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Identity management is vitally important in cybersecurity. Every time someone tries to access your networks, systems, or resources, it’s critical that you are verifying that these attempts are valid and legitimate, and that they match a real, authenticated user. The way that this tends to be handled in cyber security is through Identity and Access Management (IAM), most commonly by using third-party Identity Providers (IdPs).

When Java web applications experience slowdowns or crashes, the culprit is often the Tomcat server. For DevOps engineers overseeing critical applications, proactive monitoring is crucial for ensuring optimal performance and reliability. In this guide, we'll explore the essential aspects of monitoring Apache Tomcat servers, focusing on the key metrics to track, setting up robust monitoring systems, and troubleshooting common performance issues that could impact your application’s stability.

Understanding what’s happening inside your applications is key to keeping them performing well and reliably. OpenTelemetry tracing is an open-source, flexible solution that lets you monitor your distributed systems without locking you into a specific vendor. reliably This guide walks you through everything you need to know about OpenTelemetry tracing, from the basics to more advanced techniques, with practical tips for troubleshooting common issues along the way.

As DevOps grows within the tech industry, it continues to play a vital role in modern software development by bridging the gap between development and operations. DevOps engineers juggle a wide range of tasks in their daily life, combining coding, automation, system management, and team collaboration. In this blog, we’ll explore their core responsibilities, highlight essential best practices, and show how solutions like OnPage can help streamline their workflows.

Today, I’m excited to share the Internet’s Largest Incident Response Glossary. It’s a collection of over 500 terms covering on-call, alerting, monitoring, and system reliability. It took us over 2 weeks from ideation to completion of this project and in this post, I would like to share how we approached this beast!

This past week we released the simple yet widely requested feature Server Nicknames, the ability to easily track and manage various servers with unique custom names. At first glance this may seem like a non update but not when you consider that most Cycle users are connecting many servers from multiple providers and locations in the cloud and on premises. With long default server names, this is a huge quality of life improvement.

The digital landscape is evolving at a rapid pace, and businesses are constantly seeking agile, high-performance connectivity solutions to stay ahead. Recognising this, data centres are shifting beyond their traditional role of offering just space and power. Today, they must deliver real-time access to clouds, other data centres, and applications.

Managing AWS costs just a whole lot more convenient. CloudZero now integrates with Amazon Q Developer, AWS’s AI-powered engineering assistant. A natural language processor, Amazon Q Developer helps engineers write, analyze, and debug code, accelerate workload transformations, and adopt AWS best practices, enhancing developer productivity by as much as 80%.