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

A Deep Dive into SignalFx Microservices APM Alerts

The promise of NoSample™ full-fidelity distributed tracing with unlimited cardinality exploration is that no application performance degradation will be sampled away. This ensures that executions, which exemplify problems related to latency and/or errors will be retained for further inspection and analysis. Additional value can be extracted from trace data by determining when such investigations should occur, in other words, by identifying spikes and anomalies in endpoint latency or error rate.

Current State of Development: Dashboards

Icinga Web is equipped with various features to create and manage custom views in dashboards. We’ve taken not that many users are missing some features for dashboards, like drag and drop and a better sharing functionality. To meet those needs we set ourselves the goal to increase the overall flexibility of dashboards and to add new features that improve the management and sharing functionality.

The 7 Essential Metrics for Amazon EC2 Monitoring

Amazon EC2 offers a flexible and convenient way to run virtual machines in the cloud. With dozens of EC2 instance types available, as well as multiple pricing options, it’s easy to use EC2 to configure the best cloud-based virtual machines for your needs and budget. One thing that EC2 doesn’t make very easy on its own, however, is monitoring.

Why Synthetic Monitoring is a Must for SaaS-based Solutions

Bounded to service level agreements (SLAs), vendors must monitor performance of their SaaS-based solutions for an optimal user experience. Monitoring performance of a SaaS-based solutions is a challenge since it varies extensively across user locations and geographies. These applications and their content need to travel a rigorous path of geography-specific variables (CDNs, local ISPs, etc.) en route to users. This level of complexity can eventually effect the experiences of end users differently.

Anodot - Autonomous Business Monitoring

Business metrics are notoriously hard to monitor because of their unique context and volatile nature. Anodot’s Business Monitoring platform uses machine learning to constantly analyze and correlate every business parameter, providing real-time alerts and forecasts in their context. Anodot reduces detection and resolution for revenue-critical issues by as much as 70%. We have your back, so you’re free to play the offense and grow your business.

Monitoring AWS Services For Business Continuity

Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides tools that help with application management, machine learning, end-user computing, and much more. Users that utilize AWS, more than likely, have a combination of the many services AWS offers. LogicMonitor consolidates data from these services and empowers users to monitor them side by side with the rest of their infrastructure, whether it’s in the Cloud or on-premises. Keep reading for tips on monitoring some of these services to ensure business continuity.

Get a jump on errors with Sentry and Atlassian

Recently, Atlassian announced 12 new features to help improve collaboration across software teams. These new capabilities and some help from Sentry & friends aim to help developers spend more time building the products and services their customers want. Here’s a more detailed look at how Sentry integrates with Atlassian products and leverages Bitbucket’s new Code Insights feature.

Azure Dashboards: SquaredUp vs. Azure Portal (Part 3 - Cost Management)

Previously on this Azure dashboards series, we covered making dashboards natively in the Azure portal vs. SquaredUp for Azure for VMInsights and AppInsights. In this third and final part we will be comparing our dashboard experiences when it comes to cloud cost management and visualization. We’ve already talked about the resource-level cost dashboards in the previous parts, our main goal in this one is to display costs on the subscription level. Alright, let’s jump straight into it!