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

Scout APM: Reasons to Get a New Dog

Veteran programmer? Experienced application performance monitoring (APM) connoisseur? Whatever your specific tech chops, you know the importance of ensuring your applications are running optimally. Every minute a business app is down or slow to respond translates into lost revenue and frustrated customers. That’s why smart businesses rely on APM solutions to monitor and analyze their applications’ performance in real-time.

Maximizing Efficiency: How Application Performance Management (APM) Can Help You Cut Server Costs

With server costs mounting due to both demand and complexity, businesses of all sizes are beginning to explore how they can optimize their server infrastructure to reduce costs. One of the most effective strategies for doing this is Application Performance Monitoring (APM): the use of a dedicated tool to proactively monitor, diagnose, and troubleshoot performance issues in real-time.

Combining APM and RUM to Improve Your User Experience

Providing an intuitive user experience that caters to your audience’s needs is essential for your business. By combining APM and RUM, you can help eliminate application issues and give your users a seamless experience. Combining APM and RUM helps you look at both the front-end and back-end of your application, find and fix issues. Don’t quite know what APM and RUM are? Let’s take a closer look.

Why You Need an Integrated APM to Monitor Operating Costs

Application performance monitoring (APM) solutions are essential for any business looking to manage its operations efficiently. By providing real-time insights into the performance of your applications, APM solutions can help you quickly identify areas that need improvement and prevent costly mistakes from occurring in the future. But with so many different types of APM solutions on the market today, how do you know which one is right for your company?

4 New AWS Monitoring Dashboards for EC2, EBS, RDS and S3

This is just a quick blog to draw attention to some new and enhanced monitoring dashboards we have added to eG Enterprise in the upcoming release (v 7.2) to provide quick and powerful overviews of a range of AWS services. As with all our dashboards, color-coded overlays provide guided drilldown for help desk operators and administrators. If a component has an issue, an amber or red indicator is overlaid to allow the viewer to click through to further diagnostic information.

5 Best Practices for Real User Monitoring

Real User Monitoring (RUM) is a method of web performance monitoring that captures user experience metrics on visitors to your website. It is also known as real user metrics, end-user experience monitoring, or simply user monitoring. You can think of Real User Monitoring as an automated way to get user feedback on your website. Not every user will complete a survey or fill out a feedback form, but RUM listens to each one of your users.

Introducing CloudZero Support For New Relic: Enabling A More Efficient Approach To Observability

As a leader in observability and application performance monitoring (APM), New Relic empowers engineers with a data-driven approach to planning, building, deploying, and running great software. Last month, we announced support for New Relic on the CloudZero platform. With this new functionality, customers can gain visibility into their New Relic spend, combine it with any other IT or infrastructure spend, and achieve a complete view of business dimensions — such as products and customers.

How OpenTelemetry Powers Observability @ Canva

Canva is an online design platform with a mission to empower everyone in the world to design anything and publish anywhere. To guarantee our customers have the best experience using our products, Canva engineers rely on the tools and products provided by the Observability team to measure and quantify critical application health and performance metrics. Canva’s Observability team uses OpenTelemetry components to collect, transform and export standardised telemetry data from our applications and platforms. Canva has been an early adopter of OTel using OTel SDK for tracing and the collector gateway to process and export telemetry to various tools. In this talk we’ll take a deeper look at how Canva uses OTel in our current observability workflows.