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The Top 8 Network Monitoring Tools

Network Monitoring is a process that supplies the information and data that network administrators need to determine, in real-time, the status of their network and if it's running optimally. This enables these administrators to work proactively to highlight deficiencies, enhance efficiency, and more. By utilizing network monitoring you can attain complete visibility into their network.

Elastic APM for iOS and Android Native apps

Elastic APM for native apps provides auto-instrumentation of outgoing HTTP requests and view-loads, captures custom events, errors, and crashes, and includes pre-built dashboards for data analysis and troubleshooting purposes Elastic® APM for iOS and Android native apps is generally available in the stack release v8.12. The Elastic iOS and Android APM agents are open-source and have been developed on-top, i.e., as a distribution of the OpenTelemetry Swift and Android SDK/API, respectively.

5 Steps to Troubleshoot Issues in Modern Networks

Networks are becoming more elastic, flexible, and agile than ever before. Organizations can now run network functions on commodity hardware, making network design and implementation less rigid and expensive. By modernizing and virtualizing their networks, teams are able to increase capacity and improve security.

How Often Should You Ping Your Site?

How often should you ping your site? Should you be checking every few minutes, or every hour? Surely you have other ways to detect problems, so maybe just a daily check of your API and main page would be enough, right? While there’s no single right answer for everyone, this post tries to break down how you can find the right cadence for your site checks.

Monitoring apps based on Falcon Web Framework with OpenTelemetry

Falcon is a minimalist Python web API framework for building robust applications and microservices. It also compliments many other Python frameworks by providing extra reliability, flexibility, and performance. Using OpenTelemetry, you can monitor your Falcon applications for performance by collecting telemetry signals like traces. Instrumentation is the biggest challenge engineering teams face when starting out with monitoring their application performance.

OpenTelemetry Flask Instrumentation Complete Tutorial

In this article, we will use OpenTelemetry to instrument a sample Flask app for traces. Flask is one of the most popular web application frameworks of Python. It consists of Werkzeug WSGI toolkit and Jinja2 template engine. Instrumentation is the biggest challenge engineering teams face when starting out with monitoring their application performance. OpenTelemetry is the leading open-source standard that is solving the problem of instrumentation.

Elevate Your IT Infrastructure Monitoring and Automation with Microsoft System Center

Are you grappling with the complexity and time-consuming nature of identifying and resolving infrastructure issues? We understand the challenges that can arise, impacting service quality and efficiency. Join us for an insightful webinar, “Microsoft System Center | Infrastructure Monitoring and Automation in Action,” where we will unveil the power of NiCE and Kelverion in automating your infrastructure management.

How to effectively streamline AD actions with automation

Organizations worldwide use Active Directory (AD) to manage users, devices and data. The world moves at a fast pace, and it demands that tasks be performed as quickly and efficiently as possible. How many times have you had to create a user account in AD manually? Change passwords? Update group memberships? You could add so many other repetitive AD administrative tasks to this list.

The Key Role of Cloud Observability in Ensuring Security

The utilization of cloud-based technologies developed to optimize and streamline business operations is far from a novel idea. In fact, research suggests at least 90% of modern organizations currently use cloud platforms and related technologies to oversee essential processes.

Monitor Windows Performance Counters with Datadog

The Windows operating system exposes metrics such as CPU, memory, and disk usage as built-in performance counters, which provide a unified way to observe performance, state, and other high-level facets of Windows subsystems, components, and native or third-party applications. As such, Windows Performance Counters can be invaluable for monitoring resource usage and the health of your infrastructure, as well as systems your services are using.