Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

In a previous article, we walked you through key steps to become a proficient DevOps: However, even experienced DevOps are still struggling in their day-to-day work for several reasons. One of the most common challenges is the fast-paced nature of the DevOps field, which requires professionals to learn and adapt to new technologies and methodologies constantly. This can be difficult for even the most experienced individuals, as it requires them to stay up-to-date with the latest developments in the field.

Configuration Management and Change Tracking are well known key tenets of project management. Change tracking and controlled change ensure that there is a record of the state of a system and if issues arise the cause can be linked to effects. In this blog, I will use a real-world example to demonstrate the importance of configuration and change tracking when it comes to IT observability.

Kubernetes was born out of the need to make our complex applications highly available, scalable, portable and deployable in small microservices independently. It also extends its capabilities to make adoption of DevOps processes and helps you set up modern Incident Response strategies to enhance the reliability of your applications.

Network and IT infrastructure monitoring is something necessary for all connected organizations today. However, choosing the right network monitoring tool and software is not easy as there is a huge diversity of these tools on the market now. Comprehensive network and IT monitoring tools help you manage your devices and ensure that they are available when you need them. These tools and software offer a wide variety of benefits for companies of all sizes.

In our on-demand webinar, Obkio’s network pros go over our network diagnostics process of how to locate and troubleshoot live network issues faster with Obkio network performance monitoring vs. traditional monitoring solutions. Networks are changing, and monitoring solutions need to keep up.

Enterprises are increasingly adopting Kubernetes. In fact, Gartner estimates that by 2026 more than 90% of global organizations will be running containerized applications in production, an increase from fewer than 40% in 2020. And IDC reports that 80% of new workloads are being developed in containers.

Finding service relationships and diagnosing bottlenecks within an application can be incredibly difficult to accomplish, especially if your applications are spread across multiple services, with both internal and external service calls. Although users could get granular visibility into individual traces using our Distributed Tracing features, they couldn’t see how their services were connected across different traces.

A couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to attend AWS re:invent, one of the biggest cloud industry events of the year. An event so massive and big that only AWS can pull it off – 50,000 people marching across half a dozen of the finest hotels on the Las Vegas strip. The expo hall alone would have taken more than a couple of days to cover all the vendor booths spread across the expansive Venetian convention center.

3 things to know about IT Remote Support software: Remote support software is designed specifically to help businesses provide customer support by troubleshooting software and hardware issues using a variety of tools. In contrast to remote access and control software, customers that receive remote assistance support must give consent to allow access to an IT technician to view their device’s screen.

IT Operations has always been difficult. There is always too much work to do—and not enough time to do it. The frequent interruptions and high levels of toil certainly don’t help. Moreover, there is relentless pressure from executives that question why everything takes too long, breaks too often, and costs too much. In search of improvement, we have repeatedly bet on new tools to improve our work.