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August 2024
Releasing Icinga for Windows v1.13.0-Beta1
Today we are very happy to announce the first beta release of Icinga for Windows with with version 1.13.0.0! This new release provides a huge number of improvements and changes to the Framework as well as the default Windows Plugins, which we will talk about later on.
Update to Microsoft Teams Notifications
Oh Dear offers several ways to keep you updated on important events like downtime, performance and DNS changes, broken links, Lighthouse issues, and more. By default, you will get email notifications to the email address you used to sign up. But you can also choose to receive alerts to your preferred platform. A popular choice for many of our users is Microsoft Teams.
History Filters
We know that keeping track of downtime and other failures across multiple sites can be a challenge, especially for larger teams. That’s why we’ve added filters to the 'History' page and introduced 'Team History' to make monitoring easier and more efficient!
Pricing
Ben, Josh, and John discuss pricing, including how to approach pricing, what they do and don't like about pricing, and how pricing works at Honeybadger and Flipper. FounderQuest Episode 16, Season 5 August 30, 2024.
Turbo360 for Frends - Part 1 Business Activity Monitoring
If you are a Frends user, then you have chosen to use the Frends Platform to implement an iPaaS solution. You may have come from a BizTalk background where you chose to migrate to Frends as an alternative to Azure, or you may be a new greenfield Frends implementation. Frends customers have been successful implementing their integration solutions with Frends and when we visited the Autom8 conference we spoke to a lot of Frends customers about how they are using the product.
Python Logging Best Practices: The Ultimate Guide
This guide covers setting up logging, avoiding common mistakes, and applying advanced techniques to improve your debugging process, whether you’re working with small scripts or large applications.
Complete Guide: Exploring IT System Monitoring
In this article, you will get a thorough guide about exploring IT Systems Monitoring. A well-functioning IT system is essential for any successful business. From the smallest startup to the largest enterprise, your organization relies on a complex network of technologies to deliver services, manage data and support operations. However, with this reliance comes the need for vigilant oversight to make sure these systems run efficiently, securely and without interruption.
Grafana vs Prometheus [Detailed Technical Comparison for 2024]
Grafana and Prometheus have become integral components in observability stacks. This comprehensive analysis examines Grafana and Prometheus, two leading open-source tools that address critical aspects of system observability. We'll dissect their architectures, compare key features, and evaluate their performance in various deployment scenarios.
How to Monitor K8s and Linode - Real Use Case
In this article, we'll explore another monitoring use case. This particular use case is exciting– it's MetricFire's use case with Kubernetes and Linode! We'll examine how our company uses our platform to monitor our K8s clusters hosted on Linode. Let's get started!
New TraceQL features in Grafana Tempo 2.5 | Grafana
In this video, you'll see a deep dive demo into the experimental TraceQL features in Grafana Tempo 2.5. Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more.
Edit your Git-based Grafana dashboards locally
Learn how to to edit your Grafana dashboards locally, or as we like to think of it, "offline" editing. Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more. We also have plans for every use case.
Catchpoint Enterprise data source for Grafana | Demo
This demo video walks you through the Catchpoint Enterprise data source plugin for Grafana. Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more. We also have plans for every use case.
Splunk and AppDynamics Log Observer Connect Integration Demo with Akshay Hagaragi
Got the best APM solution? Got the best logging solution? Find out how we are better together with a few straightforward configurations to have the best of both helping you find the root cause of issues faster. Learn more about integrating `Log Observer Connect` with Akshay Hagaragi, Cisco AppDynamics Software Engineer.
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Open Source Software Licenses vs Revenue Growth Rates
I don’t understand why pure open-source licenses, such as Apache2, MIT or BSD, should be replaced with a source available license in order to increase profits from enterprise support contracts. That’s why we at VictoriaMetrics aren’t going to change the Apache2 license for our products. Our main goal is to provide good products to users, and to help users use these products in the most efficient way.
Incident Communication Best Practices - 6 Tips To Improve Incident Communication
If there’s one thing for certain – you can expect IT incidents in 2024. These could be cybersecurity incidents, system outages, or even just degraded performance. Despite the severity, even mild degraded performance can affect your users negatively. Maintenance without proper communication can decrease your reliability. Moreover, outages are costly.
Trends in AI: RAFT and the Worlds First Network Language Model
In this video Product Marketing Evangelist John Capobianco explores retrieval augmented fine tuning and the world's first network language model (NML) fine-tuned by Selector AI! We will cover the evolution of operations as well as various inflection points in technology including artificial intelligence. Then we will deep dive into how, and why, techniques likes RAG and Fine Tuning augment human operations dealing with data at scale and complexity never seen before.
Jaeger vs Zipkin - Choosing the Right Tracing Tool
Distributed tracing is becoming a critical component of any application's performance monitoring stack. However, setting it up in-house is an arduous task, and that's why many companies prefer outside tools. Jaeger and Zipkin are two popular open-source projects used for end-to-end distributed tracing. Let us explore their key differences in this article.
Mastering Microservices Logging - Best Practices Guide
Microservices architectures have revolutionized software development, enabling scalability and flexibility. However, they also introduce complexities in system monitoring and troubleshooting. Effective logging is crucial for maintaining visibility and diagnosing issues in these distributed environments. This comprehensive guide explores best practices for microservices logging, helping you navigate the challenges and implement robust logging strategies.
Elasticsearch vs MongoDB - Battle of Search and Store
Elasticsearch is primarily a search engine optimized for fast, complex search queries, especially text searches, and is often used for log and event data analysis. MongoDB, on the other hand, is a general-purpose, document-oriented database that excels in storing and retrieving structured and semi-structured data. It is commonly used for mobile, social, and IoT applications. While Elasticsearch provides superior search capabilities, MongoDB offers more robust data processing and storage features.
SaaS Budget Planning Guide for IT Professionals
SaaS services are one of the biggest drivers of OpEx (operating expenses) for modern businesses. With Gartner projecting $247.2 billion in global SaaS spending this year, it’s no wonder SaaS budgets are a big deal in the world of finance and IT. Efficient SaaS utilization can significantly affect both the bottom line and employee productivity.
Common Kafka Errors and How to Resolve Them
If you’ve ever worked with Apache Kafka, you know that it’s a powerful tool, but it can also be a bit finicky. Things can go wrong, and when they do, it’s important to know how to troubleshoot and resolve those issues quickly. Over the years, I’ve encountered my fair share of Kafka errors—some that had me scratching my head for days and others that were relatively straightforward once I knew what to look for.
Case Study: McKenzie Intelligence Services
McKenzie Intelligence Services (MIS) is a company specializing in damage assessment post-disasters. Their platform, the Global Events Observer (GEO), offers comprehensive coverage of natural and manmade disasters worldwide, such as hurricanes, floods, civil unrest, and rioting. MIS provides an expert-assessed view of the world through analysts who analyze various imagery sources, including satellite and street-level imagery.
PID Controllers and InfluxDB: Part 2 - Digital Twin
In a previous post, we described a CSTR and a PID controller. This post will cover the code and architecture of the digital twin from this project repo. The project leverages Kafka for data streaming, Faust for data processing, InfluxDB for storing the time series data, and Telegraf for writing data from the topic to InfluxDB. We’ll also cover the advantages and disadvantages of this stack.
Three Advanced Notification Features that Your Site Uptime Monitoring Vendor MUST Deliver
To say that site uptime vendors deliver notifications is about as insightful as saying that cars have steering wheels, planes have wings, or TikTok videos have cringe. It’s a given. But this doesn’t mean that all vendors use the same notification playbook. Some vendors offer basic (read: superficial) notification features, while others offer advanced notification features.
2024's Best Cloud Monitoring Tools: Updated Insights
Get a detailed look at the top cloud monitoring tools of 2024. Compare leading solutions to understand their features and performance, helping you choose the best fit for your cloud infrastructure.
Visualize CockroachDB in Grafana: Introducing the CockroachDB Enterprise data source
We’re excited to announce the addition of CockroachDB as an Enterprise data source for Grafana. The data source, available now in private preview, enables secure and seamless access to the CockroachDB distributed SQL database, while leveraging Grafana’s powerful visualization capabilities.
Icinga Director: Cloning dictionary row entries for objects from import sources
Over use of dictionaries in monitoring leads to complex and ugly configurations. This in turn makes monitoring complicated. Hence, it is advisable to use it, only if it is needed or in special cases. Even in these cases it is worthwhile to keep it simple. On that note, in this blogpost let me demonstrate how to clone dictionary row entries for objects from import sources to object properties in Icinga Director.
Afghanistan Internet Presses On, Three Years After US Departure
Kentik’s Director of Internet Analysis uses BGP to see how the internet of Afghanistan has changed in the three years following the US military’s departure.
Splunk vs Prometheus: a Side-by-Side Comparison [2024 Guide]
When it comes to monitoring and observability, Splunk and Prometheus are two prominent tools with distinct strengths. Splunk excels in enterprise-level security and observability, while Prometheus is known for its efficient handling of time-series data. In this blog, I have compared these two tools, focusing on their unique features, and strengths. Remember, some insights may reflect personal preferences, helping you find the best fit for your specific monitoring needs.
Nexthink is a Leader in the Forrester Wave
We’re thrilled to announce that Nexthink has been recognized as a Leader in the Forrester Wave: End-User Experience Management Solutions, Q3 2024 report! To us, this recognition underscores our commitment to excellence in digital employee experience and our innovative solutions that keep your workforce productive and engaged. Dive into the report to see why Forrester positioned us as a Leader and how we see Nexthink continuing to transform digital workplace strategies.
Why holistic monitoring is the key to future-proof your application
The days of monolithic applications and simple monitoring tools are gone. With the arrival of public and private cloud infrastructure and hyperconnectivity on Edge devices, organizations struggle to scale their applications, identify issues before it affects their customers, and to maintain their SLA s. Enter a pplication p erformance m onitoring(APM), a game-changer in the realm of IT operations.
How to Customize & Manage Network Monitoring Dashboards | Obkio NPM Onboarding Series
Welcome! In this video, we’re looking at the “Dashboards” tab in Obkio’s Network Performance Monitoring App. The Network Monitoring Dashboards allow you to visualize all the information and metrics collected from your Obkio account. You can leverage dashboards to analyze and compare information and find answers when monitoring and troubleshooting network performance. In this video, we will show you what you can do at the widget level in a single dashboard, and also, how to manage multiple dashboards in Obkio’s app.
Transforming IT into the Enterprise Innovation Engine
IT does not need to be a cost-center; this session explores the opportunity for IT to become the enabler of business, enable digital experiences, and align the IT organization with the business – proving its strategic value. Learn how a digital operations center can demonstrate alignment between top-tier applications, improving resilience and ensuring great digital experiences for your users. The session also covers an approach based on a maturity model approach as a roadmap to ensure IT is strategically aligned with the business and is value-led.
Cloudcraft by Datadog Demo
Whether you’re building a cloud architecture from scratch, documenting your current environment, or looking to optimize cloud cost, Cloudcraft allows you to visualize and communicate your architecture with ease.
Australian local governance: How to choose the right IT monitoring tool
Touching every life across the population—right down to the last mile—city councils provide digital access to essential services and information systems and ensure they are easily accessible to safeguard civic well-being, law and order, and quality of life for everyone.
Modern Network Observability: Device Discovery, CMDB, and AIOps
Understanding the state of your network and infrastructure is a critical responsibility for operations teams. Without their ever-watchful eye, network issues can cause problems ranging from annoying performance issues to downtime. To detect, prevent, and address these issues, operations teams have relied on a combination of monitoring and manual correlation, leveraging whatever tools were available.
Release 1.47.0 - SNMP plugin updates, Migrated Python modules, SCIM Identity Management & more!
The Netdata Team is very excited to introduce you to all the new features and improvements in the new version.
Cloud monitoring: A complex yet essential aspect of effective cloud management
This blog explores the complexities of cloud monitoring, the limitations of native tools, and how ManageEngine Applications Manager can provide a comprehensive solution.
How the Prometheus rate() function works
Prometheus and its querying language, PromQL, have several functions that perform various calculations on their data. One of the most widely used functions is rate(); however, it is also one of the most misunderstood.
Azure Reserved Instances - Your Ultimate Guide
If your business has predictable compute workloads and wants to save on Azure spend, Azure Reserved Instances can make you the FinOps department’s new favorite person. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves. Before we tell you how you can start saving on your cloud spend, let’s define a few terms.
Container Monitoring Demo
Datadog Container Monitoring gives you real-time, end-to-end visibility into the health, security, and resource usage of your containerized environments. In this demo, we’ll show you how Datadog measures container health alongside security posture and resource utilization, offering end-to-end monitoring and optimization for your container ecosystem.
Monitoring the Monitor: Achieving High Availability in DX Unified Infrastructure Management
DX Unified Infrastructure Management (DX UIM) from Broadcom is a comprehensive solution for monitoring an organization’s entire IT infrastructure from a single platform. DX UIM provides IT administrators and operations teams with a centralized view of their infrastructure to ensure availability and performance of servers, network devices, storage systems, virtualization environments, applications, and cloud services.
Now available on Microsoft Azure: Cisco AppDynamics provides more flexibility
Cisco is expanding its strategic partnership with Microsoft by offering AppDynamics as a hosted solution on Microsoft Azure — providing more flexibility and choice to customers. This article originally appeared on the Cisco Executives blog. I’m pleased to announce that Cisco AppDynamics is now available on Microsoft Azure hosted in North America for customers and partners globally.
Driving observability excellence within SAP - new Certification for S/4HANA Private Cloud Edition
AppDynamics has updated its advanced monitoring and observability solution for SAP environments, achieving a new SAP certification for integration with SAP S/4HANA Cloud. AppDynamics provides real-time insights into SAP and non-SAP performance metrics, ensuring smooth operations and compliance. In May 2018, AppDynamics launched its industry-first Advanced Business Application Programming (ABAP) agent, followed by newly released functionality on a quarterly cadence.
Common Kafka Security Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them
You ever get that nagging feeling that maybe, just maybe, you’ve missed something crucial in a project? When it comes to deploying Apache Kafka, that “something” often turns out to be security. I’ve been there myself, thinking everything was running smoothly, only to realize later that I’d left the door wide open for potential security issues. Kafka is powerful, but it’s easy to overlook some key security measures if you’re not careful.
Reduce SNMPv3 Trap Volume With Cribl Lookups
Despite new technologies and telemetry formats, like Model-driven Telemetry/Streaming Telemetry and OpenTelemetry, SNMP traps continue to be a significant source of events for monitoring teams. If you’ve been in IT operations, you’ve likely had a request to parse SNMP traps into a human-readable format so that they can be analyzed, probably deduplicated, and passed to a ticketing system for triage and remediation. The challenge? SNMP traps can be excessively chatty.
Customer Survey 2024: Unveiling insights and impact
We’re delighted to share the results of our 2024 Annual Customer Survey. Participants from some of the world’s most innovative companies shared their insights and experiences, highlighting our growing impact, impressive ROI, increased customer satisfaction, and broad adoption across various teams. Learn the key trends from the survey and how Catchpoint ensures Internet Resilience for some of the world’s most innovative companies.
Grafana 11.2 release: new updates for data sources, visualizations, transformations, and more
The Grafana 11.2 release ushers in a new wave of Grafana data sources, updates to visualizations and transformations, and more capabilities in Grafana Alerting as well as authorization and authentication. Plus, for those who are looking to move from on-premises to cloud, there is a new migration assistant for Grafana Cloud in public preview. Grafana 11.2: download now! For even more details about all the changes in this release, refer to the changelog or the What’s New documentation.
AI at the Peak of Inflated Expectations? A Reality Check
The AI hype is undeniable. Buzzwords like ‘machine learning’, ‘deep learning’, and ‘artificial intelligence’ have permeated boardrooms, media, and tech conferences. However, recent market movements suggest that AI might be at the ‘peak of inflated expectations’. Nvidia, a leading player in AI hardware, has seen its stock plummet by about 20% over the last month (8th July to 8th August 2024).
New GenAI Search Revamps Customer Experience
Splunk has launched a GenAI summary feature in splunk.com and docs.splunk.com search platforms designed to give users a quick and accurate glance of the most pertinent information they are looking for. This GenAI feature serves up a contextual high-level summary pulled from various relevant search results on topics ranging from Splunk product and feature usage to general Splunk terminology.
A Day in the Life of a Mezmo SRE
What keeps an SRE at the top of his game? I had an insightful conversation with Jon Duarte, a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Mezmo and he walked me through his role and the various tasks he manages on a typical day. Here’s Jon offering a brief glimpse into the challenges he faces, the thought processes behind his approach, and the innovative solutions SREs come up with.
Transforming IT Operations at Aventiv - A Conversation with Lance McCaskey | Digitate Success Story
In this insightful interview, Lance McCaskey, Vice President of IT Operations Applications at Aventiv, shares how ignio by Digitate played a pivotal role in revolutionizing Aventiv's IT operations. Discover the strategic partnership that enabled Aventiv to achieve remarkable results, including: About Digitate - Digitate is a leading software provider bringing agility, assurance, and resiliency to IT and business operations. Digitate’s flagship product, ignio, is an award-winning AIOps solution that reimagines the enterprise business landscape with its distinctive closed-loop approach.
The Ultimate Guide to Choosing the Right Omnichannel Contact Center Platform
How effectively is your current contact center addressing your customer service needs? Are you struggling with fragmented communication channels or outdated technology that hampers your team's efficiency? If these issues resonate with you, it might be time to consider an omnichannel contact center platform. But what is an omnichannel contact center, and how can it revolutionize your customer interactions? This guide will walk you through key considerations, essential features, and the evaluation process to help you select the right platform for your business needs.
SolarWinds names Andre Cuenin Chief Revenue Officer
Former CRO at Veracode, Rapid7, and Cherwell Software to accelerate revenue generation of world-class observability, database, and service management solutions provider.
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How to get the most from SAP on Azure
In this post, we'll show you how to get started with SAP on Azure. We'll also cover the key features of SAP on Azure and how they can benefit your organization. We'll show you how to set up SAP on Azure using Azure Active Directory (AD) and how to configure your SAP on Azure account. We'll also show you how to access your SAP on Azure account. Give Avantra a try today for free. In addition to being a cost-effective alternative to legacy, on-premises installations, Azure SAP systems can be deployed automatically with minimal time invested in configuration and preparation.
Understanding .NET stack traces - A guide for developers
Stack traces are important for debugging and understanding exceptions in.NET applications. They provide detailed information about the error and the call stack when an exception occurs, allowing us as developers to investigate why an error happened. In this post, I'll walk you through the basics of reading.NET stack traces and explore more advanced scenarios, including how multiple types of stack traces can be combined.
How to quickly gain operational insights using Grafana Cloud monitoring solutions
Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to start collecting and visualizing your telemetry data. With the fully managed, cloud-hosted platform, even novice observability practitioners can get up and running right away — and Grafana Cloud integrations are a big reason why. In this blog post, we’ll dive into the details of Grafana Cloud integrations, including what they are, the kinds of insights they provide, and how Grafana Alloy plays a role.
