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Observability isn’t just a nice-to-have—it’s essential. OpenTelemetry steps in as a unified framework that helps you collect, process, and export telemetry data across distributed systems. The OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib extends this framework, offering extra components that make it even more powerful and flexible, helping developers and operators monitor and optimize systems with ease.

Database observability is the number one way to keep data moving smoothly around your environment. But have you ever wondered how the modern observability solution forms such a comprehensive picture of your infrastructure? Let’s check out five key metrics that form the foundation of effective database observability.

Availability is the most important driving factor that shapes every decision an organization makes. To ensure high availability, failover clustering is one of the most commonly used solutions in modern IT infrastructure. In this article, we'll learn what failover cluster storage, cluster shared storage, and cluster shared volumes are. Then, we will guide you on how to manage and monitor these crucial resources.

IIS has evolved a lot since its GA release in 1995. It is the second-most used web server platform (the first being Apache—the pioneer of web servers). It supports multiple protocols like HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, SMTP, and NNTP, which makes it a single solution for hosting both websites and applications.

Your Kubernetes environment feels perpetually sluggish. Applications that once met performance benchmarks and service-level agreements are now struggling to keep up and operating costs continue to rise. With no clear indicators, you’re left sifting through application logs and dependencies for a root cause.

We’re excited to introduce Regression Alerts, a powerful new tool designed to help you catch and address defects that resurface in newer versions of your software.

With almost all of 2025 out in front of us, we wanted to make sure that you saw all of the great progress and useful features that got pushed live in 2024! Last year was a year of big strides forward, meaningful conversations with our community, and exciting updates to our product. Before we dive into all the exciting things ahead in 2025, let’s take a moment to celebrate the progress we made this past year.

The Five Ws and H — who, what, when, where, why and how — have long been used as a checklist in journalism to make sure a story covers every piece of essential information. The same concept is employed here to make sure all the essential information about exposure management is covered in this post. Read on for a better understanding of exposure management (the Five Ws) and actionable guidance for implementing it (the H).

Complex hybrid IT setups are leading us to rethink how we structure our IT departments. Let’s discuss ITOps and CloudOps in 2025. Could making them a single team be more effective?

Do you remember Back to the Future Day? The day in 2015 when the world celebrated Marty McFly’s trip to a futuristic 2015 in the iconic movie? We laughed at the idea of hoverboards and self-tying shoes while marveling at how much of what was once science fiction was becoming real. Here’s the thing, though: the future never announces its arrival with a neon sign or a ringing bell. It just happens.