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With the adoption of cloud and microservices, modern IT infrastructures operate with a mesh of services that cater to multiple user requirements. It can get very difficult to simultaneously keep track of numerous services. A Service Catalog helps organize service-related information in a single pane, achieve end-to-end service ownership and get real-time performance insights.

Distributed tracing helps you track requests across services and understand issues affecting your application performance. In distributed cloud architecture, debugging performance issues is complicated. Distributed tracing gives visibility to teams on how a user request performs across different services, protocols, and cloud infrastructure. Let’s start with a brief overview of distributed tracing.

The cloud is helping organisations in the media and entertainment sector unlock new levels of efficiency and speed as they find themselves under pressure to produce and distribute content faster than ever before. In our latest blog we look at how a Network-as-a-Service model can enhance their multi-cloud strategy.

Modern IT environments are so complex, dynamic, and expansive that humans alone cannot effectively manage and maintain them. As a developer and operator, I have had to deal with failed servers and containers, running out of storage space, slow or unreliable network links, bugs in code, and unpredictable workloads in some applications.

Data is essential to a business, but too often the necessary precautions are not in place. Many small businesses are just one small data disaster away from going out of business. What’s worrying is that 3 out of 4 small businesses have no backup strategy or disaster recovery plan in place to prevent this from happening. This lack of preparation can bring a halt to business operations or cause an organization to go out of business.

Cloud cost intelligence is a game-changing way to understand where your money is going and what that means for your business. Any company with a cloud services bill can benefit from a cloud cost intelligence strategy that outlines which spending decisions are beneficial and which should be scrapped in favor of something else. But let’s say you have done your background research and you understand what cloud cost intelligence is and why it matters. Where do you go from there?

How easy is it to work with your security tools? So easy that you’re telling all your family and friends and you singing their praises from the occasional rooftop? Well, we sure hope so. Security tools, like any other tool, should help you save time, not waste it. Nobody would have invented a drill if screwdrivers were fast enough — but it’s also up to you to make sure you are using your drill and all the other power tools available in the modern world.

We recently sat down with Jude Bakeer, one of LogicMonitor’s Solutions Engineers, to talk about the future of IT and Observability. Part of Jude’s role requires her to talk to customers and enterprises every day. Over the years, she’s gathered unparalleled insights into key trends across these industries and segments – from ops teams to C-level executives.

We’re excited to announce the general availability of the Mezmo Agent 3.6, which introduces Windows support to our Rust Agent. At the end of this blog, we’ll also highlight important updates to our Agent Deprecation schedule.

Data center tiers are the Uptime Institute’s classification system of data center performance. Created over 25 years ago, there are four data center tiers that are the established standards in categorizing the performance level of a data center.