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manageengine

What is DNS monitoring? How it helps improve the performance of your network services

Jul 31, 2024 By CloudDNS In ManageEngine
DNS service management tools are currently considered a crucial element by many organizations, as they simplify the administration and issue detecting activities for admins. Along with streamlining DNS service for elevating organization’s network service for clients. Despite managing and automating DNS activities across different DNS service providers, every DNS tool has one key feature that every organization rely on: DNS monitoring.
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manageengine

Mastering network segmentation with OpManager Plus

Jul 31, 2024 By General In ManageEngine
Have you ever felt like your network is a tangled web of wires and connections, a ticking time bomb waiting to explode into chaos? As businesses grow, their networks become increasingly complex, making it difficult to maintain smooth operations and robust security. Network segmentation is a strategy that divides your network into smaller, more manageable sections, similar to creating different colored zones in a city.
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icinga

Simplified Database Schema Upgrades for Icinga Web and Modules

Jul 31, 2024 By Eric Lippmann In Icinga
With the release of Icinga Web 2.12, we’ve streamlined and simplified the process for performing database schema upgrades for both Icinga Web and its modules. This new feature not only indicates when an upgrade is pending but also allows for automatic execution of the upgrade. Previously, users had to consult the upgrade documentation and perform the upgrade manually. While it’s still important to read the upgrade documentation, this new feature simplifies the process significantly.
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checkly

Announcing $20M to Enable Engineers to Detect and Resolve Issues 10x Faster With Checkly

Jul 31, 2024 By Hannes Lenke In Checkly
Our mission at Checkly is to enable engineers to detect and resolve issues 10x faster. We are very excited to announce $20 million in Series B funding led by Balderton, alongside the participation of our existing investors Accel and CRV.
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lumigo

OpenTelemetry Is The Strategic Choice

Jul 31, 2024 By Steve Waterworth In Lumigo
OpenTelemetry (OTel) should be at the heart of your observability strategy. There is no longer a need to pay for the collection of telemetry data; instead, use the unified OTel standard for all your telemetry data. Once you have the data in a standard form, you can choose where to process it, either on your own servers or via one of many SaaS providers.
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logitio

Why OpenSearch Serverless is a Game-Changer

Jul 31, 2024 By David Benson In Logit.io
AWS OpenSearch Service is a fully managed service supplied by Amazon Web Services (AWS) for deploying, managing, and scaling OpenSearch clusters in the cloud. OpenSearch Service was formerly known as Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) but was renamed in 2021 due to changes in the open-source project it is based on. In 2022, AWS OpenSearch Serverless was announced.
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observiq

BindPlane Summer '24 Release

Jul 31, 2024 By Joe Howell In ObservIQ
As the summer heats up, so does innovation at observIQ. We are thrilled to announce a number of exciting updates for BindPlane, the industry’s first OTel-native telemetry pipeline. Read on for a summary of what’s new in BindPlane, themed and tuned with the excitement and energy of NBA Jam’s legendary announcer, Tim Kritzow.
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Cribl

5 Ways to Slash Storage Costs

Jul 31, 2024 By Felicia Dorng In Cribl
Managing and storing vast amounts of data is no small feat, and can be a real drain on resources. Organizations often need to retain data for extended periods — sometimes up to seven years — to comply with regulations. It’s a common dilemma: data volumes keep skyrocketing, but budgets don’t follow suit. IT and security teams face immense pressure to handle this data deluge while navigating procurement pitfalls.
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Cribl

Navigating the Data Current 2024: Exploring Cribl.Cloud Analytics and Customer Insights

Jul 31, 2024 By Nick Heudecker In Cribl
IT and security teams dealt with massive changes a few short years ago. New deployment environments added to the monitoring toil, while architectural shifts complicated IT operations’ cost and performance effectiveness. On the security side, the protected perimeter expanded exponentially. These factors resulted in a huge increase in data volumes and complexity, leading teams to turn to tooling and platforms to cope with their data.
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uptime robot

What is an SLA?

Jul 31, 2024 By Diana Bocco In Uptime Robot
A Service Level Agreement (SLA) is a formal document that outlines the expectations, responsibilities, and performance metrics between a service provider and a customer. It is a mutual agreement to ensure the service meets the agreed-upon standards and performance levels. For example, an SLA might specify the uptime percentage for a server, response times for customer support, or the maximum allowable error rates. Download the free SLA Template in PDF!
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lightrun

The New Era of Autonomous Debugging: Transforming the SDLC

Jul 31, 2024 By Ilan Peleg In Lightrun
The software world is changing rapidly due to advancements in GenAI. These technologies are disrupting traditional processes and driving automation across every part of the SDLC. The market for AI code tools is estimated to reach $30 billion by 2032. It started with code generation, then moved to testing, QA, automatic pull requests, and beyond.
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appsignal

Setting Up Custom Metrics with Effective Alerts for a Ruby App in AppSignal

Jul 31, 2024 By Aestimo Kirina In AppSignal
Most of the time, the default application monitoring metrics, graphs, and visualizations provided by AppSignal will do for your Ruby app. However, you might be the kind of user who likes a bit of control over what is measured, how it’s displayed, and how critical information about your app should be relayed. AppSignal allows you to customize app metrics and dashboards as you wish. In this guide, we’ll learn all about AppSignal's custom metrics, including: And more!
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appsignal

Monitor the Performance of Your Python Django App with AppSignal

Jul 31, 2024 By Amir Tadrisi In AppSignal
When we observe a slow system, our first instinct might be to label it as failing. This presumption is widespread and highlights a fundamental truth: performance is synonymous with an application's maturity and readiness for production. In web applications, where milliseconds can determine the success or failure of a user interaction, the stakes are incredibly high. Performance is not just a technical benchmark, but a cornerstone of user satisfaction and operational efficiency.
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logz.io

5 Ways Logz.io's Log Management UI Beats Kibana & OSD

Jul 31, 2024 By Jake O'Donnell In logz.io
At Logz.io, we’ve found that for most organizations observability challenges start with log management. Today more than ever, log management is a highly complex practice that involves mountains of ephemeral data, and the related obstacles are preventing people from achieving their observability goals, full stop. That’s why we designed our new log management UI to simplify the daily tasks of SREs and developers in managing logs and diving into data.
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anodot

AWS Savings Plan vs Reserved Instances: Your Complete Guide

Jul 31, 2024 By Perry Tapiero In Anodot
AWS has Savings Plans and Reserved Instances, two very different opportunities for users to save big on your cloud spend budget. But which of these two plans is best for you, and how can you start saving on your cloud management? In this guide, we’ll cover both options so you can make the best choice when using AWS.
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grafana

An overview of Grafana SSO: Benefits, recent updates, and best practices to get started

Jul 31, 2024 By Vardan Torosyan In Grafana
Grafana began as an open and composable platform for data visualization. Today, Grafana has evolved into an all-in-one observability platform, providing everything from infrastructure and application performance monitoring to load testing and incident response. As organizations extend their use of Grafana, efficient and secure authentication and authorization is essential.
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virtana

Unleashing Deep Observability with eBPF-Based Topology in Virtana AM

Jul 31, 2024 By Yash Shah In Virtana
In today’s dynamic and complex IT landscapes, maintaining visibility into application topologies is crucial for ensuring optimal performance, troubleshooting issues, and delivering exceptional end-user experiences. Did you know that 73% of IT leaders report increased difficulty in managing application performance due to rising complexity?
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Kentik Close-Up 04. Cloud Costs

Jul 31, 2024 By Kentik In Kentik
Nobody likes getting a surprise (and surprisingly large) bill from their cloud provider. But that doesn't stop it from happening a surprising number of times. In this episode, Kentik's Director of Technical Evangelism, Phil Gervasi, and Mike Krygeris, an Enterprise Solutions Architect, talk with host Leon Adato about how Kentik's tools help reduce the surprises and lower the cost of your cloud environment. While you're here, remember to like and subscribe to get notified about new episodes!
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The New Era of IT Alert Management

Jul 31, 2024 By SolarWinds In SolarWinds
The increasing complexity of IT means new skills are always needed to keep up and stay relevant, but acquiring new skills takes time. Having the right set of tools is essential for success. In this session, we'll break down how to decomplexify and what the heck that means. It's time to consolidate what can be consolidated, break down barriers, reduce waste, and manage the madness.
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Find root causes in real time - Checkly Traces

Jul 31, 2024 By Checkly In Checkly
At Checkly we’re always trying to help our users find and resolve issues 10x faster, and the OpenTelemetry project wants to enable more observability with open standards. I’m excited to share Checkly Traces, our new tracing solution built on OpenTelemetry, and how it can help you find the root cause of problems in real time.
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Taking Web Performance to the Next Level

Jul 31, 2024 By Catchpoint In Catchpoint
As the gold standard for web performance testing and optimization, WebPageTest has long been the trusted choice for performance experts and the top online retailers aiming to enhance website speed, SEO rankings, user experience, and conversion rates. In this webinar, we explore how we’re bringing together the best of both worlds by blending the gold standard web performance testing capabilities of WebPageTest with Catchpoint’s market-leading Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM) Platform with its AI-powered analytics, RUM, the largest Global Observability Network, and more!
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site24x7

How traditional IT monitoring is holding back digital transformation for Australian SMEs

Jul 31, 2024 By Santhi Santhanakrishnan In Site24x7
In today's digital landscape, monitoring IT systems and infrastructure is crucial for ensuring operational efficiency and maintaining business continuity. Australian small and medium enterprises (SMEs) understand the importance of monitoring but often struggle to fully leverage its capabilities. One common challenge is the siloed nature of IT operations, where different components of the IT ecosystem operate independently, leading to fragmented visibility and disjointed management.
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anodot

Anodot vs DoiT: Which FinOps Provider Truly Offers Multi-Cloud Services for MSPs

Jul 31, 2024 By Perry Tapiero In Anodot
MSPs working in the cloud are pretty popular these days. About 73% of businesses using cloud-based MSP solutions plan to increase their usage. For MSPs, that’s both good and bad news. The good news is that more organizations are using MSPs to scale their business profitably. The bad news? It also means tracking several customers at once and managing their accounts. MSPs need a cloud management solution to handle multi-cloud setups.
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sentry

Monitoring, Observability, & Debuggability Explained

Jul 31, 2024 By William O'Neal In Sentry
Monitoring tools are great at letting you know when something is broken and the overall impact. We should know, we make an error monitoring tool. Observability tools are good for well, observing. But here’s the thing, you (we) don’t observe code. We (you) push code. So what the collective “we” need is a tool that makes it easy to ship, improve, and maintain reliable and performant code.
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opsmatters

Methods of Scanning Network Devices with Total Network Inventory (TNI)

Jul 31, 2024 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
In network management, efficiently scan for devices is fundamental to maintaining security, enhancing performance, and ensuring effective asset management. This article examines various scanning methods, explaining the configurations and processes required to gather detailed information.
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manageengine

Apache web server monitoring: Key metrics and how to monitor them

Jul 30, 2024 By ManageEngine In ManageEngine
According to a survey by Web Technology Surveys, around 29.5% of the world's active websites are powered by Apache HTTP Server (often referred to as Apache web server or just Apache), making it one of the most popular web servers. Apache's flexible and scalable nature allows it to handle workloads that range from small-scale blogs to commercial web services. Let us dive deeper and explore the Apache web server infrastructure and learn about the crucial performance indicators you need to pay attention to while monitoring Apache web servers.
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auvik

Enterprise Wi-Fi: Your Guide to Large-Scale Wireless Networks

Jul 30, 2024 By Lee Badman In Auvik
With the explosion of wireless devices in the workplace and emerging technologies like IoT going mainstream, enterprise Wi-Fi has become more pivotal than ever to maintain business productivity and growth. But as demand grows to securely connect employees and guests across office complexes, warehouses, educational institutions and even stadiums, IT teams grapple with significant complexity in pursuing robust and ubiquitous wireless coverage. What exactly is enterprise-grade Wi-Fi?
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observiq

How to Ship AWS Cloudwatch Logs to Any Destination with OpenTelemetry

Jul 30, 2024 By Keith Schmitt In ObservIQ
Observability and log management are needed for a strong IT strategy. Two essential tools for these purposes are AWS CloudWatch and OpenTelemetry. AWS Cloudwatch provides real-time data and insights into AWS-powered applications' health, performance, and efficiency. On the other hand, OpenTelemetry is an open-source observability framework that assists developers in creating, gathering, and exporting telemetry data (such as traces, metrics, and logs) for analysis.
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logitio

Top Nagios Alternatives for Advanced Network Monitoring

Jul 30, 2024 By David Benson In Logit.io
Monitoring the health and performance of IT infrastructure is crucial for practically all organizations to ensure the reliability, availability, and efficiency of an organization's technology environment. By continuously tracking servers, network devices, applications, and services, organizations can promptly detect and address issues before they escalate into significant problems and impact customers.
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influxdata

The MING Stack: What It Is and How It Works

Jul 30, 2024 By Community In InfluxData
The Internet of Things (IoT) is rapidly reshaping the world. From smart devices in our homes to connected sensors in industrial settings, the amount of data generated is rapidly increasing. But what use is this data if we can’t collect and analyze it in real-time to gain key insights? This is where the MING stack (which includes Mosquitto/MQTT, InfluxDB, Node-RED, and Grafana) comes in. This powerful combination of open-source tools is intended to simplify IoT data management.
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nexthink

Staying on Top: Nexthink's Continuous Pursuit of Excellence

Jul 30, 2024 By Yassine Zaied In Nexthink
"It's tough to get out of bed to do roadwork at 5 am when you've been sleeping in silk pajamas." This quote from boxing champion Marvin Hagler, I feel, perfectly encapsulates the relentless drive needed to sustain excellence in any endeavor. It speaks to Hagler’s vigilance against complacency, an ethos that resonates deeply with us at Nexthink, especially as we celebrate our 20th anniversary and our ongoing status as a Leader in the Forrester Wave.
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ScienceLogic

Achieving Autonomic IT: Your Journey to Highly Efficient Operations and Elevated Business Performance

Jul 30, 2024 By ScienceLogic In ScienceLogic
In today’s fast-paced digital business landscape, IT service management teams face immense pressure to swiftly adapt to new technologies and meet stringent SLAs. To ensure optimal customer experiences and drive business growth, organizations need an approach that goes beyond current AIOps and semi-autonomous market offerings – they need Autonomic IT. Imagine a self-managing IT environment that monitors and optimizes technology investments as it runs.
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grafana

Understand your Kubernetes cost drivers and the best ways to rein in spending

Jul 30, 2024 By Jake Swiss In Grafana
In the previous blog post in this two-part series, we discussed the critical signals you need to monitor in your Kubernetes environment to ensure optimal resource provisioning. These signals include high CPU and memory utilization, frequent pod evictions, slow application performance, and other indicators that your resources are over- or under-provisioned. Monitoring these signals is essential for maintaining an efficient, cost-effective, and environmentally sustainable Kubernetes environment.
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martello

Microsoft Outage MO842351: Understanding Impact & Scope Saves You From Raising Unnecessary Alarm Bells

Jul 30, 2024 By Amanda Griebeler In Martello Technologies
Just ten days after the last major Microsoft 365 outage, Microsoft reported another incident at 8:48 am on July 30, 2024. The message on X was vague, offering limited details about the scope and impact of the problem. This left many IT teams preparing for what they anticipated would be another rocky day.
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This Month in Datadog: DASH 2024 recap, featuring LLM Observability, Log Workspaces, and more

Jul 30, 2024 By Datadog In Datadog
Datadog is constantly elevating the approach to cloud monitoring and security. This Month in Datadog updates you on our newest product features, announcements, resources, and events. To learn more about Datadog and start a free 14-day trial, visit Cloud Monitoring as a Service | Datadog. This month, we’re recapping our flagship conference, DASH.
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sentry

How to identify fetch waterfalls in React

Jul 30, 2024 By Lazar Nikolov In Sentry
Fetch Waterfalls are scenarios where multiple fetch requests are invoked in a sequential manner, not in parallel. This leads to some serious performance degradation. Here’s how they look: In this case, the second and third requests can be fetched in parallel, which will improve the page load and data display by 4.053 seconds. The negative performance impact with fetch waterfalls is also stacking - meaning the more requests there are, the worse the performance impact is going to be.
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exoprise

Is Azure Down?

