Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. This week, we explore how Private 5G is impacting organizations worldwide. Digital transformation (DX) integrates digital technology into different areas of an organization to help change the way it operates and deliver value to its customers. Organizations that offer a higher value to their customers gain a competitive advantage over others in the marketplace.

The pandemic struck the IT industry hard, upending many businesses. The businesses that adjusted best were those with a digital transformation process already in effect. Cut to 2022 and most organizations have started the digital transformation. And the ones that already had established digital transformation initiatives sped up the process. So, what’s next? Digital dominance is the trend; the objective might be transformation, but the goal is beyond just process and strategy improvement.

Monitor your Oracle databases, instances, tablespaces, pluggable databases, processes, system global area (SGA), clusters, automatic storage management (ASM), listeners, disk groups, and more within minutes. Discover Oracle objects automatically and track the overall health of your Oracle environment easily. Spot and act on Oracle latency issues as they appear. Generate detailed Oracle performance reports with a mouse-click. Use build-in Oracle tasks to speed up operations.

KoolKits (Kubernetes toolkits) are highly-opinionated, language-specific, batteries-included debug container images for Kubernetes. In practice, they’re what you would’ve installed on your production pods if you were stuck during a tough debug session in an unfamiliar shell. To briefly give some background, note that these container images are intended for use with the new kubectl debug feature, which spins up Ephemeral containers for interactive troubleshooting.

Are you familiar with the four golden signals of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE): latency, traffic, errors, and saturation? Whether you’re a developer or an operator, you’ve likely been responsible for collecting, storing, or analyzing the data associated with these concepts. Much of this data is captured in application and infrastructure logs, which provide a rich history of what is happening behind the scenes in your workloads.

SDKs naturally increase in size over time. After all, it does take more bytes to implement more features. This is not a big deal for most languages—the relative size of each new feature is small, and load times and storage aren’t big concerns for code running on a server.

When there’s a cardinality explosion, it can cause problems: It’s a surprise, it’s noise, and it can increase your costs or cause performance degradation of your systems. Over the past year, we’ve improved our time series storage systems so that under normal use, high cardinality is no longer an issue. But as the operator of an observability platform, you should have tools you need to help protect that infrastructure.

In this article, we will explain what system performance metrics are and why you need to monitor them. Then we will look at Graphite and Grafana monitoring systems, which make it easy to collect, save and visualize metrics. Finally, we will consider why you should choose MetricFire to monitor your system’s metrics. If you would like to learn more about the benefits of MetricFire, book a demo with our experts or sign up for a free trial today.

Dependence on Microsoft 365 and Teams has never been greater, and the pressure is on for IT teams to deliver exceptional user experiences – anytime, anywhere. The modern workplace sees users connecting from the office, home, and pretty much any place in between. This hybrid work model has a significant impact on IT, the network and the overall quality of service perceived by the users.

If you manage a network, every network device generates a large volume of logs. These logs are extremely important and narrate a story about both events and the sequencing of those events within your network. This capability is critical for any network monitoring software, helping you easily understand network activities, user actions, security breaches, and much more.

Calculating the true value of an IT project can be difficult, primarily due to the challenge of quantifying notions through dollar values. For example, automating processes will undoubtedly increase efficiency, but what’s the dollar value of such output?

Assuming you have correctly configured the user ids for MFA authentication in Salesforce, end-users should see the following screen when trying to login into the CRM application. The TOTP-based verification code is generated in third-party authenticator apps (Google or Microsoft) on your mobile device when you first scan the QR code or enter the key manually in the app. In this article, we’ll guide you through all the steps you need to set up our Salesforce MFA Web Sensor in your environment.

Understanding everything that happens inside a production environment is a notoriously difficult task. Instana’s solution helps developers and DevOps become aware of problems quickly – problems that are rooted in both infrastructure-level information and application-level information. Lightrun, on the other hand, enables practitioners to drill deeper into line-by-line, debugger-grade information from your production systems – enriching the existing information Instana delivers.

Lightrun is the world’s first IDE-native observability platform. A developer-first product, Lightrun enables engineering teams to connect to their live applications and continuously identify critical issues without hotfixes, redeployments, or restarts. We are proud to announce the general availability of the Lightrun extension for Visual Studio Code, the popular IDE from Microsoft.

