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Monitoring Real-Time Stock Quotes with MetricFire

In the ever-evolving stock market landscape, immediate access to accurate information is crucial for investors and financial experts alike. In this piece, titled "Monitoring Real-Time Stock Quotes with MetricFire," we dive deep into the realm of advanced technology, focusing on its potential to transform stock market tracking and decision-making procedures.

Icinga Kubernetes Helm Charts

Before attending Icinga Berlin in May this year, Daniel Bodky and Markus Opolka from our partner NETWAYS developed the very first Icinga Kubernetes Helm Charts and released it in an alpha version. If you have ever wanted to deploy an entire Icinga stack in your Kubernetes cluster, now is your chance. I also want to highlight Daniel’s talk again on how Icinga can run on Kubernetes and the challenges involved.

Synthetic Monitoring With Checkly and Playwright Test

One of the most effective ways to monitor a critical user flow on a website—or monitor the operation of a critical API that other applications depended on—is to adopt synthetic monitoring. Synthetic monitoring is an approach to monitoring websites and applications that simulates the actions of real users via browser automation. It mirrors the actions that a visitor may take on your website, say browsing an online shop, adding items to a shopping cart, and then checking out.

Monitor network access with Twingate's offering in the Datadog Marketplace

Twingate is a network access platform that enables customers to deploy a zero trust authentication layer with their infrastructure as code (IAC) provider of choice. Using this model, you can program strict access control rules that can be updated and co-deployed alongside changes to your infrastructure. Each time a user establishes or closes a connection to a resource, Twingate documents the event with details such as the port, the volume of data transferred, and user identification.

WhatsUp Gold 2023.0: Greater Transparency and Wider Access to Network Data

One of the greatest challenges for an IT team is visibility. How can you prove the value of your IT team’s accomplishments when no one can see what – or how well – you’re doing? Progress WhatsUp Gold release 2023.0, available as of June 21, 2023, is set to change that. This release includes several exciting updates meant to provide better data access to all.

Monitoring Your IoT Devices Using Mosquitto and Graphite

Monitoring IoT devices is a very important process for analyzing their behavior and ensuring their performance. You need to choose the right monitoring tools to effectively collect and analyze metrics. In this article, we will learn how to monitor your IoT devices using Mosquitto and Graphite. You will also find out what benefits you can get using a Hosted Graphite solution from MetricFire. Check out MetricFire’s free trial to test all the features it provides.

What Observability-Driven Development Is Not

At Honeycomb, we are all about observability. In the past, we have proposed observability-driven development as a way to maximize your observability and supercharge your development process. But I have a problem with the terminology, and it is: I don’t want observability to drive your development.