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Configuration Management and Change Tracking are well known key tenets of project management. Change tracking and controlled change ensure that there is a record of the state of a system and if issues arise the cause can be linked to effects. In this blog, I will use a real-world example to demonstrate the importance of configuration and change tracking when it comes to IT observability.

As organizations strive to meet the challenges of digital transformation, they are adopting newer technologies to build more robust software systems. Next generation observability solutions are paving the way to help them meander this maze to deliver better customer experiences and drive business results.

If you are a Symfony PHP developer, you will need Symfony monitoring. With the ever-increasing need for web applications to perform at their best, developers require full visibility and observability. This way, they have full control of the performance and its maintenance. Imagine you have created an application. You have deployed it but do not know how it works. This is where an Application Performance Monitoring tool is of great use. It should be on every developer’s toolkit.

Observability is a growing practice that provides many benefits to IT and DevOps teams. With greater visibility into their environments, teams can determine the state of the system, predict issues, and mitigate them before end users are impacted. Observability makes data more usable and in turn, businesses reap the benefits of having great insights. Are you on the fence on whether to get started with your own observability practice? Check out these 12 observability benefits and get started today!

We’re pleased to announce that Elastic has been named a Leader in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Insight Engines. This is our second year of inclusion in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for this category, and this year’s evaluation places Elastic as the furthest entry on the "Completeness of Vision" axis.

Continuing in our series of InfluxDays recaps, we turn our attention to Brian Gilmore’s presentation on Industrial IoT. This is an area that uses time series data extensively and has a lot of room to expand the way it uses this data. Here’s a quick breakdown of where things stand today.

In this tutorial, we will learn about Docker container lifecycle. But first, let me share a personal anecdote. On a hot summer afternoon in 2021, my manager called me out of the blue and said, “Muskan, the project file you shared with me is not working on my machine. Could you please come over and fix the setup? It’s really urgent.” I rushed to his cabin and tried my best but could not fix the dependencies issues.

Welcome back! In the previous blog, we discussed with our panelists Carlos Casanova, Forrester principal analyst, and Gowrisankar Chinnayan, who heads product management at ManageEngine, why organizations should adopt AIOps, and the challenges they face. Let’s start by acknowledging the increasing interest in AI. More enterprises are adopting AI-based solutions as they discover how AI can help manage IT operations.

Observability tools have traditionally focused on capturing and analyzing log data to improve application performance monitoring and security. Data observability turns the focus back on the data to improve data quality, tune data infrastructure and identify problems in data engineering pipelines and processes. “Data analysts and business users are the primary consumers of this data,” said Steven Zhang, director of engineering at Hippo Insurance.