Written by @thetomzach @ Aspecto. In this guide, you’ll learn what Jaeger tracing is, what distributed tracing is, and how to set it up in your system. We’ll go over Jaeger’s UI and touch on advanced concepts such as sampling and deploying in production. You’ll leave this guide knowing how to create spans with OpenTelemetry and send them to Jaeger tracing for visualization. All that, from scratch.

Almost every organization is moving towards or planning to move towards digital transformation and IT is a significant part of it. The pandemic has made digital transformation a necessity to achieve maximum customer and employee engagement and satisfaction, bridge cultural and talent gaps, and promote IT as a valuable business process.

To provide a fast, seamless, and highly available experience for the end-user, modern applications increasingly rely on third-party services. Due to this rising complexity, it's become important for IT employees to ensure that these services are up and running and communicating as they should. API monitoring has thus become a must-have for DevOps teams.

In this episode of Network AF, your podcast host Avi Freedman chats with networking investor, advisor and VC partner, Alan Cohen. Alan brings a hilarious, witty and nonconformist attitude to the talk, exploring Silicon Valley in the 90s, the joy of moving from large enterprises to small disruptors, and generously sharing secrets of the trade with Avi and podcast listeners.

Python code optimization may seem easy or hard depending on the performance target. If the target is “best effort”, carefully choosing the algorithm and applying well-known common practices is usually enough. If the target is dictated by the UX, you have to go down a few abstraction layers and hack the system sometimes. Or rewrite the underlying libraries. Or change the language, really. This post is about our experience in Python code optimizations when whatever you do is not fast enough.

Feature Highlights is a new addition to our ongoing series of webinars. As the name suggests, it’ll focus on specific product features with anonymized customer use cases taking center stage. In other words, how Cribl customers actually use the features to get the job done, sometimes in unintended ways. QuickConnect was the first act with a session “Streamline Connections w/ LogStream QuickConnect”.

Back in 2019, David Simmons created an awesome blog introducing LoRaWAN devices and The Things Network. He also showed you how easy it was to connect The Things Network V2 to InfluxDB. Since then, a few things have changed and I thought it was time to revisit the Things Network with a new project.

Ah, good question! TL;DR: store the start time of the span, and then create the span on the new page. Usually, you want to start a span, do some work, and then end the span. The whole span gets sent to your OpenTelemetry collector (and thence to Honeycomb) when you end it. But when a page load happens, that span object is lost. Honeycomb never hears about it becausespan.end()wasn’t called. How can we deal with this? Create the span only on the new page, where you can end it. But!

Customer-centered business practices have become a major focal point in IT innovation. The advent of massive communication has brought forth a big challenge, however: how does one provide a top-notch customer experience when there are so many factors to account for? The market’s answer to this conundrum is monitoring software.

Choosing a JavaScript framework for a new project can be a daunting task. There’s always a new one getting hype from the community, while the established players still have a lot to offer. So you need to do your homework and make sure the framework you choose is the right one for your specific requirements. Popularity alone is never the best indicator, but a review of the most widely-used options should help you decide which way to go.

Datadog Notebooks enable your teams to create and manage key reports and documentation as they build out, monitor, and maintain their infrastructure. Notebooks can include both text and graphs of any telemetry data you have collected in Datadog, and they support collaborative editing so that multiple team members can edit and leave comments simultaneously.

We're happy to announce that we've added a feature that will enable you to create folders for your custom metric dashboards.

In this article, you’ll learn how Starlink works in a domestic environment, and how to monitor Starlink connection with Prometheus. SpaceX’s Starlink uses satellites in low-earth orbit to provide high-speed Internet services to most of the planet. During the beta, Starlink expects users to see data speeds vary from 50Mb/s to 150Mb/s and latency from 20ms to 40ms. It’s also expected that there will be brief periods of no connectivity at all.

Back in November 2021, Grafana Labs released version 2.4 of Grafana Loki. One of the new features it included was a Promtail Kafka Consumer that can easily ingest messages out of Kafka and into Loki for storing, querying, and visualization. Kafka has always been an important technology for distributed streaming data architectures, so I wanted to share a working example of how to use it to help you get started.

Designed at the dawn of the commercial internet, the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is a policy-based routing protocol that has long been an established part of the internet infrastructure. Historically, BGP was primarily of interest to ISPs and hosting service providers whose revenue depends on delivering traffic.

Many.NET applications and frameworks support a plugin based model. Also known as “add-in” or “extension” model. A plugin model allows extension or customization of functionality by adding assemblies and config files to a directory that is scanned at application startup. For example.