Topology for Incident Causation and Machine Learning within AIOps
Our thinking and use of topology within AIOps and Observability solutions from Broadcom has advanced significantly in recent years, while solidly building on our innovative domain tools. We’re providing a blog post series to communicate these innovations, advancements, and benefits for IT operations. In this blog post, we continue where the previous blog post left off.
Once Again, Logz.io is an Observability Visionary
When Gartner publishes their annual observability industry research, it’s always exciting to find your company named among the most successful and high-profile providers in this space. That’s why Logz.io is thrilled to find itself listed as a Visionary for the third consecutive year in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms (previously known as the Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring and Observability).
PID Controllers and InfluxDB: Part 1 - Background
In the fast-evolving chemical industry, maintaining precise control over Chemical reactors like a continuous stirred-tank reactor (CSTRs) is paramount to ensuring optimal performance and product quality. This blog post delves into integrating advanced data tools and techniques to achieve this control. We’ll explore how to leverage InfluxDB, Kafka, and Faust streaming, along with Telegraf, to effectively model and manage a CSTR and its PID controller (Proportional-Integral-Derivative Controller).
Cribl Closes $319M Series E Round at a $3.5B Valuation to Revolutionize Enterprise Data Management
I’m so excited to share that Cribl has closed a $319M Series E round! The oversubscribed round was led by GV (Google Ventures), joined by new investor CapitalG along with participation from existing investors GIC, IVP, and CRV. This round values Cribl at $3.5 billion, up 40% from our Series D round in 2022, and includes both primary and secondary.
Top Observability Best Practices for Microservices in 2024
Practical tips for monitoring, analyzing, and improving system performance.
Unlock Sybase ASE performance: Transform monitoring metrics into actionable insights
Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is a robust solution for handling critical business operations. To keep it running at peak performance, it's essential to monitor it continuously and collect a range of performance metrics. These metrics provide detailed insights into various aspects of the server’s health, including connection times, memory usage, cache efficiency, transaction management, and database health.
Mastering Kubernetes Logging - Detailed Guide to kubectl logs
Effective logging is crucial for maintaining and troubleshooting applications running in Kubernetes clusters. As applications become more complex, ensuring they perform optimally has never been more critical. In this comprehensive guide, we'll explore Kubernetes logging using kubectl, covering everything from basic commands to advanced techniques and best practices.
Introduction to Splunk Synthetic Monitoring in Splunk Observability Cloud
In this video I’m going to introduce you to Splunk Synthetic Monitoring in Splunk Observability Cloud. I’ll explain what synthetic monitoring is and then demonstrate a simple example by creating a browser test for a sample e-commerce site. I’ll also demonstrate how you can link issues found through synthetic monitoring with backend code due to its integration with Splunk APM.
Using the Uptime.com Secure Vault
In this video, we'll guide you through the features of Uptime.com's Secure Vault, showing you how to securely store and manage your sensitive credentials.
Everyone needs to know how to trace
It’s a bold claim for me to say that every developer can benefit from something 40% of them haven’t heard of, but hear me out. I was among the 40% who didn’t know tracing existed until this summer. Still, I spent the last three months learning why it’s critical to a developer’s workflow and the different ways developers pragmatically use it. In this blog, I hope to show you that you can benefit from tracing regardless of your stack, role, size, or project.
What is network uptime? Know how to measure and increase it.
Organizations that rely on traditional networks struggle to keep pace with rapidly evolving technologies and accelerate innovation. As AI, cloud, and decentralization create new challenges, the key to moving forward at a faster pace is to make sure the network is always available and working without any interruptions. This measure, known as network uptime, is crucial for assessing the reliability and performance of an organization's IT infrastructure.
Grafana 11.2 Released! Here's the TL;DR | Grafana
Explore the latest updates in Grafana 11.2 in this quick overview video! Dive into new features and enhancements across Dashboards, Transformations, Alerting, and more. Discover improved data visualization controls, dynamic transformations, enhanced alert management, and streamlined data analysis capabilities. Whether you're managing AWS resources or refining OAuth integrations, Grafana 11.2 has something to offer. Don’t miss out on learning how these advancements can elevate your data visualization and monitoring strategies.
11.2 Grafana Cloud Migration Assistant in Public Preview (Demo) | Grafana
In this video, Mitch, the Director of Product Management at Grafana, introduces the Cloud Migration Assistant, available in public preview in Grafana 11.2. This tool simplifies the process of migrating dashboards and data sources from Grafana Open Source or Enterprise to Grafana Cloud. Mitch demonstrates how users can easily transfer their configurations with a point-and-click UI, generate a token for secure connection, and use Private Data Source Connect to access private data sources.
Grafana Canvas Standardized Tooltips and Improved Datalinks in 11.2 (Demo) | Grafana
In 11.2, we've made standardized tooltips and data links improvements in canvas visualizations. These improvements are generally available. Watch the walk-through from Adela on the DataViz Squad at Grafana Labs. Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces.
Introducing State Timeline Pagination in Grafana 11.2 | Grafana
In 11.2, the state timeline visualization now supports pagination. Previously, all the series in a state timeline were made to fit within the single window of the panel, which could make it hard to read. The Page size option lets you paginate the state timeline visualization to limit how many series are visible at once. This is useful when you have many series.
Centralized Alert History in Grafana; GA in 11.2 | Grafana
With the centralized alert history page, you can view a history of all alert events generated by your Grafana-managed alert rules from one centralized page. This helps you see patterns in your alerts over time, observe trends, make predictions, and even debug alerts that might be firing too often. Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces.
How to Improve Your Android Debugging Process
Debugging Android apps has its unique challenges with crashes, ANRs, and inconsistent logs. But there are some easy ways to quickly identify and resolve issues, ensuring better performance and user experience. In this blog, we’ll explore basic tools and techniques to streamline Android debugging, talk about ANRs, and then go deeper with how Sentry can track errors and provide insights to help you prevent future issues.
Supply Chain Security: Leveraging NDR to Combat Cyberthreats
Supply chain attacks impact both individual suppliers and their customers' organizations. Detecting and mitigating these attacks early is crucial to help prevent data breaches, operational disruptions and reputational damage. Fortunately, with the right tools, you can detect traces left behind by the attackers.
AWS cloud monitoring in Applications Manager
As businesses continue to migrate their applications and services to the cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has become a popular choice for its scalability, reliability, and cost-effectiveness. However, with the increasing complexity of cloud environments, it has become crucial for businesses to have a robust monitoring system in place to ensure the smooth functioning of their applications. This is where AWS monitoring tools, like ManageEngine Applications Manager, come into play.
OpManager saves $240,000 for an aviation company through streamlined operations and reduced maintenance costs
The aviation industry is rising to new heights due to the ever-increasing demand for air travel and cargo transport. This expansion has led to intricate operational networks, making efficient IT management necessary to ensure seamless flight operations. With this in mind, an Australian aviation company sought out a solution.
Server-side JavaScript logging
In web application development, server-side logging is an important concept to get right. Great server logging helps developers quickly fix bugs and tends to enhance an application's overall reliability. This contributes to application observability, something that software teams are often working to improve. JavaScript logging is a crucial component of modern web application development and enables developers to create more reliable and secure applications.
Celebrating Nexthink's Leadership in Gartner's First Magic Quadrant on DEX
In any significant journey, there are milestones that prompt reflection—moments that make you pause and consider how far you've come and where you began. This week, the release of Gartner’s first-ever Magic Quadrant for Digital Employee Experience Tools, naming Nexthink as a Leader, is one such moment for all of us here.
Best Practices for Using JIT Access as Part of Developer Observability
JIT Access, sometimes referred to as just-in-time provisioning or just-in-time privileged access management (JIT PAM), is a security strategy that grants users access privileges for limited time periods. Access is granted on an “as-needed” basis. For example, if a developer requires access to a specific platform for a week or as part of an on-call access to production duty, a JIT Access system can provide that access and automatically revoke it after the time period ends.
Gain actionable insights with real user monitoring: the latest features in Grafana Cloud Frontend Observability
One of the biggest challenges observability teams face today is gaining end-to-end visibility into their cloud native apps, including modern browser frontends. Without that visibility, you potentially open the door to bad end-user experiences that can hurt customer satisfaction, reduce search engine discoverability, and interfere with overall business goals. This is the exact challenge we address with Grafana Cloud Frontend Observability.
Azure SQL Managed Instance cost optimization
Azure SQL Managed Instance is a fully managed Platform as a Service offering. It closely resembles the on-premises SQL database server, making it an excellent choice for users who want to set up a hybrid environment. SQL Managed Instance has good feature compatibility with the on-premises SQL Server. There are three main factors that directly contribute to or affect the pricing. Here’s a quick breakdown to help you understand how the costs add up.
Optimizing webpage performance with Site24x7's waterfall chart
A slow website equals lost opportunities. Frustrated users abandon slow-loading sites, impacting conversions and search rankings. Prioritize website speed for business success and exceptional user experiences. Site24x7's waterfall chart is a critical tool for understanding and optimizing webpage performance. It provides a visual representation of the sequence and timing of resource loading on a webpage. This in-depth breakdown helps identify performance bottlenecks and areas for improvement.
Understanding Kubernetes namespaces and how to monitor them with Site24x7
Kubernetes namespaces are a fundamental way of organizing your Kubernetes cluster resources to isolate groups of resources for specific needs. With better resource management, easy organization, robust security, and high scalability, Kubernetes namespaces help immensely in development, team handling, and application life cycle management. Site24x7 offers a strong platform for monitoring your Kubernetes namespaces so you can gain granular visibility into the performance and health of your deployment.
Conquering Data Silos with Cribl: The Universal Receiver Makes Data Integration a Breeze
As a solutions engineer, I always handle the complex challenge of collecting IT and security data. The variety of modern ephemeral systems increases the complexity of collection requirements. Cloud, PCF, and Kubernetes emit metrics, logs, and traces through methodologies like Cloud Foundry’s Nozzle, Prometheus scrapers, and OpenTelemetry collectors. I often find all of these deployed in parallel in a single enterprise environment to meet the evolving needs of IT Ops or SecOps.
Haley Wang - VictoriaMetrics At KubeCon China 2024
Haley Wang, a software engineer at VictoriaMetrics, presented at KubeCon China 2024 on August 22nd, 2024! In her talk, "Building a High-Performance Time Series #Database from Scratch: Optimization Strategies," Haley shared valuable insights and strategies for optimizing time series databases.
Always. Enable. Keepalives.
As part of our recent failure testing project, we ran into an interesting failure mode involving the OpenTelemetry SDK for Go. In this post, we’ll show you why our apps stopped sending telemetry for over 15 minutes and how we enabled keepalives to prevent this kind of failure from happening in the future.
4 Ways That Reseller Monitoring Catalyzes Shopify Success
Stuck in a sales slump? Any seasoned reseller can tell you that there comes a time for any growing business when you’ve poured your heart into attracting customers and perfecting the shopping experience, only to see your sales numbers stagnate. It’s absolutely maddening but certainly not unmanageable. Sometimes, it’s not about the marketing or the product—it’s all about site performance.
Introduction to Frontend Observability in Grafana Cloud (Demo) | Grafana
In this video, we offer an overview and demo of Grafana Cloud Frontend Observability, our real user monitoring (RUM) solution that delivers actionable insights into the end-user experience of web applications.
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Top 10 Tips for Tuning Kafka Performance
Kafka is a beast when it comes to handling real-time data streams, but like any powerful tool, it needs to be fine-tuned to really shine. I’ve spent more time than I’d like to admit tweaking Kafka configurations, trying to squeeze every last drop of performance out of it. Over time, I’ve picked up some tips that can make a big difference. So, whether you’re just getting started or looking to optimize an existing setup, here are the top 10 tips for tuning Kafka performance.
Leading the charge in logistics with an innovative IT monitoring approach
One of the industry leaders in logistics and trucking has a global footprint with hundreds of thousands of vehicles in their fleet. The company prides themselves on being nimble enough to make quick and decisive actions, closely aligning with its foundational values, growth, resilience, and an unwavering commitment to offering exceptional service.
How to get started with Resource Explorer
Welcome to the second installment of our Resource Explorer series. In this blog, we’ll discuss the practical aspects of getting started with LM Envision Resource Explorer. If you’re new to Resource Explorer or want to learn more about its benefits and features, we recommend checking out our first blog in the series.
How to test and monitor your APIs with Playwright
You probably know that Microsoft’s Playwright is a solid tool for end-to-end testing, enabling you to control headless browsers and check essential user flows. But did you know that you can also use Playwright for API testing? If you didn’t, then this guide is for you. In this post, we’ll explore how Playwright can be used to test a GraphQL API (but don’t worry if you’re using REST; Playwright can handle any HTTP-based API).
Latency vs. Jitter: Understanding Network Metrics
As you set out to optimize and understand your network, two essential metrics you'll need to master are latency and jitter. While they might seem similar at first glance, both latency and jitter represent distinct aspects of how data travels across a network, influencing everything from seamless VoIP calls and smooth video streaming to immersive online gaming and responsive cloud applications.
MSP Sales Models: Reselling and Selling FinOps services
Managed Service Providers (MSPs) are definitely in a competitive market. If you’re checking out Anodot, there’s a good chance you’re an MSP looking for a partner who can provide the right mix of tools and services to help you stand out to potential prospects. However, landing the client is only the start of the sales cycle. So, how can MSPs keep increasing profits while maintaining the quality that initially won them that business?
Best Practices to Improve Project Management
Project management is difficult work that requires a careful balance of strategy, operation, and control. The market for project management software is expanding, but adoption rates reveal another story that it is on a critical path. Almost 75% of businesses still use outdated project management methodologies during product development, such as spreadsheets or manual procedures, which hampers their capacity to complete projects successfully. Relying on obsolete tools presents a range of problems.
Networking Field Day 35: Selector AI Alerting Discussion with Nitin Kumar
Selector delivers consolidated, actionable alerts through your preferred collaboration platform, such as Slack or Teams. Alerts depend on Selector's powerful event correlation fueled by advanced AI/ML techniques. Automations can be leveraged to generate service tickets that include detailed summaries, root cause analysis, and even suggested remediations.
Networking Field Day 35: Selector AI Demo Part 2
In this demo, a user leverages Selector's Conversational AI, Selector Copilot, to investigate performance within their network infrastructure. The user first probes into the health of tenants located in a specific geographic region. Selector Copilot provides a visualization of the current state and summarization of the overall condition and afflicted tenants, along with probable root cause. The user then interacts with Selector Copilot to explore resource allocation, historical usage, and projected bandwidth. Each visualization provided by Selector Copilot can be copied and pasted onto a dedicated dashboard.
Networking Field Day 35: Democratization of Data Access Using Network LLMs with Selector AI
In this brief demo of the Selector platform, a user interacts with Selector Copilot to explore behavior within their network infrastructure. They first look into the latency of their transit routers, revealing a regional issue. The user drills down into network topology information to further investigate the latency, where they access details about devices, interfaces, sites, and circuits. Selector Copilot is then leveraged to surface circuit errors. Notably, each visualization provided by Selector Copilot can be copied and pasted onto a dedicated dashboard.
The Importance of Social Media Monitoring: Strategies, Benefits, and Best Practices
Customers often refer to your brand using variations of your name, specific products, and hashtags, rather than just your official handle. Tracking these mentions across numerous conversations on multiple social channels can be incredibly time-consuming. However, effectively leveraging social media requires managing these mentions. If you find yourself spending more time on complex manual searches for brand mentions than engaging with customers, you need a social media monitoring strategy.
Top 10 Search Tips - Sumo Logic Customer Brown Bag - August 23rd, 2024
Join us as John teaches us the "Top 10" tips and tricks for more effective searches in Sumo Logic.
How to apply Playwright test steps with TypeScript decorators
You can write Playwright end-to-end testing code using JavaScript or TypeScript. Which one should you choose? When I started writing my first automated browser tests, I went with JavaScript because I couldn't be bothered with the type wrangling. I just wanted to get something off the ground quickly. YOLO, right? Today, though, there are two reasons why I last wrote a JavaScript-first Playwright test a very long time ago.
Tips for Monitoring Kubernetes Applications
Monitoring is the most important aspect of infrastructure operations. Effective monitoring strategies help optimize infrastructure usage, improve planning, and resolve incidents quickly. While monitoring preceded DevOps, DevOps has further transformed the software development process to the extent that monitoring also has to evolve.
Monitoring Kubernetes with Hosted Graphite by MetricFire
In this article, we will be looking into Kubernetes monitoring with Graphite and Grafana. Specifically, we will look at how your whole Kubernetes set-up can be centrally monitored through Hosted Graphite and Hosted Grafana dashboards. This will allow Kubernetes Administrators to centrally manage all of their Kubernetes clusters without setting up any additional infrastructure for monitoring.
Python API with Kubernetes and Docker - Part I
Docker is one of the most popular containerization technologies. It is a simple-to-use, developer-friendly tool and has advantages over other similar technologies that make using it smooth and easy. Since its first open-source release in March 2013, Docker has gained attention from developers and ops engineers. According to Docker Inc., Docker users have downloaded over 105 billion containers and 'dockerized' 5.8 million containers on Docker Hub. The project has over 32K stars on GitHub.
Python API with Kubernetes and Docker - Part II
In part I of this tutorial, we developed a Python API and used Docker and Docker Compose to containerize the application and create a development environment. In part II, we will learn more about Docker and Docker Compose and how to deploy the same app to a GKE cluster.
Monitoring a K8s Cluster with MetricFire
Kubernetes (K8s) is a popular container orchestration solution, but monitoring its performance can be quite challenging. Luckily, there's a solution that makes it easier - MetricFire. It's a cloud-based monitoring and visualization platform that provides comprehensive metrics, alerts, and dashboards for K8s clusters. The platform offers amazing cloud-based monitoring and visualization services that can make the K8s monitoring seamless.
Tips for Monitoring Kubernetes Applications Test
Monitoring is the most important aspect of infrastructure operations. Effective monitoring strategies help optimize infrastructure usage, improve planning, and resolve incidents easily. While monitoring preceded DevOps, DevOps has further transformed the software development process to the extent that monitoring has to evolve as well.
Introduction to Monitoring Kubernetes
The growing adoption of microservices architecture also drives the adoption of containers to package, distribute and run the microservices. This requires orchestrators to handle the availability, performance, and deployments of those containers on the server. However, the entire setup around microservices, containerization, and orchestrators complicates logging and monitoring since various distributed and diversified applications interact with each other.
Ask the Experts: All-in-One Solutions
In this episode, Audrey Herndon, Technical Customer Success Manager at Honeycomb, asks #observability expert Dan Ravenstone at Top Hat, about the all-in-one solution.
Ask the Experts: Challenges of Adopting Honeycomb
In this episode, Victoria Perera Roman, Sr. Technical Customer Success Manager at Honeycomb, asks #observability expert Chris Bertinato, Systems Architect at NS1, why some companies resist adopting Honeycomb.
