Topic: monitoring
Observability: A process change, not a set of tools
If you do a Google search for the phrase “observability tools,” it’ll return about 3.3 million results. As observability is the hot thing right now, every vendor is trying to get aboard the observability train. But observability is not as simple as buying a tool; it’s more of a process change — a way of … continue reading
Catchpoint releases enhanced WebPageTest API
Digital experience monitoring solution provider Catchpoint today announced upgrades to the WebPageTest API that provide deeper performance metrics, immediate test results and integrations with CI/CD tools. The company also announced the API, which had been limited to a small numbers of users, is now widely available. WebPageTest is a performance measurement tool that can scale … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Rust 1.50.0 released, Go generics accepted, and RapidAPI acquires Paw
This latest Rust release includes improved array indexing, expanded safe access to union fields, and additions to the standard library. In the new version, the stabilization of arrays in Rust is formally acknowledged. There are nine new stable functions in Rust 1.50.0 and a few existing functions were made ‘const.’ Additional details on all of … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Grafana Cloud unveils free plan, Cockroach Labs’ $160 million funding, and Blueprint launches RPA platform migration
Grafana announced a new free plan that gives users access to Prometheus and Graphite for metrics, Loki for logs, and Tempo for tracing integrated into Grafana. “With Grafana Cloud, you get a service managed by the maintainers of these leading open source projects, whose deep knowledge allows us to run them efficiently at scale better … continue reading
IBM to acquire application performance monitoring company Instana
IBM has announced that it will be acquiring monitoring company Instana. The company explained the acquisition will help bolster its hybrid cloud and AI strategy. According to IBM, it will now be able to better help companies manage the challenges and complexities of managing application performance across teams and clouds. “With the added responsibility of … continue reading
Lightstep helps developers make sense of complex apps with OpenTelemetry Launchers
Distributed tracing company Lightstep has announced the release of OpenTelemetry Launchers, a new solution for understanding complex systems. The release is based on the open-source project OpenTelemetry, which provides APIs, libraries, agents and collector services to capture distributed traces and metrics. Launcher now connects that data with Lightstep to provide observability and actionable insights, the … continue reading
Datadog brings security, performance monitoring together with four product releases
Datadog today is revealing its vision for bringing security and performance monitoring into a single platform in the form of updates and new product features for its cloud infrastructure monitoring platform. At its virtual DASH conference this week, the company announced Error Tracking, Incident Management, Compliance Monitoring and Continuous Profiler, rounding out its platform to … continue reading
Limelight Networks Developer Central provides easy access to collaboration tools
Limelight Networks has introduced Developer Central, a resource center designed to provide developers with an array of tools to easily manage, monitor, and integrate Limelight services. It offers a new interactive API explorer, SDKs, sample code, OpenAPI documentation and a community forum to help users get answers fast. “This one-stop resource center puts Limelight’s innovation … continue reading
Sentry helps developers find performance issues with agentless front-end monitoring
Sentry wants to give developers the ability to find and resolve performance issues with the introduction of agentless front-end performance monitoring for Python and JavaScript. According to the company, developers can trace performance issues to poor-performing APIs and other related errors in just a few lines of code. “As more organizations go digital, it is … continue reading
CircleCI announces analytics plugin Buildtrakr
CircleCI wants to help developers enhance their speed, efficiency, and usability with new updates to its platforms. Additionally, the company announced its first analytics plugin Buildtrakr. Buildtrakr integrates with CircleCI and Git to synthesize commit and build performance data, and displays critical metrics in a flexible dashboard. “Buildtrakr unleashes the full potential of CircleCI’s API. … continue reading
SD Times news digest: CockroachDB 20.1, ActiveState early access program, and ScyllaDB 4.0
Cockroach Lans announced the release of CockroachDB 20.1 with new features for simpler and faster cloud application development. The updated version includes online primary key changes, monitoring updates, and enhanced support for popular development tools and languages (ORMs). It also includes additional improvements to multi-region performance and security. “CockroachDB 20.1 gives developers a database that … continue reading
Catchpoint adds ‘user sentiment’ to experience monitoring platform
Catchpoint today announced it is adding the ability to capture user sentiment to its digital experience monitoring platform. According to Catchpoint’s announcement, the new capability will offer enterprises “broader insights into the overall health and performance” of their applications and services. The offering rounds out the platform, which already performs synthetic, network, endpoint and real … continue reading
