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Metrics and Logs Are Out, Distributed Tracing Is In With Chinmay Gaikwad | Kongcast Episode 5

In this Kongcast Episode, Chinmay Gaikwad, tech evangelist at Epsagon, explains why metrics and logs aren’t sufficient for companies with a microservices architecture. Instead, Chinmay recommends leveraging distributed tracing for optimal observability.

Combine k6 OSS and Prometheus for better observability

k6 Cloud, our managed testing solution, supports Prometheus to store and correlate performance testing metrics within your observability stack since a while now. Announced at Grafana ObservabilityCON, we launched Prometheus support to k6 Open Source - our free, open, and extensible load testing tool. k6 OSS supports sending k6 metrics to multiple outputs such as InfluxDB, New Relic, StatsD, and more.

Adding a Real-Time Layer to Datadog Observability

We all know Datadog. It’s a powerful and established tool that developers, DevOps, and SREs use for anything ranging from monitoring their application’s performance and searching their logs to having an end-to-end understanding of the environment. The nature of cloud-native applications makes the three pillars of observability – (Metrics, Logs, Traces) – needed more than ever to get visibility into your application.

Monitoring Azure API Management with Moesif

API gateways and management platforms like Azure API Management (APIM) are an excellent way to keep your APIs in order. They provide features that every API needs, like API keys, quotas, and caching in a standardized fashion. Your APIs will then behave more homogeneously and can be managed in a central place. They’re also the entry point to your cloud infrastructure and can help you abstract implementation from the interface.

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Application Logging in 2021

Have you ever written a Hello, World! application? In most of these tutorials the first step is to log words to the console. It's an easy way to understand what is going on with your application and readily available in every programming language. The console output is incredibly powerful, and it has become easier than ever to capture that output as logs. As your application grows and evolves you need to implement a structured application log approach.

Demo: Introducing Build Insights on Bitrise

Monitor and improve your Bitrise performance with Build Insights! 📊 Build Insights is a monitoring tool that allows you to track metrics detailing the performance of your Bitrise builds. Track your metrics on app-, Workflow-, and Step-level and use the data to optimize your builds. In this quick demo, we're introducing the dashboard's main features.

How to Monitor Core Web Vitals for your Website with Alerts and Reports

The experience your customers get once they enter your website can be a game changer for your online business in terms of sales, revenue, customers interaction and overall experience. Once you release new features for your website or blog, or once you add new plugins or widgets, add new styles, animations or functionality, all these can affect the Performance, SEO or Accessibility of your website.