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Your APIs Are Green. Your Background Jobs Are Dying.

Background jobs fail silently while your APIs look healthy. Discover Jobs gives async operations the same deep visibility as APIs—automatic detection, operation-level debugging.

Nishant Modak
Nishant Modak
What is Real User Monitoring

What is Real User Monitoring

Understand how Real User Monitoring captures real user interactions to reveal true app performance, errors, and user experience patterns.

Anjali Udasi
Anjali Udasi

The Service Discovery Problem Every Developer Knows (But Pretends Doesn't Exist)

New services deploy faster than you can track them. Discover Services auto-discovers your entire architecture from traces—convention over configuration. No manual catalogs.

Nishant Modak
Nishant Modak
Top 12 LogicMonitor Alternatives for Developers in 2025

Top 12 LogicMonitor Alternatives for Developers in 2025

LogicMonitor fits traditional infra, but for microservices, high-cardinality data, and Kubernetes, these 12 alternatives work better.

Faiz Shaikh
Faiz Shaikh
Top 7 Application Performance Monitoring Tools

Top 7 Application Performance Monitoring Tools

Discover 7 reliable APM tools that help you monitor performance, spot issues early, and keep your applications running without surprises.

Anjali Udasi
Anjali Udasi
Log Format Standards: JSON, XML, and Key-Value Explained

Log Format Standards: JSON, XML, and Key-Value Explained

A practical look at common log format standards, how JSON, XML, and key-value logs work, and when to use each in production systems.

Faiz Shaikh
Faiz Shaikh
PostgreSQL Performance: Faster Queries and Better Throughput

PostgreSQL Performance: Faster Queries and Better Throughput

Understand how PostgreSQL performance works, from MVCC to query planning, and how to optimize for better throughput and latency.

Faiz Shaikh
Faiz Shaikh
What are Application Metrics?

What are Application Metrics?

Application metrics are key performance signals, like latency, error rate, and throughput, that help you understand how your app behaves in production.

Anjali Udasi
Anjali Udasi
Jaeger Monitoring: Essential Metrics and Alerting for Production Tracing Systems

Jaeger Monitoring: Essential Metrics and Alerting for Production Tracing Systems

Monitor Jaeger in production with core metrics and alerting rules, track trace completion, queue depth, and storage performance at scale.

Anjali Udasi
Anjali Udasi