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Get Deep Insights Into Your Heroku Applications with Our Comprehensive Cheatsheet

Are you looking to streamline your development process, boost productivity, and deploy your applications effortlessly? Look no further! We are thrilled to announce the release of our Heroku monitoring cheatsheet, designed to be your go-to resource for monitoring Heroku applications.

Microsoft Teams Outage, TM612617: Users may be unable to access Microsoft Teams using web browsers

This morning, Microsoft Teams suffered an outage with users unable to access Microsoft Teams unless they were using the Teams client. Editor’s Note: This outage lasted about 2 hours including the time to roll out a fix, Exoprise customers knew of the issue around 35 minutes before Microsoft. Exoprise proactive monitoring first detected the outage in North America starting at 7:20 AM EDT.

Troubleshoot with Kubernetes events

When Kubernetes components like nodes, pods, or containers change state—for example, if a pod transitions from pending to running—they automatically generate objects called events to document the change. Events provide key information about the health and status of your clusters—for example, they inform you if container creations are failing, or if pods are being rescheduled again and again. Monitoring these events can help you troubleshoot issues affecting your infrastructure.

Best practices for monitoring CDN logs

By storing copies of your content in geographically distributed servers, content delivery networks (CDNs) enable you to extend the reach of your app without sacrificing performance. CDNs lessen the demand on individual web hosts by increasing the number and regional spread of servers that are able to respond to incoming requests for cached content. As a result, they can deliver web content faster and provide a better experience for your end users.

Network visibility makes all the difference! The key to Managed Service Providers to protecting your customer data

In a world where technology is ubiquitous, network security is of paramount importance. Every day that goes by, cybercrime evolves and becomes more sophisticated. They improve the materials of their balaclavas and spend more on incognito sunglasses. In 2015, the damage caused by cybercrime already cost the world 3 trillion dollars, since then the figure has only multiplied. No wonder companies are looking for ways to protect themselves against cyberattacks, don’t you think?

Sentry Performance: application performance monitoring built for Developers

Performance is an application monitoring platform built for developers to identify performance bottlenecks, identify their root cause, assign to the owner of the code, and fix. With workflows that trace performance issues from frontend to backend and identify exact line of code, Performance helps minimize time spent troubleshooting problems to maximize time spent coding new features.

Advice when starting a new project.

Are you getting into something new? Starting a new project, or side hustle? Awesome, that's a big step! My best advice is to get real feedback from you system and actually look at it. Look at the logs, check your analytics. See what real people do. It makes all the difference in the world, there is a lot of phantom advice out there from people who are not actually your users.

Unleash the Potential of Your Log and Event Data, Including AI's Growing Impact

In this Techstrong Learning Experience, Techstrong Research GM Mike Rothman and André Rocha, VP Product & Operations from ChaosSearch, will share insights from a recent Techstrong audience poll on this topic, and discuss the most pressing challenges and solutions, including the inevitable and significant impact of Generative AI.

Putting the Network in Observability

With the accelerating use of DevOps and cloud-native infrastructure, observability is all the rage. Organizations, large and small, are doing their best to make sense of the logs, metrics and traces generated by their applications to identify performance and availability issues. But what about the network? It seems that many organizations forgot that network telemetry has always been the foundation of any monitoring initiative relating to performance, security, or availability. In this Techstrong Learning Experience, Techstrong Research GM Mike Rothman is joined by Phil Gervasi and Rosalind Whitley from Kentik to discuss how network observability adds depth and context to any APM or security analysis environment. Mike also highlights data from a recent network observability survey done by Techstrong Research. In this learning experience, you’ll learn.