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Synthetic Application Monitoring: Proactive Strategy to Prevent Downtime

Dec 17, 2025 By Dotcom-Monitor In Dotcom-Monitor
Imagine this: It’s three in the morning on Black Friday. Your phone appears with alerts, your online store’s checkout isn’t functioning properly. Your team is in a panic, sales are dropping by the minute, and social media is full of complaints from your clients. Determining that the problem is an expired third-party payment gateway means you’ve lost hours of sales and your customers’ trust.
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Easy-to-Use SSL Certificate Management Tool: The Complete Guide

Dec 17, 2025 By Dotcom-Monitor In Dotcom-Monitor
Managing SSL certificates can feel complicated for many teams. It often involves remembering renewal dates, keeping track of certificate details, ensuring that websites stay secure, and avoiding costly downtime caused by expired or invalid certificates. While many people call these solutions “SSL certificate management tools,” most organizations do not need a full PKI automation platform.
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catchpoint

Creating the IPM Category: Catchpoint's Journey to Leadership and the LogicMonitor Era

Dec 17, 2025 By Catchpoint Team In Catchpoint
On December 15, 2022, Catchpoint launched Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM) as a new category for monitoring solutions with our foundational article, “What is Internet Performance Monitoring and How is it Different from APM?” In it, we said: How prophetic those words turned out to be.
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Improve log utilization with Datadog log exclusion filters | Datadog Tips & Tricks

Dec 17, 2025 By Datadog In Datadog
Want to make your logs easier to work with? Excluding unneeded logs from indexing reduces noise and may reduce log management costs. In this video, you’ll learn how to: See for yourself how to improve log utilization with Datadog Log Patterns and log exclusion filters. Then set up an alert to track ingestion spikes.
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The Hidden Costs and Concerns of Iceberg Maintenance

Dec 17, 2025 By Datadog In Datadog
Everyone talks about how great Apache Iceberg is, but nobody warns you about this: without proper maintenance, your tables will bloat, queries will slow down, and your catalog will run out of memory. Here are the 4 critical operations you MUST run regularly. Expiring snapshots prevents metadata bloat (Datadog learned this the hard way with catalog memory pressure). Deleting orphan files cleans up failed writes. Compacting data files keeps streaming workloads fast. Compacting manifests optimizes query planning.
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broadcom

The 2026 VMUG Report: Why Network Observability is the Heart of the New VCF Era

Dec 17, 2025 By Alec Pinkham In Broadcom
The cloud landscape is no longer just about "getting to the cloud"—it is about mastering the complexity once you are there. For organizations using VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), the stakes have never been higher. As infrastructure converges, the margin for error shrinks, and the need for precision grows. To understand how the industry is navigating these changes, we dive into the VMUG Cloud Operations and VCF User Experience Report 2026.
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Why 2025 Shattered the Old Rules of Network Management

Dec 17, 2025 By Yann Guernion In Broadcom
December has arrived. The change freeze is looming, and the holiday requests are likely piling up in your inbox right now. It is the natural time for you to look back at the last twelve months, not just to measure your team's performance, but to consider how much the game itself has changed. If you look at the trajectory of your industry this year, a clear pattern emerges. You didn't just face new technical challenges; you faced a genuine shift in what it means to manage a network. The old metrics broke.
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sentry

Monitor and reduce your mobile app size with Size Analysis (beta)

Dec 17, 2025 By Max Topolsky In Sentry
Note: This blog post was originally published for the Early Access of Size Analysis. if you're already familiar with Size Analysis in Sentry, go to the section titled What's new in the beta. If you're not familiar with Size Analysis, start at the section titled The curious case of man.jpg.
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GEOFF WRIGHT RETURNS: 2025 EOY SPECIAL EPISODE!

Dec 16, 2025 By Nexthink In Nexthink
In our tradtional end-of-year DEX Show special episode, Mondelez’s Geoff Wright returns to unpack a wild 2025 for IT, AI and employee experience. Tim, Tom and Geoff riff on AI agents that shop, plan travel and work across your browser tabs, the coming street fight between Windows and Chromebooks, and why younger workers just want a browser and to be left alone. Geoff explores shadow AI, culture and the human resistance to change, plus his Q1 predictions: Google’s big enterprise push, soaring laptop costs, and why experience, empathy and a good laugh still matter more than any shiny new model.
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