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How Worldline uses Grafana Enterprise and Grafana Mimir to run its platform-as-a-service at a global scale

According to the World Bank, two-thirds of adults around the globe currently make or receive digital payments. Businesses have come to expect quick, reliable processing, and one company at the forefront of that is Worldline. The global payment service provider (PSP) is a leading payment processor and payment provider in Europe, with about 3.4 billion e-commerce transactions made in 2022.

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OpManager: All-in-one network diagram software

Network diagram software holds an important place in modern ITOps. Policies like work from home and bring your own device as well as technologies like server virtualization and hybrid network architectures have resulted in dynamic network topologies. Network diagram software assists IT admins with tracking their network topology, visualizing their infrastructure, monitoring performance, and ensuring compliance.

Top tips: How to effectively manage your hybrid cloud

According to Cisco’s 2022 Global Hybrid Cloud Trends Report, 82% of IT leaders say that they have adopted a hybrid cloud. Cloud adoption has been a popular topic of conversation among many companies. Some wanted to make the huge leap from on-premises to cloud; some didn’t. Although the cloud has numerous benefits, it’s wise to keep critical resources limited to on-premises. Why, you might ask?

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Monitoring AIX on Microsoft System Center Operations Manager

Whether managing a small, single-server environment or a large enterprise-wide system, you need visibility and control to ensure your AIX systems are always running at their best. The NiCE AIX Management Pack is essential for IT experts managing IBM AIX environments. The AIX Management Pack integrates into Microsoft System Center to provide comprehensive monitoring and management capabilities for AIX systems, allowing IT teams to quickly identify and resolve issues before they become major problems.

How to Instrument a Legacy Mule App with OpenTelemetry

In the previous article, we talked about Distributed Tracing with MuleSoft APIs using OpenTelemetry. In this post, we’ll go through the process of integrating Distributed Tracing with MuleSoft APIs using OpenTelemetry via a proxy server. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how we can instrument a legacy mule app with open telemetry without making changes to the existing app. Here, we’re showing an example of getting data from a header as well as a query parameter.

4 Observability Metrics Examples to Overcome Big Challenges

Having a strong full-stack observability has become increasingly crucial in modern IT environments, as organizations strive to gain deep insights into their systems’ behavior, performance and overall health. However, achieving effective observability can be challenging without the right tools and strategies in place. In this article, we will explore the key challenges associated with observability and how Coralogix can help overcome those issues.

5 Signs You Have Outgrown Your Mobile Monitoring Solution

Imagine you start a new hobby — let’s say bike riding. You don’t want to invest a lot in a bike because you’re not sure that you’ll like it. Luckily, you snag a free bike from a friend — it’s clunky, but the price is right. You start out with short rides around your neighborhood and eventually find yourself riding every day, going on longer and longer rides. Your free, heavy bike is holding you back.

Understanding AWS Lambda proactive initialization

AJ Stuyvenberg is a Staff Engineer at Datadog and an AWS Serverless Hero. A version of this post was originally published on his blog. In AWS Lambda, a cold start occurs when a function is invoked and an idle, initialized sandbox is not ready to receive the request. Features like Provisioned Concurrency and SnapStart are designed to reduce cold starts by pre-initializing execution environments.

A practical guide to data collection with OpenTelemetry and Prometheus

Grafana Labs has always been actively involved in the OpenTelemetry community, even working with the predecessor projects OpenTracing and OpenCensus. We have been supporting OTLP as the primary input protocol for our distributed tracing project, Grafana Tempo, since its inception, and our Grafana Agent embeds parts of the OpenTelemetry Collector.