Observability
Observability tools help organizations monitor, analyze, and improve the performance of their digital systems by collecting and correlating data from logs, metrics, and traces. Unlike traditional monitoring, observability provides deep visibility into distributed architectures such as microservices, cloud-native environments, and containerized workloads.
MySQL Monitoring: SolarWinds vs New Relic vs Datadog
We installed three database monitoring platforms on a clean system running MySQL to see how they handle database monitoring from scratch. We examined: ease of setup, onboarding experience, agent resource consumption, accuracy in metric measurement, and effectiveness of their alerting systems’ notifications when issues arise under real-world database workloads.
MongoDB Monitoring: SolarWinds vs New Relic vs Datadog
Monitoring tools promise easy integration, but which ones actually deliver when you’re not a DevOps expert? We installed Solarwinds, Datadog, and New Relic on clean systems running MongoDB 7.0 to find out. Our infrastructure team went through each tool’s complete setup process, documenting every step and roadblock.