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Vendor-Neutral Asset Auto-Discovery: The Cornerstone of DCIM Software

Data centers today are dynamic ecosystems with heterogeneous infrastructures. They encompass a wide array of equipment including servers, storage systems, networking devices, power distribution units, and environmental controls. These assets often originate from multiple vendors and support various communication protocols. Traditional manual asset management methods are ill-equipped to handle this complexity, leading to inefficiencies, inaccuracies, and increased operational costs.

AWS EKS Pricing Explained: A 2024 Guide

Cloud computing demands efficient application deployment, management, and scaling. Amazon EKS offers a solid solution, simplifying cloud computing management for organizations. At its core, AWS EKS harnesses the power of Kubernetes to automate tasks within AWS’s secure cloud infrastructure. It supports smooth and reliable application performance, which is crucial for organizations scaling their operations. This guide details AWS EKS pricing and offers practical tips on reducing costs.

Streamline communication between applications by monitoring IBM MQ effectively

Efficient communication between applications is essential for seamless operations in modern IT environments. IBM MQ, robust messaging middleware, plays a pivotal role in facilitating this. Monitoring IBM MQ is crucial for enhancing communication efficiency and enables organizations to optimize performance, identify potential issues before they escalate, and ensure reliable message delivery.

Three reasons why your business needs infrastructure monitoring

A business's website or application might appear polished on the surface, but if the underlying infrastructure is struggling, the user experience also suffers. Users can only benefit from applications and services if the critical back-end infrastructure is functional. Here's where infrastructure monitoring comes in—it acts as a watchful eye in your IT environment, ensuring everything runs smoothly.

What is DNS monitoring and why is it important

In the digital world, your website is like a house, and visitors access it through an address. But before they reach your doorstep, they need directions—that's where the domain name system (DNS) comes in. It acts like a phone book and translates user-friendly website names (like google.com) into machine-friendly numerical IP addresses. DNS server monitoring checks the health and performance of the DNS servers that translate website addresses into IP addresses.

Leading Observability Interview Questions

If you're aiming for a position that demands strong monitoring and observability skills, thorough preparation is essential. In this comprehensive guide, we will provide an extensive list of the most frequently asked interview questions about the three pillars of observability; logs, metrics and tracing. Each question is also accompanied by detailed, well-explained answers to ensure that you fully understand the concepts and can confidently demonstrate your expertise.

Understanding the Power of AI Data Fabric

The rapid adoption of Generative AI (GenAI) tools, such as ChatGPT, has transformed various sectors, including marketing, legal, and software development. However, this rapid integration brings challenges, such as managing critical data access, mitigating costs, and ensuring compliance. To address these complexities, enterprises need to upgrade their data center management with an AI Data Fabric Copilot.

Shorten your feedback loop: Java observability with OpenTelemetry, Grafana Cloud, and Digma.ai

Ron Dover is CTO and co-founder of Digma.ai, an IDE plugin for code runtime AI analysis to help accelerate development in complex code bases. Ron is a big believer in evidence-based development and a proponent of continuous feedback in all aspects of software engineering. Traditionally, software developers have relied on simple logs to understand code execution and troubleshoot issues.

Feature Friday #15: bundlesmatching()

Did you know bundles can have tags too? That’s right! You can tag a bundle by defining tags as a meta promise on a bundle. For example: You’ve likely encountered bundles tagged with autorun. These tags trigger automatic execution of bundles in lexical order whenever the services_autorun class is defined. However, you’re not limited to autorun. You can create custom tags to suite your specific needs.