Jul 29, 2024 By Stephen Killingsworth In Exoprise
As the reliance on cloud services like Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) and Azure Active Directory (AD) continues to soar, the need for robust monitoring tools has become critical. Ensuring optimal performance and availability of Azure services is vital for organizations shifting towards Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) for full-time or disaster recovery use.
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See Your Structured Logs in the Explore Data tab

Jul 29, 2024 By Honeycomb In Honeycomb
There's a new way to flip through your data in Honeycomb, released this week! It's super for looking at structured logs. It's called: Explore Data. Get directly at the logs, spans, events, or metrics that power the fast analysis you can do with Honeycomb. See all the fields, the whole variety of values — now ordered by timestamp, with pagination. Modify your query and graphs right from the data table. It's all connected!
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grafana

Monitor these Kubernetes signals to help rightsize your fleet

Jul 29, 2024 By Jake Swiss In Grafana
Organizations that run Kubernetes clusters in cloud native environments should do so in a way that’s both operationally efficient and cost effective. However, many organizations don’t prioritize cost optimization until it becomes a pressing need. This may be due to a directive from senior leadership, a significant scale-up or migration of Kubernetes clusters, or an unexpected surge in the cloud bill.
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honeycomb

Making Room for Some Lint

Jul 29, 2024 By Fred Hebert In Honeycomb
It’s one of my strongly held beliefs that errors are constructed, not discovered. However we frame an incident’s causes, contributing factors, and context ends up influencing the shape of the corrective items (if any) that get created. I’ll cover these ideas by using our June 3rd incident where a database migration caused a large outage by locking up a shared database and making it run out of connections.
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changetower

Creating query-optimized content for Google AI overviews - Tips

Jul 29, 2024 By ChangeTower In ChangeTower
After the blockbuster announcement of Chat-GPT in fall of 2022, the SEO and copywriting worlds were thrown into chaos. With AI able to generate blocks of mostly solid content (mostly) in seconds, what would this mean for the future of SEO – where for years copywriters have commanded triple digit hourly wages to generate content meant to game Google search results?
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turbo360

Enhancing User Experience with the In-App Wiki in Turbo360

Jul 29, 2024 By Praveena Jayanarayanan In Turbo360
In today’s digital age, providing users with quick and easy access to information is crucial. An in-app knowledge base can significantly enhance user experience by offering instant support and reducing the need for external help. It is for this reason that this knowledge base has been integrated within Turbo360 to enhance the user experience. Let’s dive into what an in-app knowledge base is, its benefits, and its impact on adding it to Turbo360.
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Cribl

Dynamic Application Security Testing at Cribl

Jul 29, 2024 By Curtis Fielding In Cribl
Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) is a type of security testing that actively exercises and inspects a web application for security vulnerabilities. A DAST scanner sends an assortment of payloads to the target application, typically through HTTP requests for web applications, then analyzes the responses and behavior to detect vulnerabilities. DAST is language and framework agnostic, allowing for security scans against any web application with careful configuration.
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site24x7

How to optimize performance across Amazon EC2 instances

Jul 29, 2024 By Ramji Y In Site24x7
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud ( EC2) instances provide robust compute resources, but getting the most out of them requires a two-pronged approach: optimizing cost s and optimizing performance. This blog dives deep into strategies to fine-tune your EC2 instances through AWS monitoring for peak performance without breaking the bank.
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statusgator

25 Best Incident Management Software and Communication Platforms 2024

Jul 29, 2024 By Colin Bartlett In StatusGator
In 2024, only 45% of companies have an incident response plan in place. If your organization is among the 55% without one, it’s crucial to change that. Service outages are inevitable. Cyberattacks and information security threats are more prevalent than ever. So having the right incident management software can be a game-changer for your organization, helping you respond swiftly and effectively when issues arise. The challenge, however, lies in selecting the right incident management solution.
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Install The Splunk Distribution of OTel Collector in K8s with Helm

Jul 29, 2024 By Splunk In Splunk
In this video, I’ll show you how to install the Splunk Distribution of the OTel Collector using a Helm Chart. We’ll walk through constructing the necessary Helm commands using the K8s Integration Wizard in Splunk Observability Cloud, and then deploy the collector to a cluster. We’ll then verify that the cluster and its services are being monitored in Observability Cloud’s Kubernetes Navigators, and then briefly walk through the values.yaml file of the Helm chart as well as the Otel Collector’s configuration.
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motadata

How to Integrate IT Asset Management With Service Desk?

Jul 29, 2024 By Arpit Sharma In Motadata
Integrating IT Asset Management (ITAM) with your service desk is crucial for streamlining business activities and optimizing resource utilization. The ITAM process encompasses the tracking, managing, and reporting hardware assets throughout their lifecycle, ensuring that data centers operate efficiently and cost-effectively. By aligning ITAM with your service desk, you create a unified system that enhances visibility and control over assets from procurement to retirement.
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site24x7

Navigating digital disruptions: Lessons from the Microsoft outage

Jul 28, 2024 By Sri Varalakshmi In Site24x7
The recent Microsoft-CrowdStrike outage serves as a stark reminder of the interconnectedness and fragility of our digital infrastructure. What began as a seemingly isolated issue with a software update rapidly escalated into a widespread disruption, affecting businesses across multiple sectors. The incident highlights the potential consequences of software errors, particularly those that impact core system components.
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uptrace

Elastic vs Splunk [Detailed Comparison 2024]

Jul 27, 2024 By Uptrace In Uptrace
Elasticsearch and Splunk are two leading solutions renowned for their capabilities in processing, analyzing, and visualizing large datasets in real-time. Both platforms have carved out significant roles in the fields of data analytics and log management, each offering unique features tailored to different needs. This article aims to provide a comprehensive comparison of Elasticsearch and Splunk, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses, and introducing Uptrace as a compelling alternative.
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Avantra

What's new in Avantra 24.2

Jul 26, 2024 By Oliver Rogers In Avantra
It's my pleasure to announce the release of Avantra 24.2. The second update of Avantra 24, building upon 24.1 which brought performance and customer requested bug fixes, 24.2 brings new innovations and enhancements to our Avantra platform. With over 300 changes in our development management system, Avantra 24.2 feels like a major release to us and we have something new everywhere you look. Let's dive deeper into the new features.
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Kubernetes Monitoring Demo: How to Lower Costs and Improve Fleet Efficiency | Grafana

Jul 26, 2024 By Grafana In Grafana
The Kubernetes Monitoring app in Grafana Cloud helps you visualize infrastructure costs across providers, identify unallocated and idle resources, and visualize and optimize Kubernetes resources. In this video, Vijay Tolani shows how to lower costs and improve fleet efficiency with the Kubernetes Monitoring app in Grafana Cloud.
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mezmo

Why Your Telemetry(Observability) Pipelines Need to be Responsive

Jul 26, 2024 By Mezmo In Mezmo
At Mezmo, we consider Understand, Optimize, and Respond, the three tenets that help control telemetry data and maximize the value derived from it. We have previously discussed data Understanding and Optimization in depth. This blog discusses the need for responsive pipelines and what it takes to design them.
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sysdig

Kubernetes 1.31 - What's new?

Jul 26, 2024 By Nigel Douglas In Sysdig
Kubernetes 1.31 brings a plethora of enhancements, including 37 line items tracked as ‘Graduating’ in this release. From these, 11 enhancements are graduating to stable, including the highly anticipated AppArmor support for Kubernetes, which includes the ability to specify an AppArmor profile for a container or pod in the API, and have that profile applied by the container runtime.
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opsramp

How Network Observability Helps Lay the Foundation of Autonomous IT Operations

Jul 26, 2024 By Manjunath M In OpsRamp
We often hear the term "observability" in the context of DevOps and how SREs use telemetry data. Collecting and analyzing this telemetry data is a vital first step to a successful autonomous IT operations strategy. Observability can help you find out about problems in your system you didn’t know you had—and before your users are impacted—by giving you new visibility that your monitoring systems don’t provide. But any observability initiative must also include network observability.
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datadog

Monitor Amazon MemoryDB with Datadog

Jul 26, 2024 By Aaron Kaplan In Datadog
Amazon MemoryDB for Redis is a highly durable in-memory database service that uses cross-availability-zone data storage and fast failover, providing microsecond read times and single-digit-millisecond write times. Datadog’s integration for MemoryDB uses a range of metrics to provide important visibility into MemoryDB performance.
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catchpoint

Going for gold: Testing the resilience of Olympic websites

Jul 26, 2024 By Eknath Reddy In Catchpoint
As the world gears up for the Paris Olympics, it’s not just athletes who need to be in peak condition. This Olympics comes hot on the heels of the largest IT outage in history. Recovery efforts from the CrowdStrike outage are still ongoing. Lessons will be learned, no doubt, but at least one takeaway is already evident: the modern web is an oh-so-fragile thing; neglect digital resilience at your peril.
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metricfire

Monitor Your ZFS Volume Manager With Telegraf

Jul 26, 2024 By Benjamin Pitts In MetricFire
ZFS (Zettabyte File System) is a file system and volume manager that has robust data integrity features and uses checksums for every block of data, ensuring that any data corruption is detected and corrected. Additionally, it offers advanced features such as pooled storage, efficient snapshots and cloning, built-in data compression, deduplication, and high scalability, making it ideal for large-scale and high-performance storage environments.
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metricfire

Top Metrics for CRM companies

Jul 26, 2024 By Lauren Barnes In MetricFire
CRMs are a valuable tool for businesses to organize their sales and customers. The benefits of having one include increased revenue, better visibility into accounts, automated tasks, and more. But, if your CRM needs to be fixed, it can create challenges for your business. CRM monitoring helps you fix problems before they become apparent. In this article, we’ll show you how to start with MetricFire.
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Apica

Apica Flow powered by OCI: A Modern Telemetry Pipeline Solution

Jul 26, 2024 By Zaigam In Apica
As we traverse through a trend of rapid data growth and increasing demand for comprehensive observability, managing and monitoring data pipelines has become more complex and costly. That’s why we’ve partnered with Oracle Cloud to bring you Apica Flow—a modern, cost-effective telemetry pipeline solution designed to help you manage your data efficiently and save costs.
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opsverse

Grafana Loki vs. ELK Stack for Logging: A Comprehensive Comparison

Jul 26, 2024 By Divyarthini Rajender In OpsVerse
With the increasing complexity of modern applications, log management solutions have become synonymous with troubleshooting, monitoring, and ensuring application reliability. Moreover, choosing the right tools can significantly impact your application’s performance, efficiency, and overall operational costs. Two powerful tools that often come up in these discussions are Grafana Loki and the ELK Stack (consisting of Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana).
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eventsentry

Can the EventSentry Agents cause the same outage & disruption like the CrowdStrike Falcon sensor did?

Jul 25, 2024 By ingmar.koecher In EventSentry
The faulty Rapid Response Content CrowdStrike update that disabled millions of Windows machines across the globe on 7/19/2024 was any IT professional’s nightmare. Having to manually visit and restore each affected machine (further complicated by BitLocker) severely limited the recovery speed, especially for businesses with remote locations, TVs, kiosks, etc.
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honeycomb

The CoPE and Other Teams, Part 1: Introduction & Auto-Instrumentation

Jul 25, 2024 By Nick Travaglini In Honeycomb
The CoPE is made to affect, meaning change, how things work. The disruption it produces is a feature, not a bug. That disruption pushes things away from a locally optimal, comfortable state that generates diminishing returns. It sets things on a course of exploration to find new terrains which may benefit it more—and for longer.
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percepio

Making The Case for Continuous Observability

Jul 25, 2024 By Percepio In Percepio
Software complexity grows exponentially, developer efficiency grows far slower. And debugging often takes up 20-50% of development time. More complex, connected systems means increased data flow at the edge, and in the cloud. That leads to increased exposure to vulnerabilities, cyber threats, malfunctions, and bugs with risks that are hard to assess.
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datadog

Quickly and comprehensively analyze the cloud and SaaS costs behind your services

Jul 25, 2024 By Aaron Kaplan In Datadog
Understanding costs is an essential part of service ownership. But in cloud-based applications, the cost of any given service often comes down to a wide range of dynamic factors. Individual services can incur fees from numerous dependencies, from data stores to observability solutions, and keeping track of these expenses can mean reckoning with the intricacies of many different billing models.
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datadog

Transform and enrich your logs with Datadog Observability Pipelines

Jul 25, 2024 By Candace Shamieh In Datadog
Today’s distributed IT infrastructure consists of many services, systems, and applications, each generating logs in different formats. These logs contain layers of important information used for data analytics, security monitoring, and application debugging. However, extracting valuable insights from raw logs is complex, requiring teams to first transform the logs into a well-known format for easier search and analysis.
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logz.io

WebAssembly: The Next Frontier in Cloud-Native Evolution

Jul 25, 2024 By Dotan Horovits In logz.io
Kubernetes has just reached its 10th anniversary, signifying the maturity of the containers movement. Now it’s time to explore the next frontier in cloud-native evolution: WebAssembly, a.k.a. WASM or Wasm. Moving beyond containers and Kubernetes, WASM bears the promise to revolutionize the cloud landscape with unparalleled performance, portability, and security.
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squared up

Deep dive into any tile - introducing our Data Explorer

Jul 25, 2024 By Dave Clarke In Squared Up
With the release of the Data Explorer, users can now dig into the data behind any tile and slice, dice and explore as needed. This is perfect for those ad-hoc ‘scratchpad’ style scenarios where you want to get some answers without creating yet another dashboard. A couple of weeks ago, we released an awesome new feature that we haven’t had a chance to showcase yet. It’s called The Data Explorer, and I think it’s pretty cool. Let’s dive in!
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grafana

How to authenticate with third-party APIs in your Grafana app plugin

Jul 25, 2024 By Tom Glenn In Grafana
Whether they’re for synthetic monitoring, large-language models, or some other use case, Grafana application plugins are a fantastic way to enhance your overall Grafana experience. Data for these custom experiences can come from a variety of sources, including nested data sources. However, they can also come from third-party APIs, which usually require authentication to access.
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icinga

The Icinga Notifications Beta is Here!

Jul 25, 2024 By Johannes Meyer In Icinga
This release has the version 0.1.0 and is available via our package repositories. Be sure to check the documentation on how to install it. So what is Icinga Notifications actually? It is not possible to explain every single detail now. We will eventually publish separate articles on our blog, which will go into more detail about topics this post only mentions briefly.
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eg innovations

9 Key Considerations for Monitoring Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) Workloads

Jul 25, 2024 By Rachel Berry In eG Innovations
The Azure Well-Architected Framework for Azure Virtual Desktop Workloads details certain key considerations that you should include when architecting the monitoring of your AVD workloads and deployments. These key considerations are: Whilst native tools are provided, to meet the criteria of the Azure Well-Architected Framework, significant configuration is needed to leverage Azure Monitor. Monitoring AVD requires you to configure at least one Log Analytics workspace.
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Kentik

Infrastructure Modernization Means a Multi-cloud Future

Jul 25, 2024 By Josh Mayfield In Kentik
Today, 84% of enterprises have reportedly embraced a multi-cloud strategy, lured in by the promise of improved agility, resilience, and innovation. But that multi-cloud adoption comes with challenges. Read on to learn more about how a multi-cloud strategy paired with observability can simplify that complexity.
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ScienceLogic

Reimagine What IT Can Be, Introducing Skylar AI

Jul 25, 2024 By Priyanka Kharat In ScienceLogic
Fragmented insights. Limited visibility. Unreliable solutions. For too long, traditional IT tools have not just failed – they’ve actively sabotaged both IT departments and businesses at large. These antiquated systems drain high-value engineering resources, crush frontline support teams, and turn problem resolution into an endless, futile struggle. In an age where AI reshapes entire industries overnight, clinging to these traditional IT approaches border on organizational malpractice.
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jaegertracing

Towards Jaeger v2 Moar OpenTelemetry!

Jul 25, 2024 By Yuri Shkuro In JaegerTracing
Jaeger, the popular open-source distributed tracing system, is getting a major upgrade with the upcoming release of Jaeger v2. This new version is a new architecture for Jaeger backend components that utilizes OpenTelemetry Collector framework as the base and extends it with Jaeger’s unique features. It promises to bring significant improvements and changes, making Jaeger more flexible, extensible, and even better aligned with the OpenTelemetry project.
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Add Type Checking and Linting to your Playwright Project

Jul 25, 2024 By Checkly In Checkly
In today's video, we're exploring the fact that Playwright doesn't type check your code when using TypeScript. We'll explore what this means and discuss why this could be an issue, especially for larger projects. Then we set up type checking and add "typescript-eslint" to strengthen and improve your Playwright code. Join us for this deep dive and leave any questions or comments below. Stay tuned for more Playwright tips!
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opsmatters

SEO Best Practices for Travel Booking Websites

Jul 25, 2024 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
In the bustling digital landscape of the travel booking industry, standing out isn't just about offering the best deals or most exotic destinations. It's about being found. This is where Search Engine Optimization (SEO) comes into play. SEO isn't merely a buzzword; it's the backbone of online visibility, driving organic traffic, and ultimately boosting bookings. For travel booking websites, mastering SEO can mean the difference between soaring success and obscurity.
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metricfire

How to use the Grafana Geomap and Worldmap Panels

Jul 24, 2024 By MetricFire Blogger In MetricFire
Grafana Geomap panels visualize geographical data on a map, making it easier to see spatial relationships and patterns. They are useful for monitoring metrics across different locations, such as server performance or application usage in various regions. The panels help identify regional issues quickly, allowing for faster troubleshooting and response times.
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atatus

Dynatrace vs New Relic - Which Tool To Choose?

Jul 24, 2024 By Pavithra Parthiban In Atatus
Dynatrace and New Relic are popular monitoring and observability tools for monitoring your applications and infrastructure. In this post I have compared both Dynatrace and New Relic based on important features like application performance monitoring, log management, and infrastructure monitoring. Even though both tools offer a lot of similar features, they have some key differences. We’ll explore these differences to help you choose the tool that best fits your needs. Let's get started.
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Get Your LGTM Stack and Observability Questions Answered at the Ask the Experts Booth | Grafana Labs

Jul 24, 2024 By Grafana In Grafana
The Ask the Experts booth at ObservabilityCON, GrafanaCON, and other Grafana Labs events are one of the biggest highlights for attendees. Richi Hartmann, from the Office of the CTO, talks about the Ask the Experts concept in depth. If you're heading to one of our events with an Ask the Experts booth, be sure to bring your technical questions. The Grafanistas who work on the LGTM Stack, solutions, and features are there to help.
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checkly

How to add Type Checking and Linting to your Playwright Project

Jul 24, 2024 By Stefan Judis In Checkly
If you bet on end-to-end testing or even synthetic monitoring, there’s a high chance that you use Microsoft's Playwright. And if you have Playwright in your toolchain, you probably adopted TypeScript, too. It's an easy choice because of its rock-solid auto-completion and type safety. With this setup, you can enjoy the beautiful DX (developer experience) and safely refactor your ever-growing code base without worrying about runtime exceptions because of TypeScript's type checking, right? Wrong!
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datadog

Why care about exception profiling in PHP?

