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Ship Confluent Cloud Observability in Minutes

Ship Confluent Cloud Observability in Minutes

Push metrics into Last9 and start tracking Kafka lag, retries, and throughput in real-time.

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Anjali Udasi

Anjali Udasi

How to Set Up Real User Monitoring

How to Set Up Real User Monitoring

Set up Real User Monitoring (RUM) with safe defaults, proper sampling, and consent handling,without breaking your production code.

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Anjali Udasi

Anjali Udasi

Monitor Nginx with OpenTelemetry Tracing

Monitor Nginx with OpenTelemetry Tracing

Instrument NGINX with OpenTelemetry to capture traces, track latency, and connect upstream and downstream services in a single request flow.

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Prathamesh Sonpatki

Prathamesh Sonpatki

Set Up ClickHouse with Docker Compose

Set Up ClickHouse with Docker Compose

Spin up a full ClickHouse stack with Docker Compose, includes clustering, ZooKeeper, monitoring, and performance tuning tips.

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Preeti Dewani

Preeti Dewani

Stream AWS Metrics to Grafana with Last9 in 10 minutes

Stream AWS Metrics to Grafana with Last9 in 10 minutes

Visualize AWS metrics like Lambda, API Gateway, and RDS in Grafana using Last9. No agents, no code, set it up in under 10 minutes.

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Faiz Shaikh

Faiz Shaikh

Trace Go Apps Using Runtime Tracing and OpenTelemetry

Trace Go Apps Using Runtime Tracing and OpenTelemetry

Instrument Go apps with runtime tracing and OpenTelemetry to spot goroutine issues, lock contention, and performance bottlenecks early.

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Preeti Dewani

Preeti Dewani

Query and Analyze Logs Visually, Without Writing LogQL

Query and Analyze Logs Visually, Without Writing LogQL

Visually build, parse, and analyze logs across services, no LogQL required. Get structured insights faster with Query Builder.

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Anjali Udasi

Anjali Udasi

Build Log Automation with Last9's Query API

Build Log Automation with Last9's Query API

Here's how you can build automated log analysis workflows with Last9's Query Logs API

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Prathamesh Sonpatki

Prathamesh Sonpatki

Enable Kong Gateway Tracing in 5 Minutes

Enable Kong Gateway Tracing in 5 Minutes

Instrument Kong with OpenTelemetry for end-to-end API visibility, no code changes required.

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Anjali Udasi

Anjali Udasi