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

How APM and synthetic monitoring work together for better performance

Imagine this: A customer tries to log in to your app, but the page takes too long to load. Frustrated, they leave. Meanwhile, your IT team has no clue there was an issue—until complaints start pouring in. Sound familiar? Performance lags are the new downtime. Lags are not just an inconvenience—they lead to lost revenue and frustrated users. To prevent this, organizations turn to application performance monitoring (APM) and synthetic monitoring to maintain peak application performance.

DORA Compliance - An Opportunity for MSPs

For Managed Service Providers (MSPs) in the EU, who serve financial organizations, DORA regulatory compliance is a hot topic. The DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act) is a new regulation that came into force on Jan 17th, 2025, aimed at ensuring the operational resilience of financial entities in the EU, focusing on technology risk management and minimizing disruptions in critical services.

Observability for your NodeJS AWS Serverless Applications

Hi there, and welcome to the first video in this series on observing AWS serverless applications with Datadog. In this video, you’ll learn how easy it is to get started observing your serverless NodeJS applications using Datadog and the AWS CDK. You’ll also look at how you can use the Datadog console to diagnose latency issues and errors inside your application. You’ll walk away with an understanding of how to instrument your Lambda functions with the AWS CDK, as well as practical steps you can take to debug your applications.

Native AWS Integrations with AutoDiscovery

For developers, the main quest is building and scaling their applications—not struggling with complex monitoring setups. Yet, observability in cloud-native environments is essential, and configuring monitoring for AWS services has traditionally been a complex and manual process. Developers had to set up Firehose streams, CloudWatch metric streams, and log subscriptions, all while ensuring continuous maintenance for new instances, turning observability into an unwelcome side quest.

SRE Challenges & APM Solutions

Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) face constant challenges as cloud environments and microservices grow more complex. Performance issues often go unnoticed until they escalate, leading to downtime and disruptions. With Site24x7 APM, you can stay ahead of issues before they impact your business. Our Application Performance Monitoring (APM) solution provides real-time insights, predictive analytics, and deep visibility across your entire IT ecosystem—helping you.

How to use APM data to improve your CI/CD pipeline performance

Agile production has become the norm for software development cycles. The backbone for such a fast-paced landscape is the continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline. But merely depending on the CI/CD pipeline isn’t enough, even though the automated workflows give you a competitive edge. The pipeline needs to be optimized to function at its best. This is where monitoring your applications within the pipeline can be a game-changer.

Deeper Trace Analytics - Analyze Root & Entry Spans with Ease

Debugging distributed systems can often feel like searching for a needle in a haystack. When issues arise, engineers need faster ways to pinpoint critical spans within their traces. With our latest Deeper Trace Analytics update, SigNoz now enables powerful filtering for root and entry spans—making it significantly easier to analyze and debug distributed traces.

Out-of-box OpenTelemetry-powered Kafka & Celery monitoring

Messaging queues power modern distributed systems, handling background tasks, event-driven architectures, and real-time data streaming. However, debugging issues in Kafka and Celery queues has traditionally been a black box, with limited correlation between message producers, consumers, and broker metrics. With OpenTelemetry-powered Kafka & Celery monitoring, SigNoz introduces the industry's first fully integrated observability solution for messaging queues powered by OpenTelemetry.