Jul 24, 2024 By Florian Engelhardt In Datadog
A few months ago, we implemented support for exception profiling in PHP. One of the key justifications for building this functionality into Continuous Profiler was to show the hidden costs of exceptions in PHP, especially when they are used for flow control in hot code paths. Once this feature was built, we naturally wanted to know if it surfaced these kinds of flow control problems in customer production systems.
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datadog

Get granular LLM observability by instrumenting your LLM chains

Jul 24, 2024 By Tom Sobolik In Datadog
The proliferation of managed LLM services like OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock, and Anthropic have introduced a wealth of possibilities for generative AI applications. Application engineers are increasingly creating chain-based architectures and using prompt engineering techniques to build LLM applications for their specific use cases.
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Unveiling the Future: ScienceLogic's AI Vision

Jul 24, 2024 By ScienceLogic In ScienceLogic
Hear about our game-changing AI innovations! Join our exclusive keynote with our CEO, Dave Link and our Chief Product Officer, Mike Nappi, to: Explore our cutting-edge AI platform developments Discover how our breakthroughs outpace industry standards Learn how these AI advancements will transform your business Get a sneak peek into the AI technologies that will redefine productivity, creativity, and decision-making across industries.
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websitepulse

Website Availability Monitoring

Jul 24, 2024 By Simon Rodgers In WebSitePulse
Website availability refers to a website's ability to be accessible and functional for users at all times. It is typically measured by uptime percentage, which indicates the proportion of time a website is operational over a given period. High website availability ensures that users can consistently access the content, services, or products a website offers without interruptions.
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grafana

Grafana Labs bug bounty: What you need to know about our new partnership with Intigriti

Jul 24, 2024 By Kristian Bremberg In Grafana
Grafana Labs is happy to announce that we have partnered with Intigriti, a leading bug bounty platform, to expand our bug bounty program. This collaboration will enable us to work more effectively with security researchers from around the world in a scalable, sustainable way. Moving to a platform that handles initial triage will allow us to focus on valid reports and expand our scope, covering a wider range of Grafana Labs developed products and services.
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Deep Dive into Network Traffic with Flowmon Packet Investigator

Jul 24, 2024 By Flowmon In Flowmon
Network traffic analysis is crucial for maintaining the health and security of your network infrastructure. However, addressing challenging issues related to packet capture and analysis can be daunting, especially if you lack deep knowledge of network protocols. This webinar is designed to help you overcome these challenges with the powerful capabilities of Flowmon.
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site24x7

The role of IT monitoring in digital transformation for Australian SMEs

Jul 24, 2024 By Santhi Santhanakrishnan In Site24x7
The importance of visibility over the entire technology environment cannot be overstated. This ensures the health, performance, and security of the technology that organizations rely on to deliver digital services. Technology leaders in Australia’s SMEs understand and appreciate the strategic benefits of monitoring.
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super monitoring

15 Tools to Monitor and Improve Off-Site SEO

Jul 24, 2024 By Super Monitoring In Super Monitoring
Search engine optimization (SEO) is crucial for any website looking to rank well in search results. While on-site SEO focuses on optimizing your website’s content and structure, off-site SEO deals with factors outside your website that impact its search engine rankings. This article will explore various tools to help you monitor and improve your off-site SEO efforts.
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opsmatters

10 Features to Look for in a Fuel Management System for Your Fleet

Jul 24, 2024 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
With global fossil fuel prices set to continue rising well into the foreseeable future, vehicle fleet operations need to start looking into better ways to manage their fuel reserves. For most owners or managers, updating legacy systems to a modern fuel management system (FMS) with automation features can minimise fuel-related overheads with minimal capital required. More compellingly, a modern fuel management system can pay for itself within less than a year, making these products worth the investment for certain fleets.
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nice

Self-Built vs Third-Party Management Packs for Microsoft SCOM

Jul 23, 2024 By NiCE IT Mgmt In NiCE IT Mgmt
This whitepaper explores the comparative advantages and disadvantages of self-built versus third-party SCOM (System Center Operations Manager) management packs. It delves into the essential aspects of these solutions, including cost analysis, performance and efficiency, customization, and support. Additionally, it provides a decision-making framework to guide organizations in selecting the most suitable option for their specific needs. Real-world case studies illustrate the practical implications and benefits of each approach, offering a comprehensive understanding of how these solutions can be effectively implemented.
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whatsup gold

Wireless Troubleshooting Made Easy - How Monitoring Wi-Fi Helps

Jul 23, 2024 By Doug Barney In WhatsUp Gold
There is no question that wireless networks are taking over. Offices may still have Ethernet cables to each cubicle, but they usually go unused. Wi-Fi is the new LAN. So many devices, tablets, smartphones and even some laptop-type devices, are now wireless only. Today, Wi-Fi is often the primary way end users connect. “While a wired Ethernet connection is generally faster and more reliable, it forces users to be tethered to their desks.
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influxdata

Predictive Analytics Pipelines: Real-World AI, Predictive Maintenance, and Time Series Data

Jul 23, 2024 By Jason Myers In InfluxData
There’s so much talk about AI these days that it seems we quickly forget that AI isn’t a single type of technology. It’s a category, almost an umbrella term for a wide range of different technologies, applications, and approaches. The terms “Generative AI” and “Machine Learning AI” (often referred to as “Real-World AI”) describe two different branches that fall under the broader AI heading.
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coralogix

Introducing Mobile Real User Monitoring (RUM)

Jul 23, 2024 By Emma Lampert In Coralogix
Human attention spans are seemingly shorter than ever, and your mobile application users are, unfortunately, no exception. Over 70% of users abandon an app if it’s taking too long, with half of these users waiting no more than three seconds. Even minor delays or errors can lead to significant user drop-off, negatively impacting your app’s success and user satisfaction.
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grafana

How to set up Grafana Mimir using Ansible

Jul 23, 2024 By Gerard van Engelen In Grafana
Gerard van Engelen is a seasoned DevOps engineer who ensures the quality of products by drawing parallels between complex issues and simpler, everyday scenarios. This approach helps in delivering value, ensuring that products are not only built correctly but also offer the right functionalities. Ansible is popular with system administrators and DevOps professionals who use it for automating IT tasks such as configuration management, application deployment, and orchestration.
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ScienceLogic

Empowering Business Service Management: How Organizations Can Align IT with Business Objectives

Jul 23, 2024 By ScienceLogic In ScienceLogic
In the past, IT was viewed primarily as a facilitator for business operations, overseeing systems, software, and applications essential to technology-driven enterprises. However, a new strategic approach has emerged that has transformed how organizations manage their IT services.
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anodot

The Wait is Over. FOCUS 1.0 is Here, and Anodot is Here for it

Jul 23, 2024 By Elisha Ben-Zvi In Anodot
The FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS) 1.0 was officially launched on June 20, 2024, marking a revolutionary shift in Cloud Cost Management (CCM). Long awaited by MSPs and FinOps, this framework now aligns data sharing among vendors, FinOps tools, and users in a simple manner. It’s an exciting new era for shaking up business strategies in cloud cost analysis. But let’s take a step back and refocus on what FOCUS 1.0 is.
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anodot

All About the Benefits of Azure Hybrid Benefits - A Complete Beneficial Guide

Jul 23, 2024 By Perry Tapiero In Anodot
If your company is a big Azure spender, you should use Azure Hybrid Benefit. If not, you’re leaving money on the table. But how much money? If eligible, your company can save up to 40% on Azure Virtual Machines, up to 55% on Azure SQL databases, and, if you combine that with Azure Reserved Instances, you can even save up to 80%. Source: Azure Azure Hybrid Benefit is the perfect way to cut costs while migrating to the cloud.
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uptime

Using Private Locations with PhotonOS 5.0

Jul 23, 2024 By Lucas Lalonde In uptime
Uptime.com’s Private Location monitoring tools offer a powerful solution for keeping an eye on internal endpoints. Though these services and their importance aren’t visible to the public, internal teams and customers may still rely heavily on internal services in their day-to-day functions and downtime can disrupt operations just as much as public-facing incidents.
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honeycomb

Destroy on Friday: The Big Day A Chaos Engineering Experiment - Part 2

Jul 23, 2024 By Lex Neva In Honeycomb
In my last blog post, I explained why we decided to destroy one third of our infrastructure in production just to see what would happen. This is part two, where I go over the big day. How did our chaos engineering experiment go? Find out below!
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rapidspike

RapidSpike Awarded Innovate UK Smart Grant for AI Website Monitoring Platform

Jul 23, 2024 By Georgina Grant-Muller In RapidSpike
RapidSpike, an industry leader in Synthetic User Journey website monitoring, is proud to announce that it has been awarded the highly esteemed Innovate UK Smart grant. Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, has allocated up to £25 million to support groundbreaking innovations with exceptional potential for commercial success. RapidSpike’s plans for its AI website monitoring platform has been recognised as a responsible and standout project in this regard.
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Checkly Kick-Start: Writing your first site monitor

Jul 23, 2024 By Checkly In Checkly
Join Nočnica Mellifera for the Checkly Kick-start. You'll learn: How to get started and write your first page monitors — Anyone can monitor their site with Checkly, and you'll get a demonstration on getting started. Best Practices for monitoring — From monitoring as code workflows to alert configurations based on your SLA, learn how experienced professionals use synthetic monitoring. Advanced skills for automation — Ever wanted to check your site by comparing screenshots? Or create checks that simulate network slowdown? Learn how to simulate complex scenarios with Checkly and Playwright.
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flowmon

Experience Accelerated Search with IP Address Indexing in Flowmon 12.4

Jul 23, 2024 By Filip Cerny In Flowmon
Progress Flowmon 12.4 addresses the challenges in understanding the need for faster and more efficient data analysis. At Progress, our primary focus is to provide accurate and thorough network data insights to our customers. As our customers' networks grow, the volume of telemetry data expands exponentially. This growth, while beneficial, brings with it the challenge of increasingly longer search times through vast amounts of data.
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raygun

2.5X faster and 88% cheaper error resolution with GPT-4o mini and Raygun

Jul 22, 2024 By Reilly Oldham In Raygun
In May, GPT-4o was released, refining the GPT-4 architecture with native multi-modal input support, faster speeds, and a cheaper price per token. This week, with the release of GPT-4o mini, it’s even more cost-effective and quicker. This model is considered better than GPT-3.5 Turbo, being faster and smarter—a win all around. Let’s put it to the test in a real-world application to see just how good it is for software developers.
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obkio

What is Packet Reordering (Out-of-Order Packets) & How to Detect It

Jul 22, 2024 By Alyssa Lamberti In Obkio
Imagine a world where packets go on unexpected detours, performing an electrifying dance routine that challenges the order we hold dear. Sounds intriguing, doesn't it? In the realm of data transmission, order is king. But every now and then, our trusty packets decide to take a detour, throwing caution to the wind and leaving us scratching our heads. Fear not! Today, we embark on an exhilarating exploration to demystify the phenomenon of out-of-order packets, also known as packet reordering.
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grafana

How to set up an open source database monitoring stack with Grafana Cloud

Jul 22, 2024 By Colin Wood In Grafana
One of the great powers of Grafana is the open source community behind it — a community that provides a breadth of ready-to-use dashboards, plugins, exporters, and instructions that make a million tasks easier. The sheer scale of it all means whatever you need probably already exists somewhere. To illustrate this, I want to share an example of how to use these tools as a base for building a comprehensive database monitoring solution.
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grafana

How Mux cut metrics volume by 60%, increased retention times, and improved developer productivity with Grafana Cloud

Jul 22, 2024 By Trevor Jones In Grafana
Every time the platform engineering team at San Francisco-based startup Mux deploys new software, there are two must-have components: proper access controls and observability. But until recently, their observability stack left the team frustrated, reactive, and largely in maintenance mode.
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anodot

Azure Savings Plan - Complete Guide to Use & Optimize

Jul 22, 2024 By Perry Tapiero In Anodot
Table of Contents Toggle If your business has predictable compute workloads and wants to save on Azure spend, Azure Savings Plan might be an appealing solution. So long as you fully understand this plan’s offering and consistently use the same amount of resources every year, you can save significant amounts. Read on to discover the pros and cons of Azure Savings Plan and if this offering is a good fit for your company.
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site24x7

Status page examples

Jul 22, 2024 By Arun Madhavan In Site24x7
The visual presentation and aesthetics of a company's online presence are crucial in shaping the company's reputation and customer trust. One such vital aspect is the status page, which is often overlooked yet highly influential. By examining the best status page examples, we can see how a well-designed status page not only conveys reliability and professionalism but also builds users' confidence, reassuring them of the organization's dedication to maintaining transparency and excellence.
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lightrun

Streamlining Debugging with Lightrun Snapshots: A Superior Alternative to Trace Logging

Jul 22, 2024 By Tal Yitzhak In Lightrun
According to a recent study, failing tests alone cost the enterprise software market an astonishing $61 billion annually. This figure mirrors the vast number of resources devoted to rectifying software failures, translating into about 620 million developer hours lost each year. On average, engineers spend 13 hours to resolve a single software failure, a statistic that paints a stark picture of the current state of debugging efficiency.
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observiq

How to Build a Custom OpenTelemetry Collector

Jul 22, 2024 By Michelle Artreche In ObservIQ
Telemetry data collection and analysis are important for businesses. We're diving right in to explain the ins and outs of the OpenTelemetry Collector, including its core components, distribution selection, and customization tips for optimal data collection and integration. Whether you're new to OpenTelemetry or expanding your capabilities, this will help you effectively use the OpenTelemetry Collector in your observability strategy.
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Cribl

Securing the Foundation of Cribl Copilot

Jul 22, 2024 By Zach Rayburn In Cribl
Integrations are the bread and butter of building vendor-agnostic software here at Cribl. The more connections we provide, the more choice and control customers have over their unique data strategy. Securing these integrations has challenges, but a new class of integrations is creating new challenges and testing existing playbooks: large language models. In this blog, we are going to explore why these integrations matter, investigate an example integration, and build a strategy to secure it.
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HEAL Software

The Microsoft-CrowdStrike Outage: An In-Depth Analysis

Jul 22, 2024 By Raja Shekar Mulpuri In HEAL Software
On July 19, 2024, a significant outage impacted globally, causing widespread disruptions across various industries. This outage was primarily linked to a faulty update from CrowdStrike’s Falcon Sensor, which led to severe issues on Windows systems. CrowdStrike is a leading cybersecurity company that specializes in protecting businesses from online threats.
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incidenthub

Monitoring Third Party Vendors as an Ops Engineer/SRE

Jul 22, 2024 By Hrishikesh Barua In IncidentHub
Why should you monitor your third-party Cloud and SaaS vendors if you are in SRE/Ops? As part of an SRE team, your primary responsibility is ensuring the reliability of your applications. What makes you responsible for monitoring services that you don't even manage? Third-party services are just like yours - with SLAs. And outages happen, affecting you as well as many others who depend on them.
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exoprise

Microsoft 365 Outage, MO821132: Users may be unable to access various Microsoft 365 apps and services

Jul 20, 2024 By Simon Dion In Exoprise
Thursday evening, Microsoft 365 identified a global outage affecting users accessing various Microsoft 365 applications and services. Impacted users suffered from login issues, Azure hosted virtual machines not being available, and constant loading screens in Microsoft 365 services, just to name some of the issues.
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last9

Convert OpenTelemetry Traces to Metrics using SpanMetrics Connector

Jul 20, 2024 By Prathamesh Sonpatki In Last9
What if your have already implemented tracing but lacks robust metrics capabilities? Enter SpanConnector: a tool that bridges this gap by converting trace data into actionable metrics. This post details the workings of SpanConnector, providing a guide on its configuration and implementation.
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broadcom

Microsoft CrowdStrike Outage: Navigating the Top Three Risks of Cloud Dependence

Jul 19, 2024 By Jeremy Rossbach In Broadcom
Today, cloud computing has become the backbone of modern business operations. Companies across the globe rely on cloud services for computing, networking, storage, cybersecurity, and their day-to-day operations. However, the outage involving Microsoft and CrowdStrike has underscored vulnerabilities and risks associated with dependence on the cloud.
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nexthink

Nexthink Stops MS Outage From Hurting a Leading Consumer Goods Company

Jul 19, 2024 By Gaurang Ganatra In Nexthink
While individual blue screen errors are frustrating, the recent global system crashes caused by a CrowdStrike update incompatible with Microsoft Windows have wreaked havoc across entire industries since early Friday morning. Companies ranging from the airlines, media, and banking industries have been facing significant disruptions, with thousands of customer-facing devices experiencing blue screens and causing widespread travel delays and chaos.
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uptime robot

UptimeRobot Alerts Spike 5x Due to Microsoft/CrowdStrike Global Issues

Jul 19, 2024 By Tomas Koprusak In Uptime Robot
Given recent global events, UptimeRobot is experiencing an increased number of downtime notifications. We are currently sending out five times more notifications than usual due to a widespread power outage impacting several critical services worldwide. Here’s a brief overview of the situation and how it affects our monitoring services.
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stackstate

Understanding and Troubleshooting Out of Memory Error Code 137

Jul 19, 2024 By Dmitry Maximov In StackState
If you've encountered the dreaded "exit code 137" error message while working with Docker, Kubernetes, or other containerized environments, you're not alone. This error can be frustrating and difficult to troubleshoot, but understanding its causes and solutions can help you keep your applications running smoothly. This comprehensive guide will delve into the intricacies of error code 137, its common scenarios, and strategies to resolve it.
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martello

The IT Scramble is On with a Microsoft Outage: Incident MO821132 - July 18, 2024

Jul 19, 2024 By Sara Purdon In Martello Technologies
On July 18, 2024 at 6:38 pm ET, Vantage DX, Martello’s Microsoft 365 and Teams performance management solution, started to see indicators of a likely Microsoft outage impacting users’ ability to access various Microsoft 365 apps and services. Almost an hour later at 7:41 pm ET Microsoft issued a statement on X.
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uptime

Global Microsoft Outage and Preventing Future Vulnerabilities

Jul 19, 2024 By Mishal Alam In uptime
In a recent unexpected turn of events, a faulty component in the latest CrowdStrike Falcon update led to widespread outages, crashing Windows systems globally. The repercussions were felt across various sectors, including airports, TV stations, hospitals, and even emergency services in the U.S. and Canada. The glitch, affecting both Windows workstations and servers, resulted in massive outages, bringing entire companies to a standstill and crashing fleets of hundreds of thousands of computers.
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How OTel Empowers You to Handle Unified Data

Jul 19, 2024 By ObservIQ In ObservIQ
Discover the power of OpenTelemetry to consolidate your telemetry data. Our expert-led workshop demonstrates standardization techniques for metrics, logs, and traces. Delve into real-world applications, including capturing Prometheus metrics, managing logs with FluentD/Bit, and collecting traces with Jaeger.
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splunk

Chaos Testing Explained

Jul 19, 2024 By Shanika Wickramasinghe In Splunk
Chaos testing is a part of site reliability engineering (SRE). In chaos testing, we intentionally break things in and around a given application, in order to: The purpose of chaos testing is to assess how software systems respond to scenarios like network outages, hardware failures, database failures, and server or cluster node failures in the infrastructure.
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uptime

Learning Moment: Effective Customer Communication During Incidents - Enhance Visibility & Response with Uptime.com

Jul 19, 2024 By Jonathan Franconi In uptime
The recent global outage caused by an operating system update reminded me of how vulnerable we are today and most importantly, how close we are always teetering on global scale incidents with millions of interconnected dependencies. When the base of the house collapses, everything built on top is impacted. Those of us in IT Operations, Monitoring, Observability (insert the current acronym), etc., know firsthand this risk; we face it every day.
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Introduction to Ingesting Logs into Loki with Fluentd and Fluent Bit | Zero to Hero: Loki | Grafana

Jul 19, 2024 By Grafana In Grafana
Have you just discovered Grafana Loki and plan to use FluentD or Fluent Bit as your telemetry collector? Or are you trying to decide which agent is right for you? In this "Zero to Hero" episode, we cover the basics of FluentD and Fluent Bit, highlighting their differences and helping you determine when to use one over the other. Additionally, we guide you through configuring both agents' Loki plugins to write logs directly into Loki.
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Cribl's Blueprint for Secure Software Development.