The world is going digital with lightning speed. According to this report by Statista, at the beginning of January 2021, there were 4.66 billion active internet users in the world, which accounts for 59.5 percent of the world's population, and out of this 4.66 billion, around 4.32 billion (92.6%) users have accessed the internet by mobile. All companies regardless of the sector in which they operate, want to use the internet for expanding their business.

We just released the new SquaredUp 5.4 with some brilliant new features. Headlining as the two biggest updates were the new ODBC data source and a new visualization – the Surface image tile. The Surface tile lets you build stunning dashboards with any image.

In LogStream 3.0, we introduced a framework that provides a way for LogStream customers to build, reuse, and share configuration modules – including pipelines, lookups, data samples, and knowledge objects – called Packs. While each Pack has its own “context” containing custom pipelines, routes, lookups, variables, etc., it still retains access to built-in LogStream configuration that is shipped with the product.

Since we introduced AppScope in 2021, we’ve been relentlessly working towards the production-ready milestone. Last week we released AppScope 1.0. It’s been a long haul getting to this point. Not really sure if it took this long because we solved difficult problems, or if we’re just that slow. Someone told me that what we are doing would go a lot faster if we use a modern high-level language. Maybe … Can you imagine doing this in TypeScript? Yeah, me either.

Lambda is a top-rated compute service available on the AWS cloud service network. Its popularity largely derives from its ease of use, allowing users to run Lambda functions reliably without provisioning or managing servers. Lambda can be triggered manually or by any linked events in the AWS network, including DynamoDB streams, SQS, Kinesis, and more.

The waiting can be intensely stressful. You are mid-way through a critical production upgrade during the weekend. The schedule is tight. Suddenly there is an unexpected problem you aren’t able to resolve. You need help. So, you call in a support ticket. And that’s when the waiting starts. While you’re waiting for the support team to review and get back to you, questions race through your mind: How quickly will they respond to the ticket?

Our customers rely on Splunk’s mobile apps when they are on-call and troubleshooting in high-stress situations. Splunk’s customer base includes 96 of the Fortune 100 , many of whom rely directly on Splunk’s mobile app to help them solve outages or large scale performance problems. Therefore, they need a reliable quality of experience they have with our products and services. My team and I work on two mobile apps at Splunk: 1.

A nice dashboard can make or break your app. In this tutorial, you will learn how to make iOS and Android charts and data visualizations using React Native and the Victory Native charting library.

MongoDB Atlas is a fully managed cloud database service for modern applications. Earlier this year, the MongoDB team released MongoDB Atlas for Government, a dedicated environment for US federal agencies and state, local, and education (SLED) entities that need to meet stringent security and compliance requirements.

Whether you’re investigating an issue or simply exploring your data, the ability to perform advanced log analytics is key to uncovering patterns and insights. Datadog Log Management makes it easy to centralize your log data, which you can then manipulate and analyze to answer complex questions.

We’ve talked in previous posts about why we think the concept of exemplars are so valuable: They make it easy to jump from metrics into exactly the right traces, eliminating the needle in the haystack problem. We were enthusiastic enough about the idea that we helped contribute the necessary code changes to bring this functionality to the Prometheus ecosystem.

Captchas are used on many websites to protect user accounts from bots and other automated programs, preventing them from accessing the website. According to Imperva's research, harmful bots generate 25.6% of all web traffic in 2020. They are used by spammers to send automated messages to users, and by hackers to attack websites with automated scripts that often wreak havoc on the site’s performance.

Network monitoring tools are an important part of any network management strategy since it gives you valuable information about network-related issues that could damage your business. Overloaded networks, router difficulties, downtime, cybercrime, and data loss are all dangers that can be mitigated by frequently monitoring networks.

Securing an SAP environment is critical to any organization and as the use of public clouds grows for these environments, so does the concern of SAP security. These hyperscalers all have teams of people working around the clock to ensure their solutions are impenetrable. Third party cybersecurity solutions are often used as well to make sure these environments are safe and secure.

What if I told you one of the most common mistakes businesses make is reporting on website performance without understanding user experience? What if I said there was much more to website performance monitoring than simply alerting you when your site is experiencing a downtime outage? No two websites – or baselines – are exactly the same.

Capgemini IT, A global systems integrator, looked to SL1 to simplify their toolset and adopt AIOps best practices to transform their event management.

