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Securing and monitoring APIs is difficult work. According to Gartner, “application leaders independently must design and execute an effective API security strategy to protect their APIs.” But many IT departments struggle with knowing how APIs are behaving.

Anomalies don’t have to be a fear factor; they could even present an opportunity to make money. Imagine detecting positive spikes in in-app purchases, conversions, or gaming activity in real-time and then having your business monitoring system identify what caused them 10x faster than you can now – autonomously. With 95% accuracy in the root cause analysis you could replicate and capitalize on the deviation immediately.

Regardless of how technically sound the engineering of an app is, bugs, errors, and crashes can happen. So when they do, you must recover from it by doing a deep analysis of the technical aspects and the impact on the overall customer experience. If your crypto-exchange or banking app is not getting the right insights you need from the crashes, your churn rate and your customers will definitely let you know sooner than you think.

The global market for log management was valued at $1.9 billion in 2020, according to MarketsandMarkets. Analysts predict this will grow to $3.7 billion by 2025. With this massive growth in log data, there will also be massive demand for escalated support in log management systems.

Enterprises looking to decrease downtime and optimize resources can implement server monitoring using tools like Prometheus and Grafana.

5G is in the process of transforming communications technology, enabling never-before-seen data transfer speeds and high-performance remote computing capabilities. As a cloud-native application, 5G provides advantages in terms of speed, agility, efficiency and robustness.

While there’s room for debate in what constitutes sufficient monitoring for a mobile app, it’s no question that if you wait long enough for users to report issues, then soon you will have no users. For most mobile development teams, you are not measured against how many features you deliver or bugs you fix, but by how successful your app is and how much value it delivers to users. As a result, you need to know where the app is providing a subpar experience and why.

Whether you're transitioning away from a monolith or building a green-field app, opting for a microservice architecture brings many benefits as well as certain challenges. These challenges include namely managing the network and maintaining observability in the microservice architecture. Enter the service mesh, a valuable component of modern cloud-native applications that handles inter-service communication and offers a solution to network management and microservice architecture visibility.