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How to Use Service Level Objectives (SLOs) in Your IT Monitoring

Jan 13, 2025 By Wendy Howard In eG Innovations
With countless companies delivering their services digitally, reliability and performance are more important than ever. Whether you want to keep your website running 24/7 or ensure your application is responsive to user actions, you need a dependable way to measure your services’ performance and ensure they meet your requirements and those of your customers. Central to this is SLO (Service Level Objective). SLOs are targets that outline the expected performance of a particular service.
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Raygun's 2024 in review: New features that empower developers

Jan 8, 2025 By Rowan Tandy In Raygun
As 2024 wraps up, we’re taking a moment to look back at the updates and tools we launched to make your life as a developer and Raygun user easier. This year, we focused on enhancing how you monitor errors, track performance, and optimize user experiences. Here’s a breakdown of the key features we shipped in 2024.
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Monitoring in the Age of the Internet: DEM, IPM, and APM-What You Need to Know

Jan 8, 2025 By Gerardo Dada In Catchpoint
Gartner recently published the first ever Magic Quadrant for Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM). This landmark report raises important questions about what DEM is and why we need a new category now. It also prompts discussions about how DEM, Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM), and Application Performance Monitoring (APM) relate to each other and what roles they play in modern monitoring strategies.
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Engineering AI systems with Model Context Protocol

Jan 7, 2025 By Reilly Oldham In Raygun
On November 26, 2024, Anthropic released the Model Context Protocol (MCP)-an open standard for data exchange between applications and data sources. MCP simplifies how Large Language Models (LLMs) interact with external tools and data, addressing the challenges developers face when integrating AI into their systems. At Raygun, we've been exploring agentic workflows to improve productivity and saw real potential in MCP. This post will explain how MCP works, what we've implemented, and where we think the standard is headed.
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Top 10 .NET exceptions (part one)

Jan 6, 2025 By Rowan Tandy In Raygun
Exception handling is essential to.NET development, but not all exceptions are equal. Some, like NullReferenceException, surprise developers with unclear stack traces and production crashes. Others, such as MySQLException or HttpRequestException, often point to issues like resource mismanagement or network failures. At Raygun, we’ve worked with teams around the world to monitor and fix software issues, giving us deep insight into how exceptions occur and how to handle them effectively.
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Comparing The Top 9 Datadog Alternatives and Competitors in 2025

Jan 2, 2025 By Ankit Anand In SigNoz
Answer a few questions to get personalized recommendations in 30 seconds Start Now The rising costs and complexities of monitoring cloud infrastructure are pushing many organizations to explore alternatives to Datadog. With monthly bills sometimes reaching thousands of dollars and feature sets that can be overwhelming, teams are looking for practical, cost-effective solutions that better fit their needs.
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DataDog vs Prometheus - Comprehensive Comparison Guide [2025]

Jan 2, 2025 By Ankit Anand In SigNoz
Both DataDog and Prometheus are application monitoring tools aimed to improve application performance. While Datadog is a cloud-based SaaS solution, meaning there's no need to install or maintain any infrastructure, Prometheus is an open-source tool that requires manual download and installation on your infrastructure. Let us compare DataDog and Prometheus to see which tool suits The biggest difference between Datadog and Prometheus is that while Prometheus is open-source, Datadog is proprietary.
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Kibana vs. Grafana - A Scenario-Based Decision Guide [2025]

Jan 2, 2025 By Favour Daniel In SigNoz
Both Kibana and Grafana are data visualization tools providing users capabilities to explore, analyze and visualize data with dashboards. The difference between Kibana and Grafana lies in their genesis. Kibana was built on top of the Elasticsearch stack, famous for log analysis and management. In comparison, Grafana was created mainly for metrics monitoring supporting visualization for time-series databases.
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Top 14 ELK alternatives [open source included] in 2025

Jan 2, 2025 By Ankit Anand In SigNoz
ELK is the acronym Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana, and combined together, it is one of the most popular log analytics tools. Elastic changed the license of Elasticsearch and Kibana from the fully open Apache 2 license to a proprietary dual license. The ELK stack is also hard to manage at scale. In this article, we will discuss 14 ELK alternatives that you can consider using.
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