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When I started using Playwright, there was a single command that blew me away. I immediately became (and still am) a huge Playwright Codegen fanboy. Playwright's codegen command opens up a browser window, and whatever you do in this window will be recorded. Navigating URLs, clicking links, and filling out form elements—the Playwright inspector records all your actions and generates a Playwright test for you. Magic!

You’ve instrumented your LangChain app, and traces are now flowing into Last9. Now the issues are visible: API costs are crossing $200/day, average response times exceed 3 seconds, and performance degrades under 100 concurrent users. A single tool call adds over 2 seconds. Bloated context windows are pushing up token usage, wasting $50/day. Here’s how to use trace data to identify and fix these inefficiencies, systematically and at scale.

Adding Grafana dashboards directly into your app lets users see monitoring data without switching tabs or tools. Using an iframe to embed Grafana does work, but it brings along some tricky authentication and security issues that aren’t always obvious at first. In this blog, we’ll go over the practical ways to embed Grafana dashboards from easy public snapshots to secure, private dashboards that need authentication.

LDI Connect is taking its managed IT services to the next level by adding Martello’s Vantage DX platform to its toolkit. This move is all about giving clients a smoother, more reliable Microsoft 365 and Teams experience … and it couldn’t come at a better time. By integrating Vantage DX, LDI Connect can now proactively monitor clients’ Microsoft environments.

One of the biggest challenges in frontend development is understanding how users actually experience your application. Slow load times, layout shifts, and a slow response to user interactions can quietly degrade the user experience if they go unnoticed. This is where Grafana Cloud Frontend Observability comes in. Frontend Observability is a hosted service for real user monitoring (RUM) that provides immediate, clear, and actionable insights into the end user experience of web applications.

Most MSPs don’t think much about DNS—until something breaks. A record is deleted, an MX entry is misconfigured, or a zone is out of sync. Suddenly, your client’s email is bouncing, their site is down, and your phone is ringing. The problem? DNS issues are easy to miss. They don’t always trigger alerts, logs, or tickets. But when they surface, you’re the one your client calls first.

The recent launch of Grok 4 has set the AI community buzzing. With an impressive score of 73 on TLDR’s AI benchmark, Grok 4 edges ahead of OpenAI’s O3 and Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro, both scoring 70. Elon and the X AI team deserve praise for this breakthrough, reinforcing Grok 4’s status as potentially the most powerful LLM yet.

Managing developer on-call rotations and escalations isn't just about who gets woken up at 2 a.m. — it's about ensuring reliability, minimizing downtime, and scaling operational excellence. With so many tools out there, choosing the right on-call solution can be tough. We've analyzed 10 of the most trusted on-call scheduling platforms in 2025 — comparing usability, pricing, integrations, automation, and support — to help you choose the best tool for your engineering or DevOps team.

We're thrilled to announce that we have been recognized as a Strong Performer in the 2025 Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer for Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM). We think that this recognition is a result of direct customer feedback on their experience with our solutions, underscoring the trust and value users associate with our solutions.