Progress WhatsUp Gold 2024.0: Reclaim Your Time Through Customization
It cannot be overstated how important a robust, well-maintained and customizable network is for your organization. They are the unseen infrastructure that enables communication and facilitates growth. Every organization has unique goals, challenges and workflows. A one-size-fits-all approach to monitoring often falls short and leads to time and resources being wasted trying to adapt work habits to the solution instead of adapting the solution to how your team best works.
Top 10 SaaS Security Best Practices You Must Follow
Are you running your business on SaaS applications? Then, you'll know that the convenience and flexibility that come with it are unbeatable. However, there's an area you need to pay special attention to so you can ensure your business success. Running a business reliant on cloud-based solutions means SaaS security is more important than ever.
Top 10 APM Tools - Comprehensive Comparison [2024 Guide]
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools are essential in software development landscape. As applications become more complex, ensuring they perform optimally has never been more critical. APM tools allow developers to monitor, diagnose, and optimize applications, ensuring a seamless user experience. In this article, we'll explore the top 10 APM tools available today, highlighting their features, pros, and cons to help you make an informed decision.
Australian local governance: Four ways observabIity helps achieve IT resilience
Australian city councils rely on a variety of computer applications, information websites, and service portals to help run the civic infrastructure and essential citizen services. Typically, Australian city councils operate a hybrid IT infrastructure that is a mix of both on-premise legacy applications that have passed the test of time and several modern cloud platform-based deployments that work together.
Cloud Infrastructure Explained - Components and Benefits
Cloud infrastructure provides the hardware and software components that power cloud computing. It allows you to focus on your business logic instead of managing physical resources. In this article, you'll learn about cloud infrastructure, its benefits, and core components. You'll also explore delivery and deployment models that cater to different business needs, and discover how SigNoz can help you monitor and optimize your cloud infrastructure.
Understanding Alert Fatigue - Causes and Prevention Strategies
Alert fatigue plagues cybersecurity and IT professionals, compromising their ability to respond effectively to genuine threats. This phenomenon occurs when an overwhelming volume of alerts desensitizes responders, leading to missed critical notifications and increased security risks. Understanding alert fatigue is crucial for organizations aiming to maintain robust security postures and operational efficiency.
Why Observability is Critical to Cyber Resilience
Whether an enterprise operates in technology, healthcare, financial services, or another business vertical, cybersecurity must remain top of mind. In addition to the numerous international cybersecurity regulations, like the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, GDPR, and other mandates, enterprises must also prioritize cybersecurity to mitigate downtime, protect sensitive data, and uphold customer trust and brand reputation.
What is a Webhook?
You may have seen webhooks mentioned in some of your apps before and thought: “Would I benefit from using a webhook?” In a word: yes. In simple terms, webhooks are an easy way for one app to “speak” to another, allowing data to be passed between systems that are otherwise unconnected. Applications and services such as Twitter, Discord, Youtube, and Github all use webhooks to provide you with the services you know and love. So that begs the question: how do I use webhooks?
Strategies for Efficient Log Management in Large-Scale Kubernetes Clusters
Aliaksandr Valialkin, #VictoriaMetrics CTO present "Strategies for Efficient hashtag#LogManagement in Large-Scale hashtag#Kubernetes Clusters" at hashtag#FrOSCon. Large #Kubernetes clusters can generate significant volumes of logs, especially when housing thousands of running pods. This may demand substantial CPU, RAM, disk IO, and disk space for storing and querying large log volumes. In this talk, we will look into different strategies of storing those logs in #ElasticSearch, Grafana Loki and #VictoriaLogs and examine how we can save 10x or more on infrastructure costs.
Elevate Your Database Performance: The Power of Custom Query Monitoring With DX UIM
In today's data-driven world, while new storage solutions and data lakes continue to emerge, many companies still use traditional databases with specific needs for tracking activities. Custom queries, tailored to particular applications or use cases, are crucial for identifying performance bottlenecks, slow-running queries, and resource-intensive operations.
A Deep Dive into Log Aggregation Tools
The guide discusses the essential components, challenges, popular tools, and advanced techniques that define effective log aggregation.
AppSignal for Ruby Version 4.0
We've released version 4.0 of the AppSignal gem, which offers significant changes and improvements to our Ruby integration. In this blog post, we'll cover the core updates and explain the steps you need to take before you upgrade.
Learnings from ServiceNow's Proactive Response to a Network Breakdown
ServiceNow is undoubtedly one of the leading players in the fields of IT service management (ITSM), IT operations management (ITOM), and IT business management (ITBM). When they experience an outage or service interruption, it impacts thousands. The indirect and induced impacts have a multiplier effect on the larger IT ecosystem. Think about it. If a workflow is disrupted because of an outage, then there are large and wide ripple effects. For example: The list goes on.
How to Create an Incident Communication Plan in 2024
No matter how robust your IT systems are, every business faces incidents at some point. Incidents can include degraded performance, poor response time, service disruptions, outages, and security incidents such as data breaches. This is why it’s key for businesses to have an incident communication plan that ensures all the affected parties are aware of the status of services. This includes DevOps teams, affected accounts, investors, customers, media outlets, etc.
Networking Field Day 35: Selector AI Introduction with Debashis Mohanty
Selector's customer base includes 50 deployments across service providers as well as large enterprises in retail, media distribution, colocation services, and multi-cloud networking services. These customers aim to correlate events across their network, applications, and infrastructure; eliminate the need for human intervention in RCS and remediation; and democratize access to insights using conversational natural language interfaces. Selector delivers on these outcomes, while accelerating incident remediation through smart, actionable alerting and a GenAI-based conversational interface.
Networking Field Day 35: Solving the Query Problem with Selector AI
Selector translates English phrases to SQL queries through the use of an LLM. Each SQL query includes the table, or data set to be searched, along with filters, or conditions which prune the search results. We walk through a number of SQL queries and sample search results, before considering the LLM-based translation of a sample English phrase processed by Selector.
Networking Field Day 35: Selector AI and the Workings of an LLM
An LLM differs from a function in that it takes output and imputes, or infers, a function and its arguments. We first consider how this process works within Selector for an English phrase converted to a query. We then step through the design of Selector's LLM, which relies on a base LLM trained with English phrases and SQL translation, then fine-tuned, on-premises, with customer-specific entities. In this way, each of Selector's deployments relies on an LLM tailored to the customer at hand.
SolarWinds named Leader in Network and Cloud observability in GigaOm Radar Reports
SolarWinds Observability and Hybrid Cloud Observability recognized for providing full-stack visibility across on-premises and multi-cloud environments.
Using K8S But Not Overhauling Your Devops Processes
Kubernetes is now the industry standard for cloud-based organizations. Slowly, many enterprises and mid-level companies are adopting it as the default platform for managing their applications. But we all know Kubernetes adoption has its challenges, as well as its associated costs. How do we decide when and what to migrate to Kubernetes? Does migrating to Kubernetes mean overhauling all DevOps processes? Adopting K8S should not lead to an overhaul of your DevOps process - it should complement it.
Implementing OpenTelemetry in Spring Boot - A Practical Guide
OpenTelemetry can auto-instrument your Java Spring Boot application to capture telemetry data from a number of popular libraries and frameworks that your application might be using. It can be used to collect logs, metrics, and traces from your Spring Boot application. In this tutorial, we will integrate OpenTelemetry with a Spring Boot application for traces and logs. Before the demo begins, let's have a brief overview of OpenTelemetry.
How to monitor your Kubernetes metrics server
In this article, we will examine a Kubernetes metrics server and its uses. We will also learn how to set one up and use it to monitor Kubernetes metrics. Finally, we will explore using Hosted Graphite by MetricFire to monitor Kubernetes metrics. To easily get started with monitoring Kubernetes clusters, check out our tutorial on using the Telegraf agent as a Daemonset to forward node/pod metrics to a data source and use that data to create custom dashboards and alerts.
Multi-cloud monitoring made easy: monitor AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud services all in one app
Managing multi-cloud environments often means juggling different monitoring tools for each provider, leading to increased complexity and operational overhead. To solve for that, we’re excited to introduce Cloud Provider Observability — an application for monitoring AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud services, all in Grafana Cloud.
How to aggregate metrics but retain critical data: Introducing Exemptions in Adaptive Metrics
When you hear about Adaptive Metrics in Grafana Cloud, all signs point to how it’s a game changer. Adaptive Metrics, which aggregates unused and partially used metrics into lower cardinality versions, has delivered a 35% reduction in metrics costs on average for more than 1,200 organizations. Companies have also spoken candidly about the cost savings they gained from the feature.
Clear and efficient IT resource management with Resource Explorer
Resource Explorer, part of LogicMonitor Envision platform, is an innovative resource management and visualization tool that helps you navigate the ever-growing number of resources in your hybrid cloud environments. In today’s dynamic IT landscape, where environments are increasingly complex and distributed, effective resource management is crucial.
;( Your PC has a problem...LM Envision pinpointed the issue for IT teams immediately
The recent CrowdStrike outage highlights the urgent need for robust observability solutions and reliable IT infrastructure. On that Friday, employees started their days with unwelcome surprises. They struggled to boot up their systems, and travelers, including some of our own, faced disruptions in their journeys. These personal frustrations and inconveniences were just the beginning.
Introducing scheduled maintenance!
We are excited to announce a new feature on StatusGator that will take your status page to the next level! You can now not only communicate incidents for custom monitors but also schedule maintenance and notify your status page subscribers effortlessly.
Webinar Recap: Taking Web Performance to the Next Level
In the webinar, Taking Web Performance to the Next Level, experts from Catchpoint and Akamai discussed how businesses can optimize web performance to enhance user experience, protect revenue, and stay competitive. Hosted by Piril Kavlak, Director of Product Marketing at Catchpoint, the session showcased the recently announced incorporation of WebPageTest into Catchpoint’s Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM) platform, real-world success stories, and a preview of upcoming features.
Supercharging Engineer Productivity with Real World AI
That’s the assessment of Senior DevOps Engineer and Logz.io user Armin Morattab when discussing the impact of AI on his day-to-day job. He dives deep on AI, observability, and strategies for improving workflows with Logz.io Co-founder Asaf Yigal in our webinar, AI in Observability: Real Engineers Talk Real Uses Cases.
What Is Full-Stack Observability?
Monitoring used to be so easy. Servers had names and lived down the hall, or across the street. If things weren’t working, you could turn them on and off again. Database filling up? Just throw another hard drive in there. Too many simultaneous requests? Rack another server and install a cache. Fast forward a couple decades, and things have gotten much more complicated.
Introducing Cloud Provider Observability in Grafana Cloud | Demo | Grafana Labs
Learn how multi-cloud monitoring just got easier with Cloud Provider Observability in Grafana Cloud. In this video, you'll get glimpse at how the new app can enhance your observability strategy for all your major cloud providers. Plus you'll get a quick walk-through of the app.
How to Reduce Metrics Costs with Grafana Cloud Adaptive Metrics | Grafana Labs
Grafana Cloud Adaptive Metrics has helped users save up to 70% on observability costs by automatically aggregating unused and partially used metrics. This video features a demo on Adaptive Metrics, where you’ll learn what we mean by “adaptive” — automating the process of recommending which metrics to drop while giving you the flexibility to determine any exemptions. This boils down to maintaining effective observability while reducing costs.
Ask the Experts: The Challenges of Adopting Honeycomb
In this episode of Ask the Experts, Victoria Perera Roman, Sr. Technical Customer Success Manager at Honeycomb, asks Dominic Marino, Principal #software #engineer at Cargurus and #observability expert, why some companies resist adopting Honeycomb.
What you should know about Datadog Flex Logs
Late last year, Datadog announced something called Flex Logs, a “more affordable” warm storage tier for log data. Designed for high-volume datasets that are infrequently queried and don't require real-time analysis, the Flex Tier offers Datadog Log Management customers a third option for data storage.
Using Kubectl Logs: Guide to Viewing Kubernetes Pod Logs
Guide for kubectl logs with a cheat sheet. Learn to efficiently debug and monitor Kubernetes pods, from basic commands to advanced techniques.
Why is AWS Cloudwatch not preferred as a logging tool?
Why is AWS Cloudwatch not preferred as a logging tool?
Optimize the performance of your Oracle databases with ITUnified's offering in the Datadog Marketplace
Many organizations use Oracle databases for their ability to be deployed anywhere, embedded security features, robust data analysis capabilities, and scalability. But manually managing Oracle databases can be impractical, requiring constant attention to optimize performance.
Identifying VMware underutilization using SquaredUp dashboards
Recently I've been working with an MSP on a couple of their use cases. One of the services they're designing for their customers is that of cost optimization on their IT infrastructure. On top of the in-house services and tools they had, they needed a tool to help them identify and quantify this underutilization. This is something SquaredUp is very well suited to do – and so we got to work!
eBPF Linux Command Line Tools
eBPF is a powerful technology used by many observability solutions, including Coroot. While web-based observability tools like Coroot are invaluable, there’s a specific class of eBPF tools that often go overlooked (besides Brendan Gregg of course): eBPF Linux Command Line Tools. These tools are essential for diving deep into complex performance issues. But first – why would you need those at all if you have convenient observability focused web applications?
runqlat and runqslower - eBPF command line tools
In this blog post we will look at runqlat and runqslower commands. They are available in both BCC and bpftrace tool collections. One of the core functions of Linux operating system is to schedule processes across available CPUs. When service gets a request, Linux typically will need to schedule the process, processing that request to run on one of CPUs. This might be very quick process if idle CPU is available or it can take significant time, if all CPUs are currently busy running different processes.
gethostlatency - eBPF Command Line Tools
In this blog post we will look at gethostlatency command. It is available in both BCC and bpftrace tool collections. Most applications and services use hostnames, rather than IP addresses to communicate with other services. This means before connection to the service can be established, another request needs to be made – to DNS (Domain Name System). As such its performance and availability impacts performance of virtually all services in your environment, yet it is often ignored.
filetop - eBPF Command Line Tools
In this blog post we will look at filetop command. It is available in BCC tool collection. Disk IO is one of the key activities happening on the system, especially for data intensive systems running databases or serving files.
Apply Playwright test steps with TypeScript decorators
Join Stefan Judis as he explores the concept of decorators in Playwright TypeScript code. Learn how decorators can streamline your coding process, improve test readability, and save you time. In this tutorial, Stefan will demonstrate how to implement decorators within Playwright page object models, starting from scratch. He provides practical examples and insights into decorators, a feature not yet standard in JavaScript but available in TypeScript.
Why is observability important for TableFlow, and how does SigNoz help?
Monitor your applications and troubleshoot problems in your deployed applications, an open-source alternative to DataDog, New Relic, etc. Backed by Y Combinator. SigNoz helps developers monitor applications and troubleshoot problems in their deployed applications. SigNoz uses distributed tracing to gain visibility into your software stack.
Expand Your View of Observability
Observability is a buzzword that has gained a lot of traction in the IT industry lately. But what does it really mean, and how does it relate to the challenges that modern IT organizations face? At SolarWinds, we believe that the current analyst definitions of observability are too narrow and APM-focused. They focus too much on the cloud, neglecting critical on-premises assets and restricting where customers can deploy their observability solutions.
Software Deployment Best Practices for Modern Engineering Teams
Adopting best practices for software deployment is essential to maintaining a high standard of quality, minimizing downtime, and ensuring that your applications meet user expectations. Here are five best practices to help you deploy your software more securely and reliably.
DevFinOps: What it is and why it matters
DevFinOps presents a paradigm where cost responsibility is linked with development and operations. This system is particularly good if you work in Cloud environments. Introducing of FinOps or the Finance + DevOps practices into the development cycle could supply your business with hidden cost-saving possibilities.
Fundamentals of a Successful Logging and Observability Strategy
Your team is responsible for ensuring the reliability and performance of your organization’s critical applications and infrastructure. What keeps you up at night? Your applications are more complex, distributed and cloud-native than ever, meaning that understanding what’s happening under the hood has never been more complex than it is now. Is it system bugs, or data bottlenecks? Chasing alerts for latency or service degradation that may or may not be business-critical?
Cribl Stream: Discover My Favorite Hidden Features
As a product manager for Cribl Stream, I enjoy listening to customer challenges and bringing new features and enhancements into the product to help reduce pain points and better enable customers.
SD-WAN: Dead or Different?
The rapid evolution of work models and security requirements has prompted questions about the relevance of Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) technology. In their insightful report, ‘Is SD-WAN Dead?’ Jonathan Forest and Andrew Lerner of Gartner explore these dynamics, concluding that while SD-WAN is far from obsolete, its role is shifting.
What is Fleet Management in Telemetry?
Fleet management is a derivative term. Originally used in the automotive industry, it’s now used in a span of domains. It’s being used in data telemetry since the introduction of OpAmp, which is a part of the Open Telemetry project. Now, fleet management has broader implications. It simplifies telemetry data collection by automating agent deployment, and configuration, and providing insights into the real-time health and performance of your sprawling agent infrastructure.
New Onboarding CLI!
We are so excited to share our latest feature with you… our onboarding CLI demo tool! This tool lets new users see how our platform works quickly and seamlessly. You can transfer real CPU, DISK, and RAM data from your device to your account in under five minutes.
Enhance your GenAI application monitoring with Crest Data's Datadog Marketplace integrations
As organizations begin developing generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) applications, observability challenges could hinder their progress. Few robust monitoring tools for GenAI applications are available, which makes identifying and resolving issues in these applications time-consuming and error-prone.
Strategies that foolproof your AWS disaster recovery strategies
AWS disaster recovery strategies In today's interconnected world, business continuity is no longer a luxury but a necessity. Disasters, both natural and man-made, can cripple operations, leading to significant financial losses and reputational damage. To mitigate these risks, organizations are increasingly turning to cloud-based solutions, with Amazon Web Services (AWS) emerging as a preferred platform for disaster recovery (DR) strategies.
Four key benefits of configuration templates in network automation
Configuration templates consist of small pieces of code that allow administrators to implement changes across numerous devices as many times as necessary. These templates, often referred to as configlets, expedite system setup and make it more resistant to errors.
Platform Engineering - Empowering Developers with Self-Service Tools
In the world of DevOps and cloud engineering, a new buzzword has emerged: Platform Engineering. This concept has sparked discussions across the industry, with professionals debating whether it replaces traditional DevOps or adds value to it. In reality, Platform engineering transforms how software teams work. It builds on DevOps principles to create self-service tools that boost developer productivity. This approach streamlines workflows, enhances security, and cuts operational costs.
Solving the SLO Riddle: Why SLOs are not enough
Traditional service level objectives (SLOs) focus on IT metrics, not customer experiences. An SLO might be met, but the customer could still be unhappy with their digital experience. This makes it hard to get actionable insights to continually improve product reliability and customer experiences.
