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

10 Principles of Effective Monitoring: A Quick Checklist of Fundamentals

Whether you’re just beginning your monitoring journey or are a seasoned pro, being reminded of monitoring’s core principles is still helpful. From my own experience as a former SRE to what I’ve seen from our customers at Circonus, here are 10 essential monitoring tenets to live by.

An Overview of Intelligent Query Processing in SQL Server

When you issue a query to SQL Server or Azure SQL, it internally tries to optimize a query plan through calculations such as whether to use an index. Much of SQL Server’s query plans are based on its best guess of what will happen at run time when your query executes. Even when SQL Server guesses right, as your data changes (especially as the volume of data increases), optimal plans can end up performing so poorly, they can drag your whole system’s performance down.

How To: Create Device Templates in Netreo

Automation is key to getting the most from the Netreo Platform. It is also a significant reason why Netreo delivers the fastest time-to-value among IT infrastructure management solutions. Automating administrative tasks reduces admin burden, improves data integrity and infrastructure lifecycle management . This allows you and your IT team t o focus on more strategic business initiatives.

Logit.io named as a Performer in log management & data analytics award

We are excited to announce that Logit.io has recently taken home three awards from Appvizer’s selection ranking the best log management and data analytics tools on their platform. In addition to this, we’ve also been named as one of their certified partners for 2021.

Supercharge Storage Optimization Via Graylog

Just how smart is your storage management? Storage is one of the most promising ways to shift from the "more is better" philosophy to the "work smarter" philosophy. What do I mean by that? Historically, IT managers who needed more storage responded in the most obvious way: they bought more. Then they deployed it, integrated it, and waited until the problem recurred.

5 features you must have in your status page for effective incident communication

Have you been a frustrated customer at the end of the service line waiting to achieve a resolution for your problem? After all the waiting, you'll hear a voice giving you a standard response: your request will be addressed and resolved soon. An incident need not be a harrowing experience, but can be turned into a positive customer experience using customizable and publicly accessible status pages for timely incident communication.

Why Adding End-to-End Service Delivery is the 'Ace in the Hole' for MSPs

Your path to creating an elevated version of your current Microsoft 365 services is one that you already know is needed to create predictability for you and for your customers- predictability yields profitability. The reality is that Microsoft is more focused today on the commodity customer than your specific business needs as an MSP. This is one of the reasons most MSPs tend to take the backup/DR/cybersecurity angle.

Monitor and visualize database performance with Datadog Database Monitoring

When you’re running databases at scale, finding performance bottlenecks can often feel like looking for a needle in a haystack. In any troubleshooting scenario, you need to know the exact state of your database at the onset of an issue, as well as its behavior leading up to it.