Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

In the second of our new series of posts, Yan Cui highlights the key insights from the Amazon Builders’ Library article, Using load shedding to avoid overload, by AWS Principal Engineer (AWS Lambda) David Yanacek.

In my previous post on new approaches to managing hybrid cloud environments, I discussed the issues that commonly arise for IT operations teams. While hybrid cloud gives IT great flexibility to design infrastructure that’s uniquely suitable to diverse business and user requirements, it also brings about more complexity. Hybrid and multi-cloud businesses generate significantly more IT event data and its coming from many more places now.

DevOps teams have more on their plate than ever. As infrastructure needs grow, so does the time required to ensure that everything’s running smoothly. This makes automation crucial – especially in the server and network monitoring world. Server monitoring tools can save teams time by automating server management and providing real-time performance updates.

As 2019 comes to a close we would like to take a moment to pause and reflect on the various achievements LogicMonitor accomplished over the last year. All 16 product releases in 2019 are aligned to LogicMonitor's mission to become the most comprehensive, extensible, and intelligent monitoring platform in the industry. To guide our mission we have organized our product features into three distinct pillars - monitor, analyze, automate.

Once again we are at the end of another year, facing into the endless potential of the next one, and thinking back on the fun and hard work behind us. Join me now in a review of some of our achievements and amusements, features and funtimes, shout-outs and selfies–and we’ll be back to do it all again in another 12 months.

In 2019, the Auvik team and a helpful host of awesome guest authors published 51 blog posts—including this one! Some were about breaking down technical topics, some were focused on boosting your bottom line, and some were just plain fun. But which posts were the biggest crowd pleasers? Based on web traffic data, here’s our top 10.

Your website doesn’t exist in a vacuum, and there are likely competing websites. Some do better than you and get more traffic, engagement, and so on. Others don’t fare as well as you do. How do you make sure that your website is one of the successful ones and not one that’s likely to fail? Research.

We’ve had an eventful year here at Grafana Labs. As 2019 comes to a close, here’s a look back. Here’s to an equally exciting 2020!

Cloud migration is more than just a buzzword. According to several reports released at the beginning of 2019, almost 70% of enterprise organizations are moving their applications and infrastructure from local, self-managed hardware to one of the big cloud providers. Multiple case studies have been written about companies like Spotify, Dropbox, Gitlab, and Waze, all of which have replaced their core business infrastructures with cloud data centers.

IT Infrastructure monitoring (ITIM) and IT operations monitoring (ITOM) has been evolving at an unprecedented rate as business grows. The focus area of IT administrators is changing with the technology advancement & how they can support & contribute to business strategy. “There’s a gigantic evolution happening right now, it is not about software or hardware anymore — it’s more about delivering business services smoothly that can fulfil business needs.