Taming Complexity: Addressing Infrastructure Monitoring Challenges in Banking and Finance
Banks and financial institutions operate in one of the most complex, highly regulated and risk-averse industries.
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An Introduction to Oban for Elixir Monitoring Using AppSignal
Background task processing is something that many developers may encounter when building Elixir applications. This might include sending emails asynchronously, posting and fetching data from an API, and more. Oban, a powerful and persistent job processing library, offers a reliable way to handle background tasks, scheduled operations, and more. However, like any complex system, Oban requires careful monitoring to ensure its smooth operation, identify bottlenecks, and prevent unexpected failures.
Silent Support Systems and The Infrastructure That Keeps Factories Running
What keeps a factory running when no one's watching? Behind every smooth production line is a network of support systems (compressed air, steam, HVAC, fuel delivery, hydraulic circuits) that operate quietly but are vital to performance. These systems don't grab attention like robotics or automation, yet they prevent downtime, protect equipment, and ensure safety. Ignoring them can lead to unexpected failures and costly interruptions. Understanding how they function and why they matter is essential for maintaining efficient, reliable operations in any industrial setting.
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Streamlining multi-cloud complexity with unified observability
A wave of businesses are embracing multi-cloud strategies to gain flexibility and scalability. By combining on-premises infrastructure, private clouds, and public platforms like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), IT teams can experiment, deploy, transform, and improve their IT applications significantly. On the down side, this modern IT approach of employing multiple clouds (in both public and private forms) also brings significant complexity, making it challenging to monitor systems, control costs, and secure environments. There are just too many threads to track and tie together to ensure a taut IT fabric.
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Atlassian Jira Monitoring on Microsoft SCOM
As part of a customer project, we developed a custom Jira Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM). This tailored solution enables IT operations teams to monitor key performance and health metrics of Jira environments, ensuring planning and bug-tracking platforms remain available and performant. With this Use Case paper, we want to share our knowledge with the SCOM Community to highlight the possibilities of advanced monitoring on Microsoft SCOM, helping teams get better in their day-to-day tasks.
NiCE Active 365 Management Pack 4.4 for Microsoft SCOM
We’re thrilled to release NiCE Active 365 Management Pack 4.4 for Microsoft SCOM. The new 4.4 release is packed with powerful new enhancements driven by customer input and evolving needs. It especially focuses on improving monitoring capabilities for Azure-based services and ensuring compatibility with Microsoft’s evolving ecosystem.
Top 3 Intune reporting tools: SquaredUp, Microsoft admin center, and Power BI
As the unsung hero of modern endpoint management, Microsoft Intune quietly ensures security, compliance, and seamless user experiences across a range of devices and platforms. Where many organisations go wrong, however, is not having the right tool to monitor and leverage Intune’s full potential. But for an organization relying on Intune, what tool should you use?
10 Essential Tips for Setting Up Monitoring for Your SaaS
Setting up monitoring for your SaaS application is crucial for maintaining reliability and keeping customers happy. Without proper monitoring, you're essentially flying blind – unable to detect issues before they impact users or understand how your system performs under different conditions. Here are 10 essential tips to help you build a comprehensive monitoring strategy for your SaaS application.
Getting Started With Catchpoint Traceroute
in this episode of our Getting Started With Catchpoint series, Leon walks you through setting up a traceroute test. He covers the various options - the type of traceroute, thresholds, etc and even touches on what you can do with the test data once it's being collected - from smartboards to alerts and beyond.
Get started with Grafana Alerting: Multi-dimensional alerts and how to route them
In this tutorial, we dig into more complex yet equally fundamental elements of Grafana Alerting: alert instances and notification policies. Don't miss the rest of the "Get started with Grafana Alerting" series! Each part dives into a different feature to help you get the most out of alerting in Grafana.