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Postman is highly popular in the testing tools space for verifying API requests. While its use for general API testing is widely adopted, conducting load testing with Postman is not as straightforward. In this post, we assume that you have some experience working with Postman and are familiar with the fundamentals of creating and sending requests. If you’re new to Postman, there are numerous resources available in the Postman Learning Center.

In the world where digital infrastructure forms the backbone of operations, incidents—disruptions to service, system downtime, security breaches, or technical failures—are inevitable. For any organization that depends on technology, the ability to respond swiftly and effectively to these incidents can mean the difference between a minor hiccup and a business catastrophe.

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams play a very important role in ensuring that digital services remain operational. However, at times, they can face certain incidents and outages, which are inevitable for any complex system. During these disruptions, it is important to respond quickly and efficiently to reduce the impact on the organization and its users. This is where Slack War Rooms come into the picture. When an outage strikes, the clock starts ticking.

OpenTelemetry has quickly become a must-have tool in the DevOps toolkit. It helps us understand how our applications are performing and how our systems are behaving. As more and more organizations move to cloud-native architectures and microservices, it's super important to have great monitoring and tracing in place. OpenTelemetry provides a strong and flexible framework for capturing data that helps DevOps engineers keep our systems running smoothly and efficiently.

In this quarterly product update, you’ll discover how to customize ilert dashboards to fit your team’s needs, find advanced filters for building complex alert actions, and reduce costs as an MSP using ilert status pages.

Data's critical role in business operations has intensified the need for reliable information management. As companies increasingly base their decisions and growth strategies on data-driven insights, maintaining high-quality datasets has become essential. Data observability offers a novel approach, transforming how organizations comprehend and maintain their information assets.

Learn how to effectively monitor the OTEL Collector with best practices and implementation strategies for improved system performance.

The Azure Cloud platform processes an extensive variety of data including Eventhub Diagnostic Logs, Kubernetes Metrics, SQL Logs, Activity Logs, Container Activity Logs, and Azure Metrics. Depending on the requirements of your organization these logs offer various levels of importance and priority. But it’s more than likely that you will be monitoring a large variety of these logs.

RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka, and Redis are some of the most popular microservices message brokers on the market. However, while they’re all the same type of tool, they each offer different features that make them better adapted for specific use cases. To further understand this, in this article, we will outline the main similarities and differences between these tools and highlight which is the best tool for various use cases.

With few exceptions, businesses of any scale depend on the internet. So, it’s all-important to manage and protect the external attack surface it presents to the world. An organization's external attack surface consists of the totality of possible entry points through which an unauthorized user can access an IT environment. This includes everything from websites, web applications and APIs to remote access points and cloud services.