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Reducing Alert Fatigue in Microsoft SCOM

Alert fatigue is one of the most common challenges organizations face when using Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM). The sheer volume of notifications from servers, applications, network devices, and cloud services can overwhelm IT teams, making it difficult to distinguish between critical incidents and low-priority events.

5 Tools for Monitoring WebSocket Connections in Real Time

What if your app, website, or online platform suddenly starts crashing? Users cannot connect with the application, nothing is loading, and complaints start coming in. You contact your developer. They checked the backend technicalities like API, server, and databases, and everything seems fine. So, what is the real problem here? In many real-time applications, this issue lies one layer deeper. Most people often overlook this issue, and that is: WebSocket connections.

Kubernetes monitoring 101: Best practices to kickstart your journey

Use this guide to help you build a solid observability foundation without getting overwhelmed and get started with the best practices for a practical Kubernetes management. Starting your Kubernetes journey can feel like diving into the deep end; with hundreds of metrics, endless logs, and a growing list of tools, it's easy to lose focus. But here's the good news: you don't need to monitor everything from day one. Instead, start small.

What Is RabbitMQ And How Do You Manage It With Kubernetes?

The world of Kubernetes and RabbitMQ evolves rapidly. Our popular 2022 post laid the groundwork for HA deployments; now, join us for the crucial 2025 update to ensure your architecture remains cutting-edge. As organizations continue their powerful shift from monolithic architecture (where all the code building the application exists as a single, monolithic entity) to microservices architecture.

How to Boost Revenue and Cut Network Spending with Kentik Traffic Costs

Network operators across the digital ecosystem are under pressure to cut costs while protecting revenue. This post explores three practical use cases where Kentik Traffic Costs helps turn traffic insight into commercial intelligence that helps teams negotiate smarter, protect margins, and boost profitability.

The Compliance Shortcut: Automation as the New Operating System for Resilience

For years, compliance has been synonymous with checklists, manual reporting, and time-consuming audits. That definition no longer holds. In our September 2025 webinar, Patrick Hubbard, Technical Marketing Director, led a conversation with JB Baker, Vice President of Product Engineering, and Marc Jensen, Channel Sales Engineer. Together, they showed how automation is transforming compliance into something far more strategic: the foundation of modern resilience.

Paving the way for a new era: Mezmo's Active Telemetry

The world of software development has fundamentally changed. We've moved from monthly releases to continuous delivery measured in minutes, and the rise of AI means velocity is no longer just a goal—it's a requirement for survival. But this relentless speed has exposed a critical flaw in how we approach observability. The industry relies on a "store first, ask questions later" model where you collect every log, metric, and trace, and then hope to find the root cause when something breaks.

What's New in InfluxDB 3.5: Explorer Dashboards, Cache Querying, and Expanded Control

InfluxDB 3.5 is now available for both Core and Enterprise, along with updates to the new Explorer UI that make it easier to save, organize, and query your data. This release highlights the biggest updates since our 3.4 release, including Explorer Dashboards in beta, new cache querying capabilities, and stronger operational tools for managing clusters. InfluxDB 3 Core is free and open source, optimized for recent data, and licensed under MIT and Apache 2.