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An Interview with Melissa Person, IT Leader at PVH

In today’s business climate, innovation is critical to business success, and IT leaders are pressed to consistently innovate at a pace that the business has come to expect. LogicMonitor is thrilled to feature a Q&A with Melissa Person, the Global Vice President of IT Infrastructure and Operations for PVH, the parent company of iconic fashion brands such as Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, Van Heusen, and others.

How to Reduce Telegraf Binary Size with a Customized Telegraf Agent

Is Telegraf too big for your device? Too many plugins in one binary getting you down? Let me introduce you to the Telegraf custom builder – the new tool for reducing Telegraf’s overall memory and disk footprint. In this blog, we will discuss the “what, why, when” and also how to use the new custom builder.

Digital Immunity and Internet Resilience: On Point in Orlando

The world is getting back to normal… I attended my first conference after three years of almost no travel and Gartner did not disappoint. The Gartner IT Symposium//Xpo™* drew thousands of attendees to Orlando, Florida from around the globe and I think everyone was as excited (and - a bit - nervous) as I was to be back together again. As Gartner does annually, they identified Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2023.

What Is Observability?

In today's complex, multi-cloud environments, IT and engineering teams are under increasing pressure to respond to errors affecting their entire system. Therefore, IT operations, DevOps, and SRE teams are all striving to gain complete observability across these increasingly complex and diverse computing environments. But what exactly does observability mean?

observIQ Announces Enterprise Edition of Open Source Observability Pipeline BindPlane OP

Continuing its commitment to open source observability, observIQ announces the enterprise edition of BindPlane OP. BindPlane OP provides the ability to control observability costs and simplify the management of telemetry agents at scale while avoiding vendor lock-in.

Hey! Let's talk AIOps!

As the rapid digital transformation has put a lot of pressure on IT organizations to be more proactive and agile, DevOps principles and practices have been an invaluable resource. However, to remain at the top of the game, organizations need an even stronger solution. So, what’s the answer? AIOPs (artificial intelligence for IT operations), of course!

OpenTelemetry, Auto-Instrumentation and Splunk Observability Cloud: A Jump Start

Have you been meaning to learn about OpenTelemetry and the integration of all available application and service telemetry? If you like to learn things by doing; get ready to dive in and have some fun with OpenTelemetry and Splunk Observability Cloud. Quickly learn more about OpenTelemetry auto-instrumentation and collectors at your own pace with these walkthroughs and guides.

New GKE dashboards and metrics provide deeper visibility into your environment

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is a managed Kubernetes service that enables users to deploy and orchestrate containerized applications on Google’s infrastructure. Datadog’s GKE integration, when paired with our Kubernetes integration, has always provided deep visibility into the health and performance of your clusters at the node, pod, container, and application levels.

How to correlate performance testing and distributed tracing to proactively improve reliability

At ObservabilityCON, we announced our first step towards launching a native integration between Grafana k6 load testing and Grafana Tempo tracing (k6 x Tempo) in Grafana Cloud. We created k6 x Tempo to help dev, testing, and operation teams analyze their performance test results more effectively and proactively improve the reliability of their business-critical applications.