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Webinar Snippet: Internet Troubleshooting with Obkio's "Sandwich Method"

This is a snippet from our full webinar: “Troubleshooting Internet Issues: For Dummies & IT Pros” In this clip, we dive into Obkio’s Sandwich Method, a simple yet powerful approach to monitoring and identifying Internet issues. By placing Monitoring Agents: Inside your LAN At your firewall or in the DMZ And over the Internet…you can break your network into clear segments and pinpoint exactly where performance problems are happening — whether it’s local, at the network edge, or in the hands of your ISP.

You have 3 seconds... that's it.

You have 3 seconds... that’s it. Today, users lose patience fast. A 3 second delay in page load time leads to 40% of users abandoning your site. This leads to damaged reputation, decrease in customer trust, and loss of revenue. What does that mean for you? Every millisecond counts. If you're not measuring your performance from your users' point of view, you might be missing a chance to convert them into customers.

16 common mistakes C#/.NET developers make (and how to avoid them)

As developers, we often fall into common pitfalls that impact the performance, security, and scalability of our applications. From neglecting data validation to overengineering, and from ignoring async/await to mishandling resource disposal, even experienced C# developers can make these mistakes. In this post, I've gathered some of the most frequent issues developers encounter in C# and how to avoid them with practical solutions.

How InfluxDB 3 Enterprise Delivers 10-Millisecond Queries Over Historical Time Series Data

Time series data, such as IoT sensor readings or stock market ticks, flow in fast, often at a rate of millions of points per second. Querying this data, especially years of historical records, can be slow and painful if using a nonspecialized database rather than a time series database like InfluxDB.

Azure CDN for Static Assets, APIs, and Front Door

If your users are spread across the globe but your servers are sitting in Virginia, you’ll probably hear complaints about slow load times, especially from places like Australia. CDNs fix this by caching static assets closer to where your users are. Azure CDN does exactly that, and it fits well if you're already using Azure services. You can hook it up to Blob Storage, App Services, or your origin. This guide covers how to set it up, what to expect, and how to know it’s working.

Configure and customize Kubernetes Monitoring easier with Alloy Operator

What if you were to tell Kubernetes Monitoring what you wanted, and the system configured collectors based on your choices? We wondered that as well—wondered enough to create Alloy Operator and its Helm chart for version 3.0 of the Kubernetes Monitoring Helm chart. We’re excited to share that the new Kubernetes Monitoring Helm chart is now available, and it introduces a dynamic way of setting up your telemetry data collection with Alloy Operator.

Why Modern Incident Response Strategies Need Network and Service Intelligence: Part 2

In Part 1, we explored how aligning network visibility with IT service context empowers faster, smarter incident response. But what does this actually look like? Here in Part 2, we’ll go deeper into the challenges of traditional monitoring approaches, and how teams should look to move from fragmented alerts to unified insights – because when ITOps and NetOps can both see the “what” & “why” of the problem, actions become instinct.

Guide for Catching Regressions with GitHub Actions and CI/CD Monitors

This guide aims to help your team shift testing left, simulate real user behavior, and catch critical issues early as part of CI/CD, prevent regressions from reaching production by automating tests as part of your CI/CD and aborting deployments that contain issues. Synthetic monitoring is a great way to check important flows in production and make sure everything is working the way it’s supposed to.

Seer, Sentry's AI Debugger, is Generally Available

Tired of trying to guess if that half-baked LLM suggestion is really going to fix the issue with your code? Meet Seer—our new AI agent that taps into all the issue context from Sentry and your codebase to not just guess, but root cause gnarly issues and propose merge-ready fixes specific to your application. Code gen tools are great fun—and useful. But even a recent Microsoft study confirmed what you already know: AI struggles with debugging.