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Your business could be spending tens of thousands on SaaS applications—but are you really using them to your full advantage? Research says probably not. Today, the average business uses 130 SaaS apps for day-to-day operations, a number that has steadily climbed over the past decade. Of those, 65% fall under the veil of shadow IT, meaning the IT team is unaware they were ever adopted.

Time series data is becoming more prevalent across many industries. Indeed, it is no longer limited to financial data. As the need to handle time-stamped data increases, the demand for specialized databases to handle this type of data has also grown. The solution: Time series databases. In this introduction guide, we'll explain all the basics you need to know about time series databases, including what they are, how they work and are applied, and some of their benefits.

Service level agreements (SLAs) are essential for defining and managing the performance of services provided by internal or external providers. This article explores the different types of service agreements, their key components, and best practices for creating and enforcing effective agreements.

HTTP requests are at the heart of communication on the World Wide Web. This article will provide an in-depth look at what HTTP requests are, how they work, and their role in enabling the web experiences we rely on every day.

Numerous companies keep launching AI/ML features, specifically “ChatGPT for XYZ” type productization. Given the buzz around Large Language Models (LLMs), consumers and executives alike are growing to assume that building AI/ML-based products and features is easy. LLMs can appear to be magical as users experiment with them.

In today’s fast-paced IT ecosystem, agility and efficiency are not just goals but necessities. So why waste an hour (or more) manually onboarding individual devices when you can leverage the LogicMonitor API to automate the onboarding process for an entire site in just minutes from a simple CSV file? In this article, we’re going to review how LogicMonitor administrators can maximize efficiency and transform their IT operations using LogicMonitor’s REST API and Powershell.

New in Cribl 4.5, the Model Driven Telemetry Source enables you to collect, transform, and route Model Driven Telemetry (MDT) data. In this blog, you’ll learn how to explore the YANG Suite to understand the wide variety of datasets available to transmit as well as how to configure the tools to get data flowing from Cisco IOS XE network devices to Cribl Stream.

Progress Flowmon is a core network monitoring and security tool. Confirming if it is up and running can mean the difference between responding to a data breach or overlooking such a critical event. Like any other critical system, it is a good practice to include the monitoring of Flowmon uptime, resource consumption and health in an IT infrastructure monitoring (ITIM) dashboard, such as Progress WhatsUp Gold.

In the opening keynote of GrafanaCON 2024, we announced our newest OSS project: Grafana Alloy, our open source distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector. Alloy is a telemetry collector that is 100% OTLP compatible and offers native pipelines for OpenTelemetry and Prometheus telemetry formats, supporting metrics, logs, traces, and profiles. Some of you may be thinking: Wait, another collector?

We are thrilled to announce the preview of Explore Logs, a new way to browse your logs without writing LogQL. In this post, we’ll cover why we built Explore Logs and we’ll dive deeper into some of its features, including at-a-glance breakdowns by label, detected fields, and our new pattern detection. At the end, we’ll tell you how you can try Explore Logs for yourself today. But let’s start from the beginning — with good old LogQL.