We're excited to share that AppSignal has once again been recognized as one of the top performance and error monitoring tools in the 2024 Ruby on Rails Community Survey. This year, we maintained our position as the fifth most popular performance monitoring tool and climbed from seventh to fourth place in the error tracking rankings. This result means that AppSignal now stands shoulder-to-shoulder alongside some much larger competitors that are backed by a combined $600 million in venture capital funding.

Frontend development has evolved rapidly over the past decade, but one challenge remains constant: understanding what’s happening in real-time across diverse browsers, environments, and user interactions. This is where observability steps in—but how does it apply to the frontend world where user experience can break in countless, unexpected ways?

With a growing network sector, flourishing digital landscape, and exciting growth targets, there’s never been a better time to expand your business to Italy. Italy has long been known for its rich history, culture, cuisine, and natural beauty. But beyond tourism, Italy is an economic powerhouse and a growing player in the global tech scene. In recent years the country has experienced impressive growth, emerging as one of the largest economies in Europe.

In pursuit of open source sustainability, Canonical is a committed contributor to the development of Valkey. Following our mission to amplify the impact of open source and enable a broad diversity of open source communities to collaborate under the Ubuntu umbrella, we’re pleased to announce that Valkey is now included in Ubuntu. Valkey is included in Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular Oriole) and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Nombat) and will be included in future releases.

Keeping your IT infrastructure organized and functioning well requires several systems, and hardware tracking is one of them. Managing the location, condition, and lifecycle of hardware assets like computers, servers, and networking equipment can be challenging. Without proper tracking, organizations often face unexpected costs, underutilized resources, and compliance issues. But with the right system in place, hardware tracking can be straightforward and highly beneficial.

Migrating your data infrastructure can sound daunting, especially when you’re dealing with complex systems like OpenSearch. But what if it could be easier—almost ridiculously easy? If you’re thinking, “Hey, wait a second—could this be as seamless as it sounds?” You’re in for a pleasant surprise. In this blog, we’re diving into how moving and Simplifying Your Data Node Migration with Graylog makes the process smooth, secure, and efficient.

Core Web Vitals are a set of performance metrics introduced by Google to help website owners and developers improve the user experience. These metrics are: “Core Web Vitals are a set of real-world, user-centered metrics that quantify key aspects of the user experience.” — Google.

As an SRE, you constantly juggle proactive tasks to improve reliability and scalability with reactive firefighting when issues arise—often leaving little time to address the root causes. This is not unlike the firefighters of Ancient Rome, the Vigiles, who were tasked with not only responding to fires but also preventing them. Established in 6 AD under Emperor Augustus, the Vigiles patrolled the streets of Rome, looking for potential fire hazards.

Cybercrime is expected to exceed $10.5 trillion in 2025. To put that into perspective, the total U.S. GDP in 2023 was $21 trillion. So why is cybercrime so profitable? The answer lies in the ‘perfect storm’ of conditions we currently face. Today’s organizations are totally reliant on their digital assets to function. This dependence gives bad actors the opportunity to extract data, digital assets, and money once they are inside a network—often without human intervention.

Over the summer we told you about an update to our core Prometheus data source, which was part of a larger shift in our effort to meet users where they are. It’s a change we’re really excited about, as it represents our biggest step yet toward enabling the creation of truly vendor-neutral data sources for Grafana.