Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Interview with Alexander Twaradze, Pandora FMS representative in CIS countries. See original here.

In the landscape of everyday operations, the concept of forensic readiness may often linger unnoticed in the background. When a crisis strikes, be it a major system outage or a security breach. The importance of being forensic ready as part of your overall digital resiliency strategy suddenly becomes evident. That’s the moment you realize it’s necessary for a thorough investigation. The findings enable you to have an effective response and proportionate mitigative actions.

As OpenTelemetry rises in popularity, more organizations are implementing, or planning to implement, the open source project to monitor their applications — and, meanwhile, more vendors are offering OpenTelemetry support. In fact, a quick Google search for “OpenTelemetry support” shows results ranging from legacy APM vendors to newer, cloud native solutions like Grafana Cloud.

Welcome to the high-speed chase of website performance! As emerging techies in the realms of DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), you’re about to embark on a thrilling journey to understand one of the most critical aspects of user experience—website speed. In this digital era, where a millisecond can make or break a user’s engagement, it’s essential to grasp the nuances of website performance.

Monitoring tools serve as essential tools for computer systems, diligently collecting and analysing data to enhance decision-making and and prevent potential issues. Monitoring tools give you real-time information, helping you quickly find and fix problems and also makes sure everything runs smoothly. Thus effective monitoring tools are a necessity for businesses seeking insight into their IT infrastructure.

In doing your due diligence, you may be researching the cost of virtualization and whether it can truly save you money in the long run. This article will discuss several factors that you need to consider when you are weighing the costs associated with virtualization.

Monitoring the performance and health of infrastructure is crucial for ensuring smooth operations. From data centers and cloud environments to networks and IoT devices, infrastructure monitoring plays a vital role in identifying issues, optimizing resource utilization, and maintaining high availability. However, traditional monitoring approaches often struggle to handle the volume and velocity of data generated by modern infrastructures. This is where time series databases, like InfluxDB, come into play.

In digital transactions, even the slightest hiccup can ripple through the system, causing significant disruptions. Our recent encounter with an unexpected system slowdown and a noticeable drop in transaction success rates is a testament to the intricate balance required to maintain seamless operations. This post aims to shed light on the incident, our findings, and the measures we’ve taken to fortify our system against future disturbances.

Service Mocking can accelerate dev cycles, especially as part of Internal Developer Platforms.