Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

The moment of launching something new at a game studio (titles, experiences, features, subscriptions) is a blockbuster moment that hangs in the balance. The architecture—distributed and complex, designed by a multitude of teams, to be played across a variety of devices in every corner of the world—is about to meet a frenzy of audience anticipation, along with the sky-high expectations of players, executives, and investors.

We couldn’t be more excited here at Anodot at the announcement of the acquisition of Pileus. Acquiring a company is a very special event, a moment that is the culmination of months of thought and deliberation. Is there a strong synergy between the two entities? Do we share the same DNA and culture? Is the additional product aligned with our long-term vision?

An often overlooked aspect of a company’s journey to the cloud is cost visibility. While the single number delivered by the cloud provider on a monthly invoice is straightforward, understanding where this number comes from is often more tricky. Fortunately, this task can be facilitated through the usage of various cost monitoring tools available on the market, coming from both third-party companies and the cloud providers themselves.

If you’re reading this, I’m pretty sure I don’t need to do much to convince you of the importance of logs. They are the core atomic unit for understanding your environments and provide the insights required to troubleshoot, debug, and more. The fact of the matter is that everyone in your organization needs logs to perform critical functions of their job.

The NiCE Linux PowerPC Management Pack 1.20 is an enterprise-ready Microsoft SCOM add-on for advanced IBM PowerPC on Linux monitoring. It supports Linux PowerPC administrators in centralized health and performance monitoring to improve user experience and business results. The Management Pack provides clear and precise performance indicators and timely alerts enriched by pinpointing problem identification and troubleshooting information.

Microsoft System Center Operations Management team has been busy with new features and updates for SCOM. The most recent version, SCOM 2019, came out on March 14th, 2019. The release date for the upcoming SCOM 2022 has been announced to be globally available in Q1 2022. This blog post will provide an overview of some of the features you can expect to see in SCOM 2022 and how those changes may affect your experience of SCOM monitoring as a user or customer.

Every application has errors. It's how you respond to them that makes the difference. In this article, Ashley Allen shows us how to use Honeybadger to make sure your Laravel apps are performing as they should.

Hyper-V is one of the most popular virtualization software, especially for Windows systems and servers. However, no software or tool can be optimized to your advantage without proper monitoring. Now, you’re probably already monitoring your Hyper-V environments, but are you doing it the best way? This post will reveal seven important tips that can help reinforce your efforts to Hyper-V monitoring, especially cluster monitoring, which is a hard task.