The latest News and Information on Monitoring for Websites, Applications, APIs, Infrastructure, and other technologies.
It can be challenging to understand the specific factors that can cause traffic to surge on your website. Sometimes there are temporary spikes, usually related to sales or special events, and other times this increase in traffic can be permanent. Website owners should be ready to handle large volumes of visitors as any breakdown, no matter how short-lived, can cause you to lose potential business.
We recently launched a new design for our technical documentation. The goal of the redesign was to make our technical documentation more accessible, modern, and scalable as we grow. In addition to a new look (hello, new typeface and layout!), our updated docs pages reveal the underlying work our team has done to evolve and enhance our technical documentation.
In the early hours of Wednesday, January 25, Microsoft’s public cloud suffered a major outage that disrupted their cloud-based services and popular applications such as Sharepoint, Teams, and Office 365. Microsoft has since blamed the outage on a flawed router command which took down a significant portion of the cloud’s connectivity beginning at 07:09 UTC.
OpenTelemetry (OTel) is an open source, vendor-neutral observability framework that supplies APIs, SDKs, and tools for the instrumentation of cloud-native applications and services. OTel enables you to collect metrics, logs, and traces from a variety of sources and route them to various backends. By itself, however, it can’t help you analyze this data or correlate telemetry from different parts of your stack.
