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Network scale, health, and performance continue to play an increasingly critical role in the modern enterprise. With substantial and ongoing investment in monitoring and observability tools, businesses strive to more efficiently manage their networks and infrastructure. However, a combination of new networking technologies, increasing complexity, and reduced headcount is putting pressure on their disjointed legacy ecosystem.

The size of the web is slowly growing. Over the past decade, the average webpage weight grew by 356%, from about 484 KB to 2.205 MB. Considering 800 KB was the average size of a website in 2012, that’s an enormous difference. While it’s true that the global average internet speed is increasing, users with slow, limited, or unreliable internet access often end up waiting. The question is, how do we keep websites fast even as they get bigger and bigger?

As the person on the front lines, you know that providing the best service possible can be what makes your ITSM organization succeed. Every day, you work to build the relationships that help your organization create value for end-users. However, when you have inefficient processes, you end up having to be the person responding to an upset user.

As an organization, you likely have many choices on where to store, analyze, and correlate your data. Those choices may change or iterate over time, so having an easy way to route data is needed. Enter Cribl Stream, which can route your data where it needs to go and save some effort, time, and money. It can help with organizational-wide initiatives like migrations and consolidations but can also help with smaller-scale initiatives and your day-to-day tasks of simply getting data in.

It was only as I started to study information theory that I truly understood how nonsensically the computer worked in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Decades before voice assistants and at a time when only the most basic language parsing existed in practice, the computer on Star Trek could always give you the answer you wanted. No one ever spent any time clicking into multiple windows to find an answer, and the display always gave information that could be easily summarized in words.

Predictive analytics are a powerful tool, enabling organizations to make informed data-driven decisions. These tools are far-reaching and can deliver impactful results, either in the long term, like supply chain management and overall equipment effectiveness, or in the short term, like anomaly detection. Let’s take a look at what predictive analytics are and how to power predictive analytics engines for continued, meaningful insight into your data and operations.

Processes—the service workloads that run on your infrastructure—are the building blocks of your application, and it’s critical to know how well they operate at every level of the stack. Degraded process performance can lead to downtime for your mission-critical services, resulting in loss of customer trust and potentially impacting revenue for the business.

Status pages are one of the best additions to your monitoring that can significantly reduce the number of support tickets or improve the efficiency of your teams and processes. There are multiple benefits hidden in creating a custom status page, so let’s take a look at all of them and how you can implement them immediately.

In today's digital landscape, applications are at the heart of both our personal and professional lives. We've grown accustomed to these applications being perpetually available and responsive. This expectation places a significant burden on the shoulders of developers and operations teams.

The Gartner recent report, “Emerging Tech: Top Use Cases for Network Detection and Response”, lays out three primary use case drives, which include: Before we dive deeper into Gartner findings, let’s talk about NDR from a high level.