Efficiency in Development with the co-founders of Uno Platform
Bridging the Productivity Gap in an Era of Modern Development. On the next episode of Founder & Friends, John-Daniel (JD) Trask will sit down with two incredible cross-platform experts, Francois Tanguay and Sasha Krsmanovic from Uno Platform. Francois Tanguay, CEO & co-founder of Uno Platform comes to the table with a deep technical background and sharp business acumen; Francois has built multiple companies from the ground up.
Building Compelling AI Products #datadog #shorts
AI is hot, but it seems that many companies are haphazardly slapping AI onto their products. Often, these new AI-enabled tools seem more like a solution in search of a problem than a useful product. So how should we be incorporating AI to truly benefit our customers?
Grafana Cloud updates: new data visualization options, enhancements to Grafana Cloud k6, and more
We consistently roll out helpful updates and fun features in Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform powered by the open source Grafana LGTM Stack (Loki for logs, Grafana for visualization, Tempo for traces, and Mimir for metrics). In case you missed it, here’s a roundup of the latest and greatest updates for Grafana Cloud this month. You can also read about all the features we add to Grafana Cloud in our What’s New in Grafana Cloud documentation.
Best Practices for Ensuring High File Integrity in Data Security
Data is essential for every business in the modern world. It is very important to keep this data safe because if it gets hacked, it could lead to terrible things like losing money, getting in trouble with the law, or having your reputation hurt. Imagine finding out that important business data or private customer information has been changed or hacked. The thought itself is scary.
Understanding Transit Gateway Costs
Phil Gervasi shows the importance of understanding traffic over AWS Transit Gateways for cloud cost management. He demonstrates how Kentik provides a visual layout of the entire AWS environment, including Transit Gateways, and allows users to dig into specific details and metrics. Phil also gives a quick look at Data Explorer, where users can observe Transit Gateway traffic over time, create and edit filters, and customize data visualization for sharing and exporting.
Elevate Digital Employee Experience with Advanced Workspace Management
In today’s dynamic IT environment, effective Digital Workspace Management and Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) are critical for maintaining operational efficiency and optimizing Digital Employee Experience. For IT Operations and Service Desk teams, navigating the complexities of hybrid work environment and ensuring seamless service delivery is challenging now more than ever.
How Nationwide Building Society boosted system resiliency & saved $1 2M with Digitate
Join us for an insightful conversation with Andrew Pringle, Delivery Lead at Nationwide Building Society (NBS), as we dive into how Nationwide transformed their system resiliency and achieved substantial savings. By partnering with Digitate, NBS identified 50 critical scenarios to monitor and alert in their core customer data systems, resulting in enhanced reliability and cost savings of $1.2 million.
Key factors to consider when evaluating application monitoring tools
In this blog, we’ll break down the essential features to look for when evaluating an application monitoring tool and highlight what ManageEngine Applications Manager can offer your IT team.
Mastering Node Affinity in Kubernetes
In the world of container orchestration, Kubernetes has emerged as the go-to platform for managing and scaling applications. One of the key features that make Kubernetes so powerful is its ability to intelligently schedule pods across nodes in a cluster. Node affinity is a crucial concept in this scheduling process, allowing developers to influence where pods are placed based on node characteristics.
VictoriaMetrics Cloud reduces monitoring costs by 5x
We’re happy to announce VictoriaMetrics Cloud, a hosted monitoring platform and managed service for metrics that allows organizations to monitor and store large amounts of time-series data, without having to run the underlying infrastructure. At a time when almost every enterprise relies on complex data to run, VictoriaMetrics Cloud delivers the power of the popular VictoriaMetrics open-source time series solution, which has reached 750 million downloads, with enterprise features.
How to make your web page faster before it even loads
As developers (and as front end developers in particular), we usually talk about web performance in the context of measuring what happens when we start to see things appear in a browser window, and when we can consume content or interact with the page.
MSP device templates at the admin level for tracking your customer's endpoints
Managed service providers (MSPs) are currently facing a critical challenge: efficiently managing and monitoring a diverse array of endpoints for multiple clients. At the core of effective network management is the seamless tracking of customer endpoints. The availability of device templates at the administrative level within Site24x7 is an advantage for many MSPs.
Datadog vs Splunk - Which Monitoring Platform Is Right for You?
Datadog and Splunk are leading monitoring and observability platforms that offer comprehensive solutions for modern IT environments. Both tools share a wide range of features, making it challenging to choose between them. This article compares Datadog and Splunk on crucial aspects like application performance monitoring (APM), log management, search capabilities, and more to help determine which platform best fits your organization.
DEX vs. DEM - What is Digital Employee Experience (DEX) and how does it differ from Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM)?
Today I’ll cover a few points on DEX vs. DEM. Many organizations have adopted Digital Employee Experience (DEX) Monitoring, and many Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM), some both. Sometimes the terms are used interchangeably, and sometimes these methodologies overlap. I’ll cover a few points that should hopefully clarify the differences and the overlaps.
Anatomy of an OTT Traffic Surge: Microsoft Patch Tuesday
Last Tuesday, August 13 was the second Tuesday of the month, and for anyone running a network or working in IT, you know what that means: another Microsoft Patch Tuesday. Doug Madory looks at how the resulting traffic surge can be analyzed using Kentik’s OTT Service Tracking.
The Impact of IIoT and Real-Time Analytics on Renewable Energy
Technology focused on building a more sustainable future continues to advance at incredible speed. The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and real-time analytics are opening up new horizons for renewable energy. This post looks at the intersections of innovation and ecology, where small chips and sensors play major roles in the renewable energy sector.
Use the Catchpoint Terraform Provider in your CI/CD workflows
We recently made the Catchpoint Terraform provider available in the Terraform Registry, allowing our customers to manage their Catchpoint IPM tests with minimal configuration, enabling developers, SREs and DevOps teams to seamlessly integrate their Catchpoint data with Terraform.
Introduction to Log Observer Connect in Splunk Observability Cloud
Log Observer Connect will allow you to connect to and view/query logs from your Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud instance from within Splunk Observability Cloud. In this video, I will introduce you to Log Observer Connect in Splunk Observability Cloud and walk you through a demonstration of how it works. You’ll learn how to view and query logs, as well as save queries for later use. I’ll also walk you through a practical example of when you might use Log Observer Connect through the use of Related Logs.
Setup Log Observer Connect in Splunk Observability Cloud
Log Observer Connect will allow you to connect to and view/query logs from your Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud instance from within Splunk Observability Cloud. In this video, I will briefly explain what Log Observer Connect is and then show you how to connect your Splunk Observability Cloud organization to a Splunk Enterprise instance through Log Observer Connect. TOC.
LogicMonitor's latest innovations to improve enterprise MTTR, visibility, and control
Enterprise hybrid IT environments are complex beasts, plagued by blind spots, siloed data, and slow incident resolution. Enterprise organizations need a comprehensive solution that provides hybrid observability within a single pane of glass to reduce MTTR/MTTI, eliminate those blind spots, correlate insights across their entire IT infrastructure, and achieve more granular control. LogicMonitor goes beyond basic monitoring to deliver exactly that.
Auto-instrument Next.js Server Actions
Here's a really cool way to automatically instrument all your Next.js Server Actions with Sentry! next-safe-action allows you to create middleware for your server actions, in which you can setup instrumentation for all the actions that use the middleware. Easy!
How to identify fetch waterfalls in React
Here's a quick overview of how to use tracing to identify fetch waterfalls (and so much more) in your applications.
Grafana Labs recognized as a leader in the observability space
Observability has become essential to organizations of all sizes, helping them get deeper, better insights into the infrastructure and applications driving their businesses.
Why Full AI-Stack Visibility is Key to High-Performing GPUs and AI Models
The generative AI market is poised to explode. From AI-based co-pilots and assistants to new use cases across healthcare, marketing, sales, software development, and more, generative AI is unleashing a new wave of productivity, efficiency, and transformative employee and customer experiences.
SNMP Traps as Logs | LogicMonitor
In this short demo video, Michael Rodrigues, Senior Product Manager, will give you a tour of SNMP Traps as Logs, a new way to monitor SNMP traps with LogicMonitor. SNMP Traps as Logs enables real-time, event-driven notifications for critical networking issues within a user-friendly interface, unlocking instant insights. By ingesting SNMP traps as logs instead of EventSources, you can consolidate network troubleshooting efforts within a single pane of glass for a holistic Network Monitoring approach, eliminate monitoring gaps, improve reliability, and facilitate resource planning.
What's New at Kentik, Episode 8
Host Leon Adato takes you through the latest updates and features from Kentik. This month, we dive into monitoring analytics for content distribution networks (CDNs), explore the new Use Case Finder in Kentik's knowledgebase, and learn how to include custom fields in Data Explorer. Plus, Leon shares some light-hearted insights on why August is the perfect time to celebrate with Kentik's... uhh... craft brews? Don't forget to like and subscribe to keep up-to-date on everything new at Kentik!
Make Your End-to-end Tests More Stable with Playwright's User-first Selectors
When testing and monitoring websites end to end with Playwright, choosing the right locators is crucial. Proper locators help create tests that are less flaky and more reliable. Let's explore user-first locators and how to filter locators for more robust tests.
Observability Meets Security: Build a Baseline To Climb the PEAK
When we hunt in new environments and datasets, it is critical to build an understanding of what they contain, and how we can leverage them for future hunts. For this purpose, we recommend the PEAK Threat Hunting Framework's baseline hunting process.
10 metrics every Azure DevOps engineer should monitor
As a DevOps engineer maintaining deployment pipelines in Azure DevOps, it's crucial to monitor several aspects to ensure the pipelines are efficient, reliable, and secure. Here are 10 key metrics you should focus on.
Release webinar: Dashboard Server 6.3
A big release, bringing a whole bunch of exciting, sought-after features and updates! In this release webinar, Bruce Cullen, Director of Engineering at SquaredUp, will present Dashboard Server 6.3's latest enhancements including.
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Security & AI Considerations in IT Monitoring Focusing on Microsoft SCOM & Azure Monitor SCOM MI
This whitepaper explores the pivotal roles of security and artificial intelligence (AI) in advancing IT monitoring capabilities, with a specific focus on Microsoft SCOM (System Center Operations Manager) and Azure Monitor SCOM Managed Instance (MI). It highlights how security measures safeguard monitoring data integrity and confidentiality while AI enhances predictive analytics, anomaly detection, and automated responses.
Crowdstrike outage and Security Posture Management with Descriptive Analytics
Last Updated on 15 hours The recent outage caused by Crowdstrike on Jul 18, 2024 has proved how the fallout was unforeseen and unthinkable, across the globe. In this era of zero trust, the leading cyber security company Crowdstrike sent an update to its Falcon sensor agent and another IT leader Microsoft which had Crowdstrike sensors installed crashed with Blue Screen of Death(BSOD) as soon as the update was received caused by a null pointer issue.
What are networks? Part 2: Network devices and why we need to monitor them
In an era dominated by GenAI technologies, the critical role of robust network infrastructure—the backbone of AI's expansive capabilities—often remains in the shadows. At the heart of this infrastructure lies an intricate array of network devices, including routers, switches, modems, firewalls, wireless access points, etc. These devices, each serving a distinct yet interconnected role, collectively ensure the seamless transmission of data across the network.
Subnets. What is a subnet? How does it work?
Subnetting is the process of dividing a network into several smaller, independent subnets. Each subnet is a portion of the core network that follows a specific logic. We know the definition of the use of subnets in local networks that we could use in our company, y, since the benefits of using subnetting are several.
Aligning Business and Engineering Goals with Honeycomb SLOs
Setting clear, measurable goals is essential for any successful team. However, aligning those goals with the technical work can be challenging in the fast-paced world of software engineering. Engineers might focus on reducing latency or improving uptime, while business leaders look at revenue and customer satisfaction. It gets tricky to track the impact between the two to justify when specific engineering initiatives are important, why, and how they impact the bottom line.
The Leading End to End Monitoring Tools
End-to-end monitoring refers to the comprehensive assessment of the whole IT environment to understand the overall state of the IT infrastructure and how it impacts user experience. Traditional monitoring techniques have differed from end-to-end monitoring in that they view the IT environment from a more holistic and user-centric perspective than other traditional ways of monitoring.
aNN vs kNN: Understand their differences and roles in vector search
In today's digital era — where data grows exponentially and becomes increasingly complex — the ability to efficiently search and analyze this vast ocean of information has never been more important. But it's also never been more challenging. It's like trying to find a needle in a haystack but with the added challenge of the needle constantly changing its form. This is where vector search emerges as a game-changer, changing how we interact with large data sets.
Cribl Search's Secret Weapon: Sample Events Made Easy
Cribl Search empowers users to explore and analyze data directly at its source. However, finding sample data for testing these queries can be time-consuming. To overcome this, Cribl Search provides $vt_dummy, a built-in virtual table designed to generate dummy events on demand.
Your Data Your Cloud: Cribl Stream Managed Worker Groups in Microsoft Azure
One of our most commonly asked questions is when we will support Worker Groups in Azure. We’ve heard you loud and clear; some exciting news will make your data management much more straightforward. We’re introducing a Cribl-managed Cribl Stream data plane, also known as Worker Groups, in Microsoft Azure. These Worker Groups are oil to your engine—essential for data operations, handling everything from shaping and transforming to enriching and processing your data.
OpenTelemetry vs. Traditional APM Tools: A Comparative Analysis
This article compares OpenTelemetry and traditional APM tools with their strengths, weaknesses, and ideal use cases to help you choose the right solution for your application performance monitoring needs.
Kentik Bytes - Identifying Idle Cloud Resources
Phil Gervasi introduces a method for identifying idle resources in AWS using the Kentik platform. By selecting dimensions such as Logging Status, Observing VPC ID, and Observing Region, users can filter the data to determine if a resource is actually doing anything from a network perspective. “No Data” messages indicate resources with no network activity, and a more specific filter can be created based on this message to isolate idle resources. By adjusting the time frame and observing bits per second, users can determine how long resources have been idle.
Kentik Bytes - Cloud Network Performance Metrics
Phil Gervasi introduces a quick and easy way to see network performance metrics among multiple cloud instances. Synthetic tests can be deployed in multiple public clouds to test for loss, latency, and jitter among public cloud instances, such as between AWS and Azure. Phil demonstrates the ability to adjust the time range and shows inbound and outbound traffic, average latency, packet loss, and jitter. A spike in any of these metrics would trigger an alert tied to the ticketing system. He also shows the ability to click into the path view between cloud instances to see a hop-by-hop breakdown.
AppDynamics APM At a glance
Observe and secure your applications across your environments to optimize business outcomes. Get a first-hand overview of how Cisco AppDynamics leads the competition with application performance monitoring that ensures business context helps make optimal decisions through prioritization of the most critical business transactions, improvements to end-user experience, and securing applications from the inside out.
AVD Performance Dashboard
In this dashboard tutorial video, we will walk you through building an Azure Virtual Desktop dashboard. This dashboard provides users with the visibility they need into the status of Azure Virtual Desktop. The Azure Virtual Desktop dashboard combines CloudReady and Service Watch metrics for a holistic view of Azure Virtual Desktops availability and performance. When issues occur, users can quickly review the dashboard to identify whether the issues is limited to an office, individual device, or affecting Azure Virtual Desktop as a whole.
What is Network Topology? Definition and Overview of Types
Imagine trying to navigate a new city without a map—you wouldn’t know where to go, how to get there, or what obstacles might be in your way. As a network administrator, understanding network topology is just as vital for navigating and maintaining a stable network. Without a detailed knowledge of the pathways of your network infrastructure, troubleshooting and network management become unnecessarily complex.
What is Observability? A Comprehensive Guide to Observability Platforms, Tools, and Open Source Solutions
Explore the concept of observability in software systems and discover how it differs from monitoring. Learn about the importance of metrics, traces, and logs, and see how Uptrace can be a valuable tool in achieving effective observability.
The Best Synthetic Monitoring Tools in 2024
Want to learn more about the best synthetic monitoring tools in 2024? You’ve come to the right place. Synthetic monitoring refers to the process of using a software to test and evaluate the functionality of an application or a website. By following a script, synthetic monitoring mimics the behavior of a user, navigating through pages or filling out forms.
Visualise your Icinga Cluster with Clustergraph
This is a guest blogpost from Dave Kempe from Sol1 At Sol1, we provide services around scaling and automating Icinga rollouts for customers. In large environments, we make heavy use of the excellent distributed monitoring features of Icinga to build redundant clusters across datacenters. Icinga uses the object types of Endpoints and Zones to designate the cluster layout, where a Zone contains Endpoints, and may have a parent Zone. Using this logic, a Zone with no parents is the top level zone.
From Basic Monitoring to Modern Observability: Shifting Right and Observability as Code
I've been in the observability market long before it even had that name. Over the years, observability has undergone a significant transformation. As someone who has witnessed these changes firsthand, I can attest to the dynamic nature of this field. In the early days, it was largely about basic monitoring: tracking system metrics, lots of logs, and simple alerts.
How to monitor the Azure App Registration Certificate expiration monitoring?
Azure App Registration is registering an application with Azure Entra ID to access the required Azure resources securely.
How Splunk Stays Connected Around the World
A big part of the Splunk experience is our open, collaborative mindset! Check out how we keep that alive with a flexible, distributed work model. #SplunkLife.
Making the Switch to Hosted Monitoring
Implementing a monitoring solution is no small task; with your company's data growing, it can feel impossible. Often, small teams develop their own monitoring infrastructure because it is more cost-effective than a platform. But when your business grows, your data does, too. Monitoring can quickly become a bigger challenge than a small team can handle, and some companies need more resources to hire a developer dedicated to their monitoring.
How to be more productive as a developer
Here from @Supabase as they share their thoughts on what a high performing developer looks like.
Taylor Otwell on building an open source products
Taylor Otwell, from @LaravelPHP breaks down what it's like to build an open source product.
Six ways Australian local government IT teams can benefit from AIOps in monitoring
Running IT operations in an Australian city council is a complex role that faces a unique set of challenges and opportunities. Typically, a city council in an advanced country like Australia runs its IT on a hybrid model, with a combination of continuing on-premise installations working in tandem with modern cloud platforms, such as Azure.
Enhancing IT Monitoring with DX UIM 23.4 Cumulative Update 2
In the ever-evolving landscape of IT infrastructure, staying ahead of potential issues and ensuring optimal performance is crucial. Broadcom’s DX Unified Infrastructure Management (DX UIM) has been a trusted solution for comprehensive monitoring and management. With the release of DX UIM 23.4 Cumulative Update 2, users can expect a host of new features and improvements designed to enhance their monitoring capabilities.
Capitalizing on the Potential of Automation in Network Operations: Why Integration is Key
In many organizations, network teams are experiencing a significant skills shortage. The network operations center (NOC) requires expertise in various emerging technologies, which makes it increasingly challenging to find qualified candidates with the right skills. A recent survey revealed that in 2022, only 26% of companies found it somewhat to very difficult to hire networking professionals. By 2024, this figure had risen to 41%.
