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At Grafana Labs, we have a “big tent” philosophy: We believe our users should be able to determine their own observability strategy and choose their own tools, so we help users bring different data sources together. Datadog is a powerful product used by many teams, and we hear a lot from customers about how we should further embrace and support this critical data source — which is why we created the Datadog data source plugin a few years ago.

If your application runs in a virtualized environment, there is a crucial metric you might not be aware of: CPU steal. In this post, we’ll explain what CPU steal is, how to monitor it, and what happens to your app when CPU steal is high.

In this article, you’ll learn how to capture error logs in your Cloudflare Workers application using AppSignal. We’ll build a simple workers project and integrate AppSignal’s code to collect the necessary metrics. We’ll also learn how to utilize AppSignal’s dashboard to analyze and track errors. Let’s get stuck in!

As the demands placed on technology have grown, so has the size and complexity of our applications. Today’s developers often face the difficult task of managing huge applications. Further complicating matters is the underlying infrastructure, which can often be as expansive, diverse, and complicated as its applications. The complexity of modern applications introduces many challenges.

As most MSPs know, small- and medium-sized businesses are the most likely targets for cyberattacks. They lack many of the resources and infrastructure of their larger counterparts and a single cyberattack can be devastating. Analyzing and remediating vulnerabilities is an essential part of any security program. But current vulnerability management processes spit out long lists of instances that may or may not need remediation.