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The latest News and Information on Monitoring for Websites, Applications, APIs, Infrastructure, and other technologies.

Monitor Oracle managed databases with Datadog DBM

Jan 22, 2024 By Nicholas Thomson In Datadog

Datadog Database Monitoring (DBM), which provides host-level and query performance metrics and insights for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQL Server, is now available for Oracle. Oracle is one of the most common database types, and now teams that operate Oracle databases can use Datadog to monitor these resources alongside telemetry from across their environments.

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Overcoming Messy Cloud Migrations, Outdated Infrastructures, Syslog, and Other Chaos

Jan 22, 2024 By Mike Dupuis In Cribl

As businesses grapple with increasing data volumes, the need for practical tools to manage and use this data has never been greater. High-quality tools are great — but imagine what you could accomplish with one that made all the others in your toolbox even better? That’s exactly how we design every Cribl solution — we exist to help IT and Security teams get more out of their existing infrastructure.

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How to Monitor VoIP Service Provider Networks

Jan 22, 2024 By Andrii Kernitskyi In Obkio

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service providers emerge as the architects of seamless and efficient communication. These providers play a pivotal role in facilitating voice and multimedia communication over the Internet, offering cost-effective and feature-rich alternatives to traditional telephony.

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OTel Applications on Retrace

Jan 22, 2024 By Stackify In Stackify

We are excited to inform you that Open Telemetry is now available for you with the introduction of “Netreo OTel Appliance”. With the OTel Appliance, cloud-native services like AWS Lambda, AWS ECS, AWS EKS, Azure Functions, Azure App Services, Azure Container Instances, and Azure Kubernetes Services can be monitored and you see application traces and logs in Retrace UI (s1.stackify.com). The applications hosted in the cloud Serverless and containers can be monitored without running the Retrace agent within the instance itself.

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Our complete cron job guide for 2024

Jan 22, 2024 By Laura Clayton In Uptime Robot

When it comes to system administration, the need for automation and precise scheduling has never been greater. That’s where cron comes in, the time-based job scheduler that has been a steadfast companion of Unix-like operating systems for decades. If you’re a seasoned sysadmin or just a curious enthusiast, understanding the ins and outs of Cron is a valuable skill.

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Trying and failing and trying again

Jan 22, 2024 By Todd H. Gardner In Request Metrics

Starting software products is hard, and it’s easy to make mistakes. We’ve started a lot of products – and we’ve made a whole lot of mistakes along the way. But that’s not going to stop us. We’re stubborn like that. Today we are launching Request Metrics for the third time, and I’m reflecting on what we did wrong in the first two attempts, and how we’re going to be better, faster, and strong next time.

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Accelerate TraceQL queries at scale with dedicated attribute columns in Grafana Tempo

Jan 22, 2024 By Mario Rodriguez, Adrian Stoewer In Grafana

With Grafana Tempo 2.3, we introduced a new storage format (vParquet3), which enabled an exciting new feature (dedicated attribute columns) that focused on the read path. Dedicated attribute columns offer a wide range of benefits primarily centered around query performance and memory usage. These columns can improve read speed across most queries, and they can have a major impact on resource utilization.

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Scale Your Splunk Cloud Operations With The Splunk Content Manager App

Jan 22, 2024 By Atef Kouki In Splunk

Effectively managing both public and private Splunk Apps across multiple Splunk environments poses a considerable challenge, demanding significant time and effort with the potential for tedious and manual tasks. Recognizing this complexity, the Splunk Cloud Service has been progressively introducing additional features and capabilities to streamline and simplify these intricate administrative responsibilities.

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Elastic recognized with 2024 EMA Allstars award for its AI-assisted observability

Jan 22, 2024 By Gagan Singh In Elastic

We are thrilled to be recognized with the 2024 EMA Allstars award. This award acknowledges Elastic’s focus on delivering a full-stack observability solution that provides unified visibility and AI-powered insights into complex hybrid cloud deployments. The EMA Allstars award celebrates trailblazers and innovators who are reshaping the enterprise technology landscape.

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Grafana Unleashes Official InfluxDB V3 Data Source: A Quick-start Guide to Configuration and Usage

Jan 22, 2024 By Jay Clifford In InfluxData

Yes, the title says it all: Grafana released the official V3 plugin for InfluxDB Data Source! Before delving into the tutorial, we’d like to thank Ismail Simsek, a Tech Lead at Grafana. Ismail was pivotal in adding the V3 SQL plugin to the InfluxDB data source and making significant backend code improvements. To clarify, this release isn’t an entirely new data source.

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