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Retail Observability | Softcat + Grafana

Grafana empowers retailers to deliver unmatched customer experiences, reduce costs, and optimize delivery with omnichannel observability. Innovate faster, increase agility, and watch your business thrive. Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more. We also have plans for every use case.

Why "page.goto()" is slowing down your Playwright tests

When you invest time and effort into creating a well-running end-to-end test suite or adopt Playwright synthetic monitoring with Checkly, you should focus on two things. Your tests must be stable because few things are worse than an unreliable test suite. But also, your tests must be fast because no one wants to wait hours to receive the green light when you're on the edge of your seat to deploy this critical production hotfix.

End-user monitoring with Applications Manager

In today’s rapidly changing world, making a strong first impression can go a long way. If you’re a business owner, delivering flawless web experiences should be the norm. Making every website visit effortless not only keeps customers happy and engaged but also builds up your brand’s reputation. This is where the significance of end-user monitoring (EUM) comes in.

Unlocking Speed and Efficiency: The Benefits of Serverless Infrastructure for SEO

In the ever-evolving digital landscape, website speed has become a critical factor in SEO performance. Faster page load times not only enhance user experience but also contribute significantly to better search engine rankings. One of the most promising advancements in this area is the adoption of serverless infrastructure. This approach, which eliminates the need for traditional server management, has emerged as a game-changer for web performance, particularly for SEO. Let's delve into how serverless infrastructure is transforming website speed and SEO, with insights from an industry expert.

The importance of end user experience monitoring

In 2024, customer experience will be the biggest driver of success. While the business world glances at the financial horizon with worried eyes, finding ways to retain users, capture new leads, and create meaningful, long-lasting brands is more critical than ever. According to Forrester, the ROI of customer experience is 9,900%. For most businesses, the value of user experience is apparent—lower costs, improved loyalty, higher satisfaction, and a higher overall LTV.

Digital transformation and cost savings: How AI benefits Australian SMEs to enhance digital experience

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a crucial role in Australia's economy. Despite this, they face significant challenges in the current economic climate, including rising costs, higher interest rates, and the need to stay competitive in a rapidly-evolving digital market. For these businesses, cutting expenses is the top priority, closely followed by enhancing the digital customer experience.

Distributed Systems Monitoring: the Four Golden Signals

We recently published the IT Topic “IT System Monitoring: advanced solutions for total visibility and security”, in which we present how advanced solutions for IT system monitoring optimize performance, improve security and reduce alert noise with AI and machine learning. We also mentioned that there are four golden signals that IT systems monitoring should focus on.

Back to the basics with hybrid infrastructure monitoring

Managing IT environments can be challenging, especially with the growing complexity of hybrid infrastructures. These interconnected technologies, including servers, routers, storage arrays, and software-defined elements running in both data centers and cloud environments, require robust infrastructure monitoring.