When a customer support call goes well, life is good. With Cisco UCCE and AppDynamics, every support call can be a great customer experience.

We were able to leverage the Node.js VM module to execute arbitrary JavaScript code with its own set of globals, separate from the running process’ globals.

Modern IT environments have become much more complex to manage thanks to hybrid infrastructures and comprehensive instrumentation that generate metrics, alerts and events data constantly. ITOps (IT Operations) and SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) teams are tasked with providing superior performance and user experience for the numerous applications while not letting the budget out of hand.

For some time now, people have understood the importance of early warning systems, whether for detecting earthquakes and tsunamis, military defense, or business and financial crises. Why should service providers, especially those delivering software as a service (SaaS,) be any different? In a world where time is money and minutes mean millions, it is vital for organizations to keep a very close eye on the supply and delivery chain of their service to their end users, both business and consumer.

Icinga DB web has a better layout and is more user friendly. This makes monitoring more simple. Hence it would be nice if we could adapt all the Icinga modules to Icinga DB. In this blogpost, I will discuss how to adapt Icinga Web modules to Icinga DB. To do this, first and foremost, install and enable the Icinga DB module. Currently, monitoring backend is the default backend for all the modules.

Netreo SaaS delivers a single solution for simplifying how IT organizations optimize today’s hybrid blend of on-premises, public and private clouds that are common in complex, global enterprise infrastructures. With the upcoming release of cloud monitoring enhancements coming in March, Netreo SaaS will provide even greater, multi-cloud monitoring capabilities and extended functionality for Microsoft Azure and AWS cloud customers.

How do you monitor your network? There are a myriad of technologies and tools out there, each providing different benefits and challenges. Today we are going to focus on one specific area, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Traps. That’s right, we are going narrow here, not just focusing on SNMP but on one specific portion of the protocol: namely the ability of devices that support SNMP to send alert information to collectors.

Cloud deployments have overtaken that of on-premises in the enterprise application software market since 2020, and Gartner expects they will be double the size of on-premises by 2025. These changes reflect the fast evolution in IT infrastructure due to new technology, business models, and market demands. The movement toward cloud, mobility, and IoT continues to surge forward.

33% of consumers will leave a brand they love after just one bad experience. And almost 80% of American consumers say that convenience and speed are among the most important factors to a good customer experience (according to PwC). So yes, good UX design can make or break your business’ product and customer relationships. Hence, products are more people-focused than ever before.

Based on the Teneo customers I’ve spoken with in the last 12 months, adopting a ‘‘Cloud-First’, Multi-Cloud strategy is often a top priority for Infrastructure and Operations (I&O) teams. However, many organizations have multiple clouds and cloud services mixed with physical data centers and Co-Lo (co-locations). And as a result of running multiple applications and services stitched together, user experience suffers.

According to ABC News, there has been a 600% rise in security intrusions during the COVID-19 pandemic, which is expected to double before 2025. In many circumstances, admins and technicians either intentionally or unintentionally play a part in the process of derailing the organization’s strategy for success. In order to prevent such mishaps, MSPs need a recovery plan to recuperate from any unfortunate accidents or cyberattacks.

Business analytics and business continuity go hand in hand. Microsoft 365 as well as Azure services are used by companies around the globe to achieve better business outcomes. Learn why a hybrid approach to Azure and Microsoft 365 monitoring can be beneficial and what steps to take to get clear insights into SLA fulfillment.

Welcome to the second iteration of What’s New in Sysdig in 2022! Before starting, once again, we wish you a happy Spring Festival, Seol-Nal, Tet Nguyen Dan, Tsagaan Sar, and Lailat al Miraj.

SSL-related outages are pretty common, and often happen when you forget to renew a certificate. Lucky for you, Honeybadger's Uptime Monitoring will now warn you before your certificates expire!

One of Grafana’s most powerful features is the ability to funnel data from hundreds of different data sources (i.e., services or databases) into a single dashboard without migrating the data from where it lives. You can connect and correlate data from Grafana’s curated observability stack for metrics, logs, and traces, or third-party services, such as Splunk, Elasticsearch, Github, Jira, and many more.

For most of my career I’ve worked with health and wellness startups. Most of these companies have a wearable that tracks movement, heart rate, body weight or stimulates a body part. The common denominator between these apps is their use of sensor data to determine physiological progress an athlete is making. Problem is, your Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) device does not have an internet connection and cannot send diagnostics anywhere if there are errors.

