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How Dapper Labs uses Grafana Cloud to meet the global demand of NFT Mania

Ever since a JPEG created by the digital artist Beeple sold for more than $69 million in 2021, the worldwide obsession with NFTs (non-fungible tokens) that represent digital collectibles, art, and media has been growing. A company at the forefront of the NFT world is the blockchain gaming studio Dapper Labs, which leverages blockchain to build addictive games (such as CryptoKitties), verify authentic digital collectibles, and run fan tokens for sports personalities and music artists.

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Error monitoring and exception handling in large-scale software projects

Large-scale software projects don't care how many unit tests you put into your code. Or how sophisticated your CI/CD pipeline is. Or how robustly you run blue-green deployments to ease into newly-deployed code. These projects will inevitably find themselves subjected to your users, who will uncover bugs your team didn't catch and didn't even think to test for.

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Golden Signals - Monitoring from first principles

Building a successful monitoring process for your application is essential for high availability. In the first of this three-part blog series, Safeer discusses the four key SRE Golden Signals for metrics-driven measurement, and the role it plays in the overall context of Monitoring. Monitoring is the cornerstone of operating any software system or application effectively. The more visibility you have into the software and hardware systems, the better you are at serving your customers. It tells you whether you are on the right track and, if not, by how much you are missing the mark.

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Detect and Fix Slow Proxies For SaaS and Cloud

Crowdsourcing is becoming an essential part of many enterprises, from big companies to startups. This is because it is an incredible way of creating an ecosystem to facilitate different processes within a business. Leveraging the Exoprise platform, companies can benchmark their slow proxies, detect, and fix slow network experiences. Crowdsourcing entails getting information, goods, or services from disparate people worldwide. Often, crowdsourcing is made possible through the magic of cloud-based applications and platforms because of the way the Internet connects people and organizations. Exoprise specializes in crowdsourced monitoring of cloud and SaaS services. We call it crowd-powered.

4 compelling reasons why you need a network discovery tool and 5 ways OpManager helps

Businesses now scale exponentially and so do their networks. Managing a hybrid IT environment that comprises wired, wireless, and virtual networks can be a challenging task for network administrators. However, continuous monitoring of these devices for fault and performance is crucial. Network discovery is key to successful monitoring solutions.

Infographic: Achieving True Observability With the 4Ts

Ready to “rewind the movie” to see exactly what was going on in your stack at any moment in time? Ready to quickly go straight to the original source of the problem to solve issues faster? Check out our new infographic, Achieving True Observability With the 4Ts, to see how StackState’s unique 4T® data model correlates topology, telemetry and traces at every moment in time, to deliver real-time contextual insights into your entire IT landscape.

Now in beta: Direct monitoring

Contact us to get access to our direct monitoring beta feature today! For more than 7 years, StatusGator has monitored the world’s status pages and aggregated the status of more than 1,000 cloud services into custom dashboards. With a quick glance, you can see the status of every service you depend on. But what if a website you depend on does not have a status page? What about internal tools, sites you host yourself, and other services without public status information?