Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Part two of a series on platform engineering myths, covering how it’s built, what it does, and what it doesn’t do.

It’s no secret that enterprise networks have grown more distributed and complex over the past few years. On top of this, conventional network monitoring tools are struggling to keep up with the rapid growth of IoT, new tech advancements, and intricate network architectures. A recent study by Enterprise Management Associates underscores this challenge, revealing that nearly 74% of IT organizations plan to replace their existing network management tools within the next two years.

The infrastructure and services running on public cloud computing services like Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) produce massive volumes of logs every day. An organization’s log data provides details about their entire IT environment in real-time, or at any point in time in history.

Imagine one night you receive a notification from your team member that a critical production problem has caused chaos in your application. There is a sudden drop in sales as customers are unable to access the application and reporting issues relating to the same. Now, when you reach the office to fix the issue, you demand the team to run through all the files.

Our service can detect various problems with your website: whenever it is down, or a broken link is detected, your cron job isn't running on time, and much much more. Whenever we see a problem we can notify you via email, Slack, webhooks, and various other channels. Up until now, you could configure these notification channels in our UI, but now you can do this via our API as wel.

With Nexthink Workplace Experience (built on the Nexthink Infinity platform) we introduced a next-generation DEX score (V3) along with an all-new product – Nexthink Experience Central – to deliver the strategic guidance Senior IT Leaders require to successfully enable and advance their company’s DEX strategy.

We recently added the User Feedback Widget to the Sentry platform, and now we are releasing two additional features to the product to help developers get deeper context into bug reports without being inundated with them: user-generated screenshots and automatic spam detection.

Logging is essential in Node.js for tracking errors, monitoring performance, and debugging issues. Traditional node.js logging methods, like using console.log(), are often insufficient due to unstructured, cluttered logs that are hard to read. They lack features like log levels, proper formatting, and efficient storage management. Best practices for logging ensure logs are useful, structured, and manageable. Implementing these best practices is crucial for several reasons.

In the rapidly evolving landscape of cybersecurity, AI-powered attackers are becoming increasingly sophisticated. To counter these threats, organizations must adopt advanced security technologies that leverage AI technology as part of a multi-layered approach to security.

In 2020, we introduced the Snowflake Enterprise data source plugin for Grafana, allowing users to seamlessly pull data from the Snowflake cloud-based data storage and analytics service into Grafana dashboards. Available for Grafana Enterprise and Grafana Cloud users, it’s a powerful way to not only query and visualize Snowlake data, but to do so alongside other data sources, so you can discover correlations and other meaningful insights within minutes.