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Now Available: The Flight SQL Plugin for Grafana

Today we have exciting news for Grafana customers with Flight SQL data sources: Now there is a new community plugin available for Grafana that allows it to communicate with Flight-SQL-compatible databases. Flight SQL is a client-server protocol developed by the Apache Arrow community for interacting with SQL databases. It utilizes the Flight RPC framework and the Arrow in-memory columnar format.

Multiple players, one stack: Inside Roblox's centralized observability stack

When you sign into the Roblox platform, you get 30 million immersive experiences, ranging from concerts to fashion shows to, of course, video games. But when the observability team at Roblox logs on, they’re not playing around. The Roblox observability engineers are responsible for keeping more than 214 million monthly users happy and engaged by making the wildly popular gaming platform highly available around the world.

Introducing Internet Performance Monitoring: How does it help?

Catchpoint and ITOps Times break down 6 critical topics you need to understand to ensure Internet Resilience for your business in this bi-weekly microwebinar series, each lasting less than 10 minutes. Explore each of the topics in the series: In this second installment, we’ll dive deeper into the world of Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM). Learn how IPM can help you proactively find and fix issues in your Internet Stack before they impact the business.

Gaming Industry: How Important are Logs for Systems?

In today’s fast-paced and highly-competitive gaming industry, providing a seamless and enjoyable gaming experience is essential to retain users. Games need to be responsive, offer high-resolution graphics, continuous uptime, and handle a huge amount of transactions. Having strong log analytics solution is essential to improve performance, identify issues, and fine-tune the player experience.

Optimize Network Performance Management with AppNeta

Regardless of an organization’s industry or size, virtually every critical business activity or service is at least partly reliant upon network connectivity. When network performance slows or issues arise that halt critical end-user services, it can be very costly to an organization. Lost employee productivity, eroded customer loyalty, and reduced sales can all be among the ramifications for even relatively brief service interruptions.

How German drugstore chain Müller thrives with Icinga

We are proud of our many customers and users around the globe that trust Icinga for critical IT infrastructure monitoring. That´s why we´re now showcasing some of these enterprises with their Success stories. It´s stories from companies or organizations just like yours, of any size and different kinds of industries. Some of them are our long-standing customers, others have just recently profited from migrating from another solution to Icinga.

The Latest Version of OpenSearch Is Now Live On Logit.io

Logit.io is pleased to introduce the latest version of OpenSearch onto the platform, with an OpenTelemetry-compliant data schema that unlocks a host of future analytics and observability capabilities. Also included in this release are improvements in threat detection for security analytics workloads, visualization tools, and machine learning (ML) models.

Log Shippers: The Key to Efficient Log Management

Logs are a vital source of information for any system, providing valuable insights into its performance and behaviour. However, with the increasing complexity of modern systems and the massive amount of data generated by them, managing logs can be a daunting task. This is where log shippers come into play. Log shippers are tools designed to simplify the process of collecting and forwarding log data to a centralized location, allowing for easy analysis and troubleshooting.

We're delighted to announce that ManageEngine has been named a Technology Leader in the SPARK Matrix: IT Service Management Tools, 2022 report

ManageEngine’s flagship ITSM platform, ServiceDesk Plus, has been named a Technology Leader in the latest SPARK Matrix: IT Service Management Tools report. This recognition reaffirms our efforts to make ServiceDesk Plus a capable ITSM platform that helps enterprises manage and deliver IT and business services.

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Understand the emerging digital employee experience market (DEX)

The Digital Employee Experience (DEX) is a term that's been gaining momentum in recent years. Simply put, DEX refers to the employee's experience of technology at work. This includes everything from the devices and applications they use to the network connectivity and support they receive. The Digital Employee Experience (DEX) is "a holistic approach to designing and managing the technology environment in which employees work." It includes a variety of components, such as digital workspaces, collaboration tools, and workflow systems. DEX is all about creating an environment that is engaging, productive, and conducive to a positive employee experience.