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In the world of networking, where connectivity and data flow are at the heart of operations, a network hiccup can spell disaster. The digital transformation wave has engulfed businesses of all sizes, and as companies become increasingly reliant on their networks to serve customers, collaborate with teams, and manage critical processes, the demand for robust and efficient network performance has never been higher.

Today’s applications are designed to be always available and serve users 24/7. Performing live debugging on such applications is akin to doctors operating on a patient. Since the advent of the “as a service” model, software is like a living, breathing entity, akin to an anatomical system. Operating on such entities requires more dexterity on the developer’s part, to ensure that the software application lives on while being debugged and improved continuously.

Grafana dashboards are powerful and flexible tools for observing applications and infrastructure, so it’s no surprise we get a lot of questions from the community about how to embed them into their web applications. Over the past few releases, we’ve developed a lot of options for how to do this in Grafana, but there can be confusion about how they work, and when to use each approach.

Today, I will speak about another useful Best practice, Tips, and Tricks that you must consider while designing your business processes (Logic Apps): How to handle special chars inside Logic Apps actions.

In the world of monitoring and observability, Prometheus has grown into the de-facto standard for monitoring in cloud-native environments because of its robust data collection mechanism, flexible querying capabilities, and integration with other tools for rich dashboarding and visualization.

OpenTelemetry (OTel) is an open-source, vendor-neutral observability solution that provides a suite of components—including APIs, SDKs, and a data collector—that enable teams to collect and communicate telemetry data from cloud-native applications and services. OTel also defines the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP), a standard for the encoding and transfer of telemetry data.

Tired of being a firefighter in your IT department who is always battling issues after they erupt? Well, you’re not the only one. With IT infrastructure becoming more complex day by day, IT managers across the globe face the same challenge. But not anymore. Infrastructure monitoring tools are here to save the day by empowering IT managers to not only predict but also prevent IT infrastructure issues. But how?