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Triage Production Incidents with a Single Prompt Using the AppSignal CLI
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Triage Production Incidents with a Single Prompt Using the AppSignal CLI

One AppSignal customer wired our official CLI into an agent skill, so he can search production logs, triage incidents, and check deploys in plain English. Here's how he set it up, and what it lets him do.

By Karen Patteri de Souza on

AppSignal MCP Server: Get Started in your IDE
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AppSignal MCP Server: Get Started in your IDE

Learn how to connect AppSignal's MCP server to Cursor, Claude Code, VS Code, and Zed in under five minutes and give your AI agent direct access to your production monitoring data.

By Dejan Lukić on

AppSignal Launch Week 2026 Recap
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AppSignal Launch Week 2026 Recap

Five days of new AppSignal features: Render Metrics Stream support, hosted MCP and CLI, logging upgrades, Process Monitoring, and dark mode.

By Connor James on

Why AI-Generated Code Needs Monitoring More Than Handwritten Code
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Why AI-Generated Code Needs Monitoring More Than Handwritten Code

Vibe coding is great until something breaks in production and you're staring at a codebase you didn't write - monitoring is how you stay in control.

By Dejan Lukić on

Introducing AppSignal for Startups
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Introducing AppSignal for Startups

AppSignal for Startups gives early-stage teams an ongoing discount on the full platform, with a bigger deal for Y Combinator companies.

By Serena Chou on

Monitor Your PHP Applications with AppSignal
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Monitor Your PHP Applications with AppSignal

AppSignal now brings full application monitoring to PHP developers. Here's what you can do with it.

By Karen Patteri de Souza on

5 Alternatives to Prometheus in 2026
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5 Alternatives to Prometheus in 2026

A practical guide to 5 Prometheus alternatives in 2026, from managed APMs like AppSignal to drop-in replacements like VictoriaMetrics.

By Dejan Lukić on

Vibe Coding Economically: Which Framework Is the Cheapest? (Rails vs Django vs Laravel)
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Vibe Coding Economically: Which Framework Is the Cheapest? (Rails vs Django vs Laravel)

Thinking about starting your next web app? Learn which framework costs the least to run.

By Tarun Singh on

Top 10 Prompts for Your Monitoring Tool
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Top 10 Prompts for Your Monitoring Tool

Explore 10 ready-to-use prompts for AppSignal's MCP server that let you query errors, incidents, metrics, and dashboards using plain English.

By Dejan Lukić on

Monitor your Render services with AppSignal
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Monitor your Render services with AppSignal

AppSignal now supports Render's Metrics Stream. Set it up once per Render workspace and AppSignal will show host metrics for every Render service, plus automated dashboards for HTTP, Postgres, and Key Value services.

By Karen Patteri de Souza on

Log-based metrics, now in AppSignal Labs
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Log-based metrics, now in AppSignal Labs

Extract counters, gauges, and measurements from any log source at ingestion. Track 5xx rates, p95 latency, and queue depth as metrics. In beta in AppSignal Labs.

By Serena Chou on

Introducing AppSignal Labs
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Introducing AppSignal Labs

We'd rather get an earlier version of something into your hands than spend another quarter polishing it. AppSignal Labs is where that work lives. Real features you can use today, still being shaped by what you tell us.

By Serena Chou on

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