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

Monitor email workflows with Datadog Browser Tests

Monitoring your application from end to end is important for ensuring that core functionalities work as designed. Datadog’s browser tests help you verify that key user workflows—such as signing up for a new account—are consistent across devices and locations. Within these workflows, email often plays a key role in onboarding users and providing customers with important information about their accounts and application activity, such as profile changes and order confirmations.

Redefining Application Performance Monitoring: Trends to Watch Out in 2020

From monolithic architecture to distributed systems and microservices, the art of application development has changed over the years, and the needs for monitoring those applications have evolved with it. Application performance monitoring (APM) solutions now meet the monitoring needs of all applications deployed across various platforms, be it on-premise, cloud, or even hybrid models.

Getting Started With System Tests in Rails With Minitest

In today’s post, we’ll look at system tests in Rails 6. System tests are meant to auto-test the way users interact with your application, including the Javascript in your user interface. Minitest, being the default testing framework in Rails, is a great match for system testing. With all the configuration that Rails handles for us, there are just a few steps needed before we have our first tests up and running.

How we grew Sentry's monthly active users by rethinking invitations

At its core, Sentry is a tool that alerts you to defects in your production software. But it does more than blast stack traces into your inbox: Sentry provides powerful workflows to help your team determine root cause, triage issues to your team, and keep tabs on ongoing concerns with comments and notifications. These collaborative features can help you resolve problems with your software quickly.

Dormakaba Group leverages Logz.io to visualize and resolve production issues faster.

As the team responsible for building the first cloud access control solution, Exivo, the Cloud Development team at Dormakaba EMEA needed a logging solution that could scale throughout their global environment, handle a tremendous amount of throughput, integrate with their API, and remain extremely secure. Logz.io was the perfect fit for these requirements. Watch our latest Customer Perspective to learn how they leverage Logz.io to visualize and resolve production issues faster.

Pro Tip: Instantly Turn Slack Messages into Grafana Annotations with the Memo Tool

I have been a Grafana power user since almost the day it was conceived. During this time, I’ve gotten acquainted with a few quirks but also many features, some of which are rather obscure. One of these features that few know about but I absolutely love is annotations.

Introducing Git Blame Support for GitHub Integration

At Rollbar, we care about reducing the time it takes developers to find and fix errors. This is why we’re making our integration with GitHub even stronger to provide more context around errors and reduce the mean time it takes to resolve them MTTR. Last year, we launched Code Context to show additional lines of code within each frame of the stack trace, reducing the back and forth between GitHub and Rollbar.

Got Game? Secrets of Great Incident Management

When his phone wakes him at two in the morning, operations engineer Andy Pearson knows it’s bad news. There’s a major server problem, and hundreds of client websites are down. Automated monitoring checks detected the outage within seconds, and paged the on-call engineer. This time, it’s Pearson in the hot seat. Pearson quickly confirms the issue is real and, escalates it to his boss, tech lead Lewis Carey.