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

Performance Monitoring in the Cloud: Does it Still Matter?

So your organization has decided to move to the cloud. Smart move! Many companies today are either making the move to the cloud or have already made it. According to RightScale’s 2019 State of the Cloud Survey, 94% of IT professionals say their companies use the cloud. Over 90% is public cloud. Gartner predicts that public cloud revenue will increase by 17% in 2020. The biggest percentage increase is expected with IaaS. So, you’re clearly not alone.

Announcing new-look notifications for Slack

We’ve had a lot of great feedback about our integration with Slack. Customers find it invaluable to have all the information about an error or issue delivered to a channel of their choice. Using Raygun Crash Reporting or APM and Slack together, everyone involved is alerted to a problem, and an indication of the cause can be ascertained immediately. The appropriate person can then be assigned to complete the investigation and resolve the error or issue pronto.

Troubleshooting complex applications faster

With the advent of the cloud and microservices, application architectures have become complex, and monitoring their performance is critical in protecting your business' bottom line. To troubleshoot performance problems quickly and achieve a reduced mean time to detect (MTTD) and mean time to resolve (MTTR), the use of an application performance monitoring (APM) tool is invaluable.

Application peformance monitoring with Datadog 2020

Datadog is an application performance monitoring and analytical SaaS for cloud infrastructure. Datadog enables DevOps teams, SREs and IT operation teams to optimize their systems for uptime and availability. Modern services generate massive amounts of data from all of the different services and technologies, Datadog supports over 400+ integrations and collects data for improving visibility across dynamic production environments.

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Database performance improvement - How-to in 4 easy steps

During development, it's important to think about how your application will work with your databases. You can run into performance issues all the way through the stack, so you'll want to be mindful of how the data is being accessed. From the client to the database, there are layers where trouble may creep in.