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OpenTelemetry Is The Strategic Choice

OpenTelemetry (OTel) should be at the heart of your observability strategy. There is no longer a need to pay for the collection of telemetry data; instead, use the unified OTel standard for all your telemetry data. Once you have the data in a standard form, you can choose where to process it, either on your own servers or via one of many SaaS providers.

Announcing $20M to Enable Engineers to Detect and Resolve Issues 10x Faster With Checkly

Our mission at Checkly is to enable engineers to detect and resolve issues 10x faster. We are very excited to announce $20 million in Series B funding led by Balderton, alongside the participation of our existing investors Accel and CRV.

Simplified Database Schema Upgrades for Icinga Web and Modules

With the release of Icinga Web 2.12, we’ve streamlined and simplified the process for performing database schema upgrades for both Icinga Web and its modules. This new feature not only indicates when an upgrade is pending but also allows for automatic execution of the upgrade. Previously, users had to consult the upgrade documentation and perform the upgrade manually. While it’s still important to read the upgrade documentation, this new feature simplifies the process significantly.

Methods of Scanning Network Devices with Total Network Inventory (TNI)

In network management, efficiently scan for devices is fundamental to maintaining security, enhancing performance, and ensuring effective asset management. This article examines various scanning methods, explaining the configurations and processes required to gather detailed information.
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Apache web server monitoring: Key metrics and how to monitor them

According to a survey by Web Technology Surveys, around 29.5% of the world's active websites are powered by Apache HTTP Server (often referred to as Apache web server or just Apache), making it one of the most popular web servers. Apache's flexible and scalable nature allows it to handle workloads that range from small-scale blogs to commercial web services. Let us dive deeper and explore the Apache web server infrastructure and learn about the crucial performance indicators you need to pay attention to while monitoring Apache web servers.

How to identify fetch waterfalls in React

Fetch Waterfalls are scenarios where multiple fetch requests are invoked in a sequential manner, not in parallel. This leads to some serious performance degradation. Here’s how they look: In this case, the second and third requests can be fetched in parallel, which will improve the page load and data display by 4.053 seconds. The negative performance impact with fetch waterfalls is also stacking - meaning the more requests there are, the worse the performance impact is going to be.

This Month in Datadog: DASH 2024 recap, featuring LLM Observability, Log Workspaces, and more

Datadog is constantly elevating the approach to cloud monitoring and security. This Month in Datadog updates you on our newest product features, announcements, resources, and events. To learn more about Datadog and start a free 14-day trial, visit Cloud Monitoring as a Service | Datadog. This month, we’re recapping our flagship conference, DASH.