Jul 19, 2024 By Cribl In Cribl
What does it take to build software for the most security-demanding customers worldwide? At Cribl, building secure products is integral to our engineering identity. We have established a secure software development lifecycle that is both culturally and policy-driven, integrating product security tooling and processes into every architecture review, pull request, and release, whether major or minor.
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ScienceLogic

ScienceLogic Introduces Skylar AI: The Suite of Advanced AI Capabilities Creating a New Industry Paradigm

Jul 18, 2024 By ScienceLogic In ScienceLogic
Company unveils new AI suite, empowering organizations to automate ITOps processes, enabling more accurate, data-driven decisions that cultivates exceptional customer experiences.
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fabrix

CloudFabrix "Splunkify" for Cisco-Splunk

Jul 18, 2024 By Shailesh Manjrekar In Fabrix
Splunk and CloudFabrix are both powerful tools in the realm of IT operations management, but they serve different primary functions, have different use cases and are complementary to each other. Splunk focuses on organizations requiring real-time visibility into IT operations with powerful search and analysis capabilities for large volumes of data, real-time monitoring and alerting for IT operations, log management, security incident response, Observability, and rich visualizations for AIOps.
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honeycomb

What Makes for a 'Good' Pair Programming Session?

Jul 18, 2024 By Ruthie Irvin In Honeycomb
Software changes so rapidly that developing on the cutting edge of it cannot fall to a single person. When it comes to asynchronously disseminating information about projects, code comments, PR conversations, Slack, RFCs, and other investigatory documents do a wonderful job, but no amount of async communication replaces the magic of two brains bouncing ideas off of each other.
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catchpoint

Improving Web Performance in China - with Chinafy and Catchpoint WebPageTest

Jul 18, 2024 By Chinafy In Catchpoint
This is a guest blog written by the Chinafy Team. Most people in the website space would have heard of the term Great Firewall of China. What those people won’t really know, though, is what that means. For context, most websites don’t work the same way in China that they do elsewhere. Due to the way the China internet is designed, most websites take a long time to load and fail to function properly.
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atatus

Datadog vs Sentry - key features, differences and alternatives

Jul 18, 2024 By Pavithra Parthiban In Atatus
Are you struggling to choose between Datadog and Sentry for your application monitoring needs? Datadog and Sentry are widely recognized for their roles in monitoring applications. Although they share some common features, they serve distinct purposes. Datadog excels in overseeing application performance and providing comprehensive system observability, while Sentry specializes in pinpointing and reporting application errors.
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sentry

Announcing Session Replay for Mobile - in Open Beta

Jul 18, 2024 By Angela Jiang In Sentry
Session Replay for iOS, Android, and React Native is now in open beta. If you already know what Session Replay is, amazing – click the link and update your SDK to start getting video-like reproductions of where your users are experiencing rage-inducing issues. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, even better. Let me tell you a story.
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nexthink

Application Experience - Next Level Application Management

Jul 18, 2024 By Dave Wagner In Nexthink
It is summer in the northern hemisphere and Nexthink has turned up the heat on all things Application Experience. This summer we have released a series of significant enhancements to Application Experience, making it the go-to choice of every IT team that wants to proactively manage and optimize their employees' experience using any application.
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Cribl

How to Cut Through the Chaos of Custom App Log Management

Jul 18, 2024 By Ankit Jain In Cribl
In modern IT environments, logging has become an integral part of application development and operations. Logs, metrics, and traces allow organizations to alert on events, monitor performance, and troubleshoot issues effectively. However, as applications scale and generate an increasing volume of logs year over year, managing them efficiently becomes a daunting task for engineering teams and budget makers.
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statusgator

Issue reports and early warning signals: Now in Beta

Jul 18, 2024 By Colin Bartlett In StatusGator
We are excited to announce a new enhancement to our platform that will further empower you to stay ahead of potential issues. You can now report an issue for services directly from your StatusGator admin dashboard. Help out other teams who might be experiencing downtime by reporting unpublished issues. These crowdsourced issue reports are one of the datapoints that power our new Early Warning Signal alerts.
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martello

The Ultimate Digital Employee Experience Management Guide

Jul 18, 2024 By kfitzgibbon In Martello Technologies
In 2024, the overall employee experience hinges, in large part, on the quality of their digital interactions. Digital Employee eXperience (DEX) encompasses all digital touchpoints between employees and their work environment and aims to enhance satisfaction, engagement, and productivity across any digital touchpoint.
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New: Explore Profiles Demo - A Queryless Experience to Manage and Analyze Profiling Data | Grafana

Jul 18, 2024 By Grafana In Grafana
In this video, Ryan Perry (Co-founder of Pyroscope and Engineering Director at Grafana Labs) demonstrates Explore Profiles, a Grafana app plugin that helps you quickly and easily derive insights from your profiling data — without having to use complex query languages. Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more. We also have plans for every use case.
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grafana

The new, queryless UI for Grafana Pyroscope: Introducing Explore Profiles

Jul 18, 2024 By Ryan Perry In Grafana
We are excited to share a significant update for Grafana Pyroscope users and the broader open source community: the launch of Explore Profiles, a new application that makes it easier and faster to surface meaningful insights from your profiling data. Explore Profiles is a Grafana app plugin designed to integrate seamlessly with Grafana Pyroscope, the open source continuous profiling backend, providing a smooth, queryless experience to browse and analyze your profiling data.
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grafana

A complete guide to LLM observability with OpenTelemetry and Grafana Cloud

Jul 18, 2024 By Ishan Jain In Grafana
In the fast-paced world of technology, change is constant — and nowhere is that more evident today than in the flood of new features and advancements involving large language models (LLMs). They power various applications, from chat bots to advanced copilots. And as these LLMs and applications become more sophisticated, it will be vital that they work well and reliably. This is where observability, with the help of OpenTelemetry (using OpenLIT), plays an essential role.
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broadcom

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Simplicity in IT Operations Strategy

Jul 18, 2024 By Duane Nielsen In Broadcom
A constant challenge in business is aligning stakeholders, customers, and employees behind a single mission. Carefully crafted plans often fail spectacularly as a result of complexity. Some of these efforts fail slowly; some even before execution begins. Especially when collaboration is important, simplicity can make challenging work innately more understandable, measurable, and engaging.
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opsramp

Unleashing the Power of Hybrid Cloud - Introducing Hybrid Observability in HPE GreenLake Flex Solutions

Jul 18, 2024 By Kiran Toutireddy In OpsRamp
In today's fast-paced digital economy, businesses are constantly seeking innovative solutions to streamline their operations, enhance agility, and drive growth. As enterprise IT infrastructure environments get more distributed and complicated to meet evolving demands, the need for robust IT monitoring, management and automation becomes even more important.
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Kentik Close-Up 03. Network Monitoring Systems and Kentik NMS

Jul 18, 2024 By Kentik In Kentik
Welcome to another exciting episode of Kentik Close-Up! In this episode, "Network Monitoring Systems and Kentik NMS," Leon Adato is joined by product experts Rosalind Whitley and Kendra Crossman to dive into the essentials of Network Monitoring Systems (NMS). Learn why network monitoring systems are crucial, what makes Kentik’s solution unique, and how it can revolutionize your approach to network monitoring. We also explore real-time demonstrations of Kentik NMS in action, showcasing its capabilities in handling streaming telemetry, metrics, and more.
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nexthink

How to Improve Operational Efficiency with COX Enterprises

Jul 18, 2024 By Ella Drimer In Nexthink
At Cox Enterprises, employee experience has a direct connection to productivity. Technology errors, hiccups, and poor performance aren’t just frustrating, they can cause employees to disengage from their top priority work, slowing down crucial business projects. These problems impact employee satisfaction, retention, and turnover, creating reputational and financial risks that can hinder long-term success.
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nexthink

Accelerating Strategic DEX Leadership

Jul 18, 2024 By Dave Wagner In Nexthink
Continuously building upon the industry-leading Nexthink DEX Score and Experience Central, we are pleased to announce an extensive set of new, high-value features to amplify Senior IT Leader’s ability to manage all aspects of their employees' digital experience proactively and strategically. Building upon the capabilities described in Strategic DEX Management earlier this summer, the following capabilities have been added.
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manageengine

Top GCP cost management tools in 2024

Jul 17, 2024 By CloudSpend In ManageEngine
Top GCP cost management tools in 2024 The cloud offers unparalleled scalability and agility, but keeping your Google Cloud Platform (GCP) bill under control is a challenge. Here’s where having a GCP cost management tool comes in—your secret weapon for optimizing your cloud spend and maximizing value.
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manageengine

Break the network barriers: OpManager, the award-winning choice for MSPs

Jul 17, 2024 By OpManager In ManageEngine
We are happy to announce that OpManager has been awarded with three prestigious awards under the MSP category. These awards stand as a true testament to the trust we’ve cultivated among our users, reflecting our unwavering commitment to delivering a solution that consistently meets and exceeds their expectations. OpManager’s ability to effectively address a wide range of IT challenges and provide users with a positive experience is a key factor in its success.
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manageengine

Break the network barriers: OpManager MSP, the award-winning solution

Jul 17, 2024 By OpManager MSP In ManageEngine
We are happy to announce that OpManager MSP has been awarded with three prestigious awards under the MSP category. These awards stand as a true testament to the trust we’ve cultivated among our users, reflecting our unwavering commitment to delivering a solution that consistently meets and exceeds their expectations. OpManager MSP’s ability to effectively address a wide range of IT challenges and provide users with a positive experience is a key factor in its success.
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Mastering the Mayhem: Trends and Tools for Network Management in 2024

Jul 17, 2024 By Kentik In Kentik
Host Leon Adato and networking experts Chris O'Brien, Rosalind Whitley, Doug Madori, and Charlcye Mitchell from Kentik discuss the latest trends and tools for network monitoring, management, and observability. Learn about the current challenges faced by network teams, the evolving landscape of multicloud environments, and the impact of AI and synthetic network traffic on network performance. Discover actionable strategies to enhance your network management efforts and stay ahead in 2024.
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influxdata

Unified Namespace and InfluxDB: Streamlining IIoT Operations for Industry 4

Jul 17, 2024 By Jason Myers In InfluxData
The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has revolutionized the way industries operate, enabling businesses to collect and analyze data from their operations in real-time. However, managing and analyzing data from diverse sources can be a challenge. While sensors and systems may use the same transport protocols, the shape and type of data generated can vary from one device to another. A lack of uniform, clean data creates challenges and obstacles when it comes to getting timely insights.
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martello

Firefight No More: Shift Your IT from Re-Active to Pro-Active

Jul 17, 2024 By kfitzgibbon In Martello Technologies
IT teams often find themselves in a constant state of emergency: dealing with issues as they arise. So few issues are reported when they happen that IT teams are left with no choice but to be reactive. This reactive approach is not only a drain on resources, it also hampers system improvements and reduces user satisfaction.
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sentry

Debugging slow pages caused by slow backends

Jul 17, 2024 By Joe Malatesta In Sentry
As a developer, what should your reaction be when someone says your website is slow to load? As long as you don’t say, “I just let my users deal with it”, you’re already on the right track. Since you’ve chosen to relieve some user suffering, I’m here to help guide you through the process of identifying and fixing those slow loads and performance issues.
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logz.io

Logz.io Earns G2 Badges for Easiest to Use and Easiest Setup - AGAIN!

Jul 17, 2024 By Jake O'Donnell In logz.io
There’s no question that achieving end-to-end observability is among the most challenging tasks facing engineering and ops teams today. A quick look back at the 2024 Observability Pulse survey throws this conclusion into stark relief as: Logz.io is committed to making observability smarter, faster, and easier — from data ingestion, to troubleshooting, to managing costs.
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grafana

Get insights from logs without writing a query: Explore Logs is in Public Preview

Jul 17, 2024 By Steven Dungan In Grafana
Whether it’s 3 in the morning and you’re trying to resolve an outage, or you’re testing a new feature and you need to resolve a recurring issue so you can move on to your next task: time is of the essence. Wouldn’t it be great if your observability tooling could direct you to your “aha” moment, without you needing to fumble with writing a query?
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site24x7

Top IT challenges Australian SMEs must tackle for better operational efficiency

Jul 17, 2024 By Santhi Santhanakrishnan In Site24x7
As digital intensity rises in Australian SMEs, technology teams face significant challenges. The complexity of expanding technology architectures, the proliferation of applications, and reliance on diverse cloud environments exponentially increases the demand for IT support and operations.
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icinga

Icinga for Windows without an Icinga 2 agent

Jul 17, 2024 By Alexander Klimov In Icinga
I’ve already dropped a hint at this topic in a previous post of mine which reflected the history of Icinga on Windows: And this time I’m going to prove this concept, since both required components have been released by now: Icinga 2.14 and IfW 1.11. Precisely speaking, an existing Icinga master will run checks remotely on Windows, directly via the IfW REST API – without an intermediate agent.
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mezmo

How Data Profiling Can Reduce Burnout

Jul 17, 2024 By Mezmo In Mezmo
One of the most common sentiments across the industry, let alone this world, is burnout. Burnout is prevalent, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates it costs the global economy $1 trillion dollars a year. A Gallup poll equated that to $3,400 lost for every $10,000 of salary due to lack of productivity. This problem isn’t ending anytime soon either, with the global Cybersecurity industry alone having a talent shortage of 4 Million people.
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Explore Logs - A new queryless experience for Loki | Grafana

Jul 17, 2024 By Grafana In Grafana
Mat Ryer takes you through the new way to explore your logs using a queryless, click-based user experience for Grafana Loki. Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more. We also have plans for every use case.
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VictoriaMetrics

VictoriaMetrics Anomaly Detection: What's New in H1 2024?

Jul 17, 2024 By Fred Navruzov In VictoriaMetrics
With this blog post, we are excited to introduce a quarterly “What’s New” series to inform a broader audience about the latest features and improvements made to VictoriaMetrics Anomaly Detection (or simply vmanomaly). This first post will cover both Q1 and Q2 of 2024. Stay tuned for the next content on anomaly detection.
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squared up

How to visualize Azure Resource Graph data with KQL

Jul 17, 2024 By Bruce Cullen In Squared Up
Using SquaredUp, you can query Azure Resource Graph with KQL to pull Change history, Azure Service Health and maintenance schedules. For the uninitiated, Azure Resource Graph is a series of tables holding information on Azure resources and how they are related. Its data is used many places within Azure itself (such as the Azure Portal’s native search) and it’s data can help us with many use cases as it is designed to help with queries at scale.
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uptime

Bypassing CDNs to Avoid Cache Monitoring Issues

Jul 17, 2024 By Lucas Lalonde In uptime
Availability monitoring and alerting is a vital part of any organization’s reliability strategy. Monitoring the current and most recent version of a webpage is essential to guarantee that visitors are seeing the most up-to-date content and information, and by the same token, that the monitoring solution is checking the most up-to-date version of a page. This is where browser caching in the context of CDNs (content delivery networks) can occasionally cause monitoring headaches.
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manageengine

Applications Manager extends its monitoring support to 11 more Azure services

Jul 16, 2024 By Applications Manager In ManageEngine
We believe in expanding our arsenal to accommodate your evolving needs. That’s why we are thrilled to announce that Applications Manager now provides wider performance monitoring support for Azure! The latest version of ManageEngine Applications Manager extends its monitoring support to 11 additional Azure services, empowering you to gain deeper insights into the health and performance of your entire cloud environment. Let’s take a look at the newly supported services.
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honeycomb

Deploy on Friday? How About Destroy on Friday! A Chaos Engineering Experiment - Part 1

Jul 16, 2024 By Lex Neva In Honeycomb
We recently took a daring step to test and improve the reliability of the Honeycomb service: we abruptly destroyed one third of the infrastructure in our production environment using AWS’s Fault Injection Service. You might be wondering why the heck we did something so drastic. In this post, we’ll go over why we did it and how we made sure that it wouldn’t impact our service.
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catchpoint

Enhancing Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM) with WebPageTest in Catchpoint

Jul 16, 2024 By Piril Kavlak In Catchpoint
WebPageTest has long been the trusted choice for performance experts and top online retailers worldwide to enhance website speed, SEO rankings, user experience, and conversion rates. It provides in-depth diagnostic information on a page's performance, offering actionable insights to measure performance across all major browsers, device types, and network conditions.
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Cribl

Cribl's Blueprint for Secure Software Development

Jul 16, 2024 By Rory McEntee In Cribl
Cribl is a customer first company. Building high value, secure-by-design software for security and IT teams has been by far the most gratifying experience of my professional career. As a security professional that deeply believes in Cribl’s product and mission, I share the excitement of changing forever how our customers operate and enabling them to protect their organizations; working at Cribl has been my greatest calling.
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How Speedscale's Traffic Viewer Complements Your Production Monitoring System

Jul 16, 2024 By Speedscale In Speedscale
Speedscale's Traffic Viewer is the perfect complement to your production monitoring or observability system because it provides detailed information (like request and response payloads, headers, cookies, and more) that actually helps developers debug any issues and requires zero developer intervention--all of the data is provided from traffic.
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grafana

Grafana Cloud updates: Kubernetes Monitoring enhancements, browser tests in Grafana Cloud k6, and more

Jul 16, 2024 By Kristin Knapp In Grafana
We consistently roll out helpful updates and fun features in Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform powered by the open source Grafana LGTM Stack (Loki for logs, Grafana for visualization, Tempo for traces, and Mimir for metrics). In case you missed it, here’s a roundup of the latest and greatest updates for Grafana Cloud this month. You can also read about all the features we add to Grafana Cloud in our What’s New in Grafana Cloud documentation.
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broadcom

Embark on the Observability Journey

Jul 16, 2024 By Srikant Noorani In Broadcom
With the advent of byte code instrumentation (BCI) in 2008, application performance management took a giant leap in what is known as "inside-out monitoring," that is, monitoring from inside the application. Before that, application monitoring was largely limited to tracking CPU, memory, disk, and process availability. BCI offered new opportunities in terms of how applications could be monitored and what could be monitored from an application performance perspective.
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checkly

