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Event logging for Microsoft Windows provides a standard, centralized way for applications and the operating system to record important software and hardware events. The event-logging service (eventlog) stores events from various sources in a single collection called an event log. The system administrator can use the event log to help determine what conditions caused the error and the context in which it occurred. TechTarget have an excellent overview of Windows event logs available.

Port monitoring is a necessary measure to make sure your network is running at an optimized level. For those unfamiliar with New England, many villages and cities began as fishing towns. These communities still do business on the sea, with multiple companies shipping out their products on massive boats. How do these boats gain access to the towns to continue doing business in them?

It’s been literally years now that I have been first tangentially, and then intimately involved with the project that has become InfluxDB 3.0. I started using it so early that one of the DataFusion upstream developers literally calls me “User0” … a moniker of which I am not-so-secretly proud.

Open source project InfluxDB IOx becomes InfluxDB 3.0, the next-generation time series database powering all InfluxDB products. InfluxDB Cloud Dedicated added to suite of enterprise-grade cloud services.

Setting up custom metrics is an easy way to gain instant insights into the information you need (without scorching through log lines or struggling with complicated reporting tools). Supplement your application's critical monitoring data by tracking meaningful metrics to quickly identify and resolve potential issues. In this blog post, we'll show you how to set up and use custom metrics to remove your monitoring blind spots.

With cloud solutions becoming mainstream and hybrid workforces becoming the norm rather than the exception, organizations need to stay nimble and agile for network access that can occur anytime, from anywhere. A thriving organization has a flourishing network that extends its arms globally, yet delivers high speed and performance without any compromise. Hence, organizations rely heavily on their networks for uninterrupted operations.