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Survey: Complexity and Costs Threaten Health of Strong DevOps Pulse

Oh how quickly the times change. Over the past 5 years, as Logz.io has executed its annual DevOps Pulse Survey and created the accompanying report, the state of “modern” cloud engineering and monitoring practices have advanced at a torrid pace. As a result, so has the project itself. Back in 2017 when we started polling the industry and collecting data, we sought to validate the usefulness of DevOps itself.

System Center 2022 Release

Microsoft announced the release of System Center 2022 on 1st April. The updated Microsoft System Center Orchestrator product information can be found here. The release brings significant improvements to the System Center suite, including an important update to Orchestrator, which is now a 64-bit application. This new functionality enables Orchestrator to work seamlessly with 64-bit PowerShell within code activities, a revision that has been sort-after by the user base.

What is Microsoft's New Operator Connect Accelerator?

One of the great things about being in the telecom industry is the constant innovation that occurs. For example, Microsoft just announced an exciting new offering for telecom service providers, Operator Connect Accelerator, aimed at helping them get the most out of their Teams investments. Operator Connect is Microsoft’s managed service for connecting Teams and telephony services.

Troubleshooting Sources and Destinations in Cribl Stream

This is Part One of a series of blogs around troubleshooting Cribl Stream. Part One will focus on identifying and troubleshooting issues with Sources and Destinations in Stream. I will cover some of the common problems that users face and how you can work through them and find the root cause.

Best PHP Monitoring Tools on the Market

As of April 2022, more than 75% of the internet comprises websites made using PHP (source). That is to say, three out of four websites on the internet have been developed using PHP! That is huge! With that many PHP web applications on the web, there need to be systems that can automatedly keep track of how they respond to the hundreds of thousands of clients connecting worldwide.

The Results Are In: Upsun Drives Both Significant IT/DevOps Efficiency and Meaningful Cost Savings

We built Upsun because we knew there had to be a better way for businesses to build, run, and scale a full fleet of websites and web apps at scale. After all, until we brought our solution to market, many businesses had to construct a patchwork of different vendors, technologies, platforms, and solutions to bring their digital experiences to life. But there was no guarantee that all of those different component parts would always “play nicely in the sandbox” together.

Tools for Threat Hunting and IT Service Risk Monitoring

Cybersecurity can often seem intimidating for IT teams. After all, things like “threat hunting,” “red teaming,” and “blue teaming” are not used in IT operations. On the other hand, just because these words are terms of art doesn’t mean that they’re activities you don’t do already. You’re probably already using log data as part of your IT operations incident response.

Five Essential Ticketing Automations to Get You Started

Like all Ninja products, Ninja Ticketing gives users many opportunities to save time through automation. Setting up automations against a tabula rasa can be a daunting task when first getting started with ticketing. We wrote this blog post to help new users get started with common, helpful automations you can use from day one. This guide will provide step-by-step explanations and screenshots to show how to set up these automations.

How Grafana Mimir's split-and-merge compactor enables scaling metrics to 1 billion active series

Grafana Mimir, our new open source time series database, introduces a horizontally scalable split-and-merge compactor that can easily handle a large number of series. In a previous blog post, we described how we did extensive load testing to ensure high performance at 1 billion active series. In this article, we will discuss the challenges with the existing Prometheus and Cortex compactors and the new features of Grafana Mimir’s compactor.