Observability as Code Explained: Benefits & How to Get Started

Jul 16, 2024 By Sara Miteva In Checkly
Traditional monitoring has become insufficient for managing complex systems. Modern infrastructures consist of numerous interconnected services, and simply monitoring individual metrics and logs fails to provide a comprehensive view. This is where observability becomes crucial.
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ScienceLogic

3 Ways AIOps Addresses Key Barriers to Streamlined Government IT Operations

Jul 16, 2024 By Sr. Director In ScienceLogic
IT modernization is imperative to an agile, productive, citizen-centric, and cost-efficient government. It’s also codified as a key objective of many mandates and guidelines. But as mission-critical as IT modernization initiatives are, they are also fraught with risk and operational challenges, including: To overcome these barriers to streamlined IT operations, government leaders should rely on artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps).
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anodot

Why Harnessing Hourly Granularity Can Optimize Cloud Savings

Jul 16, 2024 By Perry Tapiero In Anodot
If you’re working in the cloud, you’re part of a rapidly growing industry. Global spending on public cloud services is set to double, reaching $482 billion in 2024, up from $243 billion in 2019, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 16.5% What’s the takeaway? With organizations increasingly depending on cloud services, managing costs effectively is a must. Otherwise, the expenses will pile up, and money will flow down.
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Mezmo Edge Explainer Video

Jul 16, 2024 By Mezmo In Mezmo
Ensuring access to the right telemetry data - like logs, metrics, events, and traces from all applications and infrastructure are challenging in our distributed world. Teams struggle with various data management issues, such as security concerns, data egress costs, and compliance regulations to keep specific data within the enterprise. Mezmo Edge is a distributed telemetry pipeline that processes data securely in your environment based on your observability needs.
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Behind the code: A discussion with backend experts

Jul 16, 2024 By Sentry In Sentry
Join us for a discussion with contributors, founders and CEOs of organizations like Laravel, Node.js, Prisma, and Supabase. Join us as these experts chat through the latest trends, technologies, and what’s next for backend development. Hear how they navigate challenges, listen to their community, and leverage cutting-edge tools to innovate fast.
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datadog

Integration roundup: Monitoring the health and performance of your container-native CI/CD pipelines

Jul 16, 2024 By Nicholas Thomson In Datadog
Widespread adoption of containerized infrastructure has been closely followed by an explosion of container-native tools for each layer of the stack, including new solutions for managing CI/CD pipelines in container-based environments, such as the Argo suite, FluxCD, and Tekton. This is because these lightweight solutions make it easier to automate builds, testing, deployments, and more on Kubernetes, as well as other platforms that manage containerized workloads and services.
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sumologic

Why AI solutions aren't moving to market as quickly as imagined

Jul 16, 2024 By Joe Kim In Sumo Logic
With all the buzz around ChatGPT and the rapid mainstreaming of generative AI, 2024 was predicted to be the year of AI. While the market certainly talks a lot about AI this year, we’ve yet to see much of it in production environments. Events are a great chance for tech companies to showcase or announce new innovations to the market.
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Control the Chaos: The Rise of Network Observability

Jul 16, 2024 By Kentik In Kentik
Join Kentik's Greg Villain and Steve Meuse and discover how network observability empowers network operators to face the challenges of an ever-changing economy and focus on cost, performance, and reliability. Learn about network observability tools and methods, simplifying complex hybrid network data, the infrastructure decision framework, and how AI is powering the future of network monitoring.
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Optimizing Database Performance with Honeycomb Relational Fields

Jul 16, 2024 By Honeycomb In Honeycomb
Martin investigates: what database queries are taking the longest? Then he digs into the one taking the most time, and asks: What user-initiated requests trigger this query? This kind of question helps developers focus our efforts where they count. And it's possible in Honeycomb with Relational Fields. This is #observability during development, using #OpenTelemetry #tracing and Honeycomb.
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SQUPCAST Ep. 8: Relayed from behind enemy lines

Jul 16, 2024 By Squared Up In Squared Up
In this episode we're chatting with Matthew Long from our engineering team about how our Relay Agent get's behind enemy lines to surface all your juicy on-prem enterprise data into our fancy cloud dashboards. We'll cover the classic server deployment and chat about some container-based options too.
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checkly

An in-depth guide to monitoring Next.js apps with OpenTelemetry

Jul 15, 2024 By Tim Nolet In Checkly
This guide goes into the fundamentals, practical applications and tips & tricks of using OpenTelemetry (OTel) to monitor your Next.js application. OpenTelemetry is gaining (a lot) of momentum outside of its historical niche of distributed, micro services based application stacks. But, as it turns out you can just as well use it for more traditional, three tiered, web applications and it comes with a host of benefits.
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grafana

Performance testing with Grafana k6 and GitHub Actions

Jul 15, 2024 By Grafana Labs Team In Grafana
By running performance tests continuously and automatically, you can identify and correct performance regressions as they occur. One way to do this is by integrating performance testing into your development process. In this step-by-step post, we explore how to do just that, using Grafana k6 and GitHub Actions. k6 is an open source load testing tool to test the performance of APIs, microservices, and websites.
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broadcom

Establishing End-to-End Visibility in SD-WAN Environments with DX NetOps

Jul 15, 2024 By Jason Normandin In Broadcom
The move to software-defined wide area networks (SD-WAN) is happening rapidly, and on a large scale. However, many network operations teams are struggling to contend with the monitoring implications of these technologies. In this post, I’ll outline the visibility gaps posed by SD-WAN, and I’ll detail how DX NetOps by Broadcom addresses these gaps.
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Cribl

Calling All MSSP's and MDR's! Cribl.Cloud is Here for You!

Jul 15, 2024 By Brad Quandt In Cribl
Being a Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) or delivering a Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service is hard. You’re doing the jobs that are so hard that large swaths of organizations turn to you to handle those complex jobs for them. MSSP/MDR tech stacks are dynamic and highly customized, allowing for competitive offerings at competitive prices.
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lightrun

Lightrun Product Updates : H1 2024

Jul 15, 2024 By Eran Kinsbruner In Lightrun
Throughout the first half of 2024, Lightrun has focused on developing a range of solutions and improvements aimed at enhancing developer observability and live debugging. These advancements help organizations significantly reduce their MTTR for complex issues while boosting developer productivity. Read more below the main new features as well as the key product enhancements that were released in H1 of 2024!
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uptrace

Top 10 Best Monitoring Tools for IT Infrastructure in 2024

Jul 15, 2024 By Uptrace In Uptrace
Efficient monitoring tools are crucial for maintaining the performance, security, and reliability of your infrastructure. This comprehensive guide covers the top 10 best monitoring tools for IT infrastructure, offering insights into their features, benefits, and use cases. We'll also provide a monitoring tools list and examples to help you choose the best solutions for your needs.
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honeycomb

Confidently Shifting from Logs-centric to a Unified Trace-first Approach: Ritchie Bros. Journey to Modern Observability

Jul 15, 2024 By Rox Williams In Honeycomb
Transitioning from a monolithic system to a cloud-native microservices environment, Ritchie Bros. sought to modernize their observability infrastructure to support the transition and fuel future growth. Ritchie Bros. has been a pioneering force in the auctioneering market for nearly 70 years, charting remarkable growth through a strategic mix of organic expansion and acquisitions.
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solarwinds

Observability Dilemma: To SaaS or Not to SaaS? That is the Question!

Jul 15, 2024 By Eoin Keenan In SolarWinds
In the ever-evolving IT landscape, the Observability Dilemma casts a strategic shadow: To SaaS or not to SaaS, a question being dealt with by many IT professionals today. As organizations grapple with the complexities of maintaining system health and performance, navigating change while staying secure, choosing between the allure of cloud-based services and the on-premises sanctuary becomes pivotal.
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solarwinds

How to Send Python Logs to Loggly

Jul 15, 2024 By Loggly Team In SolarWinds
Logging in a Python application is straightforward. When you have good logs, you have better visibility into application health. You can monitor performance and track user activity. You’re better equipped to debug errors. Life is good. The challenges come when your application grows more complex. Perhaps your Python code is part of a broader application, or you have services distributed across multiple machines or clouds.
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Long-Term IT Security Strategies

Jul 15, 2024 By SolarWinds In SolarWinds
Watch the full session at: slrwnds.com/TC24 Playing 4D Chess: The Modern IT Story Knight to E-4. Security professionals consistently make moves to fend off attackers. Unlike chess, it takes a team effort to keep up against modern cybersecurity threats and implement changes company-wide. Two pros take you through a day in the life of the security team. Hear practical use cases to help you and your organization improve your security stance. Check and mate.
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Release Notes Aggregator

Jul 15, 2024 By SolarWinds In SolarWinds
Join Chrystal Taylor from SolarWinds as she introduces a game-changing tool for your upgrade planning—the Release Notes Aggregator! Discover how this handy feature can help you keep track of all the new features and fixes since your last upgrade, making your upgrade process smoother and more informed. What's Inside: Introduction to the Release Notes Aggregator Step-by-step guide on how to use the tool.
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obkio

What is Network Visualization & How Network Monitoring Facilitates It

Jul 15, 2024 By Andrii Kernitskyi In Obkio
Tired of endless data and complex graphs? Learn what network visualization is and how network monitoring helps you achieve it to visualize your network. Networks are the backbone of business operations, connecting everything from data centers and office branches to cloud services and remote workers. As these networks grow increasingly complex, managing, maintaining and understanding the various flows of traffic in larger networks becomes a significant challenge for many companies.
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selector

Selector AI Presents at Networking Field Day 35

Jul 15, 2024 By Chelsea Rio In Selector
Selector returned to Networking Field Day this year to present our latest developments in network AIOps. Cofounder and CTO Nitin Kumar, along with VP Solutions Engineering Debashis Mohanty and Principal Solution Architect John Heintz, explored how Selector’s GenAI-driven conversational interface promises to not only address today’s network operations challenges, but transform the industry. Read on to catch the highlights of the live-streamed presentation which occurred on July 11, 2024.
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API monitoring with Traefik, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry (Grafana Office Hours #28)

Jul 13, 2024 By Grafana In Grafana
Maytham Alfouadi (Solutions Architect) and Immánuel Fodor (Product Manager) from Traefik Labs give us a demonstration of how to do API monitoring with Traefik, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry. They talk about Traefik, an open-source reverse proxy, among other things, that is now included by default in k3s and Rancher. They are joined by Usman Ahmad and Nicole van der Hoeven, both Senior Developer Advocates at Grafana Labs.
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stackify

Application Tracing: What It Is and How to Do It

Jul 12, 2024 By Stackify In Stackify
In today’s complex software environments, ensuring that applications run smoothly and efficiently is more critical than ever. One of the key practices that developers and IT operations and DevOps professionals use to maintain the health and performance of their systems is application tracing. This blog post delves into application tracing, how it works, different types, and effective implementation.
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martello

How to Get Ahead of Microsoft Teams Issues

Jul 12, 2024 By kfitzgibbon In Martello Technologies
The old saying that “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” has never been truer for IT teams. Many analysts say proactive IT management is long overdue, and in domains such as cybersecurity and e-commerce, the push is on to detect and stop potential issues early instead of troubleshooting after the fact. So why are so many IT groups stuck in reactive mode when it comes to managing business-critical communication and collaboration applications like Microsoft Teams?
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datadog

Reduce alert storms in your microservices architecture with easily scalable techniques

Jul 12, 2024 By Candace Shamieh In Datadog
Alert storms occur when your monitoring platform generates excessive alerts simultaneously or in succession. Although numerous factors can cause an alert storm, microservices architectures are uniquely susceptible to them due to multiple service dependencies, potential failure points, and upstream and downstream service relationships.
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stackstate

Mastering kubectl Scale Deployment: A Comprehensive Guide for Developers

Jul 12, 2024 By Dmitry Maximov In StackState
Kubernetes has revolutionized how developers deploy, manage, and scale their applications. One of its key features is the ability to scale deployments seamlessly. This article explores various aspects of using the kubectl scale deployment command, including how to scale deployments up and down, scale all deployments in a namespace, managing replica sets, and more.
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SolarWinds Platform 2024 2 Update

Jul 12, 2024 By SolarWinds In SolarWinds
In this video, join Sasha as we dive into the seamless update process from version 2024.1 to 2024.2. Whether you're a tech newbie or a seasoned IT pro, see how easy and efficient it is to perform online updates without the hassle of visiting the server room! Key Highlights: Step-by-step walkthrough of the update process Tips for handling lab environments vs. production systems Essential security recommendations you need to know.
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Web Performance Monitoring Recorder Migration

Jul 12, 2024 By SolarWinds In SolarWinds
Upgrade Your Web Performance Monitoring with SolarWinds 2024.2! Join Crystal Taylor, SolarWinds evangelist, as she shares exciting news about the latest enhancements in web performance monitoring! If you've been using our WPM transaction recorder, it's time to embrace the future with our updated Chromium-based recorder. What's Inside: Overview of the transition from Internet Explorer to Chromium.
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metricfire

Supply Chain Monitoring with MetricFire

Jul 12, 2024 By Lauren Barnes In MetricFire
Business monitoring is a necessary process, no matter what. It is crucial in supply chain management, too. Monitoring your supply chain can ensure fresh products, speedy deliveries, and sustainable production. This article will explore supply chain monitoring, critical metrics for various supply chain use cases, and how to monitor your supply chain with MetricFire.
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Real World Software Development: Finding, Reproducing, and Fixing Bugs

Jul 12, 2024 By InfluxData In InfluxData
Veteran developers and staff engineers at InfluxData, Nga Tran and Andrew Lamb, have an honest conversation about dealing with software bugs. Bugs can be frustrating, but they can also be thrilling. They are a sign that people are actually using your software - and that's a good thing! Andrew and Nga talk through a recent bug their team encountered, how they approached resolving the issue, and what considerations go into building a permanent fix.
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motadata

What is Network Automation? A Complete Guide

Jul 12, 2024 By Arpit Sharma In Motadata
Network automation has now become mandatory for the current IT environment in cases related to formulating a deep IT base or scheduled maintenance tasks. This becomes apparent as the various networks become more complex and extensive; the IT systems’ overall management and setup cannot occur manually. The solution is attained through network automation that automates numerous network application services including configuration, provisioning, monitoring, and diagnosing.
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Future-proofing IT: Navigate tomorrow's challenges with full-stack observability ft. Aswim Panigrahi

Jul 12, 2024 By ManageEngine In ManageEngine
In this episode of Server Room, we sit down with Aswim Panigrahi, technical evangelist at ManageEngine, to discuss the the strategic utilization of full-stack visibility as a proactive approach to preparing IT infrastructures for the future.
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metricfire

Monitor Your Active SystemD Services Using Telegraf

Jul 12, 2024 By Benjamin Pitts In MetricFire
Monitoring the state of your services and running processes is crucial for ensuring system reliability and early detection of issues, allowing for timely interventions to prevent downtime. It also helps maintain optimal performance by identifying and resolving inefficiencies or errors in the system's operations. In this article, we'll detail how to use the Telegraf agent to collect systemd service statistics, and forward them to a data source.
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Rewriting InfluxDB: Perspectives From InfluxData's Staff Engineers

Jul 12, 2024 By InfluxData In InfluxData
Veteran developers and staff engineers at InfluxData, Nga Tran and Andrew Lamb, discuss what it was like to rewrite InfluxDB for version 3.0. Several factors prevent companies, especially startups, from rewriting their products. But what does the process look like once a company embarks on a rewrite? And how do they balance innovation with user feedback?
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coroot

Discover what your applications are really up to with Coroot

Jul 12, 2024 By Peter Zaitsev In Coroot
Modern Applications can use a lot of external services, some of those interactions are expected, others not so much. There could be many reasons for those unexpected interactions, ranging from security vulnerabilities and various malware to outdated code and various reporting and statistics software may report to its creator or a third party. These unexpected interactions can be a security risk, and may also raise privacy concerns.
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coroot

Instrumenting Python GIL with eBPF

Jul 12, 2024 By Nikolay Sivko In Coroot
Every Python developer has heard about the GIL (Global Interpreter Lock) This lock simplifies memory management and ensures thread safety, but it also limits the performance of multi-threaded, CPU-bound programs because threads can’t run Python code in parallel. Here is a great explanation of why Python requires the GIL by Python’s creator, Guido van Rossum: Guido van Rossum: Will Python ever remove the GIL? | Lex Fridman Podcast Clips.
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catchpoint

Catchpoint Launches Free Live Internet Outage Map to Deliver Real-Time Global Internet Health Insights for All

Jul 11, 2024 By Catchpoint In Catchpoint
Catchpoint announces the launch of a powerful, free live Global Internet Outage Map. The AI-powered dashboard provides a real-time snapshot of the health of hundreds of global internet services that power our everyday lives.
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exoprise

Microsoft 365 and Azure Network Service Front Doors

Jul 11, 2024 By Jason Lieblich In Exoprise
As businesses increasingly rely on Microsoft SaaS and Azure-based applications to support their distributed workforce, ensuring optimal performance and user experience becomes crucial. With complex corporate network architectures like SDWAN, Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), or Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB), and a reliance on Microsoft’s vast network architecture, monitoring and troubleshooting performance issues can be challenging.
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auvik

SaaS Management: An In-Depth Guide for IT Teams

Jul 11, 2024 By John Harden In Auvik
SaaS management platforms are helping IT solve a new version of an old problem: user behavior and software application visibility. With endpoint solutions like remote monitoring and management (RMM) agents, MSPs and IT teams have had deep visibility into desktop applications for years. But, once a user opens a browser and logs into a SaaS app, it’s a different story. Apps and user accounts are often manually tracked via spreadsheets, and shadow IT is common.
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Inside Look: How Sentry debugs with Sentry

Jul 11, 2024 By Sentry In Sentry
Join Sentry engineer Yagiz Nizipli as he shares how he uses Sentry to fix Sentry. In this session, he’ll demo how he identified and optimized critical pipeline tasks, saving $160,000 per year. The improvements he made, including caching, improving traffic distribution, and enabling background threads Throughout the workshop, Yagiz will also share tips and best practices for using Tracing to uncover performance bottlenecks and drive continuous improvement across our own services.
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pandora fms

Cisco Meraki Monitoring with Pandora FMS

Jul 11, 2024 By Rocío Cerón In Pandora FMS
In a business world increasingly oriented towards efficiency and mobility, network management becomes a critical factor for success. Cisco Meraki stands as an undisputed leader thanks to its ability to offer a fully cloud-based technology, allowing companies of any size to manage their network devices remotely and centrally.
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grafana

