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Raygun’s Launch Notes are your regular roundup of all the improvements we made to Raygun last month—from major features to performance updates.

In 2018, we launched many improvements to the Raygun Platform, including the biggest ever addition to Raygun: Application Performance Monitoring (APM). For this article, we wanted to surface our favorite releases from 2018, just in case you missed them.

Looking for ways to measure your users’ experience? You’ve come to the right place. In this article, we will be diving into several ways to measure your users’ satisfaction as well as ways to enhance & expand your real user monitoring strategy.

Forty-three percent of application performance problems occur because of an issue in the application code, according to a DZone study. Code-level issues include bugs in the code constructs, such as long waits, poor iterations, inefficient code algorithms, unhandled exceptions, bad choice of data structures, etc. Developers and application owners need code-level insight, so they can pinpoint issues in the code and fix them before users notice.

RUM and APM are two important acronyms to know if you work in software development or DevOps today. Moreover, not only is it important to be able to define RUM and APM — It’s also critical to understand the similarities and differences between each type of software monitoring process.

FinancesOnline, an independent B2B solutions review platform, recently conducted an independent assessment of eG Enterprise APM and published their review. This review provides an overview of the features, benefits, and problems solved by eG Enterprise APM. Also, the review analyzes eG Enterprise APM in relation to other APM solutions in the market.

At Honeycomb, we are frequently asked how we compare to what else is out there. Do these other tools offer observability? Do I need them all? What’s important? Metrics? Logs? What’s the best way to monitor application performance?