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metricfire

How To Monitor Server Uptime

Feb 28, 2025 By Lauren Barnes In MetricFire
Keeping your servers online is always important for the health of your business and keeping users happy. Essentially, if you are keeping an eye on your servers, you can proactively fix problems before they blow up rather than fighting them as they arise. Setting all this up can be a breeze or a bit of a headache, depending on your servers, what metrics you're tracking, and your expertise. Either way, MetricFire’s got your back!
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honeybadger

Comparing Go vs Ruby

Feb 28, 2025 By Ayooluwa Isaiah In Honeybadger
Ruby and Rails are great tools that allow you to create complex web applications quickly. Well, some kinds of complex web applications. While they excel at traditional, monolithic, server-rendered applications, they fail to excel at delivering real-time or distributed services. This is why it's so handy for Rubyists to learn a programming language like Go. Go is designed to write lightweight services that handle lots of inbound connections.
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metricfire

Our New CLI: How and Why We Made It

Feb 27, 2025 By Lauren Barnes In MetricFire
We are happy to announce our latest project at MetricFire: a brand-new CLI tool! Get ready to start monitoring your systems in one step - no need to modify any configuration files manually. Just run a terminal command, follow the prompts, and forward your system metrics to Hosted Graphite in minutes. In this article, we’ll share an overview of the Hosted Graphite CLI, why we’re making it, and how we’re making it.
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Integrating Google SecOps with Bindplane February 2025

Feb 27, 2025 By ObservIQ In ObservIQ
Google SecOps (formerly Chronicle) is Google Cloud’s security operations platform (SIEM) that helps you detect, investigate, and respond to cybersecurity threats. Integrating Bindplane enables an easy way of standardizing how you efficiently collect, process, and forward security-relevant data to Google SecOps. In this live workshop you’ll get a hands-on demo of how to configure log collection with the Bindplane Distro for OpenTelemetry Collector, and best practices for data standardization using open standards and OpenTelemetry.
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checkly

Why and How You Should Use Your Learning & Visiting Budget

Feb 27, 2025 By Lauren Singh In Checkly
When I joined Checkly as Junior People Operations Manager, one of the benefits that immediately stood out to me was the Learning & Visiting budget. I found myself wondering—how is this budget actually being used across the company? At the start of the year, many of our team members plan how they’ll use their learning budget—whether to enhance professional skills or pursue self-driven projects. With flexible guidelines, we encourage them to invest in what matters most.
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checkly

TCP Checks Now Available in Checkly

Feb 27, 2025 By Sara Miteva In Checkly
Checkly has always helped you monitor your APIs and web services, ensuring they stay fast, reliable, and available. But application reliability doesn’t stop there—databases, message queues, and mail servers all play a crucial role in your infrastructure. To provide full application reliability, we’re expanding into network monitoring with TCP checks. Now, you can monitor critical non-HTTP services directly in Checkly—without adding extra tools to your stack.
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datadog

Improve gaming app performance with Unity support in Datadog RUM

Feb 27, 2025 By Jessica Manheimer In Datadog
As mobile gaming evolves, players have higher expectations for seamless experiences, real-time interactions, and cross-platform accessibility. Whether you’re developing games for iOS, Android, or another mobile operating system, maintaining and optimizing the performance of your game is critical for player retention. For instance, if a mobile game becomes laggy or begins to drop frames during gameplay, players will grow frustrated and abandon the game altogether.
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squared up

Getting started with Azure cost dashboards

Feb 27, 2025 By Sameer Mhaisekar In Squared Up
As an Azure admin, it is of critical importance that you keep an eye on how much cost you are incurring running your workloads in the cloud. You also want to have sight of any deployed resources that are not contributing to business and accumulating cost over time. Using a dedicated Azure plugin, SquaredUp dashboards will help you understand your Azure costs across services, resources, locations and apps – so you can keep tabs on how much you're spending and identify opportunities to save costs.
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