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

9 Essential Steps to Improve Rankings Using Analytics

How to correctly interpret the data obtained in Analytics? How to deal with a large amount of data and structure conclusions to increase the website ranking? Analytics like Google Analytics and others provides a lot of different information. This service has dozens of ready-made reports and a huge number of forms that require a little customization.

Challenges of big infrastructure monitoring

The growing complexity of today’s IT reality is indisputable: Software is becoming more and more complex, and the infrastructure it runs on is equally so. This complexity comes, in part, from adding layers upon layers to the infrastructure we manage — from bare metal servers to VMs to containers to function-based computing — and from how quickly we cycle in new technologies and how slowly old technologies are cycled out.

7 Reasons Why Your Business Needs 24/7 Chat Support

The customer support department is an integral part of any organization. Startup business owner often handles it by themselves; however, medium to large-sized organizations establish separate workforce but in-house hiring or outsourcing to keep their customers happy. They use many proven tactics for user engagement and are still seeking the way to bridge the gap.

Rethinking Application Performance Monitoring (APM): Sentry Raises $40 Million Series C

When I started Sentry in 2008 as an open-source side-project, I was solving a problem for myself. I wanted visibility and alerting around what errors occurred and when. I wanted to take errors out of log files and into an easily digestible dashboard.

Sentry Extends Best-in-Class Error Monitoring for Native Applications

Application crashes have a significant impact on customer experience, which can adversely affect a company’s reputation and revenue. Error and crash reporting is a unique feedback mechanism that provides true data about the quality of their product. Developer teams that create games, mobile applications, IoT, and other high-performance applications need rich insights into application health to quickly and continuously fix software errors with minimal impact.

How Many Metrics? A Guide to Estimating the Size of Your System

Our hosted metrics offering, Grafana Cloud, is billed based on usage; a common question we get is “How much will it cost to monitor N servers?” We charge $49/month for every 3,000 active series or 18,000 data points per minute (dpm), whichever is higher. To help you understand what that translates to in terms of how much storage you need, here’s a rough guide to estimating the size of your system.

Monitoring and incident management: a winning combination

Monitoring systems gather and log a wide range of performance data on a diverse range of targets—from applications to user experience, networks, servers, and more. Usually, monitoring is conducted under runtime conditions, but synthetic monitoring can also be used to simulate loads and test the resilience of web services, for example.