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

Crossed 15K+ GitHub Stars, Simplified Logs Parsing with Pipelines & Trending on Hacker News - SigNal 30

Welcome to the 30th edition of our monthly product newsletter - SigNal 30! Last month, our Github repo crossed 15k+ Github stars, which is a great milestone for our open-source project and for our team. We also shipped the much-awaited logs pipeline that will make logs parsing a much better experience for our users. We also shipped other improvements to the product, hosted OpenTelemetry meetups and webinars, and much more.

I've Made a Huge Mistake: Implementing Agile on Infrastructure Teams

Bad planning methods can damage team morale and prevent teams from improving the systems they maintain. In this talk, Sam Handler from Shopify explains how his attempts to fix poor infrastructure planning processes through Agile methods failed. Drawing from this experience, he offers several principles that can help infrastructure teams improve the way they work.

Quick Demo of Logs Pipelines in SigNoz

Log pipeline allows you to preprocess your logs for enrichment, transformation, and attribute extraction before they get indexed. Here's a quick demo of using the Logs pipeline feature in SigNoz to parse Nginx logs. More about SigNoz: SigNoz - Monitor your applications and troubleshoot problems in your deployed applications, an open-source alternative to DataDog, New Relic, etc. Backed by Y Combinator.
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Taking down (and restoring) the Raygun ingestion API

In a world where Software as a Service (SaaS) products are integral to daily life, maintaining uninterrupted service for end-users is paramount. However, stuff happens. When it does, our most valuable response (other than restoring service ASAP) is to review the series of events that led up to the incident and learn from them. On August 25th, 2023, at 7:02 AM NZT, Raygun experienced a significant incident that impacted our API ingestion cluster, leading to an outage lasting approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes. While this wasn't fun for anyone involved, this incident did prove to be a valuable learning experience, shedding light on the importance of infrastructure management and resilience.

How Uber Freight Powers Intelligent Logistics with Datadog

Thiyagarajan Anandan, Uber Freight, shares how he and his team have created a center of excellence for monitoring and DevOps culture. Uber Freight, a division of Uber, delivers an end-to-end enterprise suite of Relational Logistics to advance supply chains and move the world’s goods. With more than 1,000 shippers across $18B freight under management (FUM), it’s critical for Uber Freight to provide a 99.99% uptime for its shippers and customers. Since migrating to the Datadog platform, Uber Freight for the first time has unlocked the full breadth and depth of their systems, thereby significantly decreasing MTTR/MTTD and delivering an improved customer experience.

What is VMware Tanzu? And Why does Tanzu Matter?

Here in the Benelux region, we have recently been seeing increased interest in our capabilities to monitor and automate root-cause diagnostics for VMware Tanzu and other containerized / K8s technologies. Tanzu monitoring is one of the VMware technologies we’ll be demoing at VMware Explore in Barcelona (6 – 9 November 2023) and expect to see a lot of interest in it.

APM vs Tracing vs Observability

Application Performance Monitoring (APM), tracing, and observability are fundamental software development and system management approaches. Each of these three concepts uniquely ensures that your applications operate, efficiently, smoothly, and reliably. Your organisation will more than likely already adopt one of these approaches, or even two, potentially all three.

Hybrid Cloud Strategies - AWS Launches Dedicated Local Zones with Singapore Government as First Customer

Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently released a new cloud deployment option – ”Dedicated Local Zones” targeted at public sector, government and regulated industry use cases. Many customers still rely on on-premises infrastructure to meet regulatory and compliance requirements such as data localization. You can read the details of the AWS announcement including which services Dedicated Local Zones will support, here: Announcing AWS Dedicated Local Zones (amazon.com).