The latest News and Information on Monitoring for Websites, Applications, APIs, Infrastructure, and other technologies.
96% of companies now use or are in the process of evaluating Kubernetes. As the maturity and complexity of Kubernetes environments grow, costs quickly spiral out of control when an effective strategy for visibility and optimization is not in place.
Kentik Synthetics is all about proactive monitoring. With synthetic monitoring, you can investigate users’ digital experience by peeling back, layer by layer, exactly what’s going on in every aspect of the digital experience from the network layer all the way to application. Because synthetic tests can be so granular, the results provide different information than you can get from flows, streaming telemetry or other observability data.
The invention of computers gave us the promise of high speed, a new user experience, and extreme reliability. Early research by Robert B. Miller, who helped design some of the earliest IBM computers, discussed the transactions between humans and computers. Miller believed users require a response from a machine within two seconds to maintain their concentration and productivity.
Synthetic monitoring tools have long formed a core part of application performance management and monitoring toolsets. Yet no matter how familiar you are with synthetic monitoring, there is likely room to get more out of it than you currently are. Indeed, the default approach to synthetic monitoring tends to involve using it reactively: problems occur in production, and your team uses synthetic monitoring to help understand and remediate them.
Since our founding, Lumigo has worked hard to build innovative technology that meets the real-world needs of our customers in a cloud-first world. Today, we’re excited to be recognized for our work in serverless operations and the AI market by the experts at Frost & Sullivan, who have awarded Lumigo with the prestigious Best Practices Technology Award in Europe and Israel.
It’s been an exciting few days at Cribl. A week ago, we announced our $150 Million Series D funding round led by Tiger Global, with participation from existing investors IVP, CRV, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Greylock! We also announced an exciting new product: Cribl Search! We’ve been blown away by the excitement from our customers thus far.
