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Sematext Experience | Real User Monitoring Tool | Front-end Monitoring Solutions

Real user monitoring tools give you business-critical data directly from the end-users. While most monitoring and testing tools receive their data from scripts and bots, RUM tools give you valuable insights into how your real users are interacting with your application. While bots may be having a good time navigating through your site, real humans may not be able to.

A Guide on How to Monitor GraphQL APIs

GraphQL has replaced REST since its debut in 2015 and has gained popularity. It provides the flexibility frontend developers have longed for. The days of begging with backend developers for single-purpose endpoints are over. Now, a query can provide all the necessary data and request it at once, theoretically reducing latency by a significant amount. Everything was much easier with REST, especially monitoring.

A deeper dive into the Rogers outage

Beginning at 8:44 UTC (4:44am EDT) on July 8, 2022, Canadian telecommunications giant Rogers Communications suffered a catastrophic outage taking down nearly all services for its 11 million customers in what is arguably the largest internet outage in Canadian history. Internet services began to return after 15 hours of downtime and were still being restored throughout the following day.

How real-time Grafana dashboards and alerts combat climate change: Inside Apeel Sciences observability stack

Meet the newest changemakers making an impact in the current climate crisis: Apeel Sciences. The ag-tech company is on a mission to eliminate the 8 percent of greenhouse gas emissions caused by global food waste with their edible, plant-derived food coating, which keeps fruits and vegetables fresh for up to twice as long.

Splunk vs ELK

If you have any experience with comparing the leading tools in observability then it is very likely that you will have come across Splunk & ELK during your research. These two titans have provided a swiss army knife of useful tools to many developers, cybersecurity specialists and devops professionals over the years since their inception. In this guide, we’ll be comparing these two leading SIEM tools against each other to help you to decide on which solution will help your security use case.

The future of cloud automation for SAP with Microsoft Azure and Avantra

In the tech world, automation has become a buzzword, especially when it comes to SAP. But in the world of SAP on cloud infrastructure like Azure, it can be fully embraced by organizations to manage their SAP systems. Automation can help you scale out your SAP environment, providing significant savings to not only your cloud budget but also your team’s time and effort to manage large SAP environments.

How to Monitor ZooKeeper: Key Metrics & Best Tools [2022 Comparison]

Apache Zookeeper is a great tool used by many popular tools. Your Kafka uses Zookeeper, your HDFS uses it, your SolrCloud uses it, and your ClickHouse may also be using it. No matter where you are using Apache Zookeeper, it is usually a crucial piece of the infrastructure and it needs to be reliable and fast.