In today’s rapidly evolving software landscape, ensuring observability is crucial for building robust and reliable applications. One of the critical components of observability is metrics, which provide valuable insights into the performance and behavior of our systems. OpenTelemetry, an open-source observability framework, offers a standardized approach to capturing, exporting, and analyzing metrics. This blog post explores seven OpenTelemetry metrics for tracking better visibility.

As exciting as it can be to write new features in your ASP.NET Core application, our users inevitably encounter failed requests. Do you know how to troubleshoot IIS or ASP.NET errors on your servers? It can be tempting to bag on your desk and problem your annoyance. However, Windows and ASP.NET Core provide several different logs where failed requests are logged. This goes beyond simple IIS logs and can give you the information you need to combat failed requests.

A PHP application might produce many different levels of warnings and errors during its execution. Seeing these errors is crucial for developers when troubleshooting a misbehaving application. However, many developers often encounter difficulties displaying errors in their PHP applications, leading to silent app failures.

If you are trying to figure out how to measure the performance of your application, you are in the correct place. We spend a lot of time at Stackify thinking about application performance, especially about how to monitor and improve it. In this article, we cover some of our most important application performance metrics you should be tracking.

DevOps engineers are under intense pressure to provide reliable, high-quality services to teams and stakeholders. In large part, this is because end users today demand seamless access to software and a great user experience – a trend that will only increase as digital transformation accelerates and we move further into the future. DevOps professionals rely on various metrics to meet performance and reliability goals, one of the most important being service level objectives (SLOs).

C# is a widely used programming language in enterprises, especially for those that are heavily Microsoft-dependent. This language comprises a lot of tools with individual strengths. Here, we list C# tools for IDEs, profilers, automation tools, and more. If you build apps using C#, you most likely use Visual Studio and have explored some of its extensions to supercharge your development. However, this list of C# tools might just change the way you write C# code for good.

Stackify by Netreo received top honors from SD Times for Performance Monitoring in the 2023 SD Times 100. Each year, SD Times editors recognize leaders in the industry across 10 different categories and designate companies with “Best in Show” honors. Retrace APM is a full lifecycle APM solution and the driving force behind the successful placement within the SD Times 100 each of the past 5 years!