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The Role of Log Shippers in Your Stack

Log shippers are essential components in modern infrastructure, serving as the critical connection between the systems that generate logs and the platforms that store and analyze them. They operate behind the scenes to ensure that important system and application information reaches its destination reliably. This guide provides a comprehensive overview of log shippers, including their functionality, implementation considerations, and selection criteria for different environments.

From data to action: Optimize Core Web Vitals and more with Datadog RUM

Delivering seamless user experiences requires deep visibility into web performance. Core Web Vitals—Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), Interaction to Next Paint (INP), and Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS)—serve as critical benchmarks for assessing site health. However, many teams struggle to turn these metrics into actionable insights that can help resolve performance problems.

Website monitoring checklist

Website monitoring can be much more effective with more specifics and details. Before diving into the specifics of monitoring, it's best to define your goals and preferences first. What is your target for implementing the monitoring? Is a better uptime all you are looking for, or do you wish to fine-tune your site's user experience? Making a website monitoring plan that is in line with your strategy and KPIs is always preferable to a one-size-fits-all approach.

Mastering MetricFire's Hosted Graphite CLI | Step-by-Step Tutorial

Learn how to efficiently use MetricFire’s Hosted Graphite CLI to manage your monitoring setup like a pro! In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through: Installing and setting up the CLI Sending and querying metrics with ease Managing dashboards and alerts from the command line Pro tips for automation and efficiency Whether you're a DevOps engineer, SRE, or developer looking to streamline your monitoring workflow, this video will help you get started quickly.

Optimizing SQL (and DataFrames) in DataFusion: Part 2

Part 2: Optimizers in Apache DataFusion In the first part of this post, we discussed what a Query Optimizer is and what role it plays and described how industrial optimizers are organized. In this second post, we describe various optimizations found in Apache DataFusion and other industrial systems in more detail.

Leverage Cloudflare logs for cost optimization, troubleshooting, and security

Cloudflare is a content delivery network (CDN) that helps businesses accelerate, protect, and optimize their websites, applications, and APIs. It acts as a reverse proxy, sitting between users and a website’s origin server to provide DDoS protection, web application firewall (WAF), CDN caching, and load balancing.

Gain key insights into user experiences faster with Datadog Synthetic Monitoring

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, customers expect seamless and reliable user experiences and have little tolerance for poor performance or downtime. In order to avoid the costs to revenue and reputation that can come from poor customer experiences, organizations across all industries are increasingly prioritizing digital experience monitoring (DEM), the practice of monitoring how end users interact with business-critical applications in order to understand and optimize user journeys.

Executive Buy-In is Driving Observability Maturity: 2025 Observability Survey Results | Grafana Labs

In this video, CTO Tom Wilkie from Grafana Labs breaks down some of the most compelling findings from our third annual Observability Survey, based on over 1,200 industry responses. The big takeaway? Executive involvement is on the rise—and it’s accelerating adoption of advanced observability practices like distributed tracing, profiling, and SLOs. He also explores how SaaS adoption, the maturation of central observability teams, and new instrumentation methods like eBPF and Beyla are reshaping the observability landscape.