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Top 10 Monitoring Features for Multi-Tenant Managed Service Providers (MSPs)

eG Innovations works with Managed Service Providers (MSPs) across the world, who use eG Enterprise to deliver value-added services to improve their customers’ resilience and business outcomes. Many of these service providers choose eG Enterprise for its secure and granular role-based multi-tenancy support. The service provider does not have to configure and maintain one instance of eG Enterprise for each customer.

Stackify vs. New Relic vs. Scout | APM Tool Comparison

Stackify Retrace primarily supports Java, .NET, PHP, Nodej.js, Ruby, and Python applications. New Relic supports Java, node.js, Python, Go, PHP, .NET, and Ruby. On the other hand, Scout APM supports Ruby, Python, Node.js, PHP, Elixir & Phoenix, in addition to Error Monitoring, Database Monitoring and External Services Monitoring.

Raygun Alerting: Monitor your latest deployment

Modern development teams are shipping code faster than ever before. Having visibility into the issues that will inevitably get introduced into your software is crucial for the development process. Latest deployments for Raygun Alerting helps with just that. Now, you can tick the latest deployment checkbox on all Raygun alert types to only monitor your latest deployment and resolve issues before your customers ever even notice.

Datadog Cloud Security Platform

Datadog's Cloud Security Platform—consisting of Cloud SIEM, Posture Management, and Workload Security—delivers real-time threat detection and continuous configuration audits across your applications, hosts, containers, and cloud infrastructure. Datadog derives security insights from your observability data, enabling security and DevOps teams to work together to detect, investigate, and remediate threats.

The Observability Pipeline

Today’s systems are more distributed, dynamic, and complex than ever before – plus, users have more expectations. Also, the historical reliance on an operations team to monitor, triage, and/or resolve issues has become untenable as the number of services increased. This means that many of the tools that were well-suited before might no longer be adequate.

How to save on your Azure Monitor and Log Analytics Costs

Thomas Stringer has a couple of great blog posts on how to understand your Azure monitoring costs and also on how to reduce your costs, see Azure Monitor Log Analytics too Expensive? Part 2 – Save Some Money | Thomas Stringer (trstringer.com). In the past I’ve blogged on How to calculate the Azure Monitor and Log Analytics costs associated with AVD (not an easy task!).

8 Best Sentry Alternatives You Should Try

Selecting the best sentry alternatives for error monitoring is likely to be difficult. It might be difficult to sort between the features, benefits, and drawbacks of many software companies and sellers. Let's talk about how to make this process easier by looking at the eight best alternatives to Sentry. Sentry is open-source application performance and error-tracking tool that allows developers to track and fix errors in real-time.