Data Trends in 2024: 8 Trends To Follow
The data field is expanding rapidly, with many areas overlapping other rising fields like cybersecurity and AI. As technology advances, the amount of data we generate and collect will continue to grow exponentially. This explosion will continue in 2024, when new developments in data management and security have emerged.
What Is Five 9s in Availability Metrics?
What comes to mind when you hear that an IT component has “five 9s availability”? Five 9s availability of >= 99.999% is the peak metric for IT availability. Five 9s predicts that a measured component — whether it is a server, communication line, app, service, or any other item — will be available at least 99.999% of the time during a specific period.
NiCE MongoDB Management Pack 1.1 for Microsoft SCOM
NiCE IT Management Solutions is pleased to announce the release of the NiCE MongoDB Management Pack v1.1 for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM). This latest version introduces several key enhancements, making it even easier to monitor and manage MongoDB environments.
API update: Metrics
We recently released two new Raygun API endpoints that expose time series aggregations for particular metrics. They enable you to consolidate your company’s metrics into an external dashboard (such as Grafana, Tableau, or PowerBI), correlate errors and page performance with data points that Raygun cannot see, or even perform advanced data analysis.
It worked on my iPhone 15 Pro Max | Sentry | Chain React 2024
This talk focuses on the challenges of debugging applications that are live, particularly when you receive nebulous user feedback, and an error is something in the backend that is hard to discover through traditional reproduction.
Meet Your New Query Sidekick: The Coralogix AI Query Assistant
Becoming an expert in any query language can take years of dedicated study and practice. At Coralogix, however, we believe observability should be accessible to everyone. That’s why we’re thrilled to announce the launch of our latest innovation (and your new sidekick): the AI Query Assistant. The AI Query Assistant revolutionizes the way you interact with your data.
Anomaly Detection for IoT: A Basic Primer
In the world of IoT, ensuring the reliability, efficiency, and security of connected devices is critical. As IoT devices generate massive amounts of data, detecting anomalies becomes increasingly important. Anomaly detection helps identify potential issues before they escalate, providing businesses with valuable insights and the ability to improve operational efficiency if used correctly. In this article, you will learn about some potential use cases for anomaly detection across different industries.
New Hybrid Worker Group Support in Cribl Lake
Cribl Lake is simple, it’s storage, it’s simplified storage to keep large volumes of IT and security data for long retention periods. And now it’s even easier for you to start using Cribl Lake. In addition to Cribl-managed Cloud Worker Groups, cloud customers can now use self-managed Hybrid Worker Groups to send data directly to Cribl Lake. This means all your worker groups, whether hybrid or cloud, can write data to Cribl Lake — all coordinated by your Cribl.Cloud Leader.
What Are Monitoring Agents & How to Deploy & Configure Them | Obkio NPM Onboarding Series
Welcome! In this video, we’re discussing Network Monitoring Agents in Obkio’s Network Performance Monitoring App. Monitoring agents (software, hardware, virtual appliance) are be deployed to monitor network performance in all network locations. This video will also teach you how to create new Monitoring Agents or to modify or delete Agents you already have in your account.
What is Application Performance Monitoring (APM) & How It Works | Obkio NPM Onboarding Series
Welcome to Obkio’s App! In this video, we’ll be exploring the “Application Performance” tab within the app. You can use Application Performance Monitoring (APM) to monitor web and application performance, and more specifically, to test any website or web application from an HTTP or HTTPS point of view. APM helps you understand if network issues are coming from your local network or not.
What is High Packet Loss & How to Fix It
Believe it or not, seamless and efficient data transmission is super important for both businesses and individual users and impacts a variety of different applications and services. However, one of the common issues that can disrupt this flow is packet loss, which can lead to a variety of network performance problems. High packet loss is particularly concerning since it can severely impact the quality of VoIP calls, video conferencing, online gaming, and even basic web browsing.
IBM partners with Elasticsearch to deliver Conversational Search with watsonx Assistant
To meet customer needs for scale, speed, and precision, IBM partners with Elasticsearch to deliver retrieval augmented generation (RAG) capabilities that can be seamlessly integrated into the IBM watsonx Assistant’s new Conversational Search feature. Customers using IBM watsonx Assistant and watsonx Orchestrate can now build conversational AI assistants grounded on their company data with comprehensive search capabilities with RAG.
A CoPE's Guide to Alert Management
Alerts are a perennial topic, and a CoPE will need to engage with them. The bounds of this problem space are formed by two types of alerts: Understanding what these alerts are and how to configure them is one thing. Thinking about what they each do for your organization, and how using one or the other affects things, is another. The latter will be the focus of this article.
Splunk named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms
Splunk and AppDynamics, united as part of Cisco, are driving the future of Observability. We are proud to announce that Splunk has been named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms. Splunk and AppDynamics, united as part of Cisco, are driving the future of Observability. We are proud to announce that Splunk has been named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms.
How to Query Span Events with TraceQL | Tempo Tutorial | Grafana Labs
Span events provide many benefits and can help you improve your distributed tracing game. In this video, the Grafana Tempo team goes over when to add span events to your traces. We will show you how to use TraceQL to query for span events to get useful information about your services to help you track down bugs and chase down bottlenecks faster. Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces.
Getting started with GitHub Data source plugin - Visualize your repos | Grafana
Learn step-by-step how to monitor and visualize your GitHub data by using the Grafana GitHub Data source plugin. It provides a lot of features such as query Commits, Pull Requests, Workflows, Vulnerabilities etc. Join Senior Developer Advocate Syed Usman Ahmad in this complete video tutorial and learn to use the GitHub plugin.
All about span events: what they are and how to query them
If you’re already familiar with distributed tracing, you know that spans are the building blocks of traces. But are you sleeping on what span events can do for you? First, you may need a wake-up call as to what a span event even is. While spans represent units of work or operation within a trace, a span event is a unique point in time during the span’s duration.
Understanding and Controlling AWS Transit Gateway Costs with Kentik
AWS Transit Gateway costs are multifaceted and can get out of control quickly. In this post, discover how Kentik can help you understand and control the network traffic driving AWS Transit Gateway costs. Learn how Kentik can help you understand traffic patterns, optimize data flows, and keep your Transit Gateway costs in check.
How DPM monitoring helps you manage your metrics volume
At Sumo Logic, we’re committed to helping you scale without breaking your budget. As you may have heard, we recently launched Flex Licensing, a first-of-its-kind economic model that offers free, unlimited log data ingest so different teams can capture and analyze critical data across their enterprise in one place. We’re also committed to tackling related challenges raised by other data sources — like metrics.
Don't get caught in the dark: Lessons from a Lumen & AWS micro-outage
While major outages like the recent CrowdStrike incident dominate headlines, those of us in the trenches ensuring Internet Resilience know that most of our issues are not necessarily global but localized by geography, autonomous systems, or something else. Micro-outages – those elusive, localized incidents – can pose the most persistent threat to observability.
Splunk Named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms
"Transformative Solution" says a Director of IT in a $30B+ retailer. "Best Monitoring and Observability Tool > Splunk," is how a software engineer in a software company labels it. These are only a couple of the terms our customers use when describing the value they are getting from Splunk. With these descriptions in mind, we are elated that Splunk has been named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms for the second year in a row in this category.
Why Next-Generation AIOps is a Game Changer for Managing IT Complexity
There is immense pressure on IT. Now more than ever, IT teams bear the brunt of the seismic shift in how people live and work. Delivering service quality while driving innovation is imperative. Yet, IT teams are continually fighting outage fires, managing day-to-day events, updating legacy systems, and navigating IT complexity – while trying to innovate. AIOps and cloud computing sought to address these challenges.
Speed up resolving app issues using Sentry
Debugging doesn’t have to be a pain. Sentry gives you actionable insights to track errors, optimize performance, and boost your team’s productivity.
The Meaning of Monitoring & Observability in The Financial Services Industry
Monitoring and Observability of messaging and middleware has and will continue to be a function of increasing importance and this is especially true for organizations in the Financial Services industry. In the financial services industry, observability refers to the ability to monitor, measure, and analyze the performance, health, and security of financial systems, applications, messaging and middleware which power long running processes in real-time.
The four pillars of observability
When discussing the technical foundations of observability, several key components, often referred to as the “pillars,” emerge. While there is no universally agreed-upon number of pillars, this post will focus on four fundamental elements: metrics, logs, traces, and profiles. Due to the vast amount of data generated by metrics, logs, and traces, sampling is often employed to reduce data volume while maintaining representative information.
Incident Archaeology - Dig Into Your Services' Past With IncidentHub's Availability Page
A few weeks ago we released a feature on IncidentHub which gives you a historical view of your monitored services' availability.
AIOps and Observability Market Soars: CloudFabrix Leads with Innovation and GenAI
AIOps and Observability Market is set to catapult with the advent of Generative AI and as per the recent Cisco article Observability is soon set-to-be a $34 billion market opportunity and CloudFabrix plays a vital role in this evolving landscape as it seamlessly integrates AIOps, Observability, and GenAI to offer a comprehensive solution that enhances IT Operations and drives industry-specific innovations.
Visualized Microsoft 365, Oracle, DB2, and VMware Monitoring
NiCE IT Management Solutions has unveiled a new suite of dashboards designed to enhance the monitoring and visualization of critical enterprise applications, including Microsoft 365, Oracle, DB2, and VMware, within the SquaredUp platform. These dashboards are built on top of NiCE’s SCOM Management Packs, offering a seamless integration that provides IT teams with deeper insights and greater control over their monitoring environments.
Expanding Monitoring Coverage with Device Self-Certification in DX NetOps
For most network operations teams today, there are a dizzying array of technologies in play, and more keep getting added to the mix. To efficiently manage these multi-vendor, multi-technology environments, it is vital to leverage network observability solutions that provide comprehensive coverage. This post examines how DX NetOps by Broadcom helps address this imperative.
Debug (even) faster with these 8 Sentry updates
Over the past few months, we introduced several new features and capabilities. While we released larger product updates like Trace Explorer, Insights modules, and our JavaScript V8 SDK (to name a few), it’s the smaller, iterative improvements that really make a big difference in your debugging workflow. Let’s dive into 8 recent updates that you should know about.
Datadog named a Leader in 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms
We are thrilled to announce that, for the fourth consecutive year, Datadog has been named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms. We believe that this placement reflects Datadog’s continued commitment to solving our customers’ most sophisticated challenges and building products that provide unmatched visibility into the performance, security, and cost of their traditional, cloud-based, or hybrid tech stack—from code to production.
Datadog pricing explained with real-world scenarios
Datadog’s pricing model is multifaceted, covering several key areas of observability. This analysis breaks down the pricing structure to help you understand potential costs for your organization. In this article we cover.
Cribl Copilot: Lets You Bypass the Learning Curve
Think of it as your digital concierge to achieve faster time-to-value IT and security teams face more challenges than ever, with data growing at 28% CAGR and taking numerous shapes and forms. Cribl’s suite of products – Stream, Edge, Search, and Lake – is built on a unified data processing engine specifically designed for IT and security data.
Under Pressure? Let Cribl 4.8 Take the Heat Off Your Data Management Woes
The demands on IT, observability, and security teams have never been greater. With data volumes exploding at a 28% CAGR and hybrid environments becoming the norm, organizations are facing significant challenges: those rapidly growing data volumes I mentioned, the intricacies of hybrid and cloud-native architectures, and the need for real-time insights. Oh, and don’t forget the constant threat of security breaches.
Maximizing protection, minimizing risk: Securing your IT infrastructure with LogicMonitor
Due to the increasing challenges faced in network environments and the consistent threat of cyberattacks, companies must enforce appropriate security measures to protect their data, maintain operational integrity and prevent outages. For example, a recent Microsoft outage was caused by a CrowdStrike update that conflicted with Microsoft’s Windows OS.
LogicMonitor named a Visionary in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms
By Christina Kosmowski, CEO, LogicMonitor It’s been a remarkable year, with exceptional moments accelerating value and impact for our customers. Now, I am excited to announce an incredibly significant recognition as a Visionary in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms, 2024.
DNS misconfiguration can happen to anyone - the question is how fast can you detect it?
Even after decades of building web applications and troubleshooting live production issues, the thrill of solving why some random website is failing never fades. Last week, a colleague shared a link to ONUG’s website about their upcoming event in NYC this fall. I clicked on the link, and was waiting, and waiting, and waiting for the page to load and it did not. Finally, after about 30 seconds, Chrome greets me with “ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT”
Deploying OpenSearch Effortlessly with Terraform
Creating OpenSearch clusters is crucial for organizations aiming to harness the power of distributed search and analytics. These clusters allow businesses to efficiently store, index, and examine extensive amounts of data in real time, offering valuable insights for decision-making and operational efficiency. A significant advantage of creating OpenSearch clusters is that they support replication and shard allocation, which ensures high availability and fault tolerance.
The Anatomy of a Modern Observability System: From Data Collection to Application
This article breaks down the fundamentals, from data collection to analysis, to help you gain deeper insights into your applications.
Log Observer Connect for AppDynamics Demo
Accelerate APM troubleshooting and observability workflows by leveraging Splunk log analytics to.
Icinga Notifications Web: Schedule configuration
A few weeks ago, we released the first beta version of the Icinga Notifications Web module. The Configuration tab provides the option to create schedules that can be used as recipients for notifications.
What is Network Visualization? Three Words: Mapping, Dashboards and Reports
If a picture is worth a thousand words, a network map, dashboard, report, or other style of visualization is invaluable for IT pros. While network admins may live deep in the weeds, their bosses and other company execs prefer a high-level view that presents the big story.
Stack Overflow rolls out generative AI using Elasticsearch and Azure Open AI
Stack Overflow puts Elastic at the heart of OverflowAI powered by Azure OpenAI, a new search tool that enables developers to retrieve trusted information from a knowledge base of 60 million questions and answers. About Elastic Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale. Elastic’s solutions for search, observability, and security are built on the Elastic Search AI Platform — the development platform used by thousands of companies, including more than 50% of the Fortune 500.
Tying Feature Flagging (OpenFeature) with OpenTelemetry
Quick demo on tying Feature Flagging (OpenFeature) with OpenTelemetry. It uses LaunchDarkly as feature flagging backend and SigNoz as observability backend.
July Flight Plan
We’ve rolled out some fantastic updates to BindPlane in July! Here’s what’s new: These updates are designed to streamline your workflow and enhance your data management experience.
Welcome to the Experience Driven NOC Network Path Change Alarms and Drill Down Context Pages
On your journey to the Experience-Driven NOC, DX NetOps 22,2 is enabling network operations centers to utilize their standard operating procedures and workflows to triage the performance of the entire network path of any user experience - over managed or unmanaged networks. As with any workflow, we start with an alarm and enable operations to drill down, in-context to the offending network device; giving operators enhanced visibility into network path performance along with key KPIs for focused troubleshooting on any and all user experience impact.
Cancel the (Issue) Noise
For those who like to get straight to the point, here’s a quick summary of the latest noise-reducing improvements to the Issues experience: We’re feeling pretty good about these features. Might even go out on a limb and say they’re some of the most significant improvements to our error grouping and alerts ever. Need more convincing? Keep reading.
Getting Started with Grafana Plugin Development | Grafana Plugin Development
Learn how to get started creating Grafana plugins with this comprehensive guide that covers the tools you will need, the different types of plugins to choose from, the anatomy of a Grafana plugin, how to run your Grafana plugin in development mode, as well as outlines the next steps.
Elastic named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms
Elastic has been named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms. The need for observability platforms continues to evolve as operations teams deal with increased complexity and exponential data growth. Emerging trends like generative AI are driving a paradigm shift in proactive root cause detection and resolution.
OpenTelemetry vs. OpenTracing - Decoding the Future of Telemetry Data
OpenTelemetry and OpenTracing are open-source projects used to instrument application code for generating telemetry data. While OpenTelemetry can help you generate logs, metrics, and traces, OpenTracing focuses on generating traces for distributed applications. If you’re thinking of choosing between OpenTelemetry and OpenTracing, go for OpenTelemetry. OpenTracing is now deprecated, and users of OpenTracing are advised to migrate to OpenTelemetry.
Kibana vs. Grafana - A Scenario-Based Decision Guide [2024]
Both Kibana and Grafana are data visualization tools providing users capabilities to explore, analyze and visualize data with dashboards. The difference between Kibana and Grafana lies in their genesis. Kibana was built on top of the Elasticsearch stack, famous for log analysis and management. In comparison, Grafana was created mainly for metrics monitoring supporting visualization for time-series databases.
OpenTelemetry vs Datadog - Choosing the Right Monitoring Tool
OpenTelemetry and DataDog are both used for monitoring applications. While OpenTelemetry is an open source observability framework, DataDog is a cloud-monitoring SaaS service. OpenTelemetry is a collection of tools, APIs, and SDKs that help generate and collect telemetry data (logs, metrics, and traces). OpenTelemetry does not provide a storage and visualization layer, while DataDog does.
Beyond RAG basics: Advanced strategies for AI applications
Our recent virtual event with Cohere dove deep into the world of retrieval augmented generation (RAG), focusing on the critical considerations for building RAG applications beyond the proof-of-concept stage. Our speakers, Lily Adler, principal solutions architect at Elastic, and Maxime Voisin, senior product manager at Cohere, shared valuable insights on the challenges, solutions, and best practices in this evolving field of natural language processing (NLP).
Product Update: Helm Charts for InfluxDB Clustered
InfluxDB Clustered is an on-prem offering of InfluxDB 3.0, allowing you to deploy the newest version of InfluxDB on your own hardware and manage it with your team. With InfluxDB Clustered, you get high availability and performance out of the box and the ability to fine-tune InfluxDB to fit the performance requirements of your specific use case. InfluxDB Clustered is deployed and managed using Kubernetes.
How to reduce failures with failover clusters
Outages can't always be prevented, but they can always be mitigated. This is exactly why your sysadmins and SREs have their eyes glued to dashboards and NOC views. A recent example of an outage gone wrong is when Microsoft's own defense systems amplified a DDoS attack due to an inaccurate configuration. In the unfortunate event of an outage, how can your organization ensure minimal disruption? When it comes to a Windows server environment, the answer is Microsoft failover clusters.
5 Hardware Myths preventing a Sustainable and Cost-Effective Digital Workplace
If you are still operating on a yearly hardware refresh schedule, with devices replaced after three or four years of service, you’re living in the past. These schedules are not based on any real viability assessment, but rather on an indiscriminate time factor or warranty lapse. Innovative and sustainable digital workplace teams are embracing performance-based refresh strategies instead, but obstacles to this new strategy proliferate.
Proactive Alerting to Optimize DEX
Like other aspects of the Nexthink Infinity Platform-powered Nexthink Workplace Experience, we have spent a busy summer season making significant enhancements to our already comprehensive alerting system and workflows. These updates are designed to improve how IT teams detect, prioritize, and resolve issues, ensuring a smoother and more efficient digital environment for your organization.
