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Fix slow mobile apps before your users uninstall with Mobile Vitals

Mobile devs know the struggle. Small regressions can cause big issues in production, and fixing them isn't as easy as pushing a quick patch. Unlike a web app, shipping fixes for apps means navigating app store approvals, and often hopping on meetings with customers to debug because mobile issues can be so challenging to recreate. Catching these issues before the 1-star reviews roll in is crucial. Luckily, Sentry just made it easier than ever.

Instrument Google Cloud Run applications with the new Datadog Agent sidecar

Google Cloud Run is a fully managed service that allows you to deploy, manage, and scale workloads on serverless containers. Because Cloud Run abstracts away infrastructure management and runs on complex, distributed backends, it can be difficult to troubleshoot. Datadog’s integrations with Google Cloud and Google Cloud Run address that challenge by collecting and visualizing key metrics and logs.

Grafana Loki 101: How to ingest logs with Alloy or the OpenTelemetry Collector

Logs play a critical role in observability, but they do come with their own challenges. Grafana Loki, our horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant log aggregation system, addresses these challenges head on, giving you an open source tool that’s both cost effective and easy to operate.

The One Where We Meet Cribl Copilot

We’re kicking off our new live weekly product demo series—streaming on YouTube, X, and LinkedIn! Each week, we’ll dive into the latest features and hidden gems from the Cribl Suite of tools to help you unlock the full potential of your telemetry data. For our first session, we’re thrilled to welcome Nikhil Mungel, the visionary behind Cribl Copilot. This AI-powered assistant is designed to: Instantly surface answers from the documentation Build pipelines with just a simple request.

Free network monitoring: Full network visibility without the cost

Investing in a network monitoring tool should mean complete visibility and faster troubleshooting. But what happens when an unexpected outage occurs and your expensive tool misses the warning signs? The result: hours of downtime, frustrated employees, and lost business productivity. Many organizations face this challenge, realizing that even premium monitoring solutions can leave critical gaps. The good news? You don’t have to break the bank to monitor your network effectively.

Optimize MTTD with the right check frequency

Checkly enables engineers to automate the monitoring of their production services. Using the automation framework Playwright, you can run an end-to-end test on a regular cadence to make sure every feature is working for your users. But once you’ve got your check set up, either with Playwright scripting, a Terraform template, or an OpenAPI spec, we come to the question of what frequency you should run these checks. Should you be checking every few minutes, or every hour?

FinOps IT Financial Management

Cloud computing has revolutionized IT infrastructure by offering unparalleled scalability and adaptability. However, organizations face significant challenges when it comes to effectively managing their cloud costs. Traditional IT Financial Management (ITFM) methodologies, designed for on-premises operations, often struggle to address the advanced financial complexities of cloud-based investments. This is where FinOps IT Financial Management takes center stage.

SolarWinds Observability 2025.1: Big Cloud Updates for GCP, AWS & Azure!

New cloud support has landed in SolarWinds Observability 2025.1! Now with expanded monitoring for Google Cloud, AWS, and Azure, you can track even more cloud entities with ease. What’s new? Google Cloud – Now supports Google Compute Engine Azure – New support for Azure App Service & Blob Storage AWS – Expanded RDS support (MySQL, Aurora, PostgreSQL, Oracle) + Load Balancer monitoring See it in action! We explore the latest dashboards and drill into cloud resources like virtual machines, databases, and storage.