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Datadog Data Streams Monitoring (DSM) provides detailed visibility into your event-driven applications and streaming data pipelines, letting you easily track and improve performance. We’ve covered DSM for Kafka and RabbitMQ users previously on our blog. In this post, we’ll guide you through using DSM to monitor applications built with Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS).

Welcome to the 35th edition of our monthly product newsletter - SigNal 35! We have made significant advancements in enhancing our product. The integration feature we shipped will enable quick-start monitoring for popular technologies in SigNoz. Let’s see what humans of SigNoz were up to in the month of March 2024.

Core Web Vitals (CWV) are Google's preferred metrics for measuring the quality of the user experience for browser web apps. Currently, Core Web Vitals measure loading performance, interactivity, and visual stability. These are the main indicators of what a user’s experience will be while using a web page: Note: As of March 12th, INP has become a stable Core Web Vital, replacing First Input Delay (FID).

Two years ago, when we launched Grafana 9, we announced the deprecation of legacy alerting and introduced Grafana Alerting, the new default alerting system in all editions of Grafana. Since then we have invested in Grafana Alerting, making it easier to create and manage your alerts. Along the way we have also worked to make the transition from legacy alerting to Grafana Alerting as seamless as possible in preparation for the time when we remove legacy alerting altogether from Grafana.

Imagine having total awareness of your apps: observing the effects of code on efficiency, identifying bottlenecks, and predicting crashes. The open-source observability platform OpenTelemetry makes this possible. OpenTelemetry, designed to collect telemetry data, provides you with the knowledge necessary to enhance your systems and provide a flawless user experience.