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Provisioning and Autoscaling

Datadog, the observability platform used by thousands of companies, runs on dozens of self-managed Kubernetes clusters in a multi-cloud environment, adding up to tens of thousands of nodes, or hundreds of thousands of pods. This infrastructure is used by a wide variety of engineering teams at Datadog, with different feature and capacity needs.

Organization Admin Console

Coralogix supports multi-tenancy, allowing multiple teams to be connected under a single organization. Some companies prefer separate teams to isolate data based on the environment it originates from like: Dev, QA, or Production. While others prefer to isolate the data based on organizational units like: Infrastructure, Security, and Application. Coralogix allows you to associate multiple teams with an Organization.

Ensuring Effective IT Infrastructure Monitoring in the Public Sector

Public sector organizations have needs very different from their commercial counterparts. Cybercriminals go after public sector organizations because they hold confidential, often classified, information – the exact data state-sponsored and other criminal groups salivate over. Being based on tax payments, these organizations serve and answer to the public. Progress WhatsUp Gold offers ample out-of-the box monitoring features, helping you to monitor more of what matters to your organization.

Detect Ransomware with Flowmon

Experience Ransomware attack step by step and see how you can leverage Flowmon AI-powered threat detection to detect and stop ransomware attacks, before it reaches your storage and your critical data. Progress® Flowmon® is a network and security monitoring platform with AI-based detection of cyber threats and anomalies, and fast access to actionable insights into network and application performance. The solution supports cloud, on-prem and hybrid environments suitable for company-wide coverage, market’s fastest deployment time and has been recognised by Gartner since 2010.

The Benefits and Drawbacks of SNMP and Streaming Telemetry

Is SNMP on life support, or is it as relevant today as ever? The answer is more complicated than a simple yes or no. SNMP is reliable, customizable, and very widely supported. However, SNMP has some serious limitations, especially for modern network monitoring — limitations that streaming telemetry solves. In this post, learn about the advantages and drawbacks of SNMP and streaming telemetry and why they should both be a part of a network visibility strategy.

We removed advertising cookies, & here's what happened | Sentry

This is not another abstract post about what the ramifications of the cookieless future might be; Sentry actually removed cookies from our website a few months ago. Here’s how it impacted us positively and negatively, in both expected and unexpected ways. I hope this can serve as a guide or inspire others who are considering making this change.

Privacy by default

While companies tout the importance of user privacy, few put their money where their mouth is – or in our case, actually live and breathe the concept the way we do as a company. From how we think about our Product to the way we implement our Marketing, Sentry’s take on privacy is rooted in three key fundamentals: Don’t make me choose, think like your customer, and build for tomorrow today.

Top 3 Icinga Components You Can't Ignore

Monitoring your systems is like having a superhero keeping an eye on your digital realm. And when it comes to superheroes in the world of monitoring, Icinga takes center stage. But did you know that Icinga becomes even mightier with the help of components? In this post, we’re going to unveil the top three Icinga components that are not just cool but downright essential for your monitoring game.

How to set up home automation: A beginner's guide with Grafana Cloud and Home Assistant

I first learned about Home Assistant when my previous job’s manager shared that he charms his wife by using home automation to have Alexa announce the weather as she starts getting ready for the day. After that, he showed us the cool Grafana dashboards where he visualizes his entire home automation setup on a screen in his basement. As fate would have it, I got a chance to work for Grafana Labs soon after that, and I started building my own home automation setup using Grafana Cloud.