Those who have been paying close attention might have recently noticed small changes in sessions, browsers and platforms lists on Raygun. If you’re using RUM to diagnose user experience issues in different browsers and operating systems down to the detailed versions you will have seen that those details are not always available, with browser versions listed more generally as Firefox 102.0 or Chrome 103.0, for example.

As a DevOps engineer or SRE, you are often faced with investigating complex problems — mysterious application performance issues that happen intermittently or to only certain portions of your application traffic — that impact your end users and potentially your company’s financial targets. Sifting through hundreds or even thousands of transactions and spans can be a lot of tedious, manual, and time consuming investigative work.

Raygun4Apple can now be added to your project using the newer Swift Package Manager, instead of Cocopods. Raygun4Apple provides Crash Reporting and Real User Monitoring for iOS, tvOS & macOS. Users of Raygun4Apple can now add it to their project by adding a reference to our GitHub repository. If you are not familiar with Swift, You might also want to check out Apple’s guide on how to add Swift packages in xcode first.

Finding the root cause of application performance issues is the crux of every app troubleshooting exercise. So why don’t more APM tools provide great root cause analysis? The trouble is – pun intended – the cause of a slow application can come from different sources, many outside the application itself. So APM tools that focus on the ‘A’ may never truly find the root cause.

An enterprise IT company hosted a large industry event that drew attendees from all around the globe, including key technology leaders. Organizers knew that their IT offerings needed to be top notch to ensure attendees were happy when it came to event experience. The event application allowed attendees to browse and register for sessions at the event. So, organizers needed to be able to identify issues in real-time and fix them quickly.

More organizations are upgrading from siloed infrastructure and application monitoring tools to full-stack observability solutions. That's great — but what if your team can't quit its tried-and-true legacy tools, even when they're unfit for modern apps and infrastructure?

N+1 query problem is a problem in database retrieval where the related entities of an object are queried individually from a database, leading to O(n) queries where n is the number of related entities of the object. Mouthful of words, I agree 🙂 Let’s take an example to illustrate what it means.

Over the last couple of years, Kubernetes (often called K8s) has become the most popular and well-known container orchestration system for automating application deployment, scaling, and management. Scheduling containers at scale in a cloud-native ecosystem is central to the technology. Kubernetes itself is an open-source project, and as such presents challenges for many enterprises especially in regulated industries with strong security requirements and formal SLA commitments.

Welcome back to our monthly product updates - SigNal! The latest release of SigNoz is now available with Logs management. You can use SigNoz as your one-stop open source observability solution with logs, metrics, and traces under a single pane of glass. We also participated in podcasts, held office hours, and got featured as one of the top promising startups in the DevOps ecosystem. Let’s see what humans at SigNoz were up to in the month of August 2022!