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Monitoring is essential for enhancing the reliability, performance, and user experience of all software systems. IT operations can employ two key monitoring strategies to assess system health: black box and white box monitoring. This blog discusses both approaches and highlights how ManageEngine Site24x7, an AI-based IT observability platform, can assist organizations in adopting white box monitoring to improve IT operations.

Good decisions help leaders keep operations smooth and grow their business. With the right data at the right time, executives can solve problems quickly and take advantage of new opportunities. This blog will explore how StatusIQ helps executives make informed decisions by providing real-time data on system health, optimizing resource allocation, enhancing communication, and improving customer trust.

In this post, Doug Madory reviews the highlights of his wide-ranging internet analysis from the past year, which included covering the state of BGP (leaks and the state of RPKI adoption), submarine cables (both cuts), major outages, and how geopolitics has shaped the internet in 2024.

OpenTelemetry can be used to trace Rust applications for performance issues and bugs. OpenTelemetry is an open-source project under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) that aims to standardize the generation and collection of telemetry data. Telemetry data includes logs, metrics, and traces. Rust is a multi-paradigm, general-purpose programming language designed for performance and safety, especially safe concurrency.

Nodejs is a popular Javascript runtime environment that executes Javascript code outside of a web browser. Express is the most popular web frameworks that sits on top of Nodejs and adds functionalities like middleware, routing, etc. to Nodejs. You can monitor your express application using OpenTelemetry and a tracing backend of your choice.

As 2024 comes to a close, we at GripMatix are proud to reflect on an impactful year full of new solutions, updates, and enhancements for Citrix monitoring. With a focus on improving visibility, efficiency, and performance monitoring through Microsoft SCOM, we’ve delivered tools and features to address the evolving needs of Citrix administrators. Here’s a look back at what we achieved this year.

As a testament to its efficiency in network detection and security, Progress Flowmon emerged as a network detection and response (NDR) leader in the prestigious Quadrant Knowledge Solutions’ SPARK Matrix. The SPARK Matrix recognizes solutions that demonstrate exceptional performance, innovation and customer satisfaction through specific criteria. The report provides an overview of NDR sector and can serve as a guide for IT teams seeking to deploy an effective NDR solution.

Large language models (LLMs) are AI models with billions of parameters, trained on vast amounts of data. These models are typically flexible and generalized. The volume and distribution of training data determines what kind of knowledge a large language model can demonstrate. By training these large models on a variety of information from all knowledge domains, these models can perform sufficiently well on all tasks.

A status page forms a key part of your incident communication strategy. When it comes to setting up a status page, you have two options: We will examine the pros and cons of each option along these dimensions: For 1, if you choose a self-managed, open-source or custom solution, it's in your control. For a managed solution, you are limited by the provider's feature set. For 2, if you choose a self-managed solution, your team is responsible for the quality of the service.

DNS monitoring ensures your domain records are accurate, secure, and performing well, helping prevent outages and attacks.