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How External Dependencies Affect SLAs: Managing Third-Party Risk

Modern applications rely heavily on external services to function properly. From payment processors to CDN providers, these external dependencies can significantly impact your ability to meet Service Level Agreements. Understanding how external dependencies affect SLAs is crucial for maintaining reliable services and managing customer expectations.

13 Proven Node.js Monitoring Best Practices You Need

What if your Node.js application suddenly froze during peak hours? Imagine thousands of users trying to log in, make payments, or send messages; instead, they’re stuck waiting. Every second feels like a countdown to frustration, churn, and bad reviews. The truth is, Node.js is powerful but unforgiving. It runs on a single-threaded event loop, meaning just one poorly optimized task or slow dependency can bottleneck your entire app. When performance slips, it affects every customer simultaneously.

How to Ensure Regulation Compliance as a Government Contractor

The government contracting sector is a highly regulated business environment. Entering this sector requires transparency, accountability and expertise. You must also familiarize yourself with regulatory bodies and their standards to boost your reputation in the eyes of federal agencies. Discover how you can ensure compliance with regulations as a new government contractor.

Early Warning Signals now in Webex

We’re happy to announce that Early Warning Signals are now available in Webex! With Webex now supported, Early Warning Signals are available across all chat integrations—including Microsoft Teams, Slack, Google Chat, Discord, Webhooks and now Webex—plus email and SMS. No matter where your team communicates, you’ll never miss the early signs of an outage.

Behind the Dashboard: How to monitor your LLM integrations

Behind the Dashboard is an ongoing series where we look under the hood of a specific Catchpoint feature. Each episode breaks down the technology itself, what’s challenging about using it for monitoring, and how we removed friction and toil to make it a valuable part of the Catchpoint platform. In this episode Leon, Mursi, and Rahul take a look at Catchpoint’s LLM monitoring capabilities, including ensuring your integrated LLMs are up and performing optimally; as well as knowing if you’re using the most effective (accurate) and economical (cheapest per query) option in your suite.

Meet Canvas: Your AI-guided Workspace Within Honeycomb

Modern systems are wonderfully capable, but relentlessly complex. Debugging across microservices, frontends, and cloud edges often means switching between five or more tools, trying to stitch together “what changed” and “why it broke.” Honeycomb’s wide events model has proven to be a superpower for taming that complexity, by allowing you to easily observe and query end-to-end traces without worrying about how much granular data you attach to your events.

Breaking Free from SQLite - Why We Added PostgreSQL Support to SigNoz

"Let us support different relational databases apart from SQLite. Nobody likes to run SQLite in production." This was one of the most requested features from our community. Your requests have been heard, and we've added support for different relational databases, starting with PostgreSQL. If you're self-hosting SigNoz, you no longer need to worry about SQLite's limitations. Let's dive into what we've built and why it matters for your production deployments.

Debug, query, and build faster with AI: How we use Grafana Assistant at Grafana Labs

We recently released Grafana Assistant into public preview for Grafana Cloud, and we’ve been excited to see how our customers have already made it part of their daily observability routines. At the same time, Assistant is becoming a go-to companion for developers right here at Grafana Labs, whether they’re debugging on-call issues, helping customers, or trying to remember tricky PromQL syntax.

DevOps Guide to Monitoring in Serverless Applications

Serverless computing helps teams move faster by removing the need to manage servers. Code runs only when needed, scaling up or down automatically. For DevOps engineers, this means quicker deployments and less infrastructure work. But serverless also brings new challenges. Functions run for short periods, making it hard to track errors, performance, and costs.

Pastries with SREs: Limitless observability and uncompromised donuts

In this episode of Pastries with SREs, we dig into Limitless Observability with a sweet side of unified observability strategy. If you're tired of siloed tools, fractured data, and swivel-chair investigations, this one’s for you. We explore: Why are silos still the norm in modern observability? What’s the true cost of inefficiencies across logs, metrics, and traces? How can SREs, IT operations, and dev teams shift to a no-compromise, unified observability model?