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Below is the full list of results for the Big SCOM Survey. We surveyed 118 SCOM users with 27 questions. For the key highlights and expert analysis of these results head over here.

This week we released Skylight version 5.0, which represents a major undertaking that has involved every person at Tilde and every part of our ever-growing stack. In addition to major internal refactors, this release also modernizes our native Rust code, and introduces Skylight's newest feature, Source Locations.

Until recently, work has been thought of as a place you go, rather than a thing you do. While cloud technology has made a ‘digital workplace’ possible, for many businesses, this has been a long-term ambition. But what happens when this changes overnight? Suddenly more people are at home than in the office, and the typical 9-5 model doesn’t apply anymore. This is the reality that businesses the world over had to face head-on a year ago when the pandemic hit.

Troubleshooting issues in your applications can be a complicated task requiring visibility into various components. In the worst-case scenario, to understand what is happening and why it is happening you will need metrics, logs, and traces combined together. Having that information will give you the possibility to slice and dice the data and get to the root cause efficiently. In this article, we will focus on logs and how to configure logging for your Java applications.

Learn how to monitor an API by doing an HTTP POST request to it every minute and instantly be notified when it goes down. It all takes under 10 minutes so let’s dive in, head first.

VoltDB is an ACID-compliant, in-memory relational database designed to support real-time analytics. VoltDB’s in-memory storage, stored procedures, and shared-nothing architecture make it specifically optimized for quickly processing massive streams of data. This means VoltDB is tailored for use cases like online gaming, telecommunication, and financial applications, which require fast data processing.

We have identified what website defacement is. We can all agree that it has the potential to have long-lasting effects on your brand image, if not prevented. Your website can be left inaccessible, and a security breach can make you lose trust among customers who entrusted you with their data. It can also impact search engine rankings and traffic.

How often do you check your event log monitor for potential security breaches? Did you know that many potential security breaches, events, and other problems are logged to event logs? Unfortunately, even the most skilled IT professionals have a hard time making sense of what to watch for that could indicate security issues or even a potential breach until it is too late. Event logs contain a ton of information that can be useful.

Website down. Two words that cause panic in website owners far and wide, especially if they have thousands, if not millions of people, using their website on a daily basis. But it’s not as rare as most people think, even the biggest of companies find themselves in the deep depths of website downtime hell. The impact? Loss of revenue for starters, followed up by your competitors who are online getting your customers’ attention, bad SEO rankings, and lack of customer satisfaction.

Let’s face it: when it comes to managing a work-from-home setup, IT has a lot of problems they don’t know how to solve. It’s not for lack of effort – there just don’t seem to be many practical solutions out there that can alleviate their new remote work-induced headaches. It was tough enough getting everyone up and running in home offices. Now, IT is all but drowning in tickets (a majority of tech leaders have reported ticketing increases up to 50%).