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

Understanding Flame Graphs for Visualizing Distributed Tracing

In the ever-evolving world of software development, one constant remains - the pursuit of better performance. As applications grow in complexity and demand, the need for tools to uncover performance bottlenecks becomes paramount. Flamegraphs, a brainchild of Brendan Gregg, has emerged as an important visualization of insight, showing those dark corners of your codebase that need optimization.

Smart Agent for Cisco AppDynamics is here!

Unlock business and performance insights... See how Smart Agent dramatically simplifies application instrumentation through intelligent agent automation and lifecycle management — saving you time, accessing new capabilities and gaining business context. Simplify your agent management in a few clicks... Save time and effort installing and managing agents at scale with a centralized agent management console. AppDynamics provides a complete agent inventory, managed by Smart Agent, to quickly flag and upgrade out-of-date agents to support better version compliance and reporting.

OpenTelemetry Collector - architecture and configuration guide

OpenTelemetry Collector is a stand-alone service provided by OpenTelemetry. It can be used as a telemetry-processing system with a lot of flexible configurations to collect and manage telemetry data. Let's do a deep dive on OpenTelemetry Collectors to understand how it works. The first step in setting up observability with OpenTelemetry is instrumentation. The application code is instrumented with OpenTelemetry client libraries that help generate telemetry data like logs, metrics, and traces.

Database Trends 2024: The Power of Cloud, Consumption Models, and the Popularity of PostgreSQL

A large proportion of our customers rely on eG Enterprise to monitor and troubleshoot application and end-user experience problems caused by problems in underlying database dependencies. Our end-to-end unified monitoring and root-cause analysis platform supports all major database technologies. Over recent years, we have witnessed a significant shift from traditional on-premises databases to more dynamic, scalable solutions.

Loki vs Elasticsearch - Which tool to choose for Log Analytics?

Elasticsearch, or the ELK stack, is a popular log analytics solution. The Loki project was started at Grafana Labs in 2018. Grafana leads the development of Loki, while Elastic is the company behind Elasticsearch. In this article, we will do a detailed comparison between these two tools for log analytics. Log data helps application owners debug their applications while also playing a critical role in cyber security.

OTel Applications on Retrace

We are excited to inform you that Open Telemetry is now available for you with the introduction of “Netreo OTel Appliance”. With the OTel Appliance, cloud-native services like AWS Lambda, AWS ECS, AWS EKS, Azure Functions, Azure App Services, Azure Container Instances, and Azure Kubernetes Services can be monitored and you see application traces and logs in Retrace UI (s1.stackify.com). The applications hosted in the cloud Serverless and containers can be monitored without running the Retrace agent within the instance itself.

We've done it again: ManageEngine named a 2023 Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for Application Performance Monitoring and Observability!

At ManageEngine, customers are at the heart of everything we do. That’s why we are excited to be recognized as a 2023 Gartner Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice for Application Performance Monitoring and Observability. This year marks the fifth time we have been recognized with this distinction.

Decoding PostgreSQL Monitoring | 101 Guide

Monitoring PostgreSQL for performance issues is critical. PostgreSQL is a powerful open-source relational database system that stands out for its robustness, scalability, and strong emphasis on extensibility and standards compliance. In this guide on PostgreSQL monitoring, we will cover key PostgreSQL metrics that should be monitored, best practices for monitoring PostgreSQL and some tools with which you can set up PostgreSQL monitoring.

Datadog on Design Systems

Over the last five years, the Datadog platform has grown. We added Application Performance Monitoring to complement our core infrastructure monitoring product, Log Management, Synthetic and Real User Monitoring, and more. For an enterprise software platform to be successful, the whole has to be greater than the sum of its parts. In Datadog’s case, this means users must be able to connect different types of data, pivot seamlessly from one context to another, and follow the thread of an investigation wherever it might lead.

How to easily add application monitoring in Kubernetes pods

The Elastic APM K8s Attacher lets the Elastic APM agent auto-attach to the application in your pods by adding just one annotation to your deployment The Elastic® APM K8s Attacher allows auto-installation of Elastic APM application agents (e.g., the Elastic APM Java agent) into applications running in your Kubernetes clusters. The mechanism uses a mutating webhook, which is a standard Kubernetes component, but you don’t need to know all the details to use the Attacher.