ECN explained: Navigate congestion for faster, smoother data delivery
Fact: No one likes traffic congestion. That’s why no one pines for the days before Google Maps. Thanks to navigation apps on our phones and cars, we can see traffic updates that help us avoid busy roads during rush hour and reach our destinations faster. The same logic applies to content delivered over the Internet. Congestion on the web happens when data packets flood the network, causing delays and packet loss.
Navigating Open Source Software: All Your Questions Answered
Open source software refers to computer programs with source code available for anyone to inspect, modify, and distribute. Unlike proprietary software, open source software is developed collaboratively by a community of developers. One of the main benefits of open source software is cost savings. Because the source code is freely available, organizations can use and customize the software without paying licensing fees, reducing costs, especially for large-scale deployments.
observIQ Expands Advanced Support for Sumo Logic in Security and Observability Data
We’re excited to announce that as part of our expanded alliance with Sumo Logic, observIQ extended its support for Sumo’s platform. This allows customers to send logs and metrics to Sumo Logic, leveraging our telemetry pipeline, BindPlane. We’ve also made it possible to automatically recommend processors in our pipeline that format data specifically as Sumo Logic expects—once Sumo Logic is a destination for BindPlane.
What is Good Latency in Networking?
In the world of networking, speed often takes center stage, but there’s another crucial factor that can make or break your online experience: latency. Whether you're running a business with multiple applications and users or simply enjoying a gaming session at home, understanding and managing latency is key to ensuring smooth, efficient, and frustration-free network performance.
Datadog vs Dynatrace [Comprehensive Comparison for 2024]
In complex IT environments, monitoring and observability tools are indispensable. They help organizations ensure optimal performance of applications and infrastructure, providing insights and alerts to address potential issues before they impact users. Two of the leading tools in this space are Datadog and Dynatrace. This article offers a comprehensive comparison of these platforms to help you decide which is best for your needs in 2024.
Tackle Root Cause Analysis Easier than Ever Before with Skylar Automated RCA
When service outages happen, the clock starts ticking, not only to restore that service, but also to identify and fix the root cause so the problem doesn’t recur again and again. However, root cause analysis (RCA) can be exceptionally time-consuming for IT teams tasked with combing through massive log files for clues about the underlying problem.
Moving Past Annual Audits: Why Continuous Cybersecurity is Essential
It’s 2 am on a Saturday, you’re sound asleep, and suddenly your phone lights up, ringing and buzzing loudly on your nightstand. You know it won’t be good news, but it’s worse than you could have imagined—your network and systems have suffered a ransomware attack. As you quickly change and start driving into the office, you keep asking yourself one question—didn’t we pass our annual security audit three months ago with flying colors?
Essential Tools and Techniques for App Server Monitoring
In today’s dynamic IT landscape, effective monitoring of application servers (app servers) is crucial to ensure optimal performance, security, and user satisfaction. Monitoring tools help in identifying potential issues before they become critical, allowing for proactive management and maintenance.
Introducing Log Observer Connect in Action
With Log Observer Connect for Cisco AppDynamics, your team will quickly identify and find the root cause of issues. Combining the most advanced full-stack APM solution with precision log analysis by Splunk, trouble tickets are remediated with less time and effort. See it in action with this demonstration by Leandro Oliveira, Cisco AppDynamics Systems Engineer.
Monitoring Twilio's Flex Agent Desktop with Sentry
Twilio Flex is a React-based web app that lets you run your contact center as a service, and years ago, while working at a previous company, I was tasked with setting it up with Sentry for application observability and error monitoring. To help you set up Flex with Sentry— and using all the lessons I learned along the way— I’ve teamed up with Bruno, Solutions Engineer, from Twilio to build a new Twilio Flex integration.
How to implement customized role permissions in ASP.NET Core
You often need to add authentication and authorization when developing an application for a user base. But what are they? Why are they so important? This blog post will define these terms and discuss how to implement custom role permissions in an ASP.NET Core API.
Cost of Cloud Services: Everything You Need to Know
As businesses of all sizes migrate to digital solutions, the cost of cloud services becomes a pivotal consideration. While cloud computing offers scalable, on-demand resources, it’s important to understand its cost structure to budget effectively and maximize ROI. Data storage, compute power, and network usage can cause significant variation in prices.
15 Cloud Migration Statistics and Trends for 2024
As the world of work continues to evolve and the technological needs of companies change, cloud migration has seen some interesting developments in recent years. At Auvik, we’ve collected three key takeaways and 15 cloud migration statistics that point to emerging trends and help IT professionals better position themselves for the future. First, some quick definitions: Public clouds are managed by providers, while private clouds are managed by the company or a third party.
Redacting Sensitive Data in OpenTelemetry Collector
This guide covers types of data that can be redacted and step-by-step instructions for configuring the Attribute Processor.
Maximize SAP Performance with ignio AI.ERPOps | Optimizing SAP S/4 HANA performance
Your Ultimate Solution for Optimizing SAP Sales cycle, Master data & Service request automation. Are you a fast-growing retailer, pharma company, or manufacturer grappling with robust demand and struggling with data silos? Transform your order-to-cash processes and enhance customer satisfaction with ignio AI.ERPOps – our cutting-edge AI-driven solution for autonomous SAP operations.
How the Cribl SRE Team Uses Cribl Products to Achieve Scalable Observability
This is the first of a planned series of blog posts that explain how the Cribl SRE team builds, optimizes, and operates a robust Observability suite using Cribl’s products, Cribl.Cloud operates on a single-tenant architecture, providing each customer with dedicated AWS accounts furnished with ready-to-use Cribl products. This provides our customers with strict data and workload isolation but presents some interesting and unique challenges for our Infrastructure and operations.
Enhancing SRE with Gemini for Google Cloud
How do you jump start your SRE capabilities on Google Cloud? Jai Campbell, Google Developer Expert, explains how to enable Gemini on Google Cloud to boost observability and productivity. Speaker: Jai Campbell Products Mentioned: Google Cloud.
Behind the Code - Fireside chat with Backend Experts
Building a high-performance database @prismadata.
HEAL Software - Understanding the Unknown Unknowns
The term “unknown unknowns” refers to problems or vulnerabilities that have not yet been identified or anticipated. Unlike known issues, which can be addressed with existing knowledge and tools, unknown unknowns require a different approach to detection and resolution. These hidden issues are often beneath the surface, only becoming apparent when they cause significant disruption.
Advanced OpenTelemetry Configurations: Sampling, Filtering, and Data Enrichment
OpenTelemetry offers powerful data collection, but maximizing its efficiency requires careful configuration. This article explores advanced techniques for sampling filtering, and data enrichment.
Optimizing VPN Performance and Availability with Network Observability by Broadcom
In recent years, hybrid work approaches have grown increasingly commonplace, and for a significant percentage of users, VPN is the go-to approach for accessing secured corporate resources and services. In fact, one article reveals that 72% of desktop and laptop users employ a VPN. As the reliance on hybrid work models and VPN connectivity continues to grow, VPN health has emerged as a critical success factor for businesses.
How to Start Contributing to Open Source with OpenTelemetry
Today, open source software is everywhere – from Linux-based servers, to Android smartphones, to the Firefox Web browser, to name just a handful of open source platforms in widespread use today. But the open source code driving these innovations doesn't write itself. It's developed by open source contributors – and you could be one of them.
Why companies choose Adaptive Metrics and how they save time and (a lot of) money
Let’s cut to the chase: Managing metric volumes at scale is hard. In fact, when we asked the open source observability community about their biggest concerns in this year’s Grafana Labs Observability Survey, the top four responses — cost, complexity, cardinality, and signal-to-noise ratio — can all be tied back to exponential growth in telemetry data.
Introduction to K8s Horizontal Pod Autoscaling | Monitor Autoscaling in Splunk Observability Cloud
In this video, I’m going to introduce you to Horizontal Pod Autoscaling in Kubernetes and monitoring autoscaling events in Splunk Observability Cloud. I’ll first walk through our simple application deployment definition. We will analyze the metrics of that application in Splunk Observability cloud, identifying that the application is under resource pressure. I’ll then discuss the scaling options at our disposal, and we will walk through an implementation of a Horizontal Pod Autoscaler that will automatically scale our pods according to the load they are receiving.
Cisco and Splunk: Better Together
See how we help you thrive in the age of AI and build unprecedented digital resilience.
Monitoring Specific Components and Regions in Your Third-Party Services
Chances are, most of your third-party cloud and SaaS dependencies are globally distributed and have many regions of operation. Chances are, your applications use a subset of a cloud or SaaS service. If you are monitoring such a service, why should you receive alerts for all regions or every single component in the service? E.g. if you use Digital Ocean, you might be using Kubernetes in their US locations (NYC and SFO). You would want to know only when there is an outage in one of these locations.
Flowmon App for IBM QRadar
Introduction of Flowmon Application for seamless integration of Flowmon with IBM QRadar.
GreenOps - a guide to creating a sustainable cloud
Green Operations (GreenOps) is an approach to creating an eco-friendly cloud. The aim is to minimize energy waste, increase renewable resources, and decrease their carbon footprint on the planet. Several public cloud providers are aiming to become carbon-negative. By 2030, Google Cloud plans to operate on carbon-free energy around the clock. Microsoft Azure has committed to being carbon-negative by 2030, and AWS aims to run its operations on 100% renewable energy by 2025.
When to violate coding best practices
When I was first learning programming, I was implementing a markov chain and explained to my mentor that it was taking me more than a week to do. I was implementing input sanitization on my interface. “Don’t do that” said my mentor, “your tool has zero users, soon it will have one user, you.
Deciphering your bandwidth usage to ensure smooth network operations
In a world where businesses require uninterrupted network operations and people rely on applications for their day-to-day activities, understanding bandwidth utilization is critical. Rather than playing whack-a-mole with your bandwidth problems, you can monitor your network’s bandwidth usage and make informed decisions based on clear data. Bandwidth utilization metrics tell you how much data an interface, switch, or router can handle and how much data is currently passing through them.
McLarens ensures faster claims settlement, thanks to Applications Manager
McLarens ensures achieves 24x7 availability and faster claim settlement, thanks to Applications Manager.
Dogfooding at Mezmo: How we used telemetry pipeline to reduce data volume
Like many other organizations, we at Mezmo struggle with a lot of telemetry data, and for a while our team configured our logs to be sent to a global Mezmo Log Analysis account in our SaaS so we would have a single pane of glass to view all of our logs. Our SRE team wanted to make sure that we have experience utilizing our new pipeline product. We set out some goals before we started using telemetry pipeline.
Best Windows Server Monitoring Tools
Server monitoring involves continuously observing and tracking the performance, availability, and health of servers within an IT infrastructure and is a vital process for organizations aiming to enhance their servers. By conducting server monitoring, with the assistance of server monitoring tools, your organization can detect issues such as hardware failures or software glitches promptly allowing for quick resolutions as server monitoring tools continuously track server health and performance metrics.
How to Avoid Website Downtime
Website downtime refers to periods when a website is inaccessible or non-functional due to various issues. This can range from a few seconds to several hours or even days, depending on the severity of the problem and the efficiency of the recovery measures. During downtime, users cannot access the website's services or content, which can result in a loss of business and user trust.
Monitor Microsoft Fabric with Datadog
Microsoft Fabric is Microsoft’s new platform for all things data analytics—integrating key Azure data analysis products like Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse, and Power BI into a unified platform. Fabric is intended to provide a one-stop shop where users with various levels of expertise across an organization can perform data analysis and collect insights.
Troubleshooting Time Series Databases: Where Did My Metrics Go?
Complex modern applications rely heavily on observability, and metric monitoring is a crucial part of observability. The most common process of metric monitoring, which includes data scraping, processing, storage, and visualization, can be summarized in the diagram below: If an issue arises, for example, when users ask, “I have already recorded metrics in the application, why can’t I see my metrics on Grafana?”, how should we troubleshoot it?
What is Log Aggregation? A Complete Guide
As modern IT infrastructure becomes increasingly complex, businesses generate massive amounts of logs compared to the past in real time. Therefore, streamlining this unstructured log data into a more structured form becomes vital with this growing complexity. Organizations must collect unstructured log data from various sources, extract meaning from them, and store them in a centralized repository. That’s where Log Aggregation comes in.
Eight IT challenges faced by Australian local governments and their solution
Local governments are the bedrock of communities, ensuring a city thrives as a great place to live. Delivering vital services, building and running infrastructure, and ensuring people have adequate access to essential and emergency services alike are some of the top priorities of local governments. In the continent nation of Australia, local governance is carried out through councils that form the third tier of the government and are led by elected officials on 3-4 year terms.
Jaeger vs. Grafana Tempo: A Comprehensive Comparison for Distributed Tracing
When it comes to monitoring, diagnosing, and optimizing the performance of complex systems today, you can’t really go wrong with tracing tools. And while OpenTelemetry has become the go-to choice for instrumenting apps and collecting traces, there are several other options in the backend that can effectively store, manage, and analyze traces sent by OpenTelemetry. Two of these open-source tools are Jaeger and Grafana Tempo. In this article, we’ll compare and contrast the two.
The Future of Observability with AI! #youtubeshorts #observability #instrumentation #ai #ebpf
Explore the groundbreaking role of AI in elevating observability in the tech industry. Discover innovative perspectives on leveraging AI to identify potential issues before they escalate. This transformative technology is reshaping the way we perceive and manage system performance. Coroot is an open source observability platform that helps engineers fix service outages and even prevent them. It continuously audits telemetry data to highlight issues and weak spots in your services.
Dive into Observability with Instrumentation. #shorts #observability #instrumentation #ebpf
Discover the crucial elements of observability and how instrumentation plays a pivotal role in data collection. This insightful exploration delves into the two types of instrumentation: static, always-on metrics like ProcFS in Linux, and dynamic instrumentation that adapts to specific needs, powered by cutting-edge technologies such as D-Trace and eBPF. Coroot is an open source observability platform that helps engineers fix service outages and even prevent them. It continuously audits telemetry data to highlight issues and weak spots in your services.
Observability: See the Big Picture. #observability #devopstools #shorts #ebpf
In an era where visibility into system performance is crucial, how do we ensure we see critical issues? With so many tools available, selecting ones that provide actionable insights tailored for developers rather than overwhelming them with unnecessary data is vital. Coroot is an open source observability platform that helps engineers fix service outages and even prevent them. It continuously audits telemetry data to highlight issues and weak spots in your services.
Broadcom Introduces ValueOps® Insights to Eliminate Information Silos to Measure and Improve Value Stream Performance
Unified view of your value stream that empowers decision-makers with real-time, actionable insights to ensure cross-functional alignment with goals.
Prometheus vs InfluxDB - Key Differences, concepts, and similarities
Prometheus and InfluxDB are open-source projects created to make application performance monitoring a breeze. That is, of course, if you choose the option that covers your entire observability scope. This article compares and contrasts the extent to which Prometheus and InfluxDB remedy the need for real-time insights into your applications’ operations. We’ll highlight similarities and overlaps in both usability and practicality.
The Top 9 Dynatrace Alternatives & Competitors in 2024
Are you looking for a Dynatrace alternative? Then you have come to the right place. In this article, we will go through the top 9 Dynatrace alternatives. First, let's briefly discuss what Dynatrace offers and why you might consider other solutions.
Navigating IT complexity: Observability vs. monitoring for Australian SMEs' digital transformation
While traditional IT monitoring holds back Australian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in digital transformation, these organizations do realize that in the realm of IT operations, observability represents a significant advancement over traditional monitoring approaches. Unlike conventional methods that primarily focus on metrics like uptime and error rates, IT observability provides a comprehensive view of system behavior by integrating logs, metrics, traces, and events.
How to fix network latency with network traffic monitoring tools: Use cases and examples
Seamless network performance is the cornerstone of business success. However, network latency—the delay in data transfer initiation—can greatly hinder user experiences, decrease productivity, and even incur financial losses. For businesses aspiring to thrive, it is crucial to address and resolve network latency issues. In this context, network traffic monitoring tools emerge as pivotal solutions.
The CoPE and Other Teams, Part 2: Custom Instrumentation and Telemetry Pipelines
The previous post laid out the basic idea of instrumentation and how OpenTelemetry’s auto-instrumentation can get teams started. However, you can’t rely only on auto-instrumentation. This post will discuss the limitations in more detail and how a CoPE can help teams overcome them.
Observe deleted Kubernetes components in Grafana Cloud to boost troubleshooting and resource management
As a site reliability engineer, you need constant vigilance and a keen eye for detail if you want to manage your Kubernetes infrastructure effectively. As part of that effort, you need to see the historical data from your pods, nodes, and clusters — even after they’ve been deleted or recreated. Many SREs rely on kubectl for this, and while it’s indispensable for real-time Kubernetes management, it presents some significant challenges with historical data.
Is the Internet ready for L4S?
Today, Catchpoint is pleased to be sharing the results of our Global Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) Bleaching Rates measurement campaign, covering the state of ECN bleaching worldwide, according to Catchpoint’s perspective. ISPs, telecoms and streaming services, among others (this information should be of interest to anyone with ISP dependencies), will be able to draw on this information to determine if your network or an upstream network is experiencing ECN bleaching.
Understanding the Deficiencies of AWS CloudWatch for Cloud Visibility
While CloudWatch offers basic monitoring and log aggregation, it lacks the contextual depth, multi-cloud integration, and cost efficiency required by modern IT operations. In this post, learn how Kentik delivers more detailed insights, faster queries, and more cost-effective coverage across various cloud and on-premises resources.
82% less downtime: enhanced organizational efficiency with Sumo Logic
You have a business imperative to deliver exceptional customer experiences. Sadly, traditional monitoring and observation methods, which assume predictability, are no longer sufficient.
Event Logs Explained: Your Guide to System Health
Event logs contain critical information and the analysis of these logs will support organizations in the detection of many security incidents, from auditing user access to observing malicious traffic and even isolating monitor rule changes on a firewall. By collecting event logs systematically and analyzing them, organizations can obtain insights into their IT environment for maintaining operational efficiency and security.
Heterogeneous IT Architectures - A Strategy for Resilience
As the dust settles from the CrowdStrike outages we reflect on how adopting a heterogeneous IT strategy when adopting technologies can increase your organization’s resilience against outages and mitigate risks.
Monitor your Anthropic applications with Datadog LLM Observability
Anthropic is an AI research and development company focused on building reliable and safe artificial intelligence systems. Their flagship product is Claude, an advanced language model and conversational AI assistant known for its strong capabilities in natural language processing, reasoning, and task completion. Anthropic places a particular emphasis on AI safety and ethics, and its models and APIs are used by organizations across various industries to build powerful, safe, and performant AI applications.
Elastic Observability 8.15: AI Assistant, OTel, and log quality enhancements
Elastic Observability 8.15 announces several key capabilities: New and enhanced native OpenTelemetry capabilities: Elastic AI Assistant enhancements: Large language model (LLM) observability for Azure OpenAI: Elastic Observability now provides deep visibility on the usage of the Azure OpenAI Service. The integration includes an out-of-the-box dashboard that summarizes the most relevant aspects of the service usage, including request and error rates, token usage, and chat completion latency.
