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

Announcement: Raygun Launches Public API

Today marks a new era for Raygun. With the launch our new Public API, you’ll be able to use the powerful metrics surfaced in Raygun in exciting new ways. This is our first step towards being API first, so watch for future developments. At Raygun, we pride ourselves on delivering invaluable customer-centric insights into the health of your software.

Manage your Raygun quota effectively with these tips

If you have any concerns about going over your plan’s monthly event quota, this guide will help you implement strategies to manage your Raygun error quota effectively. The key to staying within your quota is to keep the Raygun dashboard organized. This helps you save time too, as you’ll prevent non-critical errors staying active, ensuring you and your team are only alerted to the errors that matter. We recommend implementing the following actions to manage your event quota effectively.

How to install the Site24x7 APM Insight Java agent in a Docker container

This video will walk you through the process of installing the Site24x7 APM Insight Java agent in a Docker container. Docker itself is the whole environment that helps you run, build, and manage your application, allowing APM to achieve its goals more quickly. Related links The argument to include in your application startup command.

Architecting for Reliability

As modern systems become increasingly more complex, the risk of incidents and outages increases. Old approaches to reliability can sometimes be adapted to novel system designs, but other times new methods need to be invented. In this panel session moderated by Datadog’s Jason Yee, you’ll hear from SRE leaders and systems architects across the industry about how they’re designing and operating systems to achieve greater reliability.

Democratizing Observability

DevOps principles have helped many organizations improve cross-team collaboration, which has in turn led to increased reliability and velocity in the development lifecycle. In this session moderated by Jason Yee, we hear from panelists who have applied these same DevOps principles to observability, helping them unlock data-based insights and empower teams to make smarter, more informed decisions.

Dash Panel Discussion: What Users Really Want

Measuring user experience is typically done by tracking metrics like latency and purchase frequency. But these metrics can often obscure real user sentiment. In this panel session moderated by Miranda Kapin, you can learn about better ways to uncover how users are truly experiencing your application and methods for improving their engagement.

Building a Multi-Tenant Insurance Platform

In 2020, CoverWallet—a multi-tenant insurance platform—was acquired by Aon, which led to a rapid expansion in both the size and global presence of its engineering organization. In his talk, CoverWallet’s Hylke Alons walks through the changes that were necessary to meet their platform's new expectations, including improving growth and scalability while ensuring reliability, automating security, and reducing maintenance. He also discusses some best practices for scaling up engineering and product teams to handle demand in a complex and highly regulated industry like insurance.

Optimize Trace Memory with Scout

Application performance monitoring (APM) is a process of monitoring and analyzing performance issues within an application. In monolithic architecture, monitoring the performance of an application using APM tools was straightforward. However, once the application adopts microservice architecture, the application becomes more complex, and the business functionalities flow into different microservices to complete the workflow.