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Run Checkly Monitors Against Multiple Environments

Learn how to run Playwright tests across different environments without rewriting them. This tutorial covers managing environment variables in Checkly for API and browser checks, handling global and group-specific settings, and integrating with CI/CD processes. Discover the best practices for setting up environment variables, duplicating test groups, and customizing alerts to ensure your checks are environment-specific.

Monitor Claude usage and cost data with Datadog Cloud Cost Management

Managing the cost of foundation models is a critical challenge as AI adoption surges, particularly for teams using powerful models like Anthropic's Claude Opus and Claude Sonnet. Growing teams generate larger prompt volumes and escalating model complexity, making it difficult to have clear visibility, accountability, and control of cloud AI spending.

Choosing the Right PHP Monitoring Tools: A Practical Guide

When it comes to building fast, reliable, and user-friendly PHP applications, performance and stability are everything. A small slowdown in load times, a memory leak, or unhandled errors can frustrate users, impact revenue, and harm your brand’s reputation. This is why PHP Application Monitoring has become a necessity for businesses of all sizes.

Honeycomb Launches Integration With the Anthropic Usage and Cost API

If your organization is anything like ours, then you’ve probably embraced using large language models like Claude. Just last week, we gave all Honeycomb employees access to Claude. Now, developers can generate AI-assisted code, product managers can perform analysis on customer usage trends, marketers can test messaging, sales can do customer discovery and we are shipping AI-powered features to improve user experience.

Scale Your Monitoring Solution With the VictoriaMetrics Ecosystem

When it comes down to scaling time series monitoring solutions things can get messy. That’s one of the reasons why VictoriaMetrics, a Silver member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), started its journey some years ago. It is a simple, reliable and efficient set of Observability Solutions that's been adopted by many organizations. It's open source, with a strong community behind it, with enterprise and managed (Cloud) options for those who need support. VictoriaMetrics plays well with many standards, including Grafana and OpenTelemetry. Apart from that, in case you didn’t know, VictoriaLogs is the new kid in the block that's seriously outperforming other solutions. In this presentation, we’ll present the VictoriaMetrics Open Source projects and how they differ from other solutions, especially when it comes to scaling from single small setups to massive cluster deployments. Come learn how VictoriaMetrics projects can help to ease Observability!