Add BugSplat Crash Reporting to Your Monday.com Workflow
We're excited to announce that BugSplat's integration with Monday.com is now in beta! This powerful combination brings crash reporting and project management together, helping development teams work more efficiently and resolve issues faster.
3 Ways Effective Data Management Supports Cyber Resilience
Global organizations are having increasingly critical discussions around the importance of cyber resiliency, an organization’s ability to withstand, respond to, and recover from cyber incidents. With the frequency of cyberattacks growing 30% since last year and the total estimated fallout of cyber 2024 cyberattacks charted to surpass $9.5 trillion, ensuring effective cyber hygiene and resiliency strategies is more important than ever.
Data Visualization Tools For InfluxDB: Grafana, Tableau, and Apache Superset
Integrating data visualization tools with databases like InfluxDB is crucial for developers looking to enhance analytical capabilities and derive actionable insights from complex datasets. Grafana, Tableau, and Apache Superset—all of which you can use with InfluxDB—are popular visualization tools with different features and benefits.
Leveraging the OpenAPI Framework to Expand Network Observability
It may be an obvious thing to say, but it’s true: every organization is different. DX NetOps is very much designed with that reality in mind. At Broadcom, the DX NetOps product team’s goal is to provide smart default dashboards and reports, but also to give customers all the capabilities they need to tailor views to their specific environments, personnel, objectives, and goals.
Elastic 8.15: Better semantic search, new OTel distribution, SIEM data import
Today, we are pleased to announce the general availability of Elastic 8.15.
Unlock Actionable Insights with Coroot! #observability #youtubeshorts #devopstools #data
Coroot may not overwhelm you with endless dashboards, but it shines in delivering the most crucial data insights for your projects. With a focus on less is more, it helps eliminate information overload and keeps you focused on what truly matters. Discover how Coroot provides comprehensive infrastructure coverage and powerful root cause analysis capabilities, allowing you to pinpoint issues efficiently.
Stop Disk Space Issues Before They Hit! Preventative Maintenance. #youtubeshorts #observability
Discover how observability can be a game-changer in your system's performance! Prevent disk space issues before they become disasters, stay ahead of potential failures, and learn about effective alerting strategies to keep your organization running smoothly. Coroot is an open source observability platform that helps engineers fix service outages and even prevent them. It continuously audits telemetry data to highlight issues and weak spots in your services.
How to Speed up your Playwright Tests with shared "storageState"
Join Stefan Judis, Playwright Ambassador, as he shows you how to speed up your Playwright test suite execution time for apps behind a login. Usually, login-walled products require you to log in for every test case. However, by implementing project dependencies, setting up a project, and pairing everything with the storage state, you can log into your app once and then reuse the browser and storage state. This setup equips your subsequent tests with essential cookies and browser state, saving time and effort by avoiding repetitive login actions.
Applying a Data Engineering Approach to Telemetry Data
The exponential growth of telemetry data presents a significant challenge for organizations, who often overspend on data management without fully capitalizing on its potential value. To unlock the true potential of their telemetry data, organizations must treat it as a valuable enterprise asset, applying rigorous data engineering principles to glean the critical insights and accelerated investigations this data is meant to enable. The telemetry data platform approach democratizes access across disciplines and personas and fosters widespread utilization across the organization.
IBM Power System, HMC, and VIOS Monitoring on Microsoft SCOM
We are excited to announce the release of the NiCE HMC VIOS Management Pack, designed to provide comprehensive monitoring and management for IBM’s Hardware Management Console (HMC) and Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) environments. This highly efficient tool empowers IT administrators to maintain optimal health and performance within their IBM Power infrastructure, ensuring seamless operations and minimizing downtime.
Managing Observability Pipeline Chaos
The cloud environment has generated an unprecedented volume of data, making it increasingly difficult for enterprises to manage. With multiple SaaS and cloud-based applications in play, differentiating which data needs processing for analysis versus storage for regulatory compliance is a significant challenge. The growing number of data sources only complicates this further. So, getting clarity and control over this chaos is the goal, without having to overhaul your entire system.
How to integrate Okta logs with Grafana Loki for enhanced SIEM capabilities
Identity providers (IdPs) such as Okta play a crucial role in enterprise environments by providing seamless authentication and authorization experiences for users accessing organizational resources. These interactions generate a massive volume of event logs, containing valuable information like user details, geographical locations, IP addresses, and more. These logs are essential for security teams, especially in operations, because they’re used to detect and respond to incidents effectively.
Getting Started With Icinga Notifications
Icinga Notifications and Icinga Notifications Web just celebrated their first beta release. This post will try to help you get started by walking you through the interactive configuration, explaining both the underlying concepts and their actual effects. First, to get an understanding of what Icinga Notifications does, please read both the mentioned blog post and the introduction from the manual carefully.
Deploying the OpenTelemetry Collector to AKS
While investigating some issues users raised around the OpenTelemetry Collector running in AKS, I found a few nuances that are worth noting. In this article, I'll go over some changes you have to implement in your values.yaml to make it work for you.
How to Speed up your Playwright Tests with shared "storageState"
What are the two things making your end-to-end test investment a failure? Firstly, it's test flakiness. If you've invested days (if not months) in creating your test suite and it didn't turn out to be like this one trustworthy friend you have in your life for decades, you failed. You failed because eventually, you'll discover that every moment waiting for retrying tests became a burden.
How To Choose The Right Virtualization Monitoring Software For Your Entire IT Stack - Part 1
With many virtualization monitoring software options in the market, which is the right one for your entire IT stack? In this post, we’ll explore one of the crucial aspects of making this decision: the choice between agent-based, agentless, and hybrid monitoring solutions. Each approach has its own set of advantages and trade-offs, making it essential to understand which one aligns best with your organization’s needs.
Shh, It's a Secret: Keeping Them Safe in Cribl's Software
Remember when you used to jot down passwords on sticky notes? Well, those days are long gone. In today’s world of data pipelines, secrets, similar to API keys, are like digital VIP passes. They open doors to critical systems and keep sensitive info on lockdown. At Cribl, we’re all about top-notch data security, and that means guarding your secrets like treasure. Let’s dive into our game plan for keeping secrets safe throughout the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC).
Cribl Lake Wins CRN 2024 Tech Innovators Award for Data and Information Management
The greatest innovations are often the simplest. They address fundamental needs and make life easier in the most direct way. Cribl Lake was just announced as the winner of CRN’s 2024 Tech Innovators Award for Data Information Management. We are so happy and honored by this recognition, which solidifies our belief that the best innovations are indeed the simplest.
Guide to Monitoring Kubernetes Using a Telegraf Daemonset
Kubernetes is used in production-level applications and software services to automate the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications - ensuring high availability and consistent performance across distributed systems. It enhances reliability through features like load balancing, self-healing, and rolling updates, enabling efficient resource utilization and orchestration in cloud-native and hybrid environments.
Beyond the Job Title: Real Stories of IT Accountability
The top query from database administrators is: what is this database for, and why do I care? The life of a DBA is one of infinite gifts, even if those gifts are unwanted. If you've ever had an application owner drop a database in your lap, then this session is for you. Hear from professionals who have dealt with this problem time and time again. Spoiler alert: better tooling gives you and the application owner the insight they need to make informed decisions.
Top 10 Observability Tools in 2024
Evolution of distributed systems and microservices architectures has increased the complexity of modern IT infrastructures. This complexity demands robust observability solutions to ensure optimal system performance, rapid incident response, and informed decision-making. This comprehensive guide explores the top observability Tools in 2024, detailing their features, strengths, and potential drawbacks to help organizations make informed choices in their observability strategies.
The 30 Best Network Troubleshooting Tools for Effective Issue Resolution
Discover the top 30 tools to troubleshoot network issues, from basic solutions to advanced network troubleshooting tools. Find the best fit for your needs. Businesses rely heavily on their networks to keep things running smoothly. When network issues pop up, they can throw a wrench into daily operations, slow down productivity, and cost a lot of money. That’s why having the right tools to troubleshoot and fix these problems is so important.
How I cut 22.3 seconds off an API Call using Trace View
Dan Mindru is a Frontend Developer and Designer who is also the co-host of the Morning Maker Show. Dan is currently developing a number of applications including PageUI, Clobbr, and CronTool. As a developer, few things are more frustrating than an API that’s slower than molasses. You know the code works, but you know it can’t possibly be a good user experience anymore. I had one of those and looked the other way for a couple of weeks. However, some issues become personal after a while.
Coroot v1.4: Data Transfer Cost Monitoring and More
We’re excited to announce the release of Coroot v1.4! Along with various UI improvements, this update brings a new feature: network traffic monitoring. Now, you can easily see how much data is being transferred between your applications and, more importantly, how much it costs. Let’s dive into the details. In this post, we’ll explore the enhancements and new features included in this release.
Open source magic! Coroot simplifies observability. #yotubeshorts #observability #devopstools
Dive into the world of open-source solutions and explore how Coroot revolutionizes observability with its cutting-edge technology. This open-core software seamlessly integrates with your applications, making instrumentation a breeze—even for encrypted traffic! Experience robust monitoring capabilities without the cumbersome setup. Uncover the future of observability today!
Hidden gems of observability!
Observability isn't just a buzzword—it's a vital component of modern computing. In recent webinar Peter Zaitsev discusses the multifaceted world of observability, highlighting its critical role in ensuring both application performance and user experience. Discover how different systems, from application performance management (APM) to infrastructure monitoring, collaboratively work to provide insights into user interactions and business outcomes. Explore why understanding these dynamics is essential for both developers and businesses striving for excellence.
How to Monitor JVM with OpenTelemetry
The Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is an important part of the Java programming language, allowing applications to run on any device with the JVM, regardless of the hardware and operating system. It interprets Java bytecode and manages memory, garbage collection, and performance optimization to ensure smooth execution and scalability. Effective JVM monitoring is critical for performance and stability. This is where OpenTelemetry comes into play.
Topology for Confident Observability and Digital Resilience
In recent years, we’ve significantly advanced how we think about and use topology within AIOps and Observability solutions from Broadcom, while solidly building on our innovative domain tools. We’re eager to share these innovations, advancements, and benefits for IT operations. In this blog post, we level-set on the topic of topology, clarify several important concepts, and discuss the decisive role topology plays in delivering powerful capabilities for AIOps and Observability from Broadcom.
Custom Instrumentation for a Phoenix App in Elixir with AppSignal
In the first part of this series, we saw that even if you just use AppSignal’s default application monitoring, you can get a lot of information about how your Phoenix application is running. Even so, there are many ways in which a Phoenix application may exhibit performance issues, such as slow database queries, poorly engineered LiveView components, views that are too heavy, or non-optimized assets.
Announcing Lumigo's New Multiple Dashboards Functionality
In today’s complex cloud-native environments, observability is key to maintaining performance, reliability, and scalability. However, different teams often need to focus on different aspects of the system. Developers might be more interested in error rates and response times, while operations teams must monitor system health and resource utilization. Lumigo now supports multiple dashboards, so you can provide each team with the information they need precisely how they need it.
Be the first to know with StatusGator's Early Warning Signals
We are excited to share that our Early Warning Signals feature, previously in beta, is now fully available to all StatusGator users on all plans. This long-awaited feature ensures you never miss a beat and keeps you informed of outages before a provider publicly acknowledges them on their status page. Since its beta launch, this feature has successfully detected multiple service outages before they were officially acknowledged by each provider.
SIGKILL vs SIGTERM: A Developer's Guide to Process Termination
As a developer working with Linux systems, containers, or Kubernetes, it's crucial to understand process termination signals, particularly SIGKILL and SIGTERM. This comprehensive guide will explore these signals, their differences, and their implications in various environments. We'll delve into best practices, common scenarios, and advanced considerations to help you manage process termination effectively in your applications.
Understanding Scale Up vs. Scale Out - And Why You Need to Understand Scale Up vs. Scale Out to Be a Nutanix or HCI Guru
When your IT systems are nearing capacity, you need to make decisions to expand provision, and many of those decisions will revolve around the choices you make to scale up vs scale out. For many the decision is intrinsically linked to their choice of platform and whether they are looking at cloud based, hybrid infrastructure or on-premises led strategies.
Unlock Value with InfluxDB 3.0 and Expert Support Teams
InfluxDB is all about your data: we bridge the gap between an empty database bucket and business value and provide experts to help you derive value from your data. InfluxDB expert support teams come with contracted InfluxDB 3.0 serverless products (Serverless, Cloud Dedicated) and our Clustered on-prem product. Though no customer is left to figure everything out on their own, your product selection will determine the level of custom support you receive.
Beyond Regulations: How Government Agencies Can Streamline and Automate IT Compliance
From the NIST Cybersecurity Framework to GDPR and more, public sector agencies must comply with a myriad of IT regulatory requirements. These regulations ensure proper financial management and stewardship, security, governance, operational efficiency and effectiveness, incident management – and ultimately, assure public trust and accountability.
Developer's Guide to Getting Started with Pandas Profiling
Exploratory data analysis is a key component of the machine learning pipeline that helps in understanding various aspects of a dataset. For example, you can learn about statistical properties, types of data, the presence of null values, the correlation among different variables, etc. But to get these details, you need to use different types of Python methods and write multiple lines of code.
Prometheus data source update: Redefining our big tent philosophy
As we continue adding to our growing catalog of more than 100 plugins for Grafana, we have been focused on developing data sources for Grafana that are more purpose-built for the respective technologies. One example has been the recent update to our core Prometheus data source. We have deprecated AWS authentication from the original Prometheus data source, and we created a new dedicated Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus plugin that will specifically cater to the AWS use case.
OnlineOrNot updates from June/July 2024
If you remember the last update, I originally planned to ship quite a few features in June. Life and family had to take priority for me, so they didn't get done. Thankfully, I'm building OnlineOrNot for the extremely long term, so there's no rush to ship as fast as possible. A fair few things did get shipped though.
The 80/20 Rule of Bug Fixing
At BugSplat, we've been supporting applications and video games with crash and error reporting for a long time. Over the years, we've collaborated with a wide range of teams, handling applications of all sizes. From our experience and numerous conversations with users, we've noticed an interesting trend: the distribution of crashes isn't uniform. If your application experiences 100 crashes in a given version, those crashes aren't caused by 100 different defects.
How to Send Prometheus Metrics to Grafana Cloud Using Alloy | Ask the Experts | Grafana
"How do I push metrics using Grafana Alloy?" William Dumont from the Grafana Alloy team answers the question by showing you how to collect Prometheus metrics and forward them to Grafana Cloud using Grafana Alloy. This video is just a preview of what you can expect from our Ask the Experts booth at ObservabilityCON and GrafanaCON. The Grafanistas behind our solutions, features, and the LGTM Stack can provide answers to your toughest questions on the spot.
An Overview of the OpenTelemetry Collector's Configuration File
In this video, I’ll provide an overview of the OpenTelemetry Collector’s configuration file (config.yaml) with examples from the Splunk distribution. I will briefly explain the components of the Splunk OTel Collector, and walk you through a sample generic configuration of the OTel Collector. We’ll then use the Splunk Observability Cloud interface to construct the commands needed to install the Splunk OTel Collector on a specific host. This installation will copy a default Splunk OTel Collector configuration onto the host, and we’ll review the Splunk specific components of this configuration.
An Introduction to Last9 Levitate
Levitate is a high-cardinality monitoring tool and a telemetry data warehouse with support for metrics, events, logs, and traces. Prometheus and OpenTelemetry compatibility makes it easy to get started with a hassle-free monitoring journey, be it starting from scratch or even swapping out your existing monitoring tool. Used by engineering teams worldwide at companies like Replit, Disney+ Hotsar, Clevertap, Probo, Quickwork, Axio, and more.
Enterprise DORA Metrics: Scaling Measurement Across Value Streams and the Organization
DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) metrics are a ubiquitous measure of DevOps performance. These metrics are used in nearly every enterprise engaged in software development. DORA metrics help measure DevOps maturity, identify bottlenecks, and guide quality and process improvements. Despite their popularity, DORA metrics are generally considered difficult to measure and are primarily used by technical teams within the context of their respective domains.
Sentry is now Fair Source
Today we’re launching Fair Source, a new approach to software sharing that is safe for companies to adopt and developers to use. Before Fair Source, companies that wanted to engage the developer community with their core products often did not know how to do so while maintaining control over their roadmap and business model. The result is that most software products today are closed-source. With Fair Source, companies have a new option. The Fair Source option is not theoretical.
What Developers Should Know About Observability?
In this webinar, Peter Zaitsev, Founder of Coroot, dives deep into Observability, a crucial approach for building robust, high-performing applications.
Are Cloud Observability Solutions Breaking the Bank? #youtubeshorts #observability #devopstools
Is the price of cloud observability becoming a burden for your infrastructure? Many professionals are concerned about the skyrocketing costs associated with proprietary observability tools like Datadog. With major acquisitions, such as Cisco's purchase of Splunk, one has to wonder if affordability is compromised in favor of profit. How essential is observability in today's tech landscape, and what alternatives exist?
Is too much data making your job harder? #youtubeshorts #dataanalytics #observability
What happens when capturing vast amounts of data becomes overwhelming instead of insightful? For years, vendors have prioritized collecting vast metrics, boasting thousands of data points. But is this approach beneficial, especially for developers who may not be observability experts? Understanding metrics shouldn't feel like deciphering a foreign language. Coroot is an open source observability platform that helps engineers fix service outages and even prevent them. It continuously audits telemetry data to highlight issues and weak spots in your services.
How Technology Transforms Pallet Racking Inspections
Pallet racking inspections are crucial for maintaining warehouse safety and efficiency. Technological advancements have made these inspections more efficient, accurate, and cost-effective. Here's how technology transforms pallet racking inspections and what you need to know to leverage these innovations.
VxRail monitoring to keep your network healthy
VxRail appliances, a powerful collaboration between Dell EMC and VMware, are designed to streamline IT operations and deliver exceptional performance for virtualized workloads. But like any complex system, ensuring peak performance and preventing disruptions requires constant vigilance. This is where VxRail monitoring becomes a lifesaver.
Kibana vs Splunk [Detailed Comparison 2024]
Kibana and Splunk are powerful data analytics and log management solutions. However, choosing between them can be challenging due to their distinct features and use cases. This comprehensive comparison will help you make an informed decision for your organization's needs in 2024.
OpenTelemetry Batches Like a Boss!
The Batch Processor in the OpenTelemetry project is used in both the SDKs and the OpenTelemetry Collector. What exactly is this processor, and what does it do? And, how can you use the OTLP Logs, OTLP Metrics, and OTLP Traces Functions in Cribl Stream and Cribl Edge to build batches like a boss?