Observing exchange rates: How to keep tabs on currencies during the summer travel season

Jul 11, 2024 By Daniel Fitzgerald In Grafana
It’s summertime in the Northern Hemisphere, and for many people that means it’s also travel season. But before you depart for your dream holiday, don’t forget the essentials: passport, suitcase, and … Grafana? That’s right. If you’re headed to a different country, odds are you’ll use a different currency when you get there. And you can use Grafana to track changes in the exchange rates so you can get the most bang for your buck.
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whatsup gold

12 Things to Know About Monitoring Virtual IT Assets

Jul 11, 2024 By Doug Barney In WhatsUp Gold
Virtualization is everywhere. We think of virtualization as beginning with PC-based servers then moving onto Linux boxes. But the origins are very different, going all the way back to 1968, when IBM invented virtualization with the release of the IBM System/360 Model 67 mainframe. We all know where it has gone since. PCs, storage and even networks are virtualized. Nowadays, enterprises and SMBs have a wealth of virtual devices and services they must manage and secure, with servers still leading the way.
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isdown

How to promote an internal status page in your company

Jul 11, 2024 By Nuno Tomas In isDown
An internal status page is a centralized platform where a company can display the operational status of its internal systems and external services. It's designed primarily for employees, IT support teams, and relevant stakeholders to stay informed about system performance, outages, maintenance, and other critical updates. First, congratulations on creating an internal status page.
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sentry

Get Insights into backend infrastructure with Caches, Queues, Requests, & Queries

Jul 11, 2024 By Ben Coe In Sentry
To create exceptional products, developers need to understand the behavior of backed systems; however, we generally have the most control over the applications we’re deploying (not their dependent infrastructure). With this in mind, we’ve added new Insights to Sentry, providing visibility into common backend building blocks such as Caches, Queues, Queries, and Outbound Requests so you can quickly troubleshoot and debug issues when they occur.
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nexthink

How to Improve Efficiency: Eliminate Issues and Reduce MTTR with Keysight Technologies

Jul 11, 2024 By Megan Brake In Nexthink
At Keysight Technologies, engineers are the core of the business. These engineers place high demand on their technology, to support the high demands of their work. If engineers are bogged down by technical issues, that has a direct impact on product development and business outlook – creating an imperative for IT at Keysight Technologies to provide a seamless digital workplace.
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martello

Best Practices for Seamless Hybrid Meetings

Jul 11, 2024 By kfitzgibbon In Martello Technologies
Hybrid work is very much here to stay. But in spite of that, many companies still haven’t come around to the idea, meaning the tools and systems offered aren’t always used to best effect. This leaves these businesses unprepared to embrace the hybrid world of work we now all find ourselves in. Take hybrid meetings for example – which combine in-person and remote participation, using digital tools to facilitate communication and collaboration across various locations.
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datadog

Introducing Toto: A state-of-the-art time series foundation model by Datadog

Jul 11, 2024 By Othmane Abou-Amal In Datadog
Foundation models, or large AI models, are the driving force behind the advancement of generative AI applications that cover an ever-growing list of use cases including chatbots, code completion, autonomous agents, image generation and more. However, when it comes to understanding observability metrics, current large language models (LLMs) are not optimal.
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logicmonitor

How LogicMonitor and Amazon Bedrock Accelerate Generative AI Initiatives

Jul 11, 2024 By LogicMonitor In LogicMonitor
Enterprise generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) projects are gaining traction as organizations seek ways to stay competitive and deliver benefits for their customers. According to McKinsey, scaling these initiatives is challenging due to the required workflow changes. With AI adoption on the rise across industries, the need for robust monitoring and observability solutions has never been greater.
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anodot

Complete Guide to Azure VM: Pricing Models, Types & More

Jul 11, 2024 By Anodot In Anodot
Trying to find the best virtual machine on the market that gives you the flexibility of easy scalability and the promise of a secure network – and doesn’t cost an arm and a leg (and maybe another arm)? Azure VM is likely the best solution for you… assuming you can project costs correctly. However, Azure doesn’t make it easy with its different offerings and pricing models.
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Python Flask instrumentation using OpenTelemetry | SigNoz

Jul 11, 2024 By SigNoz In SigNoz
In this video, you will learn how to instrument your Python Flask application using OpenTelemetry and monitor your trace data in SigNoz. Link to Document used in this video More about SigNoz: SigNoz - Monitor your applications and troubleshoot problems in your deployed applications, an open-source alternative to DataDog, New Relic, etc. Backed by Y Combinator. SigNoz helps developers monitor applications and troubleshoot problems in their deployed applications. SigNoz uses distributed tracing to gain visibility into your software stack.
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sumologic

ROI for GenAI: Splunk to Sumo Logic Transformer

Jul 11, 2024 By David Andrzejewski and Bashyam Anant In Sumo Logic
Tool consolidation outcomes have driven some customers to drop Splunk and consolidate their log analytics use cases on Sumo Logic. Long-term Splunk customers with many dashboards, saved searches and monitors understandably want to retain a consistent experience for end users. As a result, a replacement strategy requires migration.
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squared up

Introducing dashboard variables

Jul 11, 2024 By Dave Clarke In Squared Up
We’re excited to announce the general availability of dashboard variables in SquaredUp. With this new feature, dashboards you create are flexible and reusable. Instead of hardcoding specific objects within the tiles on a dashboard, you can use variables to create just one dashboard to be reused across all your objects of the same type – be it your pipelines, apps, or microservices. Viewers of the dashboard can then select which objects they are interested in on the fly.
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squared up

Notifications feature deep dive

Jul 11, 2024 By Vincent Babin In Squared Up
In this blog, I wanted to take a deep-dive into our Notifications feature and explain some of the product design decisions we made. Notifications is one of the most frequently used features of SquaredUp. We designed this feature to be quick and easy to set up, with a primary focus on delivering timely notifications to the appropriate audience.
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catchpoint

Introducing Catchpoint's Live Internet Outages Map

Jul 11, 2024 By Howard Beader In Catchpoint
We’re delighted to introduce a new, free tool for everyone: Catchpoint’s Live Internet Outage Map. The Live Internet Outage Map is a limited, free version of Catchpoint’s Internet Sonar capability publicly available to everyone, not just Catchpoint users. It shows outages from the last 24 hours and provides a sample of the thousands of services monitored in the full version of Internet Sonar.
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ScienceLogic

Addressing IT Challenges in Financial Services

Jul 11, 2024 By ScienceLogic In ScienceLogic
Financial services companies enable a steady stream of intricate transactions—all of which are underpinned by an increasingly complex array of systems, services, and applications. Many forward-looking financial institutions have evolved to include multiple clouds, hyper-converged infrastructures, virtual machines, and containers to house massive quantities of transactional data and processes.
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site24x7

Top 7 best practices for monitoring your OpenShift environment

Jul 11, 2024 By Grace Nalini In Site24x7
Red Hat OpenShift is an open-source container platform that provides a complete environment for developers to create, launch, and manage applications in both cloud and on-premises settings, leveraging the potential of container technology. With increasing popularity in container orchestration, OpenShift's strong scalability and features attract developers and IT experts. Nonetheless, the intricacy and changing aspects of OpenShift setups demand a tailored strategy for monitoring and observation.
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site24x7

A guide to choosing the best cloud infrastructure monitoring tool

Jul 11, 2024 By Sinjan Ballav In Site24x7
The cloud is a complex network of interconnected resources—virtual machines (VMs), containers, serverless functions, and a web of data flowing between them. With so many elements, it becomes challenging to ensure continuous uptime for all cloud services while also maintaining optimal performance and security. Cloud monitoring tools assist in this regard by helping organizations stay ahead of issues and maintain control over their cloud environments at all times.
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2 steps

The importance of synthetic monitoring for DevOps

Jul 11, 2024 By 2 Steps In 2 Steps
As businesses strive to reduce waste, contain costs, and boost profits in today's hyper-competitive tech ecosystem, increasing launch speeds has become critical. The faster and smarter you launch, the quicker you reap the rewards. In fact, in 2018, over 46% of dev teams used agile project methodologies to hack their launchpad and create more streamlined pipelines. But, while many organisations are nailing the 'speed' part of launches, few have taken steps to optimise the delivery value stream.
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Why "page.goto()" is slowing down your tests

Jul 11, 2024 By Checkly In Checkly
In this video, we dive into Playwright's "page.goto()" and understand why it could be slowing down your end-to-end tests. We start with an example script and then walk you through the Playwright UI mode to understand how resource loading can delay the "page.goto()" call. We also look into the different "waitUntil" configurations and check how they affect the speed of your tests. Enjoy, and drop any questions or comments below!
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Network Detection Response (NDR) Explained

Jul 11, 2024 By Flowmon In Flowmon
Our webinar, Network Detection Response (NDR) Explained will unravel the complexities of this technology and highlight its critical importance in today's cybersecurity landscape. Progress Flowmon product experts will guide you through the historical evolution of NDR technologies. Additionally, you will learn how NDR.
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manageengine

Manage network configurations on the go with our new Network Configuration Manager Android app

Jul 10, 2024 By General In ManageEngine
To ensure the stability, security, and efficiency of an organization’s IT infrastructure, network administrators must be able to manage and monitor network configurations on the go. Remotely managing network configurations helps detect configuration changes in real time and prevent errors before they escalate into major outages. Introducing the Network Configuration Manager Android app.
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checkly

Why "page.goto()" is slowing down your Playwright tests

Jul 10, 2024 By Stefan Judis In Checkly
When you invest time and effort into creating a well-running end-to-end test suite or adopt Playwright synthetic monitoring with Checkly, you should focus on two things. Your tests must be stable because few things are worse than an unreliable test suite. But also, your tests must be fast because no one wants to wait hours to receive the green light when you're on the edge of your seat to deploy this critical production hotfix.
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Retail Observability | Softcat + Grafana

Jul 10, 2024 By Grafana In Grafana
Grafana empowers retailers to deliver unmatched customer experiences, reduce costs, and optimize delivery with omnichannel observability. Innovate faster, increase agility, and watch your business thrive. Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more. We also have plans for every use case.
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logz.io

How Logz.io Provides Trustworthy Observability through AI

Jul 10, 2024 By David Lotan Bolotnikoff In logz.io
The business of observability is all about data: what you’re observing in the data, how you’re visualizing it, what it indicates about the state of your environment, and how to address issues that may occur. Creating your own perspective for observability, and understanding what you’re seeing, can be difficult.
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anodot

Complete Azure SQL Pricing Guide

Jul 10, 2024 By Anodot In Anodot
Azure Structured Query Language (SQL) has 18 different deployment options, service tiers, compute models, and two different pricing models: vCores and Database Transaction Units (DTU). Because of these complexities, it’s nearly impossible to project monthly budgets! This guide will explain the common Azure SQL pricing configurations and offer tips on optimizing your cloud budget.
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sentry

Debug Third-Party APIs with Requests

Jul 10, 2024 By George Gritsouk In Sentry
The internet is basically just a bunch of websites calling each other. You make a call to some service, that service calls you back, and then that service goes down and ruins your afternoon. Requests, our latest addition to Insights, is a place to see, understand, track, and improve the behavior of outgoing HTTP requests.
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influxdata

Optimizing Space Technology: Fast Data Access with InfluxDB and Apache Parquet

Jul 10, 2024 By Jessica Wachtel In InfluxData
To win the space race, aerospace and aviation companies must be fast. The end-to-end cycle of testing, visualizing test data, and making improvements demands swiftness, especially when a single launch yields billions of data points. It starts with real-time access to data. Real-time data analysis with nanosecond precision is crucial for monitoring environmental and habitat conditions when lives are at stake. Speeding up the iteration pipeline is essential but not sufficient. Cost efficiency matters too.
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Cribl

Optimizing Data Access: Best Practices for Partitioning in Cribl

Jul 10, 2024 By Sidd Shah In Cribl
The more customers I talk to, the more I see a trend toward wanting a low-cost vendor-agnostic data lake. Customers want the freedom to store their data long-term and typically look to object stores from AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. To optimize for data access, users will partition their data into directories to optimize for use cases such as Cribl Replay and Cribl Search. Only relevant files will be accessed for rehydration or search by partitioning data.
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honeycomb

Staffing Up Your CoPE

Jul 10, 2024 By Nick Travaglini In Honeycomb
Getting the right people working in the CoPE is crucial to success because these change agents must limber up the organization and promote the flexibility necessary to perform resilience. We’ll look for teammates who share enough in common to work well together, but who don’t necessarily perfectly overlap so that they can play off each other’s strengths.
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appsignal

Monitor the Performance of your Python FastAPI App with AppSignal

Jul 10, 2024 By Jan Giacomelli In AppSignal
While building an app with FastAPI can be reasonably straightforward, deploying and operating it might be more challenging. The whole user experience can be ruined by unexpected errors, slow responses, or even worse — downtime. AppSignal is a great tool of choice for efficiently tracking your FastAPI app's performance. It allows you to easily monitor average/95th percentile/90th percentile response times, error rates, throughput, and much more. Useful charts are available out of the box.
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mezmo

Data Optimization Technique: Route Data to Specialized Processing Chains

Jul 10, 2024 By Mezmo In Mezmo
In most situations, you will have several sources of telemetry data that you want to send to multiple destinations, such as storage locations and observability tools. In turn, the data that you are sending needs to be optimized for its specific destination. If your data contains Personally Identifying Information (PII) for example, this data will need to be redacted or encrypted before reaching its destination.
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logicmonitor

Accelerate development with Groovy and Java integration

Jul 10, 2024 By LogicMonitor In LogicMonitor
In the fast-paced world of software development, efficiency is everything. Developers are constantly under pressure to keep up with rapid technological changes, unclear requirements, and tight deadlines. With the demand for skilled developers rapidly increasing and projected to grow by 22% by 2029 in the US alone , finding ways to enhance productivity and streamline workflows can provide a much-needed relief, making the difference between delivering a project on time or spending long nights debugging.
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site24x7

The pros and cons of cloud-native infrastructure

Jul 10, 2024 By Sinjan Ballav In Site24x7
Cloud computing has emerged as a game changer for organizations looking for agility and flexibility from their IT infrastructures. A cloud-native infrastructure further enhances this by using microservices, containers, and DevOps for a scalable foundation for modern applications. However, like any technology, it has its advantages and disadvantages. In this article, we'll discuss the pros and cons of cloud-native infrastructure so you can decide if it's the right fit for your business.
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motadata

Enhanced Change Management in Motadata: 7 Tips To Simplify Your Change Implementations

Jul 10, 2024 By Arpit Sharma In Motadata
Customer expectations and business tactics often take a new turn with the difference in demands. Depending on the requirements and upcoming technologies, change management becomes important. In fact, over the past few years, digital transformation has been the key contributor to business success and change in dynamics. It has improved IT management by eliminating problematic areas and making businesses capable of facing challenges.
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meshiq

Key Capabilities for Successful Kafka Management

Jul 10, 2024 By Sean Riley In meshIQ
Kafka is a powerful event streaming technology that is relatively easy to set up but can become extremely complicated to scale, especially without significant maintenance tasks. Any Kafka manager requires a robust Kafka management tool to efficiently operate, monitor, and maintain a Kafka cluster, especially in production environments. The following list comprises the most needed capabilities in a tool for a Kafka Manager.
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opsmatters

Unlocking Speed and Efficiency: The Benefits of Serverless Infrastructure for SEO

Jul 9, 2024 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
In the ever-evolving digital landscape, website speed has become a critical factor in SEO performance. Faster page load times not only enhance user experience but also contribute significantly to better search engine rankings. One of the most promising advancements in this area is the adoption of serverless infrastructure. This approach, which eliminates the need for traditional server management, has emerged as a game-changer for web performance, particularly for SEO. Let's delve into how serverless infrastructure is transforming website speed and SEO, with insights from an industry expert.
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manageengine

End-user monitoring with Applications Manager

Jul 9, 2024 By Applications Manager In ManageEngine
In today’s rapidly changing world, making a strong first impression can go a long way. If you’re a business owner, delivering flawless web experiences should be the norm. Making every website visit effortless not only keeps customers happy and engaged but also builds up your brand’s reputation. This is where the significance of end-user monitoring (EUM) comes in.
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observiq

How to Monitor SNMP with OpenTelemetry

Jul 9, 2024 By Paul Stefanski In ObservIQ
With observIQ’s contributions to OpenTelemetry, you can now use free, open-source tools to easily aggregate data across your entire infrastructure to any or multiple analysis tools. The easiest way to use the latest OpenTelemetry tools is with observIQ’s distribution of the OpenTelemetry collector. You can find it here. In this blog, we cover how to use OpenTelemetry to monitor SNMP.
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grafana

Upgrade with confidence: Strategies for updating your self-hosted Grafana instance

Jul 9, 2024 By Margot Phelps In Grafana
At Grafana Labs we believe in shipping features early and often, and in recent years we’ve doubled down on that philosophy. We no longer wait for the yearly major release to give you access to the next big thing. Instead, we regularly make new features, bug fixes, and security patches available to our self-managing users (Grafana OSS and Grafana Enterprise) throughout the year.
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appsignal

Track Errors in Phoenix for Elixir with AppSignal

Jul 9, 2024 By Aestimo Kirina In AppSignal
AppSignal is a powerful error tracking and performance monitoring tool that can help you maintain reliability and speed in your Elixir applications. In this tutorial, the first of a two-part series, you'll learn how to integrate AppSignal into your Elixir application, configure it for error tracking, interpret error reports, and leverage AppSignal's features to debug and resolve issues.
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ScienceLogic

Autonomic IT in Financial Services: Elevate IT and Deliver a Resilient Customer Experience

Jul 9, 2024 By ScienceLogic In ScienceLogic
Financial services firms face a multitude of complex IT challenges. Banking is a 24×7 affair, and firms must ensure their infrastructure is “always on” — consistently running at the highest efficiency and reliability. Banking customers also expect frictionless experiences across mobile and digital banking services. Slow application response times and service outages are simply not an option. Commercial banking is also competitive.
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martello

Why Microsoft Teams 'Maturity' Matters

Jul 9, 2024 By kfitzgibbon In Martello Technologies
Maturity models have proved to be powerful tools for assessing performance and driving improvement in a wide range of industries and disciplines from cybersecurity and quality control to project management and HR. With hybrid and remote work here to stay, organizations now have a new kind of maturity to aspire to, one that has a significant and direct impact on business results: virtual collaboration maturity.
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datadog

