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

Understanding and Debugging Applications Using the Service Map

Elastic APM is an application performance monitoring system built on the Elastic Stack. Elastic APM makes it easy to pinpoint and fix performance problems quickly. In this video, you will learn what distributed tracing is, how it can be used to better understand your environment, and how service maps give you a quick overview of your architecture.

Cisco AppDynamics Delivers Industry-First Solution for Strengthening Security Posture Against Threats While Achieving Peak Application Performance

New Cisco Secure Application solution simplifies vulnerability management and defends applications against slowdowns and exploits. Only solution bringing security insights that prevent and fix breaches together with business and application performance monitoring. By correlating security and application insights, Application and Security teams gain shared context that break down silos for optimal collaboration.

Datadog On eBPF

eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) is a Linux technology that can run sandboxed programs in the kernel without changing kernel source code or loading kernel modules. While the kernel is an ideal place to implement monitoring/observability, networking, and security it wasn't until the recent broad adoption of eBPF that it was feasible. Datadog has embraced the possibilities that eBPF brings in those areas and there are several teams already using eBPF in their products. 
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Tracking Core Web Vitals with Raygun

Improving front-end performance for a website is known to increase the likelihood that users will engage, enjoy, and continue to use a website. This leads to better business outcomes by improving customers' digital experiences - no-one likes waiting for a slow page to respond. Core Web Vitals are a part of Google's evaluation of a user's overall page experience, and are made up of three specific page speed, user interaction, and page stability measurements: They work together with other web vitals (mobile friendly, free of malware, secure, and low on interstitial popups) to form an overall page experience score signalling to Google that users are having a good experience.

Understanding and Debugging Applications Using Traces - Version 7.10

Elastic APM is an application performance monitoring system built on the Elastic Stack. Elastic APM makes it easy to pinpoint and fix performance problems quickly. In this video, you will learn what traces are and how they can be used to better understand your applications.

APM Insight and Real User Monitoring: Year in review

2020 was a whirlwind of a year that took all of us by surprise. As we transitioned to working from home and virtual meetings, we reorganized our priorities, listened to your feedback and requirements, and worked around the clock to deliver a hassle-free monitoring experience. Here's a quick recap of the features we rolled out last year, and a brief note on our plans for 2021.