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Tutorial: Set Up Event Streams in CloudWatch

When building a microservices system, configuring events to trigger additional logic using an event stream is highly valuable. One common use case is receiving notifications when errors are seen in one of your APIs. Ideally, when errors occur at a specific rate or frequency, you want your system to detect that and send your DevOps team a notification. Since AWS APIs often use stateless functions like Lambdas, you need to include a tracking mechanism to send these notifications manually.

How to Create an Easy-to-Navigate Employee Portal | SolarWinds Service Desk

The SolarWinds Service Desk Employee Portal is a one-stop shop for employee service needs. Employees can reach out to the IT team by submitting a ticket or via chat, access contact information they need during office hours, and search for existing solutions to any problem at hand 24/7. By customizing your portal’s layout and navigation around your employees’ needs, you better enforce their habit of using the portal when they need to communicate with your team or other service providers in your organization.

GrafanaCONline 2021 Day 3 recap: Grafana Tempo deep dive, plus how Grafana helps grow e-commerce, scale NFT platforms, and more!

Welcome to week 2 of GrafanaCONline 2021! There are three more days of programming that you can tune into live by registering here. You will also be able to watch all the videos on demand after GrafanaCONline ends on June 17. Here’s what you missed on Day 3 of GrafanaCONline.

Find the Root Cause Faster with Trace View and Trace Navigator

Like a bratty teenager, traditional monitoring answers your questions, but does so in a terse, unhelpful manner: Why is my page slow? Guess it’s the API call. It’s a 504 thing — you wouldn’t understand. Ok, so why is the API call slow? Ask your DB query. Gosh! You need a better conversation with your code — one which gives you contextual clues about your application’s performance.

Scout APM Announces Release of Error Monitoring

[Denver, CO] - Scout APM, a leading provider of Application Performance Monitoring (APM), announced the release of Scout Error Monitoring for Ruby applications on June 1, 2021. Scout APM provides developers and application administrators software performance insights by delivering key web application performance metrics.