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9 Best Real User Monitoring Tools and How to Choose One for Your Business

Bugs are more likely to enter the equation as applications grow larger and more complicated, resulting in poor user experience. We tend to abandon applications when they don't load as quickly as we expect. Developers need code-level performance insights to deliver the optimal user experience. They also need to know which users are affected by issues so that they can reproduce the issue and work on a solution more quickly.

A Complete Guide To Use Git For Beginners

Writing code might be complex but it is easier to control with the right support tool. How do you know a new build of your software has shipped successfully? How do you know a single feature added to your website is working as you want it to? To ease the pain of tracking down all the issues, version control systems are useful tools that help you keep monitoring the changes that you make to your code.

SCOM Connection Center your single source of truth for all your enterprise tools

Most companies have SCOM. But you can never realize the true value of SCOM unless you integrate it with your other tools! Here at Cookdown, we’re passionate about making SCOM integrations, which is why we are so excited to announce the launch of our SCOM Connection Center. Now you can connect SCOM to anything with an API, allowing you to send notifications in real-time to any location or device.

10 Popular Alternatives to AppDynamics

Application performance is one of the most important factors in determining your brand reputation, revenue, and authenticity in the virtual marketplace. There are several ways to monitor your application’s health and performance. Some choose to do it the traditional way - manually. Others prefer to adopt an automated solution capable of monitoring an application 24/7 and producing useful visualizations all by itself.

Multitenancy: What You See vs. What They See

Multitenancy is one of the core concepts of cloud computing. As an organization considers bringing in cloud capabilities, it’s crucial for them to understand the full range of tenancy options available to them, and what each will mean for their company. This article will break down the intricacies of multitenancy, how it stacks up against other tenancy models, and its benefits.

Grafana dashboard showcase: Visualizations for Prometheus, home energy usage, GitHub, and more!

The Grafana community is one of the most vibrant in all of web development. And to celebrate the conclusion of GrafanCONline, the launch of Grafana 8 and Tempo 1.0, and so much more, we’re pleased to share this dashboard showcase. (And in case you missed any of the great sessions at GrafanaCONline, the videos are available on demand now!) Each of these 12 dashboards was built by our community, for our community.

How Biden's Executive Order on Improving Cybersecurity Will Impact Your Systems

President Joe Biden recently signed an executive order which made adhering to cybersecurity standards a legal requirement for federal departments and agencies. The move was not a surprise. It comes after a string of high-profile cyber-attacks and data breaches in 2020 and 2021. The frequency and scale of these events exposed a clear culture of lax cybersecurity practices throughout both the public and private sectors.

Rancher Desktop - An Open Source App for Desktop Kubernetes and Container Management

For those of us who need to get applications running in Kubernetes, having Kubernetes on the desktop is incredibly useful. When we want to focus on our applications, it’s especially useful when Kubernetes is easy to use. This is where Rancher Desktop comes in. Rancher Desktop provides easy-to-use Kubernetes and container management (something we’ll look at in a moment) for Mac and Windows. Having Kubernetes isn’t enough.

Mattermost plugins: The web app

This is the fourth installment in a series of articles on Mattermost plugins. First, we talked about how to set up your developer environment. We then examined the structure of server-side and web app plugins before walking through how to build a server-side plugin in Mattermost. In this piece, we’ll explore how to create web app plugins. The web app is written in JavaScript. It uses Redux, and you can write your plugin in Typescript as well. In this article, we’ll use JavaScript.