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Oracle Database monitoring: An administrator's guide

Oracle Database is known for its reliability, scalability, and outstanding performance. An enterprise-friendly feature catalogue makes it a go-to for companies that need data to be available across their disparate IT infrastructure. Large-scale enterprises relying on huge database systems like Oracle need to make sure that data transactions are hassle-free and demand is met with the resources available.

What To Do When Elasticsearch Data Is Not Spreading Equally Between Nodes

Elasticsearch (ES) is a powerful tool offering multiple search, content, and analytics capabilities. You can extend its capacity and relatively quickly horizontally scale the cluster by adding more nodes. When data is indexed in some Elasticsearch index, the index is not typically placed in one node but is spread across different nodes such that each node contains a “shard” of the index data. The shard (called primary shard) is replicated across the cluster into several replicas.

Customer Stories: Sahil Pandita, consultant of Progress, Melbourne, uses Site24x7 to ensure uptime

Sahil Pandita, consultant of Progress, Melbourne, Australia, talks about how their organization uses Site24x7 to ensure uptime for their multi-national customers, and monitor it on a run-time basis to achieve a significant reduction in downtime to comfortably meet their SLAs. Pandita especially praises Site24x7's exhaustive integration capabilities with AWS or Azure, its flexible dashboards, and the events-based trigger features.

Top 6 Azure VM Monitoring Tools for Better Performance

Azure Virtual Machine (VM) is an on-demand Azure resource allowing users to host applications in a virtual computing environment instead of a physical machine. Allowing software to be configured and installed in a virtual environment and offering flexibility and scalability lowers the cost of maintaining a physical machine. This blog discusses the following key aspects.

DX UIM for Hybrid Cloud Environment Monitoring and Management

While adoption of private and public cloud expands, traditional and hyperconverged data centers remain and must continue to be supported. These hybrid cloud environments make true observability difficult. DX UIM removes the complexity of using multiple tools to monitor and manage hybrid cloud environments and associated technologies for enterprises, government agencies and managed service providers. Watch this brief video to learn more about hybrid cloud monitoring or share this with your internal or revenue-producing customers to educate them on what DX UIM can do for your organization.

Why Seven.One Entertainment Group Chose Datadog RUM for Client-side Observability

Hear why Seven.One Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE , which is Germany’s top commercial broadcaster, chose Datadog Real User Monitoring and how the solution enabled them to better understand client-side issues.

Observability Data vs Data Observability: What's the Difference?

Fun fact: Observability goes all the way back to the 1960s, coined by scientist Rudolf Kálmán as a way to measure a system through its output. Now, over six decades later, observability has fragmented into several specialized segments — from application observability, to security observability, and everything in between. The two segments driving the most confusion are data observability and observability data.

Playwright Explained

Playwright is an open-source framework for cross-browser automation and end-to-end web application testing. It was designed to be a fast, reliable, robust, and evergreen test automation framework, and its API supports modern rendering engines that include Chromium, WebKit, and Firefox. Playwright tests run on Windows, Linux, and macOS, locally or on your continuous integration pipeline, and headless or headed.