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29. 10. 2024 Marco Berlanda Front-end, Real User Experience, UI, UX

The Power of Micro-Interactions: Enhancing UX in Front-end Development

In front-end development, the small details can have a big impact. Micro-interactions (those subtle animations and feedback elements that respond to user actions) are powerful tools for creating solid, smooth and engaging experiences. In this article, we will explore why they’re so effective, how to design them purposefully, and how to implement them efficiently with…

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21. 10. 2024 Marco Berlanda Real User Experience, UX

How Good UX Boosts Business and Cuts Costs

User experience (UX) has become a vital component for companies that strive to stand out in today’s competitive markets. Whatever the digital product may be, a solid UX design ensures that interactions between users and software are intuitive, efficient and satisfying. It’s pretty easy to understand the benefits of such an approach in a consumer-oriented…

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04. 10. 2024 Emil Fazzi APM, ITOA

How to Restrict Viewing Access in Grafana Dashboards Based on Alyvix Tags

With the introduction of Alyvix Tags in NetEye 4.38, we’ve given users the ability to filter test cases and reports based on their tags, making it easier to focus on the specific test cases that matter to each department or subdivision within a tenant. One of the requests that emerged from this new feature was…

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20. 08. 2024 Franco Federico APM, Log-SIEM, Unified Monitoring

A Journey through Elastic Integrations

At the beginning of the month we released NetEye version 4.37 that contains Elastic Stack 8.14.3. Every version update of Elastic has both improvements and additions. To see all available integrations in NetEye, click on the screenshot here: As you can see the changes range from cloud integration, to ticketing, to not forgetting security, networking,…

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12. 08. 2024 Davide Sbetti AI, Artificial Intelligence, Log-SIEM, Machine Learning, NetEye

Bring Your Own Model – Using Custom Models in Elasticsearch

Hey everyone! As you may remember, we took a look in the past at how it’s possible to use a model (trained directly in Elasticsearch) to perform some real time classification by using an ingest pipeline. But… what if we wanted to use our own externally trained model? Well the good news is that, under…

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05. 08. 2024 Simone Ragonesi Artificial Intelligence, Offensive Security, Red Team

Exploiting the Matrix: Offensive Techniques for Attacking AI Models

There’s no way around it: Artificial Intelligence is reshaping our world in profound ways, and it’s here to stay. In recent years we’ve entered a golden age for specialized hardware and algorithms suited to enhance machine learning models. These technologies are now bringing significant advances across various sectors, from finance to healthcare, from e-commerce to…

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14. 06. 2024 Matteo Cipolletta APM, NetEye, Real User Experience, Visual Synthetic Monitoring

The Right Monitoring Tool: Elastic Synthetic Browser Monitor vs. Alyvix

In today’s digital landscape, ensuring optimal performance and availability of applications is critical. Monitoring tools like Elastic Synthetics Journey Monitor and Alyvix offer unique capabilities tailored to diverse needs. Understanding where each tool excels can help you choose the best solution for your requirements. Elastic Synthetic Browser Monitor: Strengths and Use Cases Elastic Synthetic Browser…

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25. 03. 2024 Franco Federico APM, NetEye, Visual Synthetic Monitoring

Migration from Alyvix Server to Alyvix Service

Beginning with NetEye version 4.26, Alyvix has been fully integrated into NetEye. Currently Alyvix within NetEye is implemented as the neteye-alyvix module, and is part of our Application Performance Monitoring (APM) world. We have Elastic with all the functionality of traditional APM, and then for synthetic monitoring we have Alyvix. In the past few weeks…

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15. 03. 2024 Matteo Cipolletta APM, Log-SIEM, NetEye

Unleashing Elastic APM: Containerized Scalability Explored

Introduction: Unveiling Elastic APM in Containerized Environments In today’s dynamic digital landscape, where every interaction matters, understanding the intricacies of application performance has become paramount. Elastic APM is a powerful toolset within the Elastic Stack included in the NetEye SIEM Module, and designed to provide unparalleled insights into the performance of your applications. As organizations…

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02. 10. 2022 Damiano Chini APM, Development, NetEye

Implementation of Distributed Tracing in Tornado with OpenTelemetry

In a previous post we showed how Distributed Tracing and Elastic APM can help Tornado administrators track down events from their generation on Tornado Collectors to the Actions they trigger in Tornado. This blog post will be more technical and will give you an insight on how we managed to implement Distributed Tracing in Tornado…

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02. 03. 2022 Damiano Chini APM, Log-SIEM, NetEye

Observing Events in Tornado with Elastic APM

Sometimes you’d just really like to have an overview of what happens to the Events that flow through Tornado. Where do they come from? Did they get stuck somewhere in the Collectors or in Tornado? Which Tornado Actions did they trigger? Gathering all this information from hundreds of log lines across different services (i.e., Tornado…

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29. 12. 2021 Mirko Bez APM, Real User Experience

Auto-Instrumented Real User Monitoring in NetEye

In this post, I’ll describe a little Proof of Concept (PoC) that I developed to better understand Elasticsearch’s APM-Tracing and Real User Monitoring (RUM). We’ll see how we can use this technology to keep track of interactions between frontend and backend service(s), collect error logs centrally, and see where the bottlenecks are. I’ll put the…

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29. 12. 2021 Marco Ettocarpi APM

ServiceNow Monitoring Pages

ServiceNow ServiceNow is a digitalization and workflow management platform that provides ITSM (Information Technology Service Management) solutions and, more recently, ITOM (IT Operations Management), ITBM (IT Business Management) and other types of solutions related to the IT world. In large companies this type of software obviously has a strategic value. They have a complex architecture,…

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10. 12. 2021 Franco Federico APM, NetEye, Real User Experience, Visual Synthetic Monitoring

NEP Alyvix – Ready for Use

Together with the NetEye 4.21 release, we also released NEP (an abbreviation that stands for NetEye Extension Packs) and now it’s possible to install it using the RPM present in the Official NetEye Repositories. If you are interested in this topic, I invite you to look at how these NEPs have been set up. The…

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02. 12. 2021 Omar Bertò APM, ITOA, NetEye

Really Slow Login? It’s Not Always the Network, It Might Be Your SQL Server

By using DMVmonitor to analyze query metrics on an MS SQL server instance, I was able to identify a missing index in the SQL server as the root cause of why an application was starting up quite slowly. In this specific case I was working in a production environment using Microsoft’s Dynamics AX 2012 R3…

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