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When it comes to the relative merits of hybrid work approaches, there can be a range of opinions; some are strong advocates, some see significant downsides, and many fall somewhere in between. About the one thing pretty much everyone can agree upon is that the rise in hybrid work has made the jobs of IT operations teams much more challenging. On any given day, a user may be working in the office, from their home kitchen, a neighborhood café, or just about anywhere else.

Anna Kapuścińska is a Software Engineer at Isovalent, who has a rich experience wearing both developer and SRE hats across the industry. Now she works on Isovalent observability products such as Hubble, Tetragon, and Timescape, as well as the respective Grafana integrations for all of them.

In a rapidly evolving realm of IT, organizations are constantly seeking peak performance and dependability, leading them to rely on a reliable observability platform to obtain valuable system insights. Logs vs metrics play a vital role, as any full-stack observability guide would tell you, serving as essential elements for efficient system monitoring and troubleshooting. But what are logs and metrics, exactly?

At Lumigo, we see ourselves as your reliable ally in the noble mission of detecting and vanquishing troublesome issues that lurk within your serverless and container applications. Our secret sauce? Equipping you with a wealth of detailed trace data, ensuring you’re always well-lit and ready for battle when the nefarious ‘bugs’ make their unsolicited appearances.

Core Web Vitals (CWV) are Google's preferred metrics for measuring the quality of the user experience for browser web apps. Currently, Core Web Vitals measure loading performance, interactivity, and visual stability. These are the main indicators of what a user’s experience will be while using a web page.

Logz.io is excited to announce Service Overview, a fast and easy way to unify telemetry data and insights across your infrastructure and applications into a single interface. Our Beta users have reported simplified observability, faster time-to-insights, and observability consolidation.

In this guide, we will compare two of the leading data visualization tools based upon open-source software that are available for use for metrics, traces and log analysis. To allow new users to know exactly which solution may be best suited to their needs, we wanted to explore in more depth a comparison between OpenSearch Dashboards and Kibana across various aspects in our latest guide covering the differences between leading open-source software.

In the ever-evolving landscape of enterprise technology, certain milestones mark the transition from innovation to recognition by early adopters to widespread adoption. Gone are the days when Kubernetes was just a segmented buzzword or something only the tech-savvy companies played with. Today, it's a force to be reckoned with, and we need to take a closer look at what it means for us.

We just released support for custom metadata in Request Metrics! Metadata allows you to describe your user, session, application, environment, account, A/B Test, or whatever else is meaningful for you. You can add metadata through the browser agent API, and report & filter on it in the Reporting UI.

PHP is fast but it's performance can suffer when it's overwhelmed by I/O operations such as making a request to an external API or handling file uploads. In this article, you'll learn how to create asynchronous PHP applications using ReactPHP to solve this problem.