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How WOW! Modernized Legacy Infrastructure Monitoring with InfluxDB and Kafka

With over 500,000 residential, business, and wholesale customers across multiple markets in the United States, WideOpenWest (WOW!) is one of the United States’ largest broadband providers. They aim to connect homes and businesses to the world with fast and reliable internet, TV, and phone services.

What is the Purpose of Syslog Monitoring in Enterprise Software Companies?

Baseball fans know about the various in-game statistics and actions requiring someone to keep them as records. From a player's overall performance at-bat to a game's final score at the bottom of the ninth, dozens (possibly hundreds) of different statistics are happening throughout a season. In Major League Baseball, these records are essential for the team owner, front office workers and coaches to figure out strategies on the diamond or how to distribute fair pay.

Introducing Honeycomb for Kubernetes: Bridging the Divide Between Applications and Infrastructure

In our continuous journey to support teams grappling with the complexities of Kubernetes environments, we’re thrilled to announce the launch of Honeycomb for Kubernetes, a dedicated solution designed to bridge the growing divide between infrastructure/platform teams and application developers. This is available to all plans (including Free!) at no additional cost.

Observability for Sustainability

For the past 20 years, the various stakeholder communities that together constitute the IT industry have attempted to address sustainability. The original efforts grew out of the realisation that even as far back as 2005, the hardware and software that underlay the digital world were responsible for approximately 5% of overall energy consumption and that both the percentage and absolute amounts of energy required were growing in the double digits.

Top 6 Benefits of AIOps You Must Know

AIOps — a term coined by Gartner back in 2017 has emerged as one of the hottest talking points in the realm of ITOps. Since its inception, its adoption by large enterprises has gone up from 5% to 30% in 2023. This impressive 6X growth is a clear indicator that AIOps is here to transform how businesses manage their IT operations. But what is it that makes AIOps special? What are the benefits of AIOps that businesses are looking to leverage.

The Driving Force of Community at All Things Open 2023

The most noticeable takeaway from All Things Open 2023 was how visibly and demonstrably people were there for the event itself. Not to check a box or browse the swag but to be together, show their support of open source, and glean every last bit of knowledge they could.

What is Network Monitoring?

Today, more than ever, as IT environments become more diverse and complex, the need for an effective network monitoring solution has become paramount. However, with the digital environment, it’s constantly ever-evolving, so, these tools must keep pace with these changes to ensure they are still effective for users diagnosing issues and identifying bottlenecks within their network.

Achieving observability in Heroku applications with Sumo Logic

Are you one of the many companies harnessing the power of Heroku to build, deliver and scale your applications seamlessly? If so, you're likely aware of the need for robust observability to ensure your Heroku environment runs smoothly. Let’s delve into the world of Heroku monitoring and explore how Sumo Logic, a leading observability platform, can provide invaluable insights into your Heroku infrastructure and application logs.

Using Cribl Search to Aid in Threat Hunting by Enriching Data in Motion

Cribl Search is reshaping the data search paradigm, empowering users to uncover and analyze data directly from its source. Cribl Search can easily reach out and query data already collected in Amazon S3 (or S3 compatible), Amazon Security Lake, Azure Blob, Google Cloud Storage, and more. By searching data where it lives, you can dramatically speed up your search process by avoiding the need to move data before analyzing it.

Got Ghosts in Your Enterprise Network?

Shining a light on the dark corners of the new enterprise network doesn't have to be as scary or overwhelming as some think. While “ghost issues” typically lurk in these sometimes unexplored places on the internet or in cloud environments, during this Halloween season your network operations teams can gain the confidence to not only uncover these network ghosts, but compel and cast them out forever.