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An MSP's Guide to Quarterly Business Reviews

Quarterly business reviews (QBRs) are one of the best tools you can use when it comes to being transparent and keeping your clients updated on all the work you’re taking care of for them. Otherwise known as technical business reviews, or semi-annual business reviews, QBRs serve as an excellent opportunity to touch base with clients, highlight the value of the services you provide, and create a strategic agenda moving forward.

Java application performance metrics 101

Since it first emerged, Java has had a phenomenal rise in usage and popularity. It’s ability to be robust and platform-independent has enabled it to rule the application development world by providing internet solutions for businesses across industries. Any organization that runs its mission-critical applications on Java shouldn’t be turning a blind eye towards understanding the importance of application performance monitoring.

The IT company Pandora FMS, the first in Spain to offer a monitoring system integrated with IBM i

The technology company Pandora FMS, specialized in system monitoring, takes a step further towards growth becoming the first national technology capable of offering monitoring solutions, both for IBM i systems (formerly known as AS400) and for much more modern systems. A development that, after several decades, means the full coexistence of IBM i with more recent systems.

Current state of OpenTelemetry and how it fits in the DevOps ecosystem | Q&A

OpenTelemetry is an open-source project under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation(CNCF) that aims to standardize the generation and collection of telemetry data. The telemetry data helps developer, DevOps and IT teams to keep a check on their application health. The telemetry data collected by OpenTelemetry consist of logs, metrics, and traces. Together, they are used for performance monitoring and observability in distributed systems. At SigNoz, we are building an OpenTelemetry native APM.

8 Real-World MQTT Use Cases

MQTT is becoming the standard protocol for applications that operate in environments where network connectivity is intermittent or unreliable, reducing bandwidth usage is a priority, or where hardware resources are limited. In this post you will learn about some specific use cases where businesses are seeing value from making MQTT part of their tech stack.

OpsRamp Featured in Six Gartner Hype Cycles

As another autumn fast approaches, any look back at the summer would be incomplete without a review of the latest round of Gartner Hype Cycle reports. The Gartner Hype Cycles are an annual summer ritual, a series of reports published every July (and sometimes August) that track the maturity, adoption and business impact of technology innovations.

Beat the holiday rush with Elastic Observability

September is here, and that means many retailers have already begun preparing for the upcoming holiday season. One weekend in particular tends to be the real-life stress test that companies have come to develop a love-hate relationship with: Cyber Weekend. Or more specifically, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and the weekend in between.

StackState 5.0 UI; Gain a Rapid Understanding and a Speed up Discovery

Do you experience this: Your brain seems to explode because there is so much you try to fit into ”working” memory? It can happen on a Friday afternoon, after a busy work week. Or on a Monday, looking at your calendar while figuring out how to fit in all those meetings and still get real work done.