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SigNoz - Open-source alternative to AppDynamics

If you're looking for an open-source alternative to AppDynamics, then you're at the right place. SigNoz is a perfect open-source alternative to AppDynamics. SigNoz provides a unified UI for both metrics and traces with advanced tagging and filtering capabilities. In today's digital economy, more and more companies are shifting to cloud-native and microservice architecture to support global scale and distributed teams.

6 Tips on How to Become a Successful Web Designer and Crush the Competition

In this digital age, web designing has become an indispensable component in the operations of many businesses. Every company requires a web designer to design their site and maintain it, which makes this field indispensable and lucrative. However, there are different measures you should take to succeed in this career. Check out these 6 tips on how to become a successful web designer and crush the competition.

Prometheus network monitoring: a new open source generation

Prometheus seeks to be a new generation within open source monitoring tools. A different approach with no legacies from the past. For years, many monitoring tools have been linked to Nagios for its architecture and philosophy or directly for being a complete fork (CheckMk, Centreon, OpsView, Icinga, Naemon, Shinken, Vigilo NMS, NetXMS, OP5 and others). Prometheus software, however, is true to the “Open” spirit: if you want to use it, you will have to put together several different parts.

Testing Golang with httptest

Go, often referred to as Golang, is a popular programming language built by Google. Its design and structure help you write efficient, reliable, and high-performing programs. Often used for web servers and rest APIs, Go offers the same performance as other low-level languages like C++ while also making sure the language itself is easy to understand with a good development experience.

Managing Android Devices at Scale with Memfault AOSP SDK Bort 4.0

The Memfault Android OS SDK allows IoT developers to collect detailed diagnostics from Android devices on everything from low-level hardware or kernel issues to high-level application crashes, and automatically upload them to Memfault. In this webinar, Heiko Behrens introduces the Memfault AOSP SDK (support for Android 8 to 12) and covers these new features in the latest release (v4.0): Presentation: 0:00 – 44:25 Q&A from live audience: 44:26 – 58:54

API & HTTP Headers: How to Use Request Headers in API Checks

In previous posts we covered why it’s important to monitor APIs and how to monitor and validate data from APIs. In this post we’ll focus on a simple but key feature that helps Splunk Synthetic Monitoring users create robust checks for availability, response time, and multi-step processes: Request Headers

Our Approach to Machine Learning

There is a lot of buzz in the world of machine learning (ML) and as a layperson it can be hard to keep up with it all. Therefore, we decided to write down some of our thoughts and musings on how we are approaching ML at Netdata. We’ll touch on the current state of applied ML in industry in general, and zoom in on ML in the monitoring industry.

Monitoring GraphQL APIs with OpenTelemetry

GraphQL is a query language for APIs developed by Facebook in 2012. It was then open-sourced in 2015. GraphQL enables frontend developers or consumers of APIs to request the exact data that they need, with no over-fetching or under-fetching. In this article, we will learn how to monitor GraphQL APIs with the open-source APM tool, SigNoz. GraphQL has become a popular alternative to REST because of its ease of use. It enables developers to pull data from multiple data sources in a single API call.