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Top 5 New Relic Competitors and Alternatives to Try

New Relic is one popular for SaaS-based Application Performance Management capable of providing you with a flexible and dynamic approach to monitoring. It is considered to be effective but some may feel it is not cost-effective for small-meidum-size businesses and comes with a very high learning curve. If you want an APM that you can get started quickly, requiring minimal training or experience, New Relic may not be for you.

The new Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring plugin brings the SaaS formerly known as SignalFx to your Grafana dashboards

Greetings! This is Mike reporting from the Solutions Engineering team at Grafana Labs. In previous posts, you might have read our beginner’s guide to distributed tracing and how it can help to increase your application’s performance. In this post, we are back to talk about metrics and showcase another one of our newest favorite Enterprise plugins: Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring (formerly known as SignalFx)!

The next Big Thing in Azure Database Monitoring Landscape

Today’s applications are expected to be highly responsive and always online. Such circumstances excite the pressure on applications to respond in real-time to large changes in usage at peak hours, store ever-increasing volumes of data and make it available in milliseconds. Azure Database Services comes to rescue in such situations, and Azure supports many industry-standard databases and APIs.

Feature Spotlight: Golden Signals

As a team we have spent many years troubleshooting performance problems in production systems. Applications have gotten so complex you need a standard methodology to understand performance. Fortunately right now there are a couple of common frameworks we can borrow from: Despite using different acronyms and terms, they fortunately are all different ways of describing the same thing.

Remote Team Management: The Do's and Don'ts

Remote team management has always been different for team managers and leaders. Not just challenging, but different. Not having the luxury to rub shoulders often and not having the liberty to have the entire team under one roof has compelled leaders to acquire new and innovative approaches to remote leadership. And while leadership styles and management approaches are ever-evolving, there are some core principles of effective remote team management that team leaders can stick to.

Top Benefits of Cloud-Based Log Management

In the ultracompetitive times in which we live, organizations must leverage every asset at their disposal if they’re to survive and thrive. Log data is undoubtedly valuable, so having a proper log management strategy in place is vital for any tech team . Unfortunately, implementing a great log management strategy isn’t as easy as it sounds. It involves many factors, including the selection of an adequate tool.

Monitoring Node.js Health and CPU Usage

What’s the most wanted feature for a Node.js application? Well, high performance with no downtime is one of the top answers for this question. But how do you accomplish this? Monitoring is key to gain a better understanding of the health of your application. For example, by implementing monitoring, you can detect problems, such as a memory leak or long-running processes that block the Node.js event loop.

The True Cost of IT Failures (and What to Do Instead)

In this age of digital transformation, any issues with your IT infrastructure can cause major disruptions to your business. On top of this, IT environments that support critical business applications continue to get more complex and dynamic. As failures, outages, and incidents increase in volume and cost, the risk of an outage within your company becomes a very expensive one.

What does the future hold for supply chain processes?

Global supply chains have been under immense pressure over the past year, fighting to keep up with unprecedented demand for online goods and critical healthcare supplies while battling stock shortages around the world. However, businesses on the whole came out swinging, managing to scale quickly and competently adapt to the restrictive working procedures necessary to fulfil orders and keep customers happy.

Show Your Query You Love It By Naming It

Honeycomb is all about collaboration: We believe that observability is a team sport, and we want to give you as many tools to help your team get the ball down the field (i.e., untangle knotty problems) as we can. We want you to be able to share the current state of your work so that others can follow and figure out what’s up, and we want you to leave breadcrumbs so the next time you’re stuck here, you can find your way back.