Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

In today's interconnected world, communication has become more critical than ever. For businesses, communication with clients, vendors, and employees is essential to success. Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) has revolutionized the way businesses communicate, allowing them to make phone calls over the internet instead of traditional phone lines. However, VoIP systems can be complex and require careful monitoring to ensure they are functioning optimally.

There are two types of website owners: those who back up their website data, and those who will soon start doing it. Backing up a website’s data is so critical; losing data can result in substantial revenue loss. There are various methods of backing up your website. This article outlines the top 15 tools for backing up your website externally. We will have an overview of each tool along with its benefits and drawbacks.

Broadcom has been named the highest-scoring vendor for the third consecutive year in a row in the 2023 Radar Report for Network Observability.

Another release of the Netdata Monitoring solution is here!

Over the past several years, one topic that has become of increasing importance for DevOps and site reliability engineering (SRE) teams is AIOps. Artificial intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps) is the application of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and analytics to improve the day-to-day operational work for IT operations teams.

Seems like everyone is building a ChatGPT thing right now, doesn’t it? Well we are too! Inspired by so many others, we decided to see what AI could do with our simplified analytics and observability data. Turns out, it can do quite a lot. I’m thrilled to share that we’ve shipped our first AI insights chatbot, Professor Sloth.

Effective network troubleshooting requires collecting and correlating thousands of data points across your entire stack. The more data you ingest, however, the more data you have to search through in order to locate important signals. This can make it hard to find the information you need during time-sensitive investigations.

Managing an IT team is a tough job. While demands on services are increasing, both internally and externally, the need to be aware of and in control of application and server performance is a constant pressure. Right now, there are four key areas that are of particular concern for those responsible for IT departments and teams.

A Network Bandwidth Monitoring Tool is a software program designed to monitor and analyze the network traffic data flowing through a network connection. It provides real-time information about the amount of data being transmitted, the speed of the connection, and other relevant metrics. The tool can help network administrators to identify and troubleshoot network issues, optimize network performance, and ensure that the network is being used efficiently.

In our article on managing static credentials, we discussed the necessity of secrets — the passwords, tokens, and API keys that connect digital services together — and the importance of keeping them secure so that your infrastructure and data are kept safe from intrusion and misuse. For organizations delivering software at scale, managing credentials across multiple teams and projects can quickly become tedious and error-prone, creating bottlenecks and unnecessary risk.