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How to Monitor Network Devices: From Routers to Switches

Welcome to the world of networking, where routers, switches, firewalls and other network devices reign supreme. From the backbone routers that facilitate data flow to the intricate web of switches managing local connections, maintaining a vigilant eye on your network devices is at the core of ensuring a high functioning network infrastructure.

Understanding Cardinality with Levitate's Cardinality Explorer

Predicting the future is hard, especially with metrics-based monitoring systems, because metrics cardinality can snowball. This is important because it affects query performance adversely. Having visibility into what’s happening now and workflows to manage cardinality is crucial. Because the answers depend on the quality of questions, a system allows you to ask. The questions one may have is —

Real user performance monitoring, the easy way

Request Metrics Launch Week Day 1 - Real User Performance Monitoring. Real User Performance Monitoring from Request Metrics is a game-changer. It’s never been this easy to automatically get your performance reports, and with our data and alerts, you’ll know exactly when you need to act to protect your experience, boost your SEO, and increase the revenue of your site.

Azure VM Autoscaling to enhance performance and cost efficiency

Azure VM Autoscaling is a feature provided by Microsoft Azure that allows to automatically adjust the number of Virtual Machines (VMs) in a specific scale set based on predefined criteria such as load, performance metrics, or a schedule. This post delves into the significance of autoscaling within Azure VMs, spotlighting its role in cost optimization, performance enhancement, and improved availability.

Monitor Oracle managed databases with Datadog DBM

Datadog Database Monitoring (DBM), which provides host-level and query performance metrics and insights for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQL Server, is now available for Oracle. Oracle is one of the most common database types, and now teams that operate Oracle databases can use Datadog to monitor these resources alongside telemetry from across their environments.

Overcoming Messy Cloud Migrations, Outdated Infrastructures, Syslog, and Other Chaos

As businesses grapple with increasing data volumes, the need for practical tools to manage and use this data has never been greater. High-quality tools are great — but imagine what you could accomplish with one that made all the others in your toolbox even better? That’s exactly how we design every Cribl solution — we exist to help IT and Security teams get more out of their existing infrastructure.

OTel Applications on Retrace

We are excited to inform you that Open Telemetry is now available for you with the introduction of “Netreo OTel Appliance”. With the OTel Appliance, cloud-native services like AWS Lambda, AWS ECS, AWS EKS, Azure Functions, Azure App Services, Azure Container Instances, and Azure Kubernetes Services can be monitored and you see application traces and logs in Retrace UI (s1.stackify.com). The applications hosted in the cloud Serverless and containers can be monitored without running the Retrace agent within the instance itself.

Our complete cron job guide for 2024

When it comes to system administration, the need for automation and precise scheduling has never been greater. That’s where cron comes in, the time-based job scheduler that has been a steadfast companion of Unix-like operating systems for decades. If you’re a seasoned sysadmin or just a curious enthusiast, understanding the ins and outs of Cron is a valuable skill.