SolarWinds gives customer peace of mind
Erick Toledo, DevOps Manager at Dictionary.com, shares his experience with SolarWinds products.
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Creating visualizations with Grafana | Grafana for Beginners Ep. 9
Creating visualizations is one of the most effective ways to understand your data. Join Senior Developer Advocate, Lisa Jung to learn how to create gauge, time series line graph, stats, logs, and node graph visualizations using Grafana. The following are covered in this episode: ☁️ Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and more. We have a generous forever-free tier and plans for every use case.
Mastering FinOps: The 7 Essential KPIs
Navigating the complexities of cloud financial management requires more than just tracking costs – it demands a strategic approach to measure and optimize cloud spend. We have put together our top 7 KPIs, ranging from allocatable cloud spend and average hourly costs to sophisticated forecasting, to effectively gauge your FinOps solution success. Each KPI offers unique insights, helping businesses manage and maximize their cloud investments.
Accelerate AIOps with Hollywood's Human-Friendly AI Insights
AI has emerged as a major inflection point in the technology industry, driving providers to rush to introduce AI-enhanced products and services. The remarkable momentum surrounding AI, fueled by its perceived value and excitement, is evident, with businesses reporting an average return on investment of 3.5 times or 250%, according to IDC. Consequently, it comes as no surprise that IDC anticipates a shift in IT spending toward AI.
The Role of APM in DevOps and SRE Practices
As the software development world becomes faster, enterprises must adapt to customer demands by increasing their application’s deployment frequency. They often rely on DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) methodologies to achieve this. These approaches ensure high system availability amidst frequent deployments and prioritize delivering a seamless user experience.
Scaling success: Navigating the challenges of autoscaled applications with Site24x7 APM Insight
Have you ever found yourself wishing for a magical solution to handle the unpredictable ebb and flow of user traffic on your cloud-hosted platforms? Organizations today face the ever-present challenge of effectively managing fluctuating levels of traffic on their platforms. Enter application autoscaling, a concept in modern resource management that allows organizations to seamlessly adjust their resources in response to spikes or lulls in user activity. But what exactly is autoscaling?
Understanding Failover Clusters and their performance issues
In part 1 of this two-part blog about utilizing Failover Clusters in your network to improve performance and availability, we'll uncover how they work, why they are popular for large-scale organizations, and discuss several of the most common issues with them. In part 2, we'll discover the best troubleshooting strategies to address Failover Cluster performance issues, and we'll review a helpful checklist that streamlines the process for fixing these issues.
Beyond APM: What Datadog Won't Tell You with Leon Adato of Kentik
APM tools promise a unified observability platform, yet they inherently focus on internal metrics, traces, and logs. This internal focus, while valuable, misses critical dimensions of the user experience and network performance that are essential for a complete understanding of application behavior in real-world scenarios. With Kentik you can dive deep into your network performance and find problems before they affect your users.
What's New at Kentik, Episode 4
Kenik NMS and AI are the big news this month! Join Leon Adato as he unveils the groundbreaking Kentik NMS (Network Monitoring System) and Kentik AI, designed to enhance network observability with advanced metrics and intelligent, natural language query capabilities. This episode introduces these powerful tools and shares insights into their significance in modern network monitoring. Discover how Kentik is redefining network management with these innovations, promising "phenomenal cosmic power" to IT professionals!