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Key Metrics Your Browser Monitoring Software Should Track

Modern web applications rely on seamless user experiences, fast load times, and reliable performance across every device and region. Browser monitoring tools make these features possible by tracking how real web browsers interact with your site revealing issues long before users notice them. To ensure your monitoring setup captures everything that matters, here are the five essential metrics every browser monitoring solution must track.

OTel Updates: Unroll Processor Now in Collector Contrib

Some log sources bundle multiple events into a single record before shipping them. This is common with VPC flow logs, CloudWatch exports, and certain Windows endpoint collectors. While this batching approach is efficient for transport, it creates challenges when you need to filter, search, or correlate individual events. When a log record contains an array of 47 events, your analytics tool sees one entry instead of 47 distinct records.

Why Remote Work Just Works - Hear It From Our Grafanistas

Several Grafanistas talk about their remote work experience at Grafana Labs. Being remote-first enables our team to be based where they feel most productive and to ensure that work and life aren't in competition. And remote-first is *not* remote only. Grafanistas enjoy the opportunity to come together during team offsites or in shared co-working spaces. Connection is important.

Understanding How a Log Correlation Engine Enables Real-Time Insights

Tax season is notoriously most people’s least favorite time of year. For people who complete their own tax returns, the process becomes an agonizing one of looking at small pieces of paper, matching numbers to the lines that ask for information, and comparing various inputs. In essence, doing your taxes makes you a correlation engine. Now, imagine taking this tedious process and applying it to the terabytes of data that your environment generates daily.

7 Senior-Level AI Debugging Tools Compared

Every dollar spent on engineering is a bet on the future. But look at your engineering team's sprint backlog and you’ll see a non-trivial amount of that capital is spent on repairing the past. For the last ten years, if you asked a VP of Engineering what the solution was, the answer was always the same: better monitoring. Throw more telemetry at the wall. Build a bigger dashboard. Send more alerts at 3 AM. It was the only available tool, so it became the entire thesis.

Shopify Cyber Monday outage - December 1, 2025

On December 1, 2025, Cyber Monday, the biggest online shopping day of the year, Shopify suffered a widespread outage that left many merchants unable to access their stores or process orders. At a time when every minute of uptime translates directly into revenue, the disruption caused immediate concern across the ecommerce community. StatusGator detected the issue within minutes, sending an Early Warning Signal 10 minutes before Shopify published its official acknowledgement.
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Adding a CDN to a load balancer (for a much faster website)

Here at Raygun, we like to go fast. Really fast. That's what we do! When we see something that isn't zooming, we try to figure out how to make it go faster. So today, we're answering a simple (and relevant) question; how do we make our public site, raygun.com, much, much faster? The answer, at first glance, is simple-we build it into a Content Delivery Network (CDN). But what if you have a load balancer serving your website, and you don't want to rebuild everything to serve from a CDN? Well, that's more complicated. Let's start by describing the issue.