Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Apache Kafka is a popular open source platform for streaming, storing, and processing high volumes of data. In this video, we break down how Kafka works and how it’s able to provide you with a reliable, scalable, and highly performant service for managing events. We also touch on some key resources for effectively monitoring your Kafka deployments via Datadog.

With Puppet, the power of IT automation empowers you. Learn more at puppet.com. Too many companies use patchwork solutions for configuration management and IT automation, leading to unmanageable complexity and huge security risks. IT operators are on-call day and night to address security breaches, and toil for weeks manually provisioning servers. But no one would expect you to wash 10,000 dishes by hand – so why are IT operators expected to configure 10,000 servers manually?

Elastic provides a rich set of Observability features beyond logging, such as metrics, tracing, OTel support, and rich ML/AIOps features. Getting started is easy as deploying a singular agent to collect and ingest metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources such as K8S, AWS, and Applications. Watch this video to see how simple it is.

Learn how IT teams can visually track various ITSM practices like incident management; service request fulfillment; problem management; change, project, and release management using graphical life cycles and workflows. Ensure that service desk agents follow standard operating procedures and minimize errors by orchestrating various actions like updating fields, sending notifications, automating approvals and more.

It's a wrap! Hear about the experiences of the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2022 attendees from Detroit. What was the highlight of the conference for you?

When RediTech installed their first RM tool, they hardly looked back, moving too fast to innovate on the up and running platform. But, time caught up to them, and so did all the manual work. That's when they reached out to N-able N-hanced Services to revisit their foundations and build the right use cases for their remote monitoring and managing to best support their partners and grow their business.

Ivanti Neurons for Healing offers a squad of automation bots to proactively detect, diagnose, and auto-remediate configuration drift, performance, and security issues, and maintain compliance. In this video, we'll demonstrate: Pave the way to a self-healing environment reducing time, cost and improving you overall digital employee experience.

It's baaaa-aaaaack. The ritual is set. The PowerShell rites have been cast. Once again, we're calling together a coven of your favorite IT experts to share stories of cursed server closets, loathsome legacy systems shrouded in mystery (and misery), and support tickets from HELL. This year, in addition to real-life horror stories and IT survival tips we're subjecting our panel to a monstrously spicy challenge that may just make this year's Fest our last.

For the better part of twenty years, the SolarWinds Orion Platform has provided the consolidated web console, alerting engine, reporting engine, and the API upon which our Network, Systems, Virtualization, Storage, and other management solutions rely. That technology was always evolving release-to-release, and the next stage in that evolution is a new name. Now called the SolarWinds Platform, it's built on the same technology that's been part of our customers' experiences for years.

Why are #Phishing and spear phishing attempts on the rise? DNSFilter CEO Ken Carnesi told N-able Chief Security Officer David MacKinnon the shift out of the office, and into more remote work might be the reason why. What do you think?