working well.

Microsoft Teams Issues: How to Pinpoint & Highlight Performance Problems

See the connection between your car's warnings and IT alerts? Just as your car warns you of problems, monitoring tools do the same for your business. But what about services you don't own, like Microsoft Teams? Discover how Vantage DX transforms Teams calls and meetings into monitoring insights, helping IT teams automatically detect and prevent issues, boosting user satisfaction and productivity.

Reproducing and testing distributed system failures with xk6-disruptor

Distributed systems, such as modern microservices-based applications, are highly scalable, but also highly complex. Dependencies and unexpected interactions between services are a common cause of incidents, and these incidents are also notoriously hard to test for. xk6-disruptor — an extension that adds fault injection capabilities to Grafana k6, the open source reliability and load testing tool — can help overcome these challenges.

Adding automation to monitoring: Azure troubleshooting simplified

The transition from traditional on-premises IT infrastructure to the public cloud has brought substantial relief to IT decision-makers and sysadmins. Since many organizations use Microsoft Windows as their preferred operating system, Microsoft Azure has become the public cloud provider of choice automatically owing to a familiar GUI and Active Directory sync.