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Cloud Migration is hard especially in the public sector, but there is a way

As Sean Price discusses in his ‘2023 Public Sector Predictions’ blog, European government departments and agencies are under pressure to reduce costs, improve efficiency and provide a better citizen experience. Governments need to offer more services at higher quality at a time when it costs more to heat buildings and to employ people to run the services.

Public Sector Predictions - the highlights for 2023 and two challenges that the public sector faces

Has the public sector ever been under so much pressure? Universal across all government departments, essential public services are under significant strain. However, COVID-19 and the subsequent knock-on impacts (economic, social and healthcare challenges) have buckled the resilience and kept many front-line concerned with delivering the scale of service required by the public.
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The Risks and Pitfalls of Too Many Monitoring Tools

If you are like most organizations, your technology environment is a complex mixture of tools needed to run your business. In this environment, monitoring and observability are critical to making sure everything is running smoothly. You use monitoring tools to measure server resources, log-parsing tools for troubleshooting, application tools to observe application performance, and audit-request tools to comply with regulations. While these are all valid observability needs, there are risks to overdoing it by introducing too many tools. Here are some ways to avoid monitoring proliferation when developing your observability strategy.

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Empower Your IT Team with Comprehensive Citrix Monitoring

In today's remote work environment, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solutions such as Citrix have become essential tools for organisations to enable their employees to work from anywhere. Citrix provides access to virtual desktops, applications, and data, allowing employees to work from any device and location. However, to ensure a seamless user experience, it is essential to have comprehensive monitoring of the Citrix environment. Unfortunately, many IT teams need help identifying and resolving issues that impact the user experience, particularly when the problems are intermittent or challenging to reproduce.

12 Alternatives to Pingdom for Checking Your Website's Health

Now that Pingdom has permanently closed its doors to free users, many customers are searching for alternatives to stand in the gap for their website performance monitoring needs. Web monitoring keeps you from losing potential business because of service or site downtime. David Sanchez of Mammoth Web Solutions says: “You have to continuously monitor your domain, because every new integration can affect domain performance.

SaaS Observability Platforms: A Buyer's Guide

Observability is the ability to gather data from metrics, logs, traces, and other sources, and use that data to form a complete picture of a system’s behavior, performance, and health. While monitoring alone was once the go-to approach for managing IT infrastructure, observability goes further, allowing IT teams to detect and understand unexpected or unknown events.

Weathering the IT Storm

The tech world has been on a rollercoaster since the COVID-19 pandemic. During the large-scale shift to remote work throughout 2020-21, big tech firms invested heavily in talent and infrastructure and there was plenty of growth in the IT space. Since the second half of 2022, however, high inflation, big tech layoffs, and the threat of an economic recession have organizations focused more on remaining cost-effective than investing in growth.

You can now save notes on a site

We implemented a small, but valuable feature requested by some of our users. You can now store some free form notes on a site. When heading over a site's settings, you'll see the new "notes" field. Here you can add some important information to the site, for example, some details on the SLA or technical details, ... When you saved notes on a site, we'll show it when hovering over the site on the site list. Of course, you can also get to these notes via the API.

Monitoring Android applications with Elastic APM

People are handling more and more matters on their smartphones through mobile apps both privately and professionally. With thousands or even millions of users, ensuring great performance and reliability is a key challenge for providers and operators of mobile apps and related backend services.