Welcome to our monthly product newsletter - SigNal 24! Last month, our team worked on the upcoming trace and logs explorer page. With the new update, our users will be able to drive deeper insights into their application performance quickly. We also attended open source focused meetups and published a cost comparison blog comparing SigNoz with other popular observability tools. Let’s dive in to see what humans at SigNoz were up to in the month of April 2023.

In today's digital landscape, where performance is a key factor in delivering exceptional user experiences, organizations rely on performance monitoring tools to optimize their applications and networks. From Application Performance Monitoring (APM) to Network Performance Monitoring (NPM), these tools provide valuable insights into the performance of critical components in the technology stack.

Data can be overwhelming. The purpose of this blog is help you sift through data to find exactly what you need to use it in a meaningful way when solving Citrix problems. After working in performance benchmarking and analysis, one thing I noticed is only the really really big companies have full-time staff dedicated to doing analysis on a daily basis. Which means, it’s up to the generalists, or Jacks and Jills-of-all-trades, to review data and make sense of it. How does one do this?

Democratize observability for engineering teams of all sizes! That’s the vision that drives us every day. SigNoz is open source, provides three signals (logs, metrics, and traces) under a single pane, and is OpenTelemetry-native. And it also costs lesser than other popular observability tools. We did a cost analysis of SigNoz and compared it with other vendors like DataDog, New Relic, and Grafana.

Multi-tenancy is an architecture in which a single instance of a software application and its underlying resources serves multiple customers, each customer is called a tenant. Multi-tenant architectures are the foundation of most SaaS offerings. Monitoring and troubleshooting multi-tenancy architectures can be challenging.A tenant can be an individual user, but more commonly, it is a group of users like a customer organization.

An IT incident is an unplanned disruption that negatively impacts an IT service. As the importance of IT to the business has increased, the impact of IT incidents has become greater. IT incidents can result in revenue loss, loss of employee productivity, SLA financial penalties, government fines, and more. An effective IT incident management strategy is now essential in every organization. For a business like Amazon whose entire business relies on IT, a single second of slowness can cost over $15,000.

In today's digital world, applications are the backbone of many businesses. From web-based software to on-premises applications, they allow organizations to streamline their operations, increase productivity, and improve customer experiences. However, with the growing complexity of applications and the increasing demand for seamless performance, it has become crucial to monitor their performance continuously.

Event logging for Microsoft Windows provides a standard, centralized way for applications and the operating system to record important software and hardware events. The event-logging service (eventlog) stores events from various sources in a single collection called an event log. The system administrator can use the event log to help determine what conditions caused the error and the context in which it occurred. TechTarget have an excellent overview of Windows event logs available.

As the growth lead of an open-source APM tool, I keep interacting with developers from companies of all shapes and sizes. I recently talked with a developer from a fintech startup in India. The startup provides a payment processing platform that enables businesses to accept payments from customers worldwide. For them, monitoring is critical, but the dev shared how limited they were when exploring an APM tool for their application. The reason? Reserve Bank of India.