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The latest News and Information on Application Performance Monitoring and related technologies.

SigNoz - Open-source alternative to New Relic

If you're looking for an open-source alternative to New Relic, then you're at the right place. SigNoz is a perfect open-source alternative to New Relic. SigNoz provides a unified UI for metrics, traces and logs 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.

Latest top 17 API monitoring tools [open-source included]

Choosing the right API monitoring tool is critical. How do you know which is the right API monitoring tool for you? Here are the top 17 API monitoring tools, including open source tools for API performance monitoring. In this article, we will review the top 17 API monitoring tools which you can use for monitoring your APIs. But first, let’s have a brief overview of APIs.

SigNoz - Open-Source Alternative to DataDog

More and more companies are now shifting to a cloud-native & microservices-based architecture. Having an application monitoring tool is critical in this world because you can’t just log into a machine and figure out what’s going wrong. We have spent years learning about application monitoring & observability. What are the key features an observability tool should have to enable fast resolution of issues. In our opinion, good observability tools should have.

Announcing self-serve SAML SSO: take control of your team's authentication

Managing user authentication and security for your team just got a serious upgrade. Raygun now offers self-serve security assertion markup language (SAML) single sign-on (SSO) — making it easier than ever to centralize and secure access to your Raygun account. SAML SSO is now available for all customers. If you’re on a Business or Enterprise plan, we offer this feature at no additional cost. On other plans? No problem—you can add SAML SSO for just $50/month.

Rich Logs Collector for Docker Compose Services with SigNoz

Our production services run on a Linux machine using Docker Compose, keeping our infrastructure simple and manageable. Docker Compose allows us to easily define and manage multi-container applications, providing a straightforward way to orchestrate services, which helps reduce complexity in our infrastructure. Recently, we decided to switch to SigNoz to gain more flexibility and control over our observability stack. Following the SigNoz setup guide, we used logspout to collect and forward logs.

Datadog on Cloud Workload Identities

Datadog operates dozens of Kubernetes clusters, tens of thousands of hosts, and millions of containers across a multi-cloud environment, spanning AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. With over 2,000 engineers, we needed to ensure that every developer and application could securely and efficiently access resources across these various cloud providers.

Unleashing the power of application performance management with OpManager Plus

A modern IT infrastructure has many layers—or stacks as we call it—that, together, are critical to running an organization. In this blog series, we’ll attend to each stack in turn, talk about why they matter, and how OpManager Plus is adept at providing visibility into each of them. Let’s start off with the first part, where we dive into the world of application performance management (APM) and understand its indispensable role in ensuring seamless IT operations.

How Appwrite integrated Raygun for bulletproof error reporting: lessons learned

This guest post comes from Appwrite, an open-source backend-as-a-service platform helping developers build secure apps faster. Appwrite chose Raygun’s API for direct, lightweight error reporting that avoids SDK bloat and dependency risks. In this post, they share their journey integrating Raygun, the challenges they tackled, and the impact on their production environment. We’re excited to share these insights from the Appwrite team!