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Incident Management Today: Benefits, 6-Step Process & Best Practices

Disruptive cybersecurity incidents become more and more commonplace each day. Even if nothing is directly hacked, these incidents can harm your systems and networks. Navigating cybersecurity incidents is a constant challenge — the best way to stay ahead of the game is with effective incident management.

Operational Intelligence: 6 Steps To Get Started

The ability to make decisions quickly can mean the difference between success and stagnation. Of course, quick decisions aren’t necessarily the right decisions. The right decisions are the best informed, and the best way to get informed is through data. That’s what operational intelligence is all about. In this article, we’re diving into all things operational intelligence (OI), including key benefits, goals and how to get started.

10 Critical Server Performance Metrics You Should Consider

More and more developers are worried about the end-to-end delivery of online apps as the DevOps movement gains attention. This covers the application's launch, functionality, and upkeep. Understanding the function of the server becomes more and more important as an application's user base grows in a live setting. You must collect speed data for the computers hosting your web apps in order to assess the health of your applications.

Monitor Google Cloud Vertex AI with Datadog

Vertex AI is Google’s platform offering AI and machine learning computing as a service—enabling users to train and deploy machine learning (ML) models and AI applications in the cloud. In June 2023, Google added generative AI support to Vertex AI, so users can test, tune, and deploy Google’s large language models (LLMs) for use in their applications.

A better Grafana OnCall: web-based scheduling, mobile app, email support

Does anyone really enjoy being on-call? That looming dread over what could go wrong? The alarms in the middle of the night when everything does in fact go wrong? Of course not! But that doesn’t mean on-call shifts need to be a giant bundle of anxiety and exhaustion. This is something near and dear to our hearts at Grafana Labs, since the majority of our engineers participate in on-call shifts.

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Serverless Elasticsearch: Is ELK or OpenSearch Serverless Architecture Effective?

Here's the question of the hour. Can you use serverless Elasticsearch or OpenSearch effectively at scale, while keeping your budget in check? The biggest historical pain points around Elasticsearch and OpenSearch are their management complexity and costs. Despite announcements from both Elasticsearch and OpenSearch around serverless capabilities, these challenges remain. Both of these tools are not truly serverless, let alone stateless, hiding their underlying complexity and passing along higher management costs to the customer.

SMTP Monitoring Uncovered: How Does It Work?

SMTP, which stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, is a crucial component in the world of email communication. It’s a protocol used within the TCP/IP suite that facilitates the sending and receiving of email. SMTP is commonly used by a range of email clients such as Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail, and Yahoo Mail. As of 2023, the number of daily worldwide emails reached an astounding 4.26 billion worldwide.

Ditch Nagios Errors for A Streamlined Alternative: "Return code of x is out of bounds"

In the realm of IT infrastructure monitoring, Nagios has long been a popular choice due to its robust feature set and flexibility. However, even reliable systems can encounter issues, and one recurring problem that Nagios users might encounter is the "Return code of x is out of bounds" error. In this blog post, we'll dive into the details of this error, what causes it, and how it can impact your monitoring efforts.