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The latest News and Information on Monitoring for Websites, Applications, APIs, Infrastructure, and other technologies.

How essential is monitoring your AWS services?

Organizations around the world are increasingly relying on the cloud to capitalize on its speed, ease of management and scalability, and the business value it provides to transform and grow their business. It’s an ever-growing market that is currently estimated at 266.4 billion dollars—a whopping 982.9 percent increase in growth compared to a decade ago when it was worth a little over 24.6 billion dollars.

Plugin showcase: The hourly heatmap panel, built on Grafana's new plugin platform

Since Petr Slavotinek created the Carpet plot plugin in 2017, it’s been one of the most popular community plugins for Grafana. Unfortunately, even though the Carpet plot plugin continues to be useful to many users, it’s no longer being maintained. Grafana 7.0 introduced a brand new React-based platform, along with a set of improved APIs for building plugins.

Building an Observable Enterprise App

Once an app is launched to market, it’s up to the engineering team to ensure that it continues to meet its SLAs. See how we use VMware Tanzu Observability (Wavefront) and Sentry to proactively monitor and fix issues before they become production problems. Every engineering leader has experienced the anxiety and stress of taking an app to production. It’s a mix of excitement and trepidation – your creation will be used in real life, but what if something goes wrong?

Datadog Application Performance Monitoring

Datadog APM provides deep visibility into application performance and code efficiency, so you can monitor and optimize your stack at any scale and provide the best digital experience for your users. APM and distributed tracing are fully integrated with the rest of Datadog, giving you rich context for troubleshooting issues in real time.

Seamless Application and Infrastructure Monitoring With SolarWinds AppOptics

SolarWinds® AppOptics™ is a powerful, SaaS-based infrastructure and application monitoring solution for custom on-premises, cloud, and hybrid systems. By enabling quick identification of performance problems across the stack, AppOptics helps reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR). It can pinpoint performance issues quickly, and removes the guesswork from troubleshooting by monitoring all the way down to the line of code.  Regardless of your experience level as an IT professional, AppOptics can help you monitor and improve the health of your IT implementations.