‍ The solution: We can use Sentry to track specific errors that occur on production and Hosted Graphite's Sentry webhook add-on to add annotations to our system performance graphs. This way, we can correlate when a specific error occurs with our system usage spikes. ‍ Sentry is an application that alerts you when an app gets an error. It can also alert you to specific mistakes so you can see when and where something broke.

What if your servers suddenly crashed during your biggest sales event of the year? For an enterprise IT manager, this isn't just a hypothetical—it's a disaster in the making. Server downtime doesn’t just cause frustration; it disrupts operations, erodes customer trust, damages your brand, and results in significant revenue loss. As businesses become increasingly reliant on complex IT infrastructures, ensuring server health is no longer optional—it’s essential.

AutoCon2 gathered network automation professionals in Denver for three days of insights, workshops, and discussions on the future of automation. Justin Ryburn, Kentik Field CTO, shares his key takeaways, highlights, and why this conference stands out as a top destination for the network automation community.

While centralized visibility, faster MTTR, and improved business continuity represent one side of the coin, the other side reveals unpredictable licensing costs, data management toil, and tool sprawl. To gain a holistic perspective of this observability landscape and help the IT community with ground-level insights, we’re surveying IT professionals—CIOs, CTOs, IT managers, IT administrators, software engineers, and more.

We help keep the lights on in your IT. As we wrap up 2024, we’d like to send a heartfelt “thank you” for being a part of the NiCE community. This year has been a whirlwind of innovation, collaboration, and achievements, and we’re thrilled to share the highlights with you. Let’s dive in!

Combining “development” and “operations,” DevOps stresses a team approach to the software development lifecycle (SDLC). Development and operations teams used to function separately, which led to inefficiencies and increased the possibility of deployment mistakes. DevOps bridges this gap by integrating techniques and tools that ensure faster and more consistent software delivery, enhance team collaboration, and simplify operations.

This series will guide you through the most crucial container networking concepts. You don't need to be a Docker expert to comprehend the ideas introduced here, though a basic understanding of networking, Docker, and Kubernetes is required. Docker is a tool designed to create, build, and run isolated environments inside containers. It's widely used to containerize applications to run inside lightweight containers.