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Sites can now be grouped

Our users sometimes have a large number of applications that are being monitored by Oh Dear. Some of these applications are related to each other. Think for instance of a marketing site and an API that are part of the same application. To better emphasise that some of the things that are monitored are related, you can now use groups. When you start monitoring a site at Oh Dear, you can now optionally specify a group name.

Introducing advanced user management for large teams

If we look at the number of sites that our users monitor, we can split our user base into two large groups. Teams in the first group only monitor one or a couple of sites. The second group monitors 30 or more sites. We've just launched new features that make user management more flexible for large teams. In this blog post, we'd like to tell you all about it.

How to Connect the Dots: Creating Complex CI/CD with JFrog Pipelines

As software gets more complex, so do software builds. With applications being composed of multiple services — often developed by separate teams — it can be challenging to automate a unified continuous integration process. JFrog Pipelines is unique among DevOps CI/CD solutions in empowering developers to create highly complex DevOps Pipeline workflows. Pipelines can be defined with multiple paths, trigger points and trigger types.

How to Improve First Contentful Paint

Chances are, you've run a PageSpeed Insights test and noticed "First Contentful Paint" as one of the first numbers in the report. I've covered most of the metrics before in my article on Understanding the Page Speed Metrics in Google Lighthouse, but in this article I wanted to dive deeply into First Contentful Paint - particularly what it is, what a good score is, and how to improve. Table of Contents.

Enterprise Data Architecture: Time to Upgrade?

ChaosSearch is participating in the upcoming Gartner Data & Analytics Summit (May 4-6), a virtual conference for professionals and executive leaders in Data & Analytics (D&A). The summit will feature expert talks from Gartner analysts, engaging workshops, and the opportunity to participate in roundtable discussions with D&A professionals and executive leaders. This blog post was inspired by the tagline of this year’s Gartner Data & Analytics Summit: Learn, Unlearn, Relearn.

Monitor these Metrics to Keep your Servers Controlled

If we look at server definition, it is a piece of computer software or hardware that provides functionality to other devices or programs called clients. System administrators often come up with a common question over the performance of a server – Why is my server down? If server monitoring and management are inefficient, it often makes it very difficult to correctly analyze complex and unpredictable information in a data center. It’s hard to find a reason for server outage.

OpenTelemetry Trace 1.0 is now available

For decades, application development and operations teams have struggled with the best way to generate, collect, and analyze telemetry data from systems and apps. In 2010, we discussed our approach to telemetry and tracing in the Dapper papers, which eventually spawned the open-source OpenCensus project, which merged with OpenTracing to become OpenTelemetry.