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grafana

Learn OpenTelemetry tracing through a grand strategy game: introducing Game of Traces

Aug 11, 2025 By Jay Clifford In Grafana
A trace always remembers! Okay, okay. I will try to keep my Game of Thrones references to a minimum throughout this post, but there is a lot of truth to that statement. In observability, a trace is the “when” and “where” of telemetry signals, allowing us to track the state of interactions between services within a microservice architecture. This makes traces the ideal observability signal for discovering bottlenecks and interconnection issues.
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last9

Top 7 Application Performance Monitoring Tools

Aug 11, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Your application is under constant pressure to deliver low latency, high reliability, and a smooth user experience isn’t optional. When performance drops, every second matters. Application Performance Monitoring (APM) gives you the visibility to spot issues before your users feel the impact. It also helps you understand what’s happening inside your stack, so you can track resource usage, pinpoint bottlenecks, and keep things running at peak performance.
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oh dear

HTTP status codes? Here's a cheat sheet

Aug 11, 2025 By Laurens Goethals In Oh Dear
Whenever you visit a website or click on a link, there’s a whole conversation happening behind the scenes between your browser and the web server. That conversation includes something called HTTP status codes and knowing what they mean can help you make a diagnosis, so to speak. Usually, everything goes smoothly (like a 200 OK), but sometimes things break (looking at you, 404 and 500).
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isdown

Best Practices for Managing Multiple Vendor Dependencies

Aug 11, 2025 By Nuno Tomas In isDown
Modern businesses rely on dozens of third-party services to operate efficiently. From payment processors and cloud providers to analytics tools and communication platforms, these vendor dependencies form the backbone of your technology stack. When one fails, it can trigger a cascade of issues across your entire operation. Managing multiple vendor dependencies requires a strategic approach that combines proactive monitoring, clear documentation, and well-defined response procedures.
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virtualmetric

What Is a Telemetry Pipeline and Why It Matters in Modern IT

Aug 11, 2025 By VirtualMetric In VirtualMetric
A practical guide for IT professionals, DevOps, security teams, platform engineers, and anyone who’s dealing with logs. In contemporary distributed systems, telemetry data—logs, metrics, traces, and events—serves as the primary mechanism for understanding internal system behavior. However, as system complexity increases, so does the volume and heterogeneity of telemetry.
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coralogix

RUM measurements: Start with the data, discover the story

Aug 11, 2025 By Ofri Grushka In Coralogix
When something breaks in your application, a slow page, a spike in errors, or a drop in engagement, the typical response is to chase the symptoms. But what if we flipped that process? What if we started not from user complaints, but from actual performance measurements, collected from real sessions in real time? That’s exactly the idea behind Coralogix RUM Measurements.
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Why MikroTik VPS Is a Smart Choice for Network Monitoring and Management

Why MikroTik VPS Is a Smart Choice for Network Monitoring and Management

Aug 11, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Managing complex, distributed networks is no longer optional; it's essential for business success. They are often used for remote offices and IoT deployments, and managing those without the right toolkit is too much pressure, as uptime, security, and scalability without overspending should be secured. If you buy MikroTik VPS, you can be surprised at how these constant headache-causing tasks are managed successfully and with minimal effort. All thanks to the features this technology has.
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digitate

How IT Leaders Can Successfully Adopt and Manage SaaS Solutions

Aug 10, 2025 By Ugo Orsi In Digitate
In recent months, there has been growing discussion among business and IT leaders around the rapid expansion of SaaS solutions. McKinsey’s recent report on the current state of SaaS notes that while the industry has experienced a slowdown, largely driven by economic factors such as rising interest rates and reduced IT spending by enterprises, it has seen a decade of rapid growth, with the market being valued at approximately $3 trillion in 2022.
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