The final stage of the popular Software Development Lifecycle after planning, analysis, design, and implementation is maintenance. This is where a full-fledged application running in production is constantly looked after and taken care of. Bugs, bottlenecks, slow database queries, security loopholes, and other issues are discovered and fixed before deploying the updated code. Log records and Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools play a crucial role in software development maintenance.

It’s essential to perform a UX Audit on your website from time to time. It helps improve the quality of your site by reviewing its strengths and weaknesses. Chief Information Officers often carry out this job. However you can perform the UX Audit yourself if the company is small. Either way, you’re going to need a complete UX Audit Checklist that makes sure you get the most valuable insights from your audit.

IoT has rapidly moved from a fringe technology to a mainstream collection of techniques, protocols, and applications that better enable you to support and monitor a highly distributed, complex system. One of the most critical challenges to overcome is processing an ever-growing stream of analytics data, from IoT security data to business insights, coming from each device. Many protocols have been implemented for this, but could logs provide a powerful option for IoT data and IoT monitoring?

In this article, you’ll learn how to understand and debug the memory usage of a Node.js application and use monitoring tools to get a complete insight into what is happening with the heap memory and garbage collection. Here’s what you’ll get by the end of this tutorial. Memory leaks often go unnoticed. This is why I suggest using a tool to keep track of historical data of garbage collection cycles and to notify you if the heap memory usage starts spiking uncontrollably.

In Cribl LogStream 3.0, we introduced Packs! Packs are self-contained bundles of configurations that allow users to solve full use cases with minimal setup/configuration on their part.

In this blog, I’ll cover a real-world example of application performance troubleshooting a Java web app, hosted on JBoss Wildfly using Microsoft SQL as the backend database, including details of the analysis and diagnosis we had to perform in order to identify the root-cause of, and resolve, the performance issue.

One of Checkly's strengths is the capability to monitor key transactions on your site. It'd be missed opportunity if we didn't reuse it to monitor our own product! But for some important flows that comes with a couple of pitfalls. In this post, we'll take a closer look at how we monitor one of our top key flows: signup.

The Simple Notification Service, or SNS for short, is one of the central services to build serverless architectures in the AWS cloud. SNS itself is a serverless messaging service that can distribute massive numbers of messages to different recipients. These include mobile end-user devices, like smartphones and tablets, but also other services inside the AWS ecosystem. SNS’ ability to target AWS services makes it the perfect companion for AWS Lambda.

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I said a lot of inflammatory things about metrics. “Metrics are shit salad.” “Metrics are simply nerfed dimensions.” “Metrics suck,” “metrics are legacy,” “metrics and time series aggregates will fucking kneecap you.” I cannot tell a lie; Twitter will testify that I’ve spent the past six years ragging on metrics.

In December, information security researchers discovered a serious vulnerability in the popular open-source logging library, Log4j. If exploited, this vulnerability, known as Log4Shell, could allow malicious attackers to execute code remotely on any targeted computer. Millions of computers use Log4j. According to one study, 93% of all cloud environments are affected by the vulnerability.

We silently launched a new beta feature on elmah.io a couple of weeks ago: Lighthouse results. Let me spend a couple of minutes of your time introducing the new feature and how to use it.

Logging is an essential component of many applications. Every application has a different logging technique. You may prefer certain logging implementations, but you must also consider what to log, when to log, how much to log, and how to control logging. System administrators and developers, particularly the support team, benefit greatly from a well-designed logging system. For both the support team and the developers, logs save a lot of time.

New ICMAD bugs require immediate attention and patching for SAP systems. The dust has not yet settled on the CVSSv3 10.0 score Log4j security vulnerability, which has been keeping IT employees across all businesses very busy since December 2021. Read this article to learn more about the CVSSv3 10.0 score Log4j security vulnerability.

We’ve all been stuck in traffic congestion on the road at some point in our lives. Traffic congestion may happen when there’s too many cars on the road, when there’s an accident or a closed street. Network congestion isn’t too different from that - but instead of cars causing congestion, it’s a different type of traffic. That’s why, in this article, we’re running you through how to detect network congestion with Network Monitoring tools.

Track down high Citrix Provisioning Services device retry rates with our new MetrixInsight for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (CVAD) SCOM Management Pack release. MetrixInsight for CVAD is a CITRIX® Ready SCOM Management Pack for monitoring Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, Citrix License Server, Citrix Provisioning Services, Citrix StoreFront and Application Delivery Controller, formerly known as NetScaler.

