The latest News and Information on Monitoring for Websites, Applications, APIs, Infrastructure, and other technologies.
In recent years, the landscape of application development has experienced a paradigm shift, largely driven by the rise of containerization and microservices architectures. Amid this transformation, Express.js has emerged as a dynamic and versatile framework that stands as a one-stop shop for crafting robust web applications. Its popularity owes much to its minimalist approach, allowing developers to swiftly build APIs and web applications with ease.
Our friends at Tracetest recently released an integration with Honeycomb that allows you to build end-to-end and integration tests, powered by your existing distributed traces. You only need to point Tracetest to your existing trace data source—in this case, Honeycomb. This guest post from Adnan Rahić walks you through how the integration works.
When it comes to observability, your organization will have no shortage of options for tools and platforms. Between open source software and proprietary vendors, you should be able to find the right tools to fit your use case, budget and IT infrastructure. Observability should be cost-efficient, easy to implement and customers should be provided with the best support possible.
Splunk has become one of several players in the observability industry, offering a set of features and a specific focus on legacy and security use cases. That being said, how does Splunk compare to Coralogix as a complete full-stack observability solution? Let’s dive into the key differences between Coralogix vs Splunk, including customer support, pricing, cost optimization, and more.
Sentry developers work ridiculously hard to make sure that every update makes the developer experience better. And, just like you, we use Sentry to monitor…Sentry. While our issues feed seems under control, alerts aren’t popping off, and our releases are all healthy, our experience has taught us the undeniable value of taking a proactive approach to unseen customer-impacting issues.
Whatever the size of your network, as an engineer you will often notice a significant amount of log data being generated. This data will require centralizing for further analysis and management, which can be particularly challenging if you have varying log formats, such as plain text or HTML.
We’ve already demonstrated how to maintain a fresh and functional website. Now, let’s explore some examples of creative maintenance pages! Nothing brings a good scrolling session to a halt quite like stumbling upon a website maintenance page. While maintenance pages can be annoying interruptions, they can also serve as attractive temporary visuals for sites undergoing updates. Many brands even elevate these pages into imaginative and artistic displays.
Imagine the following situation: You are on call, and your monitoring dashboard has flickering red lights due to an increased number of 5xx HTTP responses from one or more of your Kubernetes services. Now it is time to start to troubleshoot 500 Errors. Instead of panicking, you can use this blog as a guide.
Grafana k6 v0.46.0 is here! The new release features the ability to configure TLS, new usage reports and PDF reports in Grafana Cloud, and tons of improvements for Grafana k6 OSS and Grafana Cloud k6. Here’s an overview of Grafana k6 v0.46.0, as well as some other important updates from the k6 team and community.
