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What is Graphite?

What is Graphite? Simply put, Graphite is an open-source enterprise-ready time-series database. So what is a time-series database? Well, a time series is a series of data points indexed (or listed or graphed) in time order. Time Series databases have excellent benefits over traditional databases in terms of high performance, higher writes, improved scalability, better reliability, and many more.

SysAdmin Day 2023: Honoring the unsung heroes of technology

On this SysAdmin Appreciation Day, we pause to honor the remarkable individuals who work behind the scenes and whose efforts power every problem solved, every seamless connection, and every technological success. They are the sysadmins—the unsung heroes deserving our heartfelt gratitude. Today, we express our gratitude to the masters of multi-tasking, the conquerors of crashes, and the champions of security—the beloved sysadmins! Your unwavering commitment to excellence inspires us all.

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From monitoring solution to automated growth, an MSP's AIOps story

With around 130 employees, Innflow, one of the leading SAP consulting companies in Switzerland, implemented the Avantra AIOps platform for its private cloud infrastructure, three and a half years ago. Initially, the aim was to monitor its customers' SAP systems more precisely. After deploying Avantra, the SAP Basis team at Innflow quickly gained better control over the status of all customer systems and recorded significant quality improvements, as Felix Hausheer, Team Lead SAP Basis, confirms.

Latest Developments in Monitoring and Observability, 2023

You know it’s going to be a great day when you find yourself mentioned as a Sample Vendor on the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ report for Monitoring and Observability, 2023(July 2023). The OnPage team is thrilled to share with its community that we have been mentioned as a Sample Vendor by Gartner on their latest Hype Cycle for Monitoring and Observability. OnPage is recognized as a Sample Vendor, specifically within the Automated Incident Response category.

Leveraging Microsoft Network Monitoring for IT Professionals

Imagine having the power to keep your organization's network in tip-top shape and ensure those essential Microsoft apps are running like greased lightning. In this blog post, we'll unravel the mysteries of Microsoft Network Monitoring, arm you with the knowledge to deploy it like a pro, and help you troubleshoot network performance issues affecting key Microsoft apps and services like Teams, Office 365, Sharepoint, and more.

Four reasons to try our next-gen dashboards

When you need to troubleshoot faster, rich out-of-the-box content lets you easily monitor the tools in your technology stack. Dashboards are key to our customers’ success — offering you deep insights at a glance and the ability to drill into the details most important to you. A couple years ago, we debuted a new style of dashboards, built on top of a scalable, flexible and extensible charting system.

Splunk Edge Processor Enhancements Offer Greater Data Access and Improve Data Management

On the heels of an exciting GA in March and the April announcement of its regional expansion, we are excited to share the latest updates to Splunk Edge Processor that will make it even easier for customers to have more flexibility and control over just the data you want, nothing more nothing less.

How IT Teams Leverage AIOps' Capabilities

This article is the second in a 4-part series on leveraging artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) to provide a more efficient, reliable, agile, cost-effective, and optimized IT infrastructure. If Artificial Intelligence is the ultimate multi-tool for IT operations (as discussed in our first article), then DevOps, Network Ops, Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), and SecOps are the teams using it.

A Deep Dive into the HTTP 999 Status Code

As mentioned in our ultimate guide to HTTP status codes, the HTTP 999 is unofficial, but it still plays an important role in the flow of our online journey in unexpected ways — and here’s why. So what is it for? We all know that the digital highway is held together by something called the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, or HTTP.