All the applications that you’re trying to execute require memory. It doesn’t matter if the application was developed using assembly language. Or if you used a low-level programming language like C or a language compiled to a bytecode like Java. Running the application requires memory for the code itself, the variables, and the data that the code processes. Depending on your usage, the memory requirements will vary.

This release of Icinga Director includes a bunch of new options to make your daily monitoring business easier and more comfortable. It includes many fixes as well as some new features for Sync Rules, Configuration Baskets and Permissions. Check out the Changelog for a detailed list about all changes. You can get started with Icinga Director by just adding the module to your Icinga installation: Follow the installation guide.

Last month Gartner published its first ever “Market Guide for AI Offerings in CSP Network Operations,” and we’re excited to share that Anodot has been identified as a Representative Vendor in the report. According to the Gartner report, “CSPs are focusing on automation of their network operations to improve efficiency and customer experience, and mitigate security concerns.” The market guide presents many new and actionable insights.

The year was 1993. Beanie Babies invaded the planet. Dinosaurs dominated cinemas worldwide when they escaped from Jurassic Park. Seinfeld won the Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series (you might say that Jerry & co. were masters of their domain). And righteous rockers Aerosmith extolled the virtues of “living on the edge.” A lot — and we are talking A LOT — has changed since 1993; especially that advice about living on the edge.

In my prior blog, Continuous Test Data Management for Microservices, Part 1, we offered an introduction to the key approaches for applying continuous test data management (TDM) to microservices. The continuous TDM process for microservices applications is similar to that for general continuous TDM (see figure below), but tailored to the nuances of the architecture. In this post, I’ll outline the key steps for applying TDM across the lifecycle.

Three funny facts that you may not have known: 1) Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash were colleagues. 2) Jean-Claude Van Damme was Chuck Norris’s security staff. 3) Pandora FMS has a plugin for WordPress. That’s right! Pandora FMS has a monitoring plugin for WordPress that has been totally renewed and prepared for you! Get to know Pandora FMS WP!

Prometheus is one of the leading open-source monitoring frameworks around today. It is well known for its operational simplicity, and for being highly available by default. It is the second project hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNFC) and was accepted into the programme on May 9, 2016. Prometheus is completely based on time series data collection and uses both a dimensional data model and flexible query language (PromQL).

2021 saw some of the biggest websites on the internet experience outages that rippled across the globe. If you thought that “large” companies couldn’t experience website downtime, unfortunately, you were wrong. Website downtime can happen to any website, small, medium, or large, and it can happen when you least expect it. Thinking that the proof is in the pudding? Check out the most shocking websites that went down in 2021.

Recently we had the privilege of being named a Gartner Cool Vendor in the Monitoring and Observability category. The funny thing is, while this is definitely the closest Gartner category for our solution, we aren’t really used to thinking about Komodor as a monitoring and observability tool.

The role and responsibilities of a site reliability engineer (SRE) may vary depending on the size of the organization, and as such, so do site reliability engineer tools. For the most part, a site reliability engineer is focused on multiple tasks and projects at one time, so for most SREs, the various tools they use reflect their eve-evolving responsibilities.

Organizations are increasingly reliant on their internal IT teams to supply business-critical services and operations in today’s business climate. As IT activities become more integrated into business operations, more and more IT departments are opting to implement service management best practices, to meet the evolving requirements of the businesses. But what is service management? Let’s look!

We just released the new SquaredUp 5.4 with some brilliant new features. Taking center stage was the new ODBC data source. (If you missed the release announcement you can catch up by reading the quick overview blog post where you can also watch the full release webinar.) With SquaredUp 5.4, you can now instantly visualize any data from almost any database with the addition of ODBC.

The peering coordinator’s toolbox is a blog series where we dive deep into the peering coordinator workflow and show how the right tools can help you be successful in your role.

This blog continues our best CDN series. Today we will be analyzing CDN performance and uptime in the Great White North (aka Canada) within the last seven and 30 days. Let’s get started! Tip: Are you new to CDNs? Visit our What is a CDN resource to learn more.

Our brand new Google Analytics integration has just landed! Now you can benchmark your website performance on your real website analytics.

