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Understanding and monitoring the performance and health of applications and systems is critical. This is where observability comes into play. Observability is about gaining a comprehensive understanding of a system's internal state by analyzing the data it generates within the context of real-time events and actions across the infrastructure.

API Summit 2024 is underway! The seventh-annual Kong event kicked off today with 7 tracks and 60+ sessions from industry trailblazers. And, of course, the two-day event is packed with Kong-related news and product updates. Looking for a quick rundown of all the big Kong news? Here's a round-up of the Kong announcements dropped today.

Local preview environments are transforming how developers test and validate code changes before merging them into the main codebase. Acting as temporary cloud environments, they provide a production-like setting where new features and bug fixes can be tested in isolation, catching issues early and streamlining the development code review process. These environments are crucial for enhancing development velocity, especially in CI/CD workflows used by DevOps engineers and QA teams.

Like most organizations today, you’re probably looking to optimize your business model through increased technology adoption. The more successful digital transformation projects look at changing business trends and seek to incorporate those trends within their own specific environment. Similarly, as API technology grows, promising new functionalities and integrations, enterprises should aim to embrace the utility of APIs within their wider technology strategy.

Organizations are harnessing the power of AI to revolutionize products and services across industries. But AI-powered solutions have been getting more sophisticated. We need to redesign and amend our approach to understanding how customers experience these solutions. Unlike traditional products, AI solutions are dynamic, continuously learning and adapting. Traditional metrics may fall short of capturing the nuances of how users interact with AI.

This guide walks you through setting up a Free/Paid plan for your customers using a supported payment platform integrated with Moesif, focusing on tracking usage and managing upgrades to paid tiers. While the steps in this guide are specifically for Stripe, they can be adapted for other supported payment platforms.