Tag: Low Latency
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Building Multi-Region Synthetic Monitoring with Grafana Open Source (For Free)
Why synthetic monitoring doesn’t need to be expensive Most discussions around synthetic monitoring immediately lead to SaaS tools:Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic — all powerful, all expensive, all usage-based. But here’s the uncomfortable truth: Synthetic monitoring is not expensive because it’s hard.It’s expensive because it’s usually outsourced. In this post, I’ll show how to build private, multi-region…
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The Millisecond Watchdog: Monitoring Rules for Low-Latency Trading
In standard web architecture, a 500ms latency spike is an annoyance. In low-latency trading, it is a bankruptcy risk. When you are competing in microseconds, averages are lies. If your average latency is 10µs (microseconds), but your 99th percentile is 5ms, your strategy is already dead. You just don’t know it yet because your dashboard is…