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Real user monitoring with Applications Manager

Real user monitoring (RUM) is used to collect and analyze data about user interactions with a website or application in real-time. This enables organizations to gain valuable insights into the performance and user experience of their digital products. Despite its importance, the significance of RUM is often overlooked, and many organizations fail to leverage its benefits. By employing a RUM tool such as Applications Manager (APM), you can stay vigilant by capturing real-time user interactions.

We're live on Product Hunt

It's official, Spectate is live and has been launched on Product Hunt! I am super excited to introduce you to Spectate, our all-in-one platform for monitoring, alerting, incident management, and status pages. Spectate started as an internal tool to satisfy our monitoring and alerting needs, but it has grown into a complete platform with the help of AI automation. This means your team can focus on what's important - getting issues resolved.

Web checks in Kubernetes: a simple alternative to Prometheus Blackbox Exporter

The continued adoption of Kubernetes, a leading container orchestration platform, increases the demand to monitor these complex environments accurately and efficiently. Maintaining optimal performance and ensuring quick issue resolution are vital aspects of efficient Kubernetes management.

Top 16 CDNs to Speed Up Your Website in 2023

A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a network of servers or nodes spread around the world that stores and delivers the components of a website such as images, videos, or other static files. It can help both big and small websites deliver their content to users at the fastest speeds possible. If you’re new to the world of CDNs, it might seem intimidating when you’re trying to choose one that best fits your website.

What Are the Main Drivers Behind Real-Time Transaction Monitoring?

Real-time transactions have become the new normal. In fact, MasterCard research found that consumers consider real-time payments more important than the Internet, next-day delivery, and utility services. As a result, banks and other financial institutions are increasingly turning toward real-time transaction monitoring. Real-time transaction monitoring solves some pain points of providing real-time payment capabilities.

Releasing Graphite Query Language in Open Source VictoriaMetrics

As many of our users and the wider monitoring community will know, Graphite Query Language is a query language for Graphite monitoring tools, which helps analyze data stored in it. Graphite is a well-known and respected pioneer in the monitoring space, which has seen a number of next generation monitoring solutions enter the scene … such as ourselves. It’s been used by a wide range of companies, which started using monitoring tools more than a decade ago.

Q1 Roadmap Review & Q2 2023 Look Ahead

In our recent virtual meetup the VictoriaMetrics Founders team discussed some of our Q1 2023 highlights, including features highlights, the 2023 roadmap for VictoriaMetrics as well as first introduction to the upcoming VictoriaLogs. In this blog post, we’d like to share a summary of these highlights and a heads up on where to find our team in the coming weeks and months - starting with our participation at KubeCon Europe 2023.

The TIG Stack in IIoT/OT

Many industrial operators find themselves amid yet another industrial revolution. Deeper insight through artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) integrations characterize this fourth wave (or Industry 4.0). Data is no longer just a record occupying server space. It’s alive and providing value. Real-time insights work in tandem with historical records, painting a complete picture of the lifespan of a piece of machinery and/or its components.