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ManageEngine recognized as a Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for Unified Endpoint Management Tools

At ManageEngine, we believe in letting our customers do the talking—and they’ve spoken! We are excited to announce that ManageEngine has been recognized as a Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice in the Voice of the Customer for Unified Endpoint Management Tools 2024. Our commitment to putting our customers first is at the heart of everything we do, and we believe this recognition underscores our commitment to continuously innovate and improve our solution to meet their needs better.

Building an AI Assistant in Splunk Observability Cloud

Splunk Observability Cloud is a full-stack observability solution, combining purpose-built systems for application, infrastructure and end-user monitoring, pulled together by a common data model, in a unified interface. This provides essential end-to-end visibility across complex tech stacks and various data types, such as metrics, events, logs, and traces (MELT), as well as end-user sessions, database queries, stack traces and more.

How Do You Test Domain Health?

Domain health refers to the overall operational integrity and security of your website’s infrastructure. It typically encompasses factors like the status of your domain registration, the efficiency and configuration of your domain name system (DNS) settings, the responsiveness and reliability of your servers, and the robustness of the security protocols. When these elements align, your users get the performance they expect from a trusted domain.

Demystifying the cloud: Elasticity vs. scalability

Elasticity and scalability are essential aspects of cloud computing and crucial for optimizing resource management and ensuring seamless operations. However, despite their importance, these concepts are often confused. Understanding their distinct purposes and functionalities is essential for fully leveraging the power of cloud technology. This article explores what cloud elasticity and scalability are, their key differences, and why both matter for efficient cloud environments.

Getting started with Grafana: best practices to design your first dashboard

At its core, observability is about helping humans understand and optimize complex systems. It enables engineering teams to ask questions on the fly, and to learn not only when something goes wrong but why. Observability also allows organizations to proactively identify and address performance issues — before their end users even have a chance to notice.

Playwright at Scale

When adopting Playwright, it can be tough to know if you're following the right design principles for a process that will work at scale. For those Cypress users, check out Cypress at Scale. Join Jonathan and Filip as we explore how mature organizations and effective teams adopt Playwright. We'll cover what we've seen in the wild and key considerations. — Fundamentals & principles: You'll understand what Playwright is and its design principles.

Monitor Your Socket Connections Using Telegraf and MetricFire

Monitoring socket connections in your servers is critical because it ensures network communication is functioning correctly and identifies potential issues such as bottlenecks or unauthorized access. It helps maintain server performance and security by detecting abnormal or malicious activities early. Additionally, monitoring provides valuable insights for troubleshooting and optimizing application and network configurations.

Cross-Cloud Networking: DNS Design

Designing a robust DNS design to support seamless name resolution across distributed workloads is important. Watch along as Sri Nannapaneni, Customer Engineer at Google Cloud, discusses Cloud DNS concepts and reviews a design pattern that customers can leverage as part of their hybrid deployment.