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

New Logs Explorer & Query Builder

We recently released 🛳️ updated logs explorer page and query builder in SigNoz to make experience of our logs product much more intuitive and seamless. Some of the key features: 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. SigNoz helps developers monitor applications and troubleshoot problems in their deployed applications. SigNoz uses distributed tracing to gain visibility into your software stack.
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5 ELK Stack Pros and Cons

Is your organization currently relying on an ELK cluster for log analytics in the cloud? While the ELK stack delivers on its major promises, it isn't the only search and analytics engine - and may not even be your best option for log management. As cloud data volumes grow, ELK monitoring can become too costly and complex to manage. Fast-growing organizations should consider innovative alternatives offering better performance at scale, superior cost economics, reduced complexity and enhanced data access in the cloud.

Diagnosing SAP performance issues with AppDynamics Snapshots

AppDynamics monitors every execution of a business transaction within an application that has been instrumented, either using our agents or through OpenTelemetry. Both Business Transaction and Process Snapshots capture the details necessary for gaining a deeper understanding of method call performance...answering questions like, what line of code is taking the longest to run?

Cloud Native Application Observability - Sensitive Data Masking for logs

Masking sensitive data in logs is crucial for ensuring the protection and privacy of sensitive information. If exposed, personally identifiable information (PII), financial details, and healthcare records pose significant risks. By masking this data in logs, organizations can prevent unauthorized access, comply with data protection regulations, mitigate insider threats, reduce the attack surface for potential breaches, and enable effective auditing and investigation without compromising sensitive information.

Implementing OpenTelemetry in a Gin application

OpenTelemetry can be used to trace Gin applications for performance issues and bugs. OpenTelemetry is an open-source project under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) that aims to standardize the generation and collection of telemetry data like logs, metrics, and traces. Gin is an HTTP web framework written in Go (Golang). It features a Martini-like API with much better performance -- up to 40 times faster. If you need smashing performance, get yourself some Gin!

Monitoring to Ensure Optimal Developer Experience and Productivity

For Software Houses, developers are as important as customers are to a retail organization – if the Developer Experience (DX / DevExp / DevEx) is poor, then work simply will not get done effectively and the best and the brightest are likely to leave for an employer who offers a better experience and hence, more productivity and job satisfaction. Long-term frustrated employees and staff attrition tend to impact product quality and lead to weaker software applications.

Making SigNoz the Most Powerful Open Source Distributed Trace Product - SigNal 27

Welcome to the 27th edition of our monthly product newsletter - SigNal 27! Our team shipped the much anticipated Trace and Logs Explorer. With the new Trace Explorer page, SigNoz is the most powerful open-source distributed trace product out there. Let’s dive in to see what humans at SigNoz were up to in the month of July 2023.