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Software vendor management is difficult. You've probably experienced it. The service desk is flooded with tickets about a specific application. Employees are frustrated. Your EUC team investigates but can’t find the root cause. So, you reach out to the vendor. Then the inevitable happens: the vendor responds with “Everything is green from our perspective”. Yet, the issues persist. Tickets continue to come in. Frustrations continue to mount.

Anomaly detection in metrics or time series data is the most used machine learning use case among Splunk Security and Observability customers. Customers are looking for easy-to-use ML-powered high-fidelity anomaly detection, so that they can be alerted at the first sign of a failure point or security incident.

Ensuring optimal application performance is a Herculean task tee’d up for today’s IT operations teams. Adding to the confusion is the shared acronym of the two most common practices: While the terms are similar, the approaches and use cases are different.

Interest in generative AI and large language models (LLMs) has exploded in popularity thanks to a slew of announcements and product releases, such as Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, OpenAI’s DALL-E, and ChatGPT. The arrival of ChatGPT in particular was a bellwether moment, especially for developers. For the first time, an LLM was readily available and good enough that even non-technical people could use it to generate prose, re-write emails, and generate code in seconds.

In this article, we’ll cover our newest feature- Microsoft Teams notifications! We’ll walk you through how to set it up, and we’ll take a look at why we are constantly making the MetricFire experience better.

Today, in those much needed training videos, we will delve into the exciting and mysterious universe of basic monitoring of computers with Linux operating systems. Ready to unlock the hidden secrets of your devices? Well, let’s go! Before you dive into this adventure, make sure you have Pandora FMS environment installed and running. Done? Well, now we will focus on how to monitor those Linux computers that allow you to install the software agent devoted to this operating system.

I’m thrilled to announce that Gartner added Monitoring as Code (MaC) as an emerging practice into their Hype Cycles for Monitoring and Observability and Site Reliability Engineering. We are extremely hyped about this recognition and being listed as a vendor innovating in that space. Since we founded Checkly, our vision has been that monitoring should be set up as code and live in your repository; it must be open-source based and feel natural for developers.