Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

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.

Unplanned downtime can cost large enterprises almost $1.5 million per hour, according to a recent survey by Enterprise Management Associates. AIOps offers a solution. With an effective AIOps platform in place, you can decrease the frequency and cost of outages by 30% and reduce their duration to under an hour. AIOps platforms apply AI and machine learning to complex IT data to enhance and automate IT operations.

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.

In this blog series we’ll be examining the Five Myths of Apache Spark Optimization. (Stay tuned for the entire series!) The first myth examines a common assumption of many Spark users: Observing and monitoring your Spark environment means you’ll be able to find the wasteful apps and tune them.

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.

With the latest changes in regulations and laws, and with cyberattacks becoming more sophisticated, costly and frequent, it’s unavoidable: You must rethink basic cyber hygiene for your organization. Today, effective cyber hygiene requires you to plan and carry out regular and consistent actions to not only meet current challenges but also to keep pace with a threat landscape that is always evolving.

Kubernetes, an open-source platform for automating the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications, has come a long way since its inception. As it celebrates its 10th birthday, here’s a look back at its history and milestones.