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Top 13 Fluentd Alternatives 2025

Fluentd is popular for its flexibility and extensive plugin support, making it easy to collect, process, and forward logs from many different sources. However, as environments scale and observability needs evolve, teams often seek alternatives that offer lower resource usage, easier configuration, broader telemetry support, or tighter integration with their existing toolchains.

Set Up Tracing for a Ruby on Rails Application in AppSignal

In this guide, we'll harness AppSignal to detect, diagnose, and remove performance bottlenecks and employ proper tracing in a Ruby on Rails application. From setting up tracing to capturing errors and logging, we’ve got you covered. We'll ensure our application runs smoother than ever, even under the heaviest loads! But first, let's quickly touch on how to define tracing and its benefits.

Mastering Heroku Monitoring in 2025: Best Practices for Optimal Application Performance

In today's fast-paced digital landscape, ensuring the reliability and performance of your applications is paramount. Heroku, a cloud-based Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), simplifies application deployment and scaling. However, to fully leverage Heroku's capabilities, effective monitoring is essential. This guide delves into best practices for monitoring Heroku applications, providing context, practical steps, and unique insights to enhance your observability strategy.
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Hidden Risks in Linux Power Monitoring - And How to Fix Them

In today's enterprise IT landscape, Linux on IBM Power Systems plays a crucial role in powering mission-critical workloads. Industries such as finance, healthcare, telecommunications, and manufacturing rely on IBM Power's scalability, performance, and security to handle large-scale data processing, AI-driven analytics, and high-performance computing. As these environments continue to evolve, ensuring peak system performance and reliability is more important than ever.

From Cost Centre to Compounding Advantage

Most teams still treat bugs like little fires to put out. A ticket gets logged. Someone investigates. A fix gets pushed. Then it’s onto the next one. But here’s the thing nobody tells you: Every bug is a chance to get smarter. And in 2025, the best teams aren’t the ones logging the fewest bugs. They’re the ones learning the most from every bug they fix.

How to Monitor Website Performance Smarter and Faster

Is your website really performing the way your users expect? In today’s digital world, even small slowdowns can mean lost revenue and damaged brand trust. That’s where ScienceLogic comes in. This video shows how ScienceLogic’s website monitoring gives you real-time and historical visibility across regions and infrastructure. From synthetic transactions to full-stack observability, you’ll see how to spot performance issues early, validate autoscaling, and ensure fast, reliable digital experiences.

Want AI to be better at debugging? It's all about context

More code is being shipped today than ever before, accelerated by AI powered code gen tools. We’re in a golden age for builders. But here’s the thing: software still breaks in production. From a recent study by Microsoft, AI models struggle to debug software. It’s because most of these code gen tools lack the one thing every good developer relies on: context. To debug anything, you need context. Having AI tools doesn't change that.

Hybrid Cloud Monitoring: A Comprehensive Guide to Strategies, Best Practices, and Tools

Modern infrastructures are no longer confined to on-premises servers alone. Instead, they span cloud environments, containers, microservices, and globally distributed systems. This landscape, known as a hybrid cloud environment, has become the new norm for organizations, primarily because it offers the scalability of the cloud and ownership over specific elements afforded by an on-premises setup.