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NodeJs OpenTelemetry - Implementing Distributed Tracing in a NodeJS Application using OpenTelemetry

In this tutorial, we will implement distributed tracing for a nodejs application based on microservices architecture. To implement distributed tracing, we will be using open-source solutions - SigNoz and OpenTelemetry, so you can easily follow the tutorial. More about SigNoz: SigNoz - Monitor your applications and troubleshoot problems in your deployed applications, an open-source alternative to DataDog, New Relic, etc. Backed by Y Combinator.

New in Grafana 9: The Grafana Loki query builder makes writing LogQL queries easier

Grafana 9 launched at GrafanaCONline 2022 in June, and one of the biggest highlights was the introduction of the new Grafana Loki and Prometheus query builders. 🎉 We believe that both of them are going to be incredibly useful for our Prometheus and Grafana Loki users. In this blog post, we will focus on the Grafana Loki query builder and share its new features and improvements with you.

Building a quick Reddit Blazor client without Reddit's API

When developing the new exception landing pages we recently launched (like insert exception link here), I wanted to pull some statistics from Reddit. While looking through various ways to integrate, I found an easy approach that I want to share with you in this post. You probably already know Reddit, the highly active social news aggregation and discussion forum. I've found myself using Reddit more and more over the last couple of years, with the dotnet subreddit in particular.

Introducing Group Checks | Customizable Downtime Alerting for Interrelated Checks

Have you struggled to quantify the uptime performance of a complex system? With many interrelated parts, it can be easy to tell which pieces are down, but a tougher challenge to view them in the context of those systems. When you’re responding to a major outage, the data on your system’s uptime is just as critical as its components.

How Icinga helps Retail Giant Magazine Luiza digitalize Brazil

We are proud of our many customers and users around the globe that trust Icinga for critical IT infrastructure monitoring. That´s why we´re now showcasing some of these enterprises with their Success stories. It´s stories from companies or organizations just like yours, of any size and different kinds of industries. Some of them are our long-standing customers, others have just recently profited from migrating from another solution to Icinga.

Top Prometheus Interview Questions

If you are an engineer searching for a new role that involves a high level of knowledge on the monitoring stack Prometheus then you will likely wish to brush up on your knowledge of Prometheus ahead of your interview. In this guide, you will find a list of the most popular questions that are most likely to be asked to candidates looking to use Prometheus as part of their daily monitoring stack within their next role.

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How Core Web Vitals create business impact

What are Core Web Vitals, and why should you care? Let's power through the essentials of CWV, CX and their impact on $$$. This is written with the busy software executive in mind - so we're sticking to a clear, big-picture view of metrics, user experience and revenue. Chances are, if you've heard about Core Web Vitals (CWV), it's been in the form of a stick: something Google is enforcing that can hurt your search engine visibility. We're here to go over the carrot - a quick explainer of Core Web Vitals, and how they can help you connect with customers and drive lasting innovation.

Thank You 2022 Nastel Advisory Board Members!

Formed in 2021, the Nastel Technologies Advisory Board is made up of business and IT leaders from a wide variety of sectors, across the world. These enterprise leaders and innovators understand the incredibly important role of planning for, and the management of, the integration infrastructure (i2) layer (including messaging middleware, APIs, and much more) in their enterprises to enable meeting IT and larger corporate goals in 2022.

The Cost of Production Blindness

When I speak at conferences, I often fall back to the fact that just a couple of decades ago we’d observe production by kicking the server. This is obviously no longer practical. We can’t see our production. It’s an amorphous cloud that we can’t touch or feel. A power that we read about but don’t fully grasp. In this case, we have physical evidence that the cloud is there. A part of this major shift in our industry is a change to our fundamental roles as engineers.

Flask OpenTelemetry - Monitoring your Flask application using OpenTelemetry

Tracing your application can give the much-needed context required to troubleshoot performance issues. OpenTelemetry is an open-source project that can help you set up an observability framework for your cloud-native applications. In this tutorial, we will use SigNoz as our backend analysis tool. SigNoz is a full-stack open-source APM tool that can store and visualize the telemetry data collected with OpenTelemetry. It is built natively on OpenTelemetry and works on the OTLP data formats.