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Ask Miss O11y: OpenTelemetry in the Front End: Tracing Across Page Load

Ah, good question! TL;DR: store the start time of the span, and then create the span on the new page. Usually, you want to start a span, do some work, and then end the span. The whole span gets sent to your OpenTelemetry collector (and thence to Honeycomb) when you end it. But when a page load happens, that span object is lost. Honeycomb never hears about it becausespan.end()wasn’t called. How can we deal with this? Create the span only on the new page, where you can end it. But!

What is Digital Experience Monitoring, and How Can it Help Companies?

Customer-centered business practices have become a major focal point in IT innovation. The advent of massive communication has brought forth a big challenge, however: how does one provide a top-notch customer experience when there are so many factors to account for? The market’s answer to this conundrum is monitoring software.

9 popular JavaScript frameworks (and how to choose one for your project)

Choosing a JavaScript framework for a new project can be a daunting task. There’s always a new one getting hype from the community, while the established players still have a lot to offer. So you need to do your homework and make sure the framework you choose is the right one for your specific requirements. Popularity alone is never the best indicator, but a review of the most widely-used options should help you decide which way to go.

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Business Consulting Software (5 Factors To Consider)

Business consulting software is the missing piece of the puzzle for many consulting businesses that are struggling to facilitate growth. With the right tools and systems at your disposal, it's possible to build a scalable consulting business that fires on all cylinders. Many underestimate the importance of picking the right software solutions to power a consulting business operation.

Create and navigate a documentation library with Notebooks

Datadog Notebooks enable your teams to create and manage key reports and documentation as they build out, monitor, and maintain their infrastructure. Notebooks can include both text and graphs of any telemetry data you have collected in Datadog, and they support collaborative editing so that multiple team members can edit and leave comments simultaneously.

Traditional vs Modern Incident Response

An incident is an event (network outage, system failure, data breach, etc.) that can lead to loss of, or disruption to, an organization's operations, services or functions. Incident Response is an organization’s effort to detect, analyze and correct the hazards caused due to an incident. In the most common cases, when an incident response is mentioned, it usually relates to security incidents. Sometimes incident response and incident management are more or less used interchangeably.