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Netdata's Cost Transparency - Unveiling the True Cost of Monitoring

Businesses are increasingly reliant on monitoring tools to ensure the seamless performance and reliability of their systems. However, the true cost of implementing and maintaining these tools is often obscured by hidden expenses. Our previous blog delved into the concealed costs associated with various monitoring solutions, such as Prometheus & Grafana (Open Source Monitoring) and commercial platforms like Datadog, Dynatrace, and NewRelic.

A Practical Guide to Debugging Browser Performance With OpenTelemetry

So you’ve taken a look at the core web vitals for your site and… it’s not looking good. You’re overwhelmed, and you don’t know what change to make because everything seems like too big of a project to make a real difference. There are so many measurements to keep track of and the standards cited seem even scarier. This is extremely normal. Web performance standards can feel impossible to meet for a lot of us.

What is Enterprise Asset Management

Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) software represents a strategic approach to managing and optimizing the use of physical assets within an organization. This type of software encompasses the entire lifecycle of an organization's assets, from acquisition to disposal, ensuring their optimal usage and management. ‍ EAM, an acronym for Enterprise Asset Management, plays a pivotal role in organizations with extensive physical assets such as machinery, vehicles, and infrastructure.

Azure Savings Plan for Compute Resources

Have you ever struggled with keeping up with the changes in your virtual data center needs and the savvy, precise Reservations you planned and purchased? Realizing that right after you bought them, the application team decided to swap their Kubernetes cluster to the newest model. Suddenly, you are paying a VM twice: the reservation plus the new model!

What Is Network Optimization?

A fast, dependable, and efficient network is critical for business success in today’s connected world. Network optimization is a vital component of network management that can assist organizations in improving network performance, lowering costs, increasing security, and improving user experience. Network optimization is more important than ever with the growing demand for high-speed connectivity and real-time data processing.

The future of generative AI in public sector

Recently, I sat down with Adelaide O’Brien, research vice president at IDC Government Insights, to discuss the current and future state of generative AI in the public sector worldwide. The full conversation is available to view on demand, but I also wanted to highlight some of the takeaways from the discussion.

Spring Boot Monitoring with Open-Source Tools

Spring Boot Monitoring aims to provide real-time insights into various aspects of a Spring Boot application. Spring Boot provides useful libraries like the Spring Boot Actuator and Micrometer to aid in monitoring. But in order to set up effective monitoring, you need to use a tool where you can send the monitoring data for storage and visualization. In this tutorial, we cover: In this tutorial, you will learn how to monitor a Spring Boot application with SigNoz and OpenTelemetry.

7 Million Docker Downloads, uPlot Charting Library, and Improvements in Dashboard - SigNal 31

Welcome to the 31st edition of our monthly product newsletter - SigNal 31! We shipped a lot of improvements in our dashboard user experience and crossed 7 million Docker downloads. Let’s see what the humans of SigNoz did in the month of November 2023.

Nginx Metrics and Logs Monitoring with OpenTelemetry

Nginx metrics and logs monitoring are important to ensure that Nginx is performing as expected and to identify and resolve problems quickly. In this tutorial, you will install OpenTelemetry Collector to collect Nginx metrics and logs and then send the collected data to SigNoz for monitoring and visualization. In this tutorial, we cover: If you want to jump straight into implementation, start with this pre-requisites section.

Detecting Dubious Domains with Levenshtein, Shannon & URL Toolbox

In Parsing Domains with URL Toolbox, we detailed how you can pass a fully qualified domain name or URL to URL Toolbox and receive a nicely parsed set of fields that includes the query string, top level domain, subdomains, and more. In this article, we are going to do some nerdy analytic arithmetic on those fields.