Data Is a Blizzard: Just Because Each Snowflake Is Unique Doesn't Mean Your Search Tools Have to Be Too
Cribl Search is agnostic, allowing administrators to now query Snowflake datasets as they can dozens of other Lakes, Stores, Systems & Platforms. The data that IT and security teams rely on to monitor network operations continues to grow at a 28% CAGR, and it’s stressing many organizations’ ability to analyze all this data effectively. In fact, in some cases, less than 2% of it ever gets looked at.
Apdex in Honeycomb
“How is my app performing?” is one of the most common, yet hardest questions to answer. There are myriad ways to measure this, like error rate, average response time, and so on. Enter the Application Performance Index (aka Apdex), a single metric that attempts to answer, “Are my application’s users happy?” Apdex is an open standard that was formalized in 2005 by the Apdex Alliance.
Azure Backup Pricing Guide - How Much Windows' Azure Backup Costs
Most enjoy the peace of mind cloud backups offer for all the damage the costs can do to their wallets. Microsoft Azure offers Azure Backup service to safely backup your data on Microsoft Azure cloud, allowing you to store Azure VMs and even on-premise machines and workloads. But Azure prices can be confusing, and Azure Backup is no different. To best understand how much you’re paying and why you’re paying that much, read on! Source: Azure.
MELT: Understanding Metrics, Events, Logs and Traces for Effective Observability
The infrastructure must be “invisible” to the user, but visible to IT strategists to ensure the performance and service levels required by the business, where observability (as part of SRE or site reliability engineering) is essential to understand the internal state of a system based on its external results. For effective observability, there are four key pillars: metrics, events, logs, and traces, which are summarized in the acronym MELT.
Manage your infrastructure with ServiceNow CMDB and Datadog
ServiceNow is a popular IT service management platform that helps organizations track and manage enterprise-level IT processes, such as on-prem infrastructure management, customer support, and incident response. By using ServiceNow’s configuration management database (CMDB), organizations can easily centralize and manage information about all the IT objects they own in order to track and maintain them more efficiently.
How to Send Grafana Alloy Logs to Grafana Loki | Ask the Experts | Grafana
In this video, Matt Durham, Sr. Software Engineer on the Grafana Alloy team, shows you how to send Grafana Alloy logs to Loki. Specifically, we address the question: "Is it possible to send data from one Grafana Alloy to another? Could anyone supply me with config examples of such interactions? If I send data from Grafana Alloy directly to Loki, it is working. If I send data from Grafana Alloy to another, and then to Loki, the second instance gives me an error.".
Network Performance Dashboard
In this dashboard tutorial video, we will walk you through building a Network Performance dashboard. This dashboard provides users with the visibility they need into the status of their network performance from their offices down to an individual users device. Obtaining this single pane of glass visibility is made easy with the combination of both CloudReady and Service Watch metrics into dashboards. When utilizing these dashboards, users can quickly identify which networks are performing poorly, allowing them to quickly resolve issues and ensure end users have an optimal experience.
Grafana Alloy 1.3 release: Debug pipelines in real time
Grafana Alloy 1.3 is here! First introduced earlier this year, Alloy is our open source distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector. It has native pipelines for OpenTelemetry and Prometheus telemetry formats, and it uses the same components, code, and concepts that were previously introduced in Grafana Agent Flow. This new release introduces live debugging, enhancing debugging capabilities across key components, which are the building blocks of Alloy.
The rise of AIOps in infrastructure monitoring
Drowning in data from complex environments? Ditch the reactive approach. Artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) empowers proactive management with comprehensive observability. According to Gartner, IT spending will continue to mount sky-high despite the global economic instability; the IT expenditure is predicted to surge by 8.6% in 2024. Manual monitoring often fails to keep up with the complexity of modern IT environments, leaving critical issues undetected.
Dynatrace vs AppDynamics - A Feature Comparison Guide
Dynatrace and AppDynamics are two of the most well-known Observability and monitoring tools. Even though they share many features, they have several differences that might make you choose one over the other. Dynatrace is great for comprehensive system performance monitoring. It covers everything from infrastructure and application performance to log management and real user monitoring. AppDynamics, on the other hand, focuses more on application performance and business transactions.
The key benefits of Azure disk monitoring
Virtual machines (VMs) deliver flexible, scalable, and cost-effective computing solutions for businesses of all sizes. Microsoft Azure offers efficient and powerful VMs, but as infrastructures boom, the computing environment tries to accommodate the increased demands of the infrastructure. As VM demand increases, it can impact their performance and disk operations. This leads to performance degradation, storage fragmentation, capacity constraints, and increased risk of disk failure.
Unlocking Full Stack Visibility: How SolarWinds Observability Enhances Cloud Integration
Resolving an incident before end users are impacted is the new standard, but managing separate observability and incident management solutions is tempting fate. You are at risk of an issue slipping through the cracks. It's time to consolidate, streamline, and decomplexify your operations. Hybrid Cloud Observability combined with SolarWinds Observability and SolarWinds Service Desk make all of this much, much easier.
Prevent the Next Outage - Motadata's Holistic Approach to IT Resilience
In today’s world, everything is online; cyber resilience is very important. Companies depend heavily on their IT setup to keep things running smoothly. But sometimes, cyberattacks, system breakdowns, or even natural disasters can mess things up big time. This can cause businesses to lose data and money and hurt their reputations. However, with the increasing importance of IT resilience in the digital age, CEOs and boards must prioritize and invest in this aspect of their business.
Complete Guide to FlexOrgs - What Are FlexOrgs & Are They the Right Choice for MSPs' Cloud Organization?
Trying to refine your org structure and already using VMware Tanzu CloudHealth? You might have stumbled across the word FlexOrgs. If you have, you’re likely scratching your head and wondering what FlexOrgs are and, more importantly, if they can help you. Don’t worry. We have the answers to your FlexOrg questions (and more!). Still unsure how to get started?
You don't need ALL those metrics!
Metrics are key to monitoring system health and performance but you probably are ingesting far more metrics than you will ever need or use. The issue is that popular tools in this space, such as OpenTelemetry and Prometheus, leverage node exporters to emit a plethora of metrics. OpenTelemetry tracks even the minutest details of system performance. Prometheus exporters can generate a vast array of metrics, ranging from CPU usage to disk I/O, and everything in between.
Just released: Centralized notification preferences
We’re excited to unveil a major enhancement to the StatusGator dashboard! Our latest update simplifies how you handle alerts, allowing you to manage all your monitor notifications from a single page under Board settings.
Integrate Your Monitoring System With PagerDuty Using Events API V2
PagerDuty's Events API V2 lets you push events from your monitoring systems to PagerDuty. You can push such events when there is a triggered, updated, or resolved incident.
Network Optimization Strategies: How to Optimize Network Performance
Optimizing your network is the key to help improve network performance. It helps provide optimal performance of your Internet, VPN, Firewall, VoIP and UC apps, and most importantly - your user experience. Keep reading to learn how to optimize network performance for continuous network optimization.
Decision Intelligence: An Introduction
Every day, employees and leaders of enterprise IT organizations make multiple decisions that affect their company’s success or failure. To stay ahead of the competition and drive innovation, an increasing number of organizations are turning to decision intelligence (DI), a relatively new field combining data science, decision theory and artificial intelligence, to augment and improve decision-making.
Microsoft Teams Health Dashboard
In this dashboard tutorial video, we will walk you through building a Teams Health Dashboard by combining the collected metrics for CloudReady Synthetics and Service Watch Desktop. The Teams Health Dashboard provides users with a holistic view of Microsoft Teams availability and performance. When an issue occurs, users can quickly review the Teams Health Dashboard and identify whether the issue is limited to an office or affecting Microsoft Teams as a whole.
Email Health Dashboard
In this dashboard tutorial video, we’ll be walking you through building a Microsoft Exchange and Outlook dashboard utilizing CloudReady Synthetics and Service Watch Desktop. This dashboard is a great first stop when diagnosing user email issues. When an issue comes up, engineers can quickly review the CloudReady data available in the dashboard to identify if an office or Exchange Online is experiencing issues or an outage.
Ensure Full Stack Observability Between Mainframe and Cloud/Container Applications with AIOps from Broadcom
As enterprises advance on their cloud/modernization journeys, many teams struggle to achieve full stack observability. These teams are finding that mainframe systems are a ”critical path” for applications that deliver business-critical digital services to customers, partners, and employees.
Improve developer experience and collaboration with Service Catalog schema version 3.0
As software ecosystems grow more complex and fragmented, organizations are finding it harder to manage the thousands of interdependencies that make up their environments. For starters, engineers are collectively struggling to uphold security and reliability standards throughout their organizations because they lack a shared view of these complex software landscapes.
From alert fatigue to AI-driven efficiency: Introducing Edwin AI for IT operations
Imagine having a super-intelligent teammate who can anticipate IT problems before they arise, streamline incident management, and provide crystal-clear insights into your IT landscape. This isn’t science fiction—it’s the reality with Edwin AI, LogicMonitor’s newest innovation in AI for IT operations.
How to View Your Pyroscope Data in OSS and Grafana Cloud Profiles | Ask the Experts | Grafana Labs
"I have provisioned Pyroscope OSS. Everything seems fine. Is there a way to install Pyrocsope UI to get more enhanced views? Or is the UI part of Pyroscope Cloud?" To kick off our new "Ask the Experts" series, Ryan Perry, Co-founder of Pyroscope and Director of Engineering at Grafana Labs answers the question by showing you how to view your Pyroscope data in both OSS and Pyroscope Cloud. He also hints at some new UI features in the Pyroscope roadmap for OSS that we think you'll love.
Graylog Geolocation: Mapping Your Log Data
In today’s distributed work environment, understanding the geographic origin of network traffic has become more crucial than ever. As organizations adapt to remote work, IT teams face the challenge of monitoring and analyzing an expanding array of IP addresses from various locations. Graylog’s geolocation feature offers a powerful solution to this challenge, allowing teams to extract and visualize geographic information from IP addresses in their logs.
11 Financial Services Industry Trends Impacting IT Teams in 2024
High interest rates, inflation, and technological change are creating turbulence in every industry this year—but the financial services sector has been in for an especially bumpy ride. From strict compliance requirements to growing security concerns and rapid change in fintech, IT professionals in the finance industry are continuously challenged to keep up.
ITOps vs DevOps: Unveiling the Key Contrasts
In the recent few years, IT Operations (ITOps) and Development Operations (DevOps) are the two distinct practices that have gained much attention in the realm of Information Technology and software development. The purpose behind designing these practices was to improve efficiency and ensure seamless functioning across the organization’s IT infrastructure. Both might have certain similarities, but they differ in various aspects, such as roles, responsibilities, and methodologies.
Unlock the Power of Coroot: Zero Code, Zero Hassle! #observability #devopstools #shorts #ebpf
Curious about a solution that requires no code for deployment and still gives you extensive insights? Discover how Coroot provides powerful infrastructure support without the need for complex configurations.
Top tips: 5 lessons learned from the recent Microsoft Azure disruption to survive the next cloud outage
The recent Microsoft Azure outage had a profound impact, disrupted services for countless businesses and individuals around the globe, and exposed the risks of relying exclusively on cloud solutions. This incident, triggered by a mix of technical failures and unexpected complications, resulted in substantial downtime, access issues, and operational interruptions across multiple industries.
10 best practices for mastering Azure monitoring
A large percentage of enterprises are redefining their businesses around hybrid cloud ecosystems. The benefits include increased scalability and flexibility, improved collaboration, and cost efficiency. Microsoft Azure, one of the leading cloud computing platforms with a 23% market share in 2023, plays a key role in enabling hybrid cloud environments for organizations.
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Cisco Live 2024: Top 10 Announcements & Highlights | CloudFabrix
It’s great to be back at another action and innovation-packed Cisco Live 2024. Continuing our tradition of posting Cisco Live announcements and highlights (catch Cisco Live 2023 Highlights here), I am putting together my thoughts and perspective on the Top-10 Cisco Live 2024 Announcements and Highlights. This year, I also had the pleasure of representing CloudFabrix at the event, which helped gain deeper insights on customer needs and expectations on Observability, Asset Insights and AIOps.
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Effortless error monitoring for Adobe Commerce: Introducing the free Magenizr Raygun module
At Magenizr, we're always looking for tools to make life easier for developers and merchants. Not too long ago, we found ourselves in a bind. We were scouring the Adobe Commerce Marketplace and Github repositories for an error monitoring app tailored for e-commerce shops but came up empty-handed. New Relic was overkill for shops that just needed to pinpoint where errors were cropping up.
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How to Monitor Your Email Services
Verifying email performance is more than the basic understanding of message flow. Outbound mail in the form of Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and inbound mail through MAPI or Microsoft's Graph API only parts of email systems to monitor, usually through pings or basic delivery confirmations. Often, once email is moved to Exchange Online, even basic visibility of mail flow and reliable delivery is lost. Many subsystems go into efficient email deliverability, especially once multiple email hygiene providers are added to the mix.
NetApp Monitoring on Microsoft SCOM
Keeping your storage systems performing at their best is essential for smooth business operations. That’s why it’s crucial to integrate NetApp into Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) for a comprehensive monitoring solution. Many clients already use tools like Active IQ and System Manager, but the real magic happens when these tools work together seamlessly.
How to View Your Pyroscope Data in OSS and Pyroscope Cloud | Ask the Experts | Grafana
"I have provisioned Pyroscope OSS. Everything seems fine. Is there a way to install Pyrocsope UI to get more enhanced views? Or is the UI part of Pyroscope Cloud?" To kick off our new "Ask the Experts" series, Ryan Perry, Co-founder of Pyroscope and Director of Engineering at Grafana Labs answers the question by showing you how to view your Pyroscope data in both OSS and Pyroscope Cloud. He also hints at some new UI features in the Pyroscope roadmap for OSS that we think you'll love.
Transforming IT Operations at a Large Public Sector Bank with HEAL
In today’s digital age, IT organizations face numerous challenges that can hinder their ability to provide seamless services. Common pain-points include frequent outages, unexplained end-user experiences, negative brand impact, unaccomplished business demands, and complex application environments. These issues are exacerbated by technology silos, an overload of alerts, inaccurate and prolonged root cause analyses, and inadequate current SRE/DevOps tools.
Unlocking Business Insights with Telemetry Pipelines
Imagine running a large company where data-driven decisions give you a competitive edge. You use a lot of business intelligence tools that tap into vast amounts of data, such as sales figures, inventories, and expenses. This analysis tells you how your company is performing. However, it does not reveal how your "company infrastructure" is performing. This crucial information comes from your systems in the form of telemetry data, such as logs and events.
8 Key Insights for My Clients from the OpsRamp State of Observability Report
The OpsRamp State of Observability 2024 report not only presents fascinating data from a strong sample of IT leaders, but also outlines many highly actionable findings. As an independent analyst and advisor, I appreciate how this report outlines a powerful action plan for any CIO, CTO, or other IT leader who has not yet adopted or achieved success with observability.
Prometheus vs Grafana - A Comparative Guide to Key Differences
Prometheus and Grafana are both great observability solutions. Although they share some overlapping features, both Prometheus and Grafana have different priorities. Prometheus focuses on data acquisition, allowing users to select and aggregate time series data in real-time. Grafana, on the other hand, specializes in data visualization. Together, they form a powerful monitoring system effectively. But how well do these tools perform individually?
The Leading Network Device Monitoring Tools
Ensuring the security of your network infrastructure is critical for all organizations, and this requires going beyond traditional network monitoring and incorporating the monitoring of network devices, such as routers, switches, and other network devices. Whilst network monitoring includes the monitoring of devices, dedicated network device monitoring is a more thorough process for guaranteeing the health and performance of your organization's network devices.
Monitoring Multi-cloud Environments
Multi-cloud visibility is a challenge for most IT teams juggling multiple tools and screens to understand application traffic across multiple public clouds. Kentik unifies telemetry from the major cloud providers and the public internet into one place to give you the ability to monitor and troubleshoot application performance across AWS, Azure, Google, and Oracle clouds for real-time and historical analysis.
To the Cloud and Back: When and How to Execute a Cloud Repatriation Effort
The past few years have been dominated by digital transformation characterized by a move away from legacy on-premises systems to the cloud. However, there are also instances when bringing certain assets back from the cloud – a process known as “cloud repatriation” – can be a strategic and cost-effective move. Questions persist about when cloud repatriation makes sense and how organizations should craft their strategy.
Without AI, Your Telemetry Data Pipeline Sucks
History is filled with stories of human triumph. One of the most famous such stories is that of John Henry, “The Steel Driving Man.” As the traditional American folk story goes, John Henry and his fellow workers were faced with the arrival of the steam engine, which threatened to replace their manual labor. To prove that human strength and skill could outperform the new technology, John Henry challenged the machine to a contest.
How to control your overage bills
We all know how tricky it can be to keep track of costs, especially when your projects spike or with the latest feature that your users love. That's why we've been working on a solution to ensure you never have surprise billing due to on-demand occurrences. Introducing our latest feature to give you both flexibility and control: Overage Budgets.
Service-Centric Cross-Cloud Network demo - AWS and Google Cloud
This demo showcases the capabilities of the Cross-Cloud Network. See how customers running on another cloud provider can, securely access services hosted on Google Cloud over a private Cross-Cloud Interconnect connection using Cross-Cloud Network products Speaker: Ishita Mehta-Desai, Network Specialist.
Improving Developer Efficiency
Developers are expensive to hire, and it takes time to get new hires up to speed. Getting the most out of developers and retaining them should be a priority for any organization. Fortunately, developers like creating new stuff, and organizations want new functionality. Therefore, if there was a way of minimizing the time spent fixing bugs, the new feature backlog would be reduced, and happy developers would stay around.
Actionable Alarms Dashboard
In this dashboard tutorial video, we will walk you through building an Actionable Alarms dashboard. This dashboard provides users with the visibility they need into the status of their SaaS solutions as well as how their end-user devices are performing. Dashboards allow combining both CloudReady and Service Watch data into a single pane of glass for visibility. Utilizing the Alarm widgets, users can quickly identify what issues need to be investigated while quickly being able to access the affected resources for review.
Unlock the Value of Cloud: Introducing Splunk Cloud Value Calculator
In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, organizations are increasingly turning to the cloud powered with AI capabilities to enhance efficiency, scalability and innovation. Splunk, a leader in security and data observability, has been at the forefront of this transformation.
Debug (even) faster with 8 Sentry updates
Over the past few months, we introduced several new features and capabilities. While we released larger product updates like Trace Explorer, Insights modules, and our JavaScript V8 SDK (to name a few), it’s the smaller, iterative improvements that really make a big difference in your debugging workflow. Let’s dive into 8 recent updates that you should know about.
Setting up and Understanding OpenTelemetry Collector Pipelines Through Visualization
Observability provides many business benefits, but comes with costs as well. Once the (not-insignificant) work of picking a platform, taking an inventory of your applications and infrastructure, and getting buyin from leadership (both from the business and engineering sides of the house) is done, you then have to actually instrument your applications to emit data, and build the data pipeline that sends that data to your observability system.