Great news for the SCOM community – SCOM 2022 is going to be released in the spring! SCOM isn’t going anywhere and it’s only getting better. We saw this proven in the Big SCOM Survey Results 2021 where more than half of respondents said they were going to increase their SCOM deployment to monitor more of their existing and new infrastructure.

In this article, we will explore the main metrics of a GitHub repository and why it is important to monitor them. We will learn how to get GitHub data in a convenient format, process, then visualize it for further analysis. Finally, we will analyze the main advantages of using data monitoring tools such as Hosted Graphite and Grafana by MetricFire.

The U.S. federal government knows it has not kept pace with technology innovation. Recent legislation and a $1 billion modernization fund aim to bring the federal government up-to-date. What does government digital transformation mean, and what are federal IT leaders doing to modernize their agency’s IT?

Grafana 8.4 is here! Get 8.4 This release includes a variety of updates focused on making Grafana easier to use, improving performance, and keeping your data secure. For a full list of new features and capabilities, check out our What’s New in Grafana 8.4 documentation. You can get started with Grafana in minutes with Grafana Cloud. We have free and paid Grafana Cloud plans to suit every use case — sign up for free now.

We know the old adage: All data is security-relevant. But at what cost? Many organizations are still trying to get their arms around existing data flows and tooling to say nothing of new apps and data sources coming into play as we continue to migrate to the cloud. Working to get a complete picture of their security environments, many CISOs are forced to make painful decisions between staying within budget and getting complete security event visibility.

In today’s blog post, I want to present something related to Icinga DB that you most likely will not come in touch with as a regular user: some of the test cases we built for Icinga DB and the tooling created to support them.

“What is up with the Context in OpenTelemetry? Why do I need to mess with it at all? Why, when I set a span as active, don’t subsequent spans just use it as a parent?” Oh, yikes, yeah. The Context abstraction in OpenTelemetry is hard to understand. Here are several ways it’s tricky.

In 2022, it’s hard to find places in the business and technology ecosystem where performance is not measured, where lots of data is not collected and where insights are not analyzed to improve operational and business performance and trace accountability.

Every digital interaction behind a screen depends on the Operating System (OS). It is the most fundamental element of the Digital Employee Experience (DEX). But IT pros are understandably apprehensive about their inevitable Windows 11 migration as so many things can go wrong; and with every failure comes additional delays, costs and frustrations – both for IT and for employees.

This article was written by Donal O Duibhir, Founder & CTO, PanSift. Scroll down for the author bio and photo. In 2015 I gave a brief talk at the Wireless LAN Professionals conference in Berlin about remotely troubleshooting client performance and Wi-Fi at scale. The solution I described then was rough and didn’t yet use a time series database (TSDB), but the requirements and goals are still valid and even more vital today.

Technical Evangelist, SquaredUp Great news for the SCOM community – SCOM 2022 is here! SCOM isn’t going anywhere and it’s only getting better. We saw this proven in the Big SCOM Survey Results 2021 where more than half of respondents said they were going to increase their SCOM deployment to monitor more of their existing and new infrastructure.

This article predominantly talks about testing as a distinct career option in data science and machine learning (ML). It gives a brief on testing workflows and process. It also depicts the expertise and top-level skills a tester needs to possess in order to test a ML application.

“End of life, end of support, pandemic-induced shipping delays and remote work, scanning failures: It’s a recipe for a patching nightmare.”, federal cybersecurity CTO Matt Keller says. Ensuring a high level of security for your IT infrastructure and being sure you have not missed something is hard to arrange during these days. A zero-day exploit happens when hackers identify a software weakness or a security gap and take advantage of it to perform a cyberattack.

Grafana k6 is our open source tool to help you ship reliable applications by doing performance testing in a modern and developer-friendly way. Performance testing is still unknown to many, but it is not a new topic. In fact, performance testing courses are everywhere — even at colleges and universities. One of our passions is to educate others on the best practices of performance testing, working together with the Grafana k6 community.

Ensuring that networks and the applications they enable are performing as well as they should is a full-time and challenging task for system administrators. We've all encountered scenarios in which end-users complain that an application is slow. Then the network team says it's not their problem, and the development team (or third-party application vendor) also says it's not their problem either.

Between planning, triaging tickets, negotiating requirements with external stakeholders, and actually building software, it’s hard to take the time to make dashboards or even think about the most important metrics your team needs to track. To make it easier for you to get insights into your team effectiveness and project health, we made a few updates to Dashboards and Stats that you just might like.