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After 12 years of faithful service, the TrackJS interface was starting to show its age. Not that it wasn’t working—it was still doing exactly what our customers needed it to do. But when you’re staring at Bootstrap styles from 2012 and a version of LESS that might be officially defunct, it’s probably time for a refresh.

To gain adequate visibility into your distributed applications, you need to observe those applications at different levels of granularity. This means that you need to be able to query collected telemetry data both at the level of the whole application and at the level of selected components. Thanks to the power of Datadog tagging, you can already do this by aggregating your metrics within any scope of your choosing.

By Sara Miteva Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Checkly ‍ Modern applications are complex. Microservices, third-party dependencies, and continuous deployments all contribute to a flood of telemetry data—logs, metrics, traces—flying in from every direction.

Grafana Alerting has evolved dramatically since the legacy dashboard-alert days. Today, Grafana-managed alerts power enterprise-scale monitoring in Grafana Cloud and on-prem installations. And over the last two years, we’ve added RBAC, state history, versioning, and much more. At the same time, our own monitoring at Grafana Labs relies heavily on Prometheus-style alerts—a situation that’s not uncommon for our users, too.

This is a guest post from Armin Ulrich, a fullstack developer, and founder of placid.app. He also created the MadeWith* network where he shares his projects and allows other developers to share theirs. There are many things I would rather do at 9pm than tracking down a mission-critical bug, but sometimes you don’t have a choice. Let me tell you the story about a slow query that led to a cascading failure–and how it could have been worse.

StatusGator supports custom email branding on our Enterprise plan and as an add-on to other plans, allowing your customers or end-users to get an email that has your organization logo and sends from your organization’s email address. Previously, this email logo used the same image as your status page. Now, you can upload a custom logo to be used just for your emails. Enjoy improved branding by uploading a logo that fits the email perfectly.

Modern applications generate a deluge of telemetry data—logs, metrics, and traces—that hold the key to understanding system performance and reliability. However, managing this data effectively is a growing challenge for DevOps teams. Raw telemetry can overwhelm teams with complexity and noise even when collected via robust standards like OpenTelemetry.