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Favour Daniel

New Relic and Sentry are monitoring tools but with different use cases. New Relic is tailored towards application performance and full stack observability of systems while Sentry specializes in identifying and reporting application errors.

In this post, I have compared New Relic and Sentry on important features like APM, error monitoring, pricing, etc.

6 min read
Favour Daniel

Both New Relic and AppDynamics are observability and monitoring tools that provide insights into the performance and health of applications, infrastructure, and services.

New Relic is a cloud-based observability platform that provides real-time analytics, distributed tracing, and application performance monitoring (APM) capabilities. AppDynamics, on the other hand, is a full-stack application performance management (APM) solution that offers deep insights into application performance, user experience, and business performance.

9 min read
Favour Daniel

Splunk and Dynatrace are monitoring tools that provide a wide range of products and services for monitoring. In this post, I have compared Splunk and Dynatrace on important features like APM, log management, application security, etc.

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馃挕 I instrumented a sample application and sent data to Splunk and Dynatrace to evaluate my experience. Some takeaways are subjective and based on personal preference.

13 min read
Debanjan Choudhury

Prometheus has been one of the most popular open-source monitoring tools for the last few years. However, as systems become more complex, Prometheus looks like a monolithic application that just can鈥檛 match performance needs anymore. In fact, it also lacks high availability and easy scalability. In this article, we will go through the top 11 Prometheus alternatives that you can consider using.

8 min read
Favour Daniel

Splunk and Prometheus are popular monitoring tools used today by businesses and companies for monitoring data. Splunk is an enterprise monitoring tool that specializes in searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine-generated big data, while Prometheus is primarily for metrics monitoring. In this article, we will compare Splunk and Prometheus against their key features.

15 min read

Your application or website is slowing down, leading to a surge in customer complaints and a noticeable drop in sales. Comprehensive infrastructure monitoring is the only way to identify and fix the root cause of such an issue. But with the abundance of infrastructure monitoring tools in the IT space, how do you know which one is ideal for your use case?

In this article, we provide a quick refresher on what infrastructure monitoring, outline features to look out for in a best-fit solution and highlight the top infrastructure monitoring tools available in the market.

17 min read
Mary Ayobami

Log aggregation is essential in software systems. In a distributed software system, there are numerous components that generate logs. Log aggregation tools centralize data from various sources, enabling efficient monitoring, troubleshooting, and analysis. This centralized approach makes monitoring, analysis, and troubleshooting much easier

14 min read
Debanjan Choudhury

Datadog and Dynatrace are popular tools when it comes to monitoring and observability. In this article I have compared Datadog and Dynatrace across different aspects like getting started, infrastructure monitoring, log monitoring, pricing, etc.

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馃挕 This article is my personal take based on the experience I had when integrating Datadog and Dynatrace. Some takeaways are subjective based on my personal preference