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Kibana vs. Grafana - A Scenario-Based Decision Guide [2024]

Both Kibana and Grafana are data visualization tools providing users capabilities to explore, analyze and visualize data with dashboards. The difference between Kibana and Grafana lies in their genesis. Kibana was built on top of the Elasticsearch stack, famous for log analysis and management. In comparison, Grafana was created mainly for metrics monitoring supporting visualization for time-series databases.

OpenTelemetry vs. OpenTracing - Decoding the Future of Telemetry Data

OpenTelemetry and OpenTracing are open-source projects used to instrument application code for generating telemetry data. While OpenTelemetry can help you generate logs, metrics, and traces, OpenTracing focuses on generating traces for distributed applications. If you’re thinking of choosing between OpenTelemetry and OpenTracing, go for OpenTelemetry. OpenTracing is now deprecated, and users of OpenTracing are advised to migrate to OpenTelemetry.

How to Choose the Right Partner for Outsource Software Development

In today's fast-paced digital world, many businesses turn to outsource software development to gain a competitive edge. Outsourcing allows companies to focus on their core competencies while leveraging the expertise of specialized software development teams. However, choosing the right partner for outsource web software development is crucial to ensure the success of your project. This article will guide you through the key considerations for selecting a reliable outsourcing partner that aligns with your business goals.

10 Sustainable Packaging Solutions That Will Impress Your Eco-Conscious Customers

With environmental consciousness on the rise, environmentally friendly packaging has emerged as a major consideration for any company that wants to capture the market of environmentally conscious consumers. Switching to an environmentally friendly approach to the packaging of the products is not only wise from the perspective of environmental protection but also to ensure that your brand is as great as you expect. With help from our friends at AMS Fulfillment, we present a few novel and efficient sustainable packaging ideas that can assist you in satisfying your customers' green expectations and making a positive change in the world.

Laptops vs Monitors and iPads: Choosing the Right Device for Your Needs

The debate over laptops, monitors, and iPads is significant for anyone looking to optimize their tech setup. Each device offers unique advantages depending on the user's needs. For those prioritizing portability, tablets like iPads excel, while larger monitors provide an immersive viewing experience ideal for productivity.
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Traffic-Driven Testing: All the Benefits of Shift-Right Testing with None of the Risk

The shift-right testing approach moves testing to later in your production cycle. Also known as "testing in production," with shift-right, you test software after it has been deployed. It gives you continuous feedback based on real-world user interactions. However, there are major drawbacks to the approach. For example, testing in production risks disrupting your user satisfaction and can mean you catch issues too late to respond to them effectively. It can also be difficult to test problems related to scale and traffic volume. Your tests are also difficult to repeat under the same conditions.

Isolating Bottlenecks: How to Determine If Your Slowdown Is Due to the Database or API

Every slowdown in your application can be traced to specific components like a database or an API, and quickly identifying the source aids the troubleshooting process. But when an API is underperforming, it may be difficult to tell whether the issue is with the API logic itself or an external service like a database that it interacts with before sending responses.

Monitoring Specific Components and Regions in Your Third-Party Services

Chances are, most of your third-party cloud and SaaS dependencies are globally distributed and have many regions of operation. Chances are, your applications use a subset of a cloud or SaaS service. If you are monitoring such a service, why should you receive alerts for all regions or every single component in the service? E.g. if you use Digital Ocean, you might be using Kubernetes in their US locations (NYC and SFO). You would want to know only when there is an outage in one of these locations.

Why companies choose Adaptive Metrics and how they save time and (a lot of) money

Let’s cut to the chase: Managing metric volumes at scale is hard. In fact, when we asked the open source observability community about their biggest concerns in this year’s Grafana Labs Observability Survey, the top four responses — cost, complexity, cardinality, and signal-to-noise ratio — can all be tied back to exponential growth in telemetry data.