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What is Synthetic Monitoring and What Are the Benefits? | Obkio

Many traditional network monitoring solutions use a packet capture method to capture real-user data and monitor network performance. Now, modern network monitoring tools have switched to synthetic monitoring to monitor network performance without collecting user information. What is Synthetic Monitoring? It is a monitoring technique used to monitor application and network performance by simulating user activity.

How the new time series panel brings major performance improvements and new visualization features to Grafana 7.4

In Grafana 7.0, we introduced a new panel architecture to enhance the UX and visualization options and create a more consistent experience across Grafana. In Grafana 7.4, we expanded on that foundation and introduced the next-generation graph panel called Time series panel, which is currently in beta. The Time series panel uses the panel architecture of Grafana 7.0 and integrates with field options, overrides, and transformations.

Observability vs. Monitoring - What's the Difference?

Some of the earliest memories of my career involve getting spammed by hundreds of emails from monitoring systems. After managing to find an issue, I’d scroll through endless logs trying to find obscure bugs that are impossible to recreate. I’m sure you’ve been there. I’ve spent many hours, days, and even weeks pressing “Page Down” on my keyboard trying to find a clue pointing me toward the root cause. I’m here to tell you: there’s a better way.

Elastic 7.11 released: General availability of searchable snapshots and the new cold tier, and the beta of schema on read

We are pleased to announce the general availability (GA) of Elastic 7.11. This release brings a broad set of new capabilities to our Elastic Enterprise Search, Observability, and Security solutions, which are built into the Elastic Stack — Elasticsearch and Kibana. This release enables customers to optimize for cost, performance, insight, and flexibility with the general availability of searchable snapshots and the beta of schema on read.