High availability and flawless performance of business applications are vital to maintaining a company’s online reputation and keeping its customers satisfied. If a business-critical application crashes, frustrated users may abandon the service, leading to a loss in brand value and revenue. Internal business application performance issues can also cause a drop in employee productivity. To prevent these performance issues, enterprises turn to application performance monitoring solutions.

Node.js is a very popular JavaScript runtime for the backend. Its usage has grown steadily in the past years. Some notable users of Node.js include Netflix, PayPal, Uber, and eBay. In this post, you will learn how to add tracing to a Node.js application on AppSignal. You will use an existing Quotes app that talks to a PostgreSQL database to fetch the quotes. Let’s get going!

As part of our ongoing commitment to security, we are excited to announce we have partnered with GitHub to protect our users on public repositories via GitHub’s secret-scanning feature. Through the partnership, GitHub will notify Grafana Labs when one of the following secret types is exposed in the code of a public repository: GitHub actively monitors public repositories for leaked secrets. When a secret is detected, its hash is stored in Grafana Labs’ Secret Scanning API.

The Uptime.com Page Speed Check has arrived! 🚀 We’ve rebuilt our old Website Speed free test using the most up-to-date analytics, metrics, and auditing tools available to make sure that your websites are performing as expected, every single hour of every day. Keep reading to see exactly how our new Page Speed Check can take your website monitoring and observability to the next level.

Nowadays businesses rely heavily on robust and resilient infrastructure to deliver uninterrupted services to their customers. This includes things like servers, databases, and cloud-based systems. It’s important to monitor the health and performance of this infrastructure, and that’s where monitoring metrics come in.

Earlier this month at N-able’s Empower partner event in Prague, I sat down with Head Nerd Stefanie Hammond, to discuss co-managed IT services and N-able’s recently released Co-managed Digital Playbook for MSPs. Whether you’re new to co-managed or looking build on existing offerings, the playbook provides guidance to MSPs on how to build, price, market, and sell co-managed IT services.

In a recent blog post, we discussed how ChatGPT and Elasticsearch® can work together to help manage proprietary data more effectively. By utilizing Elasticsearch's search capabilities and ChatGPT's contextual understanding, we demonstrated how the resulting outcomes can be improved. In this post, we discuss how users’ experience can be further enhanced with the addition of facets, filtering, and additional context.

By automating capacity planning for IP networks, we can achieve cost reduction, enhanced accuracy, and better scalability. This process requires us to collect data, build predictive models, define optimization objectives, design decision algorithms, and carry out consistent monitoring and adjustment. However, the initial investment is large and the result will still require human oversight.