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In 2019, the Auvik team and a helpful host of awesome guest authors published 51 blog posts—including this one! Some were about breaking down technical topics, some were focused on boosting your bottom line, and some were just plain fun. But which posts were the biggest crowd pleasers? Based on web traffic data, here’s our top 10.

Your website doesn’t exist in a vacuum, and there are likely competing websites. Some do better than you and get more traffic, engagement, and so on. Others don’t fare as well as you do. How do you make sure that your website is one of the successful ones and not one that’s likely to fail? Research.

We’ve had an eventful year here at Grafana Labs. As 2019 comes to a close, here’s a look back. Here’s to an equally exciting 2020!

Cloud migration is more than just a buzzword. According to several reports released at the beginning of 2019, almost 70% of enterprise organizations are moving their applications and infrastructure from local, self-managed hardware to one of the big cloud providers. Multiple case studies have been written about companies like Spotify, Dropbox, Gitlab, and Waze, all of which have replaced their core business infrastructures with cloud data centers.

IT Infrastructure monitoring (ITIM) and IT operations monitoring (ITOM) has been evolving at an unprecedented rate as business grows. The focus area of IT administrators is changing with the technology advancement & how they can support & contribute to business strategy. “There’s a gigantic evolution happening right now, it is not about software or hardware anymore — it’s more about delivering business services smoothly that can fulfil business needs.

We love Mattermost and have been using it for seamless team communication. It simplifies document-sharing and team work to boost productivity. Recently, we asked ourselves a few questions: What if we could extend the capabilities of our favorite collaboration tool to cater to our clients? Better yet, what if anyone from the customer support or sales department could answer customer queries that originated from our website directly through Mattermost?

As another year is coming to an end, let's take time to look at what happened in Lucene land in 2019.

The volume and ambiguity of log files makes them impossible for humans to process. The promise of logs is revealed when AIOps is applied to analyze their deep structure.

In the world of IT operations and infrastructure management, the year 2019 was full of jaw-dropping deals in the startup community and notable strategy shifts among the major cloud and tech players. Suffice to say that CIOs and VPs of infrastructure are faced with the ongoing challenge of delivering business value and agility amid heightened IT complexity.

With 2020 around the corner, we’re entering a new decade in the cybersecurity landscape. What does the future hold for security professionals? We’d like to ring in the new year with good news, but the truth is that hackers will become smarter and breaches will grow in scale and number, creating an even greater pressure for security teams to keep up. Read our five predictions for 2020 to understand what to look out for and how to prepare for the new decade.