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SQL Server Monitoring: What metrics to track

SQL Server Monitoring has become an essential part of modern-day applications since a major chunk of these applications rely heavily on a database. It is therefore important to monitor your metrics and make the best out of your database services. SQL Server Monitoring offers plenty of metrics to choose from. We will be breaking down the five key categories that an SQL server provides for a comprehensive view of their functionality.

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Is AIOps Bad for Your Business?

With advances in the field of IT, the amount of data needed to manage IT Operations has grown. In particular with more complex environments, such as the SaaS world, the amounts of data and raw data needed to manage operations have grown exponentially. Managing data manually has become a waste of professionals' skill sets, which could be better used in analyzing and applying the conclusions drawn from the raw data, and not dealing with basic issues that may arise.

StackState Named Market Leader by Research in Action

Earlier this year, StackState was named a Market Leader in the “2022 Research in Action (RIA) Vendor Selection Matrix (VSM) for Observability.” This is great recognition of the innovative path that we are on. We have focused on topology-powered observability, supported by our unique 4T® Data Model.

Using ClickHouse with MetricFire

In the analytics domain, fast and reliable storage is an important aspect for businesses to handle a large amount of data. There are different types of data storage including RDBMS, NoSQL, data lake, data warehouse, and graph database. Among these, the most widely used is RDBMS that powers various systems and applications of companies of all sizes. RDBMS is easy to use and straightforward to understand thanks to its table-based (or column-based) data format.

Postmark + Squadcast Integration: Simplifying Alert Routing

Postmark is a simple email delivery system used to send transactional and marketing emails and it ensures getting them delivered to the inbox on time, every time. It also helps in reducing email delivery time considerably. If you use Postmark for your email delivery requirements, you can integrate it with Squadcast, an end-to-end incident response tool, to route detailed alerts from Postmark to the right users in Squadcast. The below steps will help you set up Postmark and Squadcast integration.