Recapping DASH 2024

Jul 9, 2024 By Claire Laurence In Datadog
DASH 2024 was our biggest event yet! Over two days, thousands from the Datadog community gathered at North Javits in New York City for an impactful experience. The 2024 keynote featured numerous new product launches and updates, but there was much more to enjoy beyond this speech. Attendees got to experience breakout sessions, workshops, certification exams, one-on-one Datadog consultations, and a bustling expo hall.
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honeycomb

Why Every Engineering Team Should Embrace AWS Graviton4

Jul 9, 2024 By Liz Fong-Jones In Honeycomb
Two years ago, we shared our experiences with adopting AWS Graviton3 and our enthusiasm for the future of AWS Graviton and Arm. Once again, we're privileged to share our experiences as a launch customer of the Amazon EC2 R8g instances powered by AWS Graviton4, the newest generation of AWS Graviton processors. This blog elaborates our Graviton4 preview results including detailed performance data. We've since scaled up our Graviton4 tests with no visible impact to our customers.
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What's New at Kentik, Episode 7

Jul 9, 2024 By Kentik In Kentik
Leon Adato takes us through the latest updates and features at Kentik. Learn about improvements to Kentik's search bar, explore the highlights of the recent Network Management Megatrends report, and get an introduction to our new video series, "Kentik Close-up." We also explore the Kentik API and how to use it with tools like Telegraf. Stay informed, and find out how Kentik continues to enhance network observability. Don't forget to like, subscribe, and hit the notification bell to stay updated with all things Kentik!
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How to Use and Configure Obkio's Chord Diagram | Obkio NPM Onboarding Series

Jul 9, 2024 By Obkio In Obkio
Welcome to Obkio’s App! Today, we’ll be looking at the “Live Network Status” tab in Obkio’s app which shows you the live network performance of all network paths on Obkio’s Chord Diagram. The Chord Diagram is made up of Obkio’s Monitoring Agents, deployed in key network locations, as of the Monitoring Sessions, which are created between Agents.
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logicmonitor

Back to the basics with hybrid infrastructure monitoring

Jul 9, 2024 By LogicMonitor In LogicMonitor
Managing IT environments can be challenging, especially with the growing complexity of hybrid infrastructures. These interconnected technologies, including servers, routers, storage arrays, and software-defined elements running in both data centers and cloud environments, require robust infrastructure monitoring.
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pandora fms

Distributed Systems Monitoring: the Four Golden Signals

Jul 9, 2024 By Olivia Díaz In Pandora FMS
We recently published the IT Topic “IT System Monitoring: advanced solutions for total visibility and security”, in which we present how advanced solutions for IT system monitoring optimize performance, improve security and reduce alert noise with AI and machine learning. We also mentioned that there are four golden signals that IT systems monitoring should focus on.
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site24x7

Digital transformation and cost savings: How AI benefits Australian SMEs to enhance digital experience

Jul 9, 2024 By Santhi Santhanakrishnan In Site24x7
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a crucial role in Australia's economy. Despite this, they face significant challenges in the current economic climate, including rising costs, higher interest rates, and the need to stay competitive in a rapidly-evolving digital market. For these businesses, cutting expenses is the top priority, closely followed by enhancing the digital customer experience.
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2 steps

The importance of end user experience monitoring

Jul 9, 2024 By 2 Steps In 2 Steps
In 2024, customer experience will be the biggest driver of success. While the business world glances at the financial horizon with worried eyes, finding ways to retain users, capture new leads, and create meaningful, long-lasting brands is more critical than ever. According to Forrester, the ROI of customer experience is 9,900%. For most businesses, the value of user experience is apparent—lower costs, improved loyalty, higher satisfaction, and a higher overall LTV.
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manageengine

Level up with distributed tracing: Enhancing application performance with Applications Manager

Jul 8, 2024 By Applications Manager In ManageEngine
In our modern, digitally connected landscape where software stretches across diverse platforms and settings, trying to track a single request can seem like wandering through a maze with a blindfold on. This is where distributed tracing comes into play. It’s an essential technique that sheds light on the paths of digital transactions through complex systems, making the invisible visible. Distributed tracing offers many advantages for monitoring and fixing complex distributed systems.
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opsmatters

Maximizing Cost Efficiency in AWS Cloud Environments: Leveraging Synthetic Monitoring Tools for Real-Time Insights

Jul 8, 2024 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Find out how synthetic monitoring improves cost efficiency in AWS Cloud environments. Discover the advantages, tools, and best practices for maximizing AWS resources and raising performance.
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Cribl

Syslog: Even Better Best Practices

Jul 8, 2024 By Jon Rust In Cribl
The Cribl Syslog source is our most commonly used input type. Cribl Stream can act as your edge and/or central syslog server, giving you more capability while easing management tasks. In this blog post we’ll go over a brief history of syslog. Then we’ll dive into best practices for standing up Cribl Stream as a syslog server, tuning the server, and other tips for running a high performance syslog platform.
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logitio

Mastering Log Monitoring: Boost Your IT Operations

Jul 8, 2024 By David Benson In Logit.io
With the development and increased usage of cloud-native technologies, containers, and microservices-based architectures, log monitoring has become a fundamental component of effective management for organizations. Logs offer users insights into occurring issues and assist them in understanding how their software performs over time, where it excels, and where it fails.
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grafana

CI/CD observability: A rich, new opportunity for OpenTelemetry

Jul 8, 2024 By Dimitris Sotirakis In Grafana
Continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) are the backbone of modern software delivery, but there’s still limited visibility into their processes. Here’s how that’s changing with OpenTelemetry (OTel), and why those changes are so exciting.
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stackify

Event Streaming: The What, Why, and How

Jul 8, 2024 By Stackify In Stackify
Event streaming is a powerful concept that has gained significant traction in the areas of data processing and real-time analytics. This post discusses the basics: what event streaming is, examples, and uses. Additionally, the post explores how to implement event streaming, as well as the technologies and tools involved.
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sentry

Introducing Insights: Tailored debugging workflows for your application

Jul 8, 2024 By Sasha Blumenfeld In Sentry
You’re seeing an unusually high number of 429 status codes, but your monitoring solution can’t tell you much beyond that. Typically, that’s when you start searching through logs — while simultaneously sustaining the urge to walk away and hope someone else deals with it. To make sure neither of those happens, we made a new set of debugging workflows aptly named Insights.
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websitepulse

How to Install SNMP Service

Jul 8, 2024 By Simon Rodgers In WebSitePulse
If you want to monitor your network devices, learning how to install the SNMP service is crucial. This guide will walk you through the process of installing the SNMP service on various Windows systems using both the graphical user interface (GUI) and PowerShell commands. We'll cover steps for Windows Server versions and Windows 10, ensuring you have the tools to manage your network efficiently.
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influxdata

InfluxDB 3.0 Product Update Round-up: Q2 2024

Jul 8, 2024 By Jason Myers In InfluxData
Wrapping up another quarter provides an ideal time to look back on the features we rolled out across various products. Software is never finished, and our engineers have been working hard to deliver improvements to InfluxDB 3.0. This roundup highlights some of the developments and releases over the last few months.
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honeycomb

Modern Observability in Action at the University of Oxford

Jul 8, 2024 By Rox Williams In Honeycomb
The Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science at the University of Oxford is pioneering the better use of data, evidence, and digital tools in healthcare, policy, and beyond. The institute employs an open-source approach with its OpenSAFELY analytics platform, enabling high-impact research that yields actionable insights, drives innovation, and enhances lives globally.
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What is Network Monitoring?

Jul 8, 2024 By Kentik In Kentik
In "What is Network Monitoring?" Kentik Technical Evangelist Leon Adato breaks down the essentials of network monitoring and observability. Learn the fundamental concepts behind network monitoring, including network monitoring metrics, synthetic transactions, and NetFlow analysis. Discover how these tools and techniques help turn data into actionable insights, ensuring your network runs smoothly. Whether you're new to network monitoring or looking to refine your understanding, this video provides a clear and concise overview.
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Enhancing DevOps with SQL Sentry: A Guide to Shift Left Strategies

Jul 8, 2024 By SolarWinds In SolarWinds
Data drives decisions: no one argues this. But developers and DevOps professionals primarily care that their data is being stored… somewhere. At that point, many of them walk away without a care about what happens afterward. They leave that to the DBAs, cloud admins, and anyone else except themselves. But that idea doesn’t scale. Even though the data is a part of your continuous delivery/continuous integration (CI/CD) operations, the care and feeding of those datasets falls to others. Maybe it’s time to look at that data and make some recommendations.
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Why we used open source Apache projects to build InfluxDB 3.0

Jul 8, 2024 By InfluxData In InfluxData
To the unfamiliar, building with open source tools may seem like the kind of chaos that leads to Boaty McBoatface-like decisions. Andrew Lamb, staff engineer at InfluxData and PMC for the Apache DataFusion project, provides insight from a developer and a PMC perspective about what it's like to build with, and manage a major open source project. InfluxData recently rebuilt its core database using Apache projects: Flight, DataFusion, Arrow, and Parquet, dubbed the FDAP stack.
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How the FDAP stack drives innovation with open source Apache projects

Jul 8, 2024 By InfluxData In InfluxData
Using open source projects from the Apache foundation to build low-level database software drives innovation. Andrew Lamb, Staff Engineer at InfluxData and PMC for the Apache DataFusion project, discusses the components of the FDAP stack - Flight, Arrow, DataFusion, and Parquet, explaining how building with these tools helps companies focus on innovation instead of spending dev cycles reinventing the wheel.
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Discover Financial Services cuts costs and accelerates data retrieval with Elastic Observability

Jul 8, 2024 By Elastic In Elastic
Learn how Discover Financial Services helps its customers achieve a better financial future by partnering with Elastic. Discover utilizes Elastic Observability for its centralized logging platform. Users now have improved monitoring capabilities to help solve issues.
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site24x7

Mobile APM best practices to ensure top user experiences

Jul 8, 2024 By Ramkumar Ramaswamy In Site24x7
Whether you are a solopreneur or the owner of a large business, think about the instances on your website or app when customers feel irritated, stuck, or frustrated on their mobile screens. Be it an app slowdown, broken flow, or irregular functionality, a mobile application performance issue can make or mar a business's reputation quicker than ever before, especially since mobile phones have become the primary screens for many users.
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uptime

The Rise of Mobile Website Monitoring: Ensuring Seamless User Experience Across Devices

Jul 8, 2024 By Admin In uptime
Did you know that over half of global web traffic now comes from mobile devices? We have all struggled with a slow-loading mobile site at some point. It’s a common frustration, and that’s where mobile website monitoring comes into play. Today’s mobile-dominant landscape demands require that your website performs seamlessly across all devices.
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elastic

End-to-end SAP Observability with Elastic, Google Cloud, and Kyndryl: A deep dive

Jul 8, 2024 By Valerio Arvizzigno, In Elastic
Tens of thousands of companies in the world, across almost all industries, from midsize to large enterprises, rely on robust, efficient complex SAP systems to power their core operations. From sales to finance, from warehouse management to production planning and execution, business’s continuity, revenue, and customer success highly depend on processes running on enterprise resource planning (ERP) architectures.
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opsmatters

The Crucial Role of Accurate Monitoring in Ensuring Hydrogen Safety

Jul 5, 2024 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Hydrogen is increasingly recognized as a pivotal element in the transition to sustainable energy sources. Its potential applications range from powering fuel cells in electric vehicles to serving as an alternative fuel for industrial processes. However, the properties that make hydrogen a valuable energy resource also present significant safety challenges. Being the smallest and lightest molecule, hydrogen is highly flammable and can escape easily through the tiniest of leaks. Therefore, accurate and continuous monitoring of hydrogen is essential to ensure safety and mitigate any risks associated with its use.
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VictoriaMetrics

Q2 2024 Round Up: VictoriaMetrics & VictoriaLogs Updates

Jul 5, 2024 By Jean-Jerome Schmidt-Soisson In VictoriaMetrics
Many thanks to everyone who joined us for our recent virtual meetup, during which we discussed some of our Q2 2024 highlights, including features highlights, the 2024 roadmap for VictoriaMetrics and all the latest news on VictoriaLogs! In this blog post, we’d like to share a summary of these highlights.
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virtana

The future of AI in Business: Preparing your infrastructure

Jul 5, 2024 By Shridhar Venkatraman In Virtana
As the digital age progresses, businesses are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to stay competitive and innovative. Among the various branches of AI, Generative AI (GenAI) has been rapidly adopted due to its immense potential to transform business operations.
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squared up

Announcing... Markdown magic

Jul 5, 2024 By Dave Clarke In Squared Up
We're excited to share a small but mighty new feature. Our Text tile now supports Markdown! This allows you to include rich content on your dashboards such as headings, links, lists, images and more. At SquaredUp we know that a useful dashboard is more than just a few charts. With this update you can now provide key context to the data on a dashboard to help tell the right story. For example you might want to: You can easily do all that now, and more.
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grafana

How to customize your Loki deployment with Ansible

Jul 5, 2024 By Michal Vaško In Grafana
Michal Vaško is a DevOps engineer at cloudWerkstatt, with a passion for open source technology and a deep love for observability. While operations or platform teams have long relied on visibility into metrics to react swiftly, the idea of doing the same thing with logs was once just a dream. Thankfully, Grafana Loki has revolutionized the logging stack, giving you the same level of visibility with logs that you get with metrics.
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nice

IT Monitoring News | July Edition

Jul 4, 2024 By NiCE IT Mgmt In NiCE IT Mgmt
Welcome to our July edition of the NiCE bi-monthly newsletter! We’re thrilled to share the latest updates, insights, and events to keep you ahead in the ever-evolving IT monitoring landscape, especially revolving around Microsoft System Center. Whether you’re looking to stay current with new features, understand best practices, or network with fellow professionals, our newsletter has you covered.
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obkio

How to Measure Packet Loss & Detect Packet Loss Issues

Jul 4, 2024 By Alyssa Lamberti In Obkio
Why did the packet get lost in transmission? Because it didn't have its GPS (Good Packet Sense) turned on! Any IT pro or Network Admin knows that, when large amounts of Packet Loss start plaguing your network, it’s a clear indicator that your network isn’t performing as it should be. In this article, we’re teaching you how to identify and measure packet loss in your network using Obkio Network Monitoring.
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logicmonitor

What is WMI Provider Host?

Jul 4, 2024 By LogicMonitor In LogicMonitor
Windows Instrument Management (WMI) Provider Host — or WmiPrvSE.exe — is a legitimate and essential component for keeping your computer’s various applications and systems running effectively. This process is part of the Microsoft Windows operating system. Microsoft built WMI management tools into each Windows version starting with NT 3.1.
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logitio

The Top 8 Kafka Monitoring Tools

Jul 4, 2024 By David Benson In Logit.io
Apache Kafka has risen as a pivotal element in modern distributed systems, transforming data processing, storage, and distribution across diverse applications. Kafka, developed by Kafka, is an open-source distributed event streaming platform. It is designed to efficiently manage high volumes of real-time data, acting as a distributed messaging system.
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2 steps

How 2 Steps synthetic monitoring can assist with operational compliance (CPS 230)

Jul 4, 2024 By 2 Steps In 2 Steps
If APRA regulates you, then you must keep up with the rules. These rules include CPS 230, consolidating several existing Prudential Standards into one that applies to operational risk management. The goal is to help you keep your business resilient to operational risks and disruptions in various areas. This, in turn, protects you and your customers from risk preserves your reputation and ensures that people do not experience financial hardship.
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manageengine

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

Jul 3, 2024 By Endpoint Central In ManageEngine
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.
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eg innovations

Protect Your Organization with the Ideal Business Continuity Strategy

Jul 3, 2024 By Gita Rao Prasad In eG Innovations
Do you have a Business Continuity Strategy? A successful business always has strategies to keep it running. But even with the best strategies, disruptions can always occur and cause losses. Natural disasters, pandemics, human error, fires, and other unpredictable events can potentially affect how you run your organization and serve customers. The best way to shield your business from the crippling effects of a crisis is to have a business continuity strategy.
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stackstate

Navigating Kubernetes Contexts and Namespaces with kubectl

Jul 3, 2024 By Dmitry Maximov In StackState
We all know that managing multiple Kubernetes clusters and their resources can be challenging. However, kubectl offers several context and namespace commands to simplify this process. This comprehensive guide will walk you through using various kubectl commands to manage your Kubernetes environments more efficiently.
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icinga

10 tips for developing an effective monitoring strategy

Jul 3, 2024 By Johannes Rauh In Icinga
As a software developer in training at Icinga, I’ve learned a lot about the nuances and importance of monitoring systems. Effective monitoring is critical for maintaining the health, performance and security of any infrastructure or application. Here are ten essential tips to help you develop an effective monitoring strategy.
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influxdata

Dealing with Mountains of IoT Data: An IIoT World Webinar Reflection

Jul 3, 2024 By Jason Myers In InfluxData
We’ve made the case many times that instrumentation is critical for understanding changes in the physical and virtual worlds. During this recent webinar, panelists discussed the challenges and opportunities of integrating IoT sensors into existing infrastructure, ensuring data quality and accuracy, and leveraging sensor data for operational efficiency and productivity.
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solarwinds

5 Best Wi-Fi Heat Mapping Tools + Guide

Jul 3, 2024 By Staff Contributor In SolarWinds
Wi-Fi has become an essential component of our daily life, allowing for seamless connectivity between several devices. However, maintaining the best possible Wi-Fi performance and coverage may be difficult, particularly in complicated settings like huge stadiums, universities, and workplaces. Wi-Fi heat mapping is useful in this situation.
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appsignal

Security Best Practices for Your Node.js Application

Jul 3, 2024 By Omonigho Kenneth Jimmy In AppSignal
The widespread adoption of Node.js continues to grow, making it a prime target for XSS, DoS, and brute force attacks. Therefore, protecting your Node application from possible vulnerabilities and threats is crucial. In this guide, we'll uncover common security threats and explore best practices for preventing them. You don't have to be a cybersecurity expert to implement fundamental security measures for your Node.js application. So, are you ready? Let's go!
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honeycomb

The Hater's Guide to Dealing with Generative AI

Jul 3, 2024 By Tyler Wilson In Honeycomb
Generative AI is having a bit of a moment—well, maybe more than just a bit. It’s an exciting time to be alive for a lot of people. But what if you see stories detailing a six month old AI firm with no revenue seeking a $2 billion valuation and feel something other than excitement in the pit of your stomach? Phillip Carter has an answer for you in his recent talk at Monitorama 2024. As he puts it, “you can keep being a hater, but you can also be super useful, too!”
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ScienceLogic

