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The latest News and Information on Monitoring for Websites, Applications, APIs, Infrastructure, and other technologies.

Understand the End-User Experience With Holistic Monitoring

You’re expected to monitor the entire end-user experience, so you need to be able to do it all. SolarWinds can help. Together, SolarWinds Web Performance Monitor (WPM) and SolarWinds Pingdom can give you the holistic monitoring you need, especially with the recent integration we’ve announced. While WPM monitors the experience of the end users behind your firewall, Pingdom monitors the customers and prospects on the outside of it. With WPM and Pingdom, you can have a holistic view of the performance and availability of your various applications. We’ll show you the benefits of adding SolarWinds Pingdom, including the following.

Grafana 8.2 released: Dynamic plugin catalog, new fine-grained access control permissions, and more

Grafana 8.2 is here! This release marks the start of our work focused on measurable improvements to Grafana’s accessibility — part of our continuing mission to democratize metrics for everyone. The initial changes to Grafana in 8.2 are focused on navigation, with more to come. We’ll be sharing more about our accessibility roadmap in an upcoming blog post.

Automate, Group, and Get Alerted: A Best Practices Guide to Monitoring your Code - Part 2

Missed part one? Check out the full guide here. As companies grow, so do their products, teams, and the number of external tools. For engineers, that can mean code sprawl, data silos, notification fatigue, and some “what the…?” moments along the way as they try to make sense of it all.

PagerDuty Integration Spotlight: Honeycomb

Honeycomb delivers observability for modern engineering and DevOps teams to observe, debug, and improve production systems efficiently. The PagerDuty + Honeycomb integration uses Honeycomb Triggers to notify on-call responders based on alerts sent from Honeycomb. This integration is maintained and supported by Honeycomb. Liz Fong-Jones from Honeycomb joined us live on Twitch to share more about how Honeycomb and PagerDuty can be used together to help your teams and to do some live investigation into Honeycomb’s own performance data.

Logs for Ops

The evolution of machine data and logging in general has shifted multiple times over the last couple of decades. The log began with Unix and was rooted in command line actions like tail or grep. It evolved from system-based logs to application-based logs and eventually became more UI-friendly and readable. Not only has the log itself evolved, but the purpose of the log and audience for the log has morphed over time as well.

Dashboard Fridays

We are excited to announce a new community initiative – Dashboard Fridays. Dashboard Fridays is a bite-sized video series where we share and discuss a range of different dashboards created for the community, by the community. Each video is no longer than 20min, so grab a coffee and let’s talk dashboards! Each episode, we will zoom in on one stellar dashboard put together by a member of the community.