Google has shared small but important adjustments to the way LCP is assessed. LCP, or Largest Contentful Paint, measures how quickly a page appears to load from the user’s perspective. More specifically, this is the time for the main content to be painted or the “render time of the largest image or text block visible within the viewport”. You’ll get a “Good” score when the load time of this content is 2.5 seconds or less.

Several years ago, there was little choice among performance monitoring tools. You had to deal with what the market offers. Datadog is one of the oldest solutions available and, thus, well-known. Yet, it is not without flaws, which might make people look for alternative solutions since the market is booming and new tools emerge regularly.

DevOps teams and security engineers use monitoring tools like Prometheus and Datadog to search for bugs and find any issues that might put an app or the entire IT infrastructure at risk. Better monitoring capabilities and aspects like event monitoring mean users can log data more effectively and engage in data collection leading to data visualization. These actions lead to infrastructure metrics, which allow experts to conduct timely analysis and prevent an app from crashing.

Since Microsoft announced the RDP Shortpath feature was going to be enabled by default on September 6, 2022 for all Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) customers, monitoring and troubleshooting this feature has become important. RDP Shortpath feature improves the AVD connectivity by establishing a direct UDP protocol between the AVD session hosts and the Remote Desktop Client by reducing the dependency on gateways.

A collection of 5 top tips for JBoss performance tuning to ensure optimal application performance and resilience. Learn how to monitor and troubleshoot JBoss systems to eliminate bottlenecks, reduce costs and minimize user issues.

In recent months the term “Supercloud” has become increasingly used, particularly in the context of being a successor or qualifier to “multi-cloud”. There isn’t any definitive formal definition, it is essentially yet another buzzword and vendors and analysts are pilling in with their own take and definition to align to their own agendas and product capabilities.

I’m delighted to share that version 7.2 of eG Enterprise has introduced support for performance monitoring of Snowflake databases. eG Enterprise’s integration with Snowflake enables complete visibility into the Snowflake architecture and operations, alongside the performance and costs of any dependent cloud hosted infrastructures such as AWS or Azure.

Welcome to our monthly product newsletter - SigNal 24! Last month, our team worked on the upcoming trace and logs explorer page. With the new update, our users will be able to drive deeper insights into their application performance quickly. We also attended open source focused meetups and published a cost comparison blog comparing SigNoz with other popular observability tools. Let’s dive in to see what humans at SigNoz were up to in the month of April 2023.