ScienceLogic Wins "AI Breakthrough Award" for Best AIOps Platform

Jul 3, 2024 By ScienceLogic In ScienceLogic
ScienceLogic, a leader in automated IT infrastructure monitoring and AIOps, has won the “Best AIOps Platform” award in the seventh annual AI Breakthrough Awards! Run by Tech Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence and recognition platform for today’s most competitive global technology markets, the awards highlight some of the world’s most innovative artificial intelligence (AI) companies, technologies, and products.
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anodot

Azure Storage Pricing 101 - Guide to Blob, Cold & File Storage Costs

Jul 3, 2024 By Anodot In Anodot
Microsoft Azure storage pricing can be confusing. With cloud storage-specific tiers, reservations, time lengths, and other cost considerations, starting monthly budget calculations can be more than intimidating—especially since you’ll also want to watch out for any extra provider-specific fees. We’ll break things down so you can easily calculate your Azure storage pricing.
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anodot

Azure DevOps Services Pricing - How Much Does Azure DevOps Cost

Jul 3, 2024 By Anodot In Anodot
Calculating your Azure DevOps budget doesn’t need to make your palms clammy. Consider this your 2024 guide to figuring out all you need about Azure DevOps pricing so nothing sneaks up on your monthly budget. But let’s define some terms before we get into the nitty-gritty details.
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anodot

Azure Functions Pricing - 2024 Guide to Azure Functions Costs & Optimization

Jul 3, 2024 By Anodot In Anodot
Azure Functions is a serverless computer Microsoft Azure service. Its goal is to enable developers to create scalable, cost-optimized, event-driven applications without the hassle of server management. However, like most Azure cloud-based offerings, the costs of Azure Functions can be muddied by the different pricing models and the factors that can increase (or decrease) your monthly bill. Our guide simplifies things so you can be confident your Azure spend is optimized down to the last dime.
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Cross-Cloud Networking: VPC Networking

Jul 3, 2024 By Google Operations In Google Operations
Cross-cloud networking is a common topic among Google Cloud customers as they deploy and manage workloads across multiple clouds. Watch along as Sri Nannapaneni, Customer Engineer at Google Cloud, discusses Google Cloud connectivity services and a VPC design pattern for cross-cloud and on premises communication.
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Cross-Cloud Networking: DNS Design

Jul 3, 2024 By Google Operations In Google Operations
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.
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metricfire

Monitor Your Socket Connections Using Telegraf and MetricFire

Jul 3, 2024 By Benjamin Pitts In 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.
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Playwright at Scale

Jul 3, 2024 By Checkly In Checkly
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.
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grafana

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

Jul 3, 2024 By Grafana Labs Team In Grafana
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.
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site24x7

Demystifying the cloud: Elasticity vs. scalability

Jul 3, 2024 By Sinjan Ballav In Site24x7
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.
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uptime

How Do You Test Domain Health?

Jul 3, 2024 By Admin In uptime
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.
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splunk

Building an AI Assistant in Splunk Observability Cloud

Jul 3, 2024 By Joe Ross In Splunk
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.
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exoprise

Teams V2 Synthetics and Real-User Monitoring Support

Jul 2, 2024 By Alex Tsukernik In Exoprise
With the release of Microsoft Teams 2.0 and the Classic Teams client nearing its EOL (end of life), we were eager to explore the changes that Teams 2.0 brought about. Today we will look into the new features and architecture of Teams 2.0 as well as provide insight into the changes and improvements to the CloudReady Teams Messaging and Teams AV sensors.
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raygun

Enhancing Aspire with AI: integrating Ollama for local error resolution

Jul 2, 2024 By Jason Fauchelle In Raygun
In this article, we'll explore how we developed an Aspire component that spins up an Ollama container and downloads a Large Language Model, ready for use. If you're new to any of these technologies, you can continue reading, otherwise feel free to skip to the technical walkthrough. As a quick bit of background, we recently released an Aspire component that brings a free, lightweight Raygun app into your local development environment to help debug exceptions. We then subsequently enhanced this with AI Error Resolution capabilities which runs entirely on your local machine.
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Galileo

Streamlining Billing Operations: MSP Transforms Billing and Service Management with Galileo

Jul 2, 2024 By Galileo In Galileo
A large government-focused IT solutions provider faced a challenge after securing a lucrative contract with a massive government agency. The contract demanded detailed, usage-based billing calculations, posing a significant operational hurdle. Turning to Galileo proved to be the solution, allowing the provider to meet complex billing requirements, streamline operations, and ensure contract success.
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catchpoint

How to optimize for Google's new Core Web Vital INP

Jul 2, 2024 By Piril Kavlak In Catchpoint
Effective March 12, 2024, Google replaced the First Input Delay (FID) metric with Interaction to Next Paint (INP) as a part of its Core Web Vitals. This change marks a significant shift in how web interactivity is measured, reflecting a more comprehensive view of user experience. This blog explores INP, strategies for optimization, and asks if FID is still a valuable metric.
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elmahio

Lessons learned after migrating Azure Functions to Isolated Functions on .NET 8

Jul 2, 2024 By Thomas Ardal In elmah.io
The In-process model of running Azure Functions is being retired in favor of the Isolated model in two years. A lot of components on elmah.io are running on Azure Functions. To ensure we are running on the most modern and supported platform (also in two years), we have spent quite some time migrating from In-process to Isolated functions. In this post, I'll share both a checklist to help you do the same as well as some of the lessons learned we had during the migration.
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Configuring WhatsUp Gold for SMTP and OAuth 2.0 Email Authentication

Jul 2, 2024 By WhatsUp Gold In WhatsUp Gold
This video shows the steps to register WhatsUp Gold as a client application with Microsoft Azure for OAuth 2.0 authentication. Then, it walks through the process to configure your WhatsUp Gold email settings to use OAuth 2.0 as your authentication method.
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honeycomb

Unlocking Smiles: HappyCo's Observability Success

Jul 2, 2024 By Rox Williams In Honeycomb
With a diverse range of applications, HappyCo sought to advance their system investigations with a modern observability solution while embarking on an application refactor project. Since its start in 2011, HappyCo has experienced rapid growth through both organic expansion and strategic acquisitions. As a result, the company has a diverse range of applications for customers to smile about.
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Mastering Microsoft Teams: Strategies of Industry Leaders

Jul 2, 2024 By Martello Technologies In Martello Technologies
Delve into the advanced strategies that industry leaders use to manage Microsoft Teams. Explore the three main hallmarks that set these leaders apart and elevate them to the top of the Microsoft Teams maturity pyramid: End-to-End Visibility: See how comprehensive visibility across the entire network, from the data center to endpoints, helps identify and troubleshoot issues effectively.
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Are you Delivering an Industry Leading Microsoft Teams Experience?

Jul 2, 2024 By Martello Technologies In Martello Technologies
Discover how industry leaders achieve top-tier Microsoft Teams performance by mastering three key hallmarks of Teams maturity. End-to-End Visibility: Understand the importance of comprehensive visibility across your entire network, enabling effective issue identification and troubleshooting.
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sentry

Fix issues without user input with Session Replay

Jul 2, 2024 By Dan Mindru In Sentry
Dan Mindru is a Frontend Developer and Designer who is also the co-host of the Morning Maker Show. Dan is currently developing a number of applications including PageUI, Clobbr, and CrontTool. “Hey, can you give me the steps to repro?” This is the message I never want to send but end up sending way too often. And the answer?
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grafana

Identify anomalies, outlier detection, forecasting: How Grafana Cloud uses AI/ML to make observability easier

Jul 2, 2024 By Michelle Tan In Grafana
At Grafana Labs, our No. 1 approach when building AI/ML tools is to enable humans (a.k.a. all of us!) to understand complex systems. In other words, we want to make observability still human, but less complicated. (Our second use case? Making social media more fun.) We believe that AI/ML tools in observability should work towards minimizing toil and the need for everyone in your organization to have the same deep domain knowledge about your increasingly complex stack.
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virtana

Database Observability and Storage Insights

Jul 2, 2024 By Ramprasad Gopalsamy In Virtana
Storage monitoring involves discovering the estate, devices, and network interconnections. Key telemetry requirements include their states, performance metrics, and logs. As the complexity of the environment increases and storage reliability improves, the focus shifts. Understanding the layers above, such as file systems and databases, and their demand for storage services becomes crucial. This article delves into the detailed knowledge required to achieve effective observability.
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statusgator

June product updates

Jul 2, 2024 By Colin Bartlett In StatusGator
You can now access our extensive service directory directly from your StatusGator account, putting status information for over 3,900 services at your fingertips. We know that it’s sometimes hard to think of all the things you depend on or even to know what to search for. That’s why we’ve implemented this convenient browsable interface where you can filter by use case or category.
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obkio

The 30 Best Network Assessment Tools For All Use Cases

Jul 2, 2024 By Alyssa Lamberti In Obkio
Nowadays, keeping your network running smoothly is crucial for any business. Whether you manage a small office network or a large enterprise system, regular network assessments help you spot problems, improve performance, and maintain reliable connections. With so many tools available, picking the right one can be challenging. This blog post showcases the 30 best network assessment tools for different needs, from basic health checks to detailed performance analysis.
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splunk

Uncomplicate SLOs to Deliver Digitally Resilient Systems and Better Customer Experiences

Jul 2, 2024 By Teneil Lawrence In Splunk
If your organization has an observability practice, it’s likely that the end goal was to increase system reliability and customer satisfaction. But balancing reliability needs with the need to innovate to meet ever-increasing customer expectations remains a challenge for most.
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site24x7

Leveraging observability to improve digital resilience

Jul 2, 2024 By Santhi Santhanakrishnan In Site24x7
With increasing competition and a digitizing landscape, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Australia are being forced to level up their game using AI and modernization. This means eventually relying on cloud and AI integration to ensure agility and responsiveness. The diversity of applications and the complexity of tech architecture pose challenges like increasing costs, security risks, and scalability challenges.
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2 steps

Monitoring the Impossible - Synthetic Monitoring for 2FA, Virtual Desktops & Windows

Jul 2, 2024 By 2 Steps In 2 Steps
In the recent past, it's evident that most people use mobile apps and the web to access various services. Unlike a few decades ago, a simple touch of a button via mobile devices can complete a financial transaction automatically. Consumers need to create accounts using their credentials and passwords then use these details to complete different actions like making account updates and processing transactions.
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coroot

What Developers Should Know about Observability

Jul 2, 2024 By Peter Zaitsev In Coroot
Peter is a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Percona, FerretDB, and other tech companies. As a leading expert in open-source strategy and database optimization, Peter has applied his technical knowledge and entrepreneurial drive to contribute as a board member and advisor to several open-source startups. His insights into performance optimization and system reliability play a crucial role in shaping Coroot’s functionality.
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opsmatters

How Remote Patient Monitoring Empowers Seniors and Transforms Geriatric Healthcare

Jul 2, 2024 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
As the population ages, healthcare systems grapple with providing effective care for a growing number of seniors. Traditional models, often reliant on frequent in-person visits, can be a burden for patients and providers. However, remote patient monitoring (RPM) technology is emerging as a game-changer. In this article, we will explore how RPM empowers seniors to take charge of their health while transforming geriatric care through proactive monitoring.
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exoprise

SaaS and Microsoft 365 Service Level Agreement Credit Recovery

Jul 1, 2024 By Simon Dion In Exoprise
In this article, we will be covering Service-Level Agreement (SLA) credits and the general steps Software-as-a-Service customers must take to recover them. We'll also go over the typical information required by SaaS vendors, how to collect this information, and how CloudReady synthetics can expedite the SLA credit recovery process. SLA credits are a type of compensation to customers by service providers when service providers fail to achieve the agreed-upon service levels. These credits are applied to customer accounts as monetary refunds or credits to be used for future services.
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grafana

Industrial IoT visualization: Why United Manufacturing Hub chose Grafana to power its IIoT platform

Jul 1, 2024 By Denis Gontcharov In Grafana
Denis Gontcharov is a data consultant who helps aluminum smelters break down data barriers. For the past five years, he has supported the aluminum industry with IT and data services as an independent consultant. Denis also works as a Developer Advocate at the United Manufacturing Hub. Jeremy Theocharis is co-founder and CTO at United Manufacturing Hub. He is an expert in industrial IoT with over seven years of experience leading large-scale IIoT projects in various industries.
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logitio

The Top IT Dashboard Examples

Jul 1, 2024 By David Benson In Logit.io
A vital aspect of working in IT is that you need to effectively monitor a broad range of KPIs and metrics to ensure the smooth operation of your IT infrastructure. IT dashboards streamline this process as they are specialized dashboards designed to offer insights and track key performance indicators (KPIs) related to numerous aspects of IT operations and infrastructure.
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squared up

Azure DevOps success with out-of-box dashboards & monitoring

Jul 1, 2024 By Bruce Cullen In Squared Up
In previous roles I have been both an Engineering Manager responsible for a team, and a Program Manager responsible for branching strategy and process around CICD pipelines. In both of those roles (but for very different reasons), my product's build quality has been critical to product success. The obvious "why" to this is no builds, no product, but the real why is much more nuanced.
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squared up

Azure Virtual Machine out-of-box dashboard makes it easier to get started

Jul 1, 2024 By Bruce Cullen In Squared Up
I first started my career in IT support back in 2003 when VMs where something that was “coming” rather than mainstream, so I had the privilege of witnessing the birth of VMs first hand when my company made the switch from bare metal to VMware GSX running on top of Windows Server 2003.
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coralogix

Optimizing observability costs with a DIY framework

Jul 1, 2024 By Zev Schonberg In Coralogix
Observability costs are exploding as businesses strive to deliver maximum customer satisfaction with high performance and 24/7 availability. Global annual spending on observability in 2024 is well over 2.4 billion USD and is expected to reach 4.1 billion USD by 2028. On an individual company basis, this is reflected by observability costs ranging from 10-30% of overall infrastructure spend. These costs will undoubtedly rise with digital environments expanding and becoming ever more complex.
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influxdata

A Guide to CI/CD Pipeline Performance Monitoring

Jul 1, 2024 By Charles Mahler In InfluxData
In the modern software development landscape, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines have become essential. They automate the process of integrating code changes, running tests, and deploying applications. The efficiency and reliability of these pipelines are critical to the overall success of a software project, and CI/CD pipeline monitoring plays a vital role in maintaining and improving these attributes.
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Cribl

Cloud Migration Challenges: Solutions for a Successful Move to the Cloud

Jul 1, 2024 By Bradley Chambers In Cribl
Cloud migration has become a crucial strategy for businesses aiming to capitalize on scalability, flexibility, and cost-saving opportunities. As organizations transition from traditional data centers to cloud infrastructure, these companies can access advanced cloud services, enhance operational efficiency, and ensure seamless data and application management. However, cloud migration challenges can be difficult to solve.
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oh dear

Sitemap monitoring is now available at Oh Dear

Jul 1, 2024 By Freek Van der Herten In Oh Dear
Oh Dear can perform many checks: uptime, broken links, scheduled jobs, DNS, and much more. We proud to announce that we’ve added a new check: sitemap monitoring. This check will make sure that the structure of your sitemap is correct. We’ll also check if each and every link it links to a page that returns a correct response. Whenever we detect a problem, you’ll be notified via one of our many supported notification channels.
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solarwinds

Green Data: The Role of Observability in Shaping a Sustainable Future

Jul 1, 2024 By Jeff Stewart In SolarWinds
Systems speak in data. Widespread digitization means systems communicate more than ever, while increasingly refined means of recording and interpreting their messages are revolutionizing IT management. Meanwhile, beyond the engine rooms of enterprises, our planet is trying to tell us something, too. In changing temperatures and rising sea levels, we see signs that our relationship with the natural world must change.
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Build Resilient Connections in Communications and Media with Splunk

Jul 1, 2024 By Splunk In Splunk
In our super connected world, the Communications and Media industry has a lot on the line. Your networks help people stay in touch, get around-the-clock care, and protect their nest eggs. Expectations are incredibly high. And reliability is a must. At Splunk, we help Communications and Media organizations build resilient digital systems.
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Measuring Real World Performance of DNS Solutions

Jul 1, 2024 By Catchpoint In Catchpoint
Your customers are not willing to wait more than a second or two for your website and apps to load. Slow-loading apps and sites may seem like a minor inconvenience to them, but they’re a serious threat to your business. Numerous studies have shown that customers will abandon your site and take their business elsewhere if you make them wait. Many businesses are unaware of the critical role of the Domain Name System (DNS) in the performance of websites and business apps.
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BindPlane Flight Plane June 2024

Jul 1, 2024 By ObservIQ In ObservIQ
Learn how to make rollouts even better with Progressive rollouts in BindPlane. This video will show you how to create different stages for your agents and roll out configuration changes based on specific labels. About ObservIQ: observIQ brings clarity and control to our customer's existing observability chaos. How? Through an observability pipeline: a fast, powerful and intuitive orchestration engine built for the modern observability team. Our product is designed to help teams significantly reduce cost, simplify collection, and standardize their observability data.
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HEAL Software

Overcoming Barriers to Achieving ZeroSec Observability

Jul 1, 2024 By Raja Shekar Mulpuri In HEAL Software
Achieving ZeroSec observability has long been the ultimate goal, yet it remains elusive despite countless hours and sleepless nights dedicated to the cause. A recent discussion with a client underscored the persistent challenges that many organizations continue to struggle with in this pursuit. They had all the right tools in place yet faced significant issues that prevented them from achieving a smooth run of the applications.
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Advanced Insights with SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer

Jul 1, 2024 By SolarWinds In SolarWinds
Resolving an incident before end users are impacted is the new standard, but managing separate observability and incident management solutions is tempting fate. You are at risk of an issue slipping through the cracks. It's time to consolidate, streamline, and decomplexify your operations. Hybrid Cloud Observability combined with SolarWinds Observability and SolarWinds Service Desk make all of this much, much easier.
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splunk

Splunk Product Reviews & Ratings - Enterprise, Cloud & ES

Jul 1, 2024 By Blessing Onyegbula In Splunk
Today, cybersecurity is a non-negotiable for business success. Original research from our annual State of Security confirms this is no easy task – which is why we are proud that the solutions we deliver help make organizations digitally resilient. Splunk Cloud Platform, Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Enterprise Security are our most well-known and popular solutions, which we’ll share more about below.
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