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It's fairly common for folks in tech to dream of quitting their day job and working on their side projects. I find when you ask them how their projects are going, they tend to have 2-3 projects running at the same time, none of the projects are actually available for potential users to try out. The question they seem to ask me most is "you seem to complete your projects, how do you stay motivated?" My secret? It's a habit. I ship something every day.

As distributed environments become more complex, users often use distributed tracing tools to improve the visibility of issues evident within their traces. Throughout this post, we will examine some of the best open-source and other generally popular distributed tracing tools available today.

Network blind spots are the things you can’t see and don’t know about. They’re dangerous. Just like the blind spots on your car, network blind spots can set you up for deadly crashes. Problems will seem to “come out of nowhere” and hit unexpectedly. Network blind spots create all kinds of serious problems. A major network crash is one. But other problems can pile up too.

Distributed tracing has become critical for application performance monitoring in microservice-based architecture. Jaeger is a popular open-source tool used for distributed tracing. With distributed tracing, engineering teams get a central overview of how user requests perform across multiple services.

ManageEngine OpManager MSP is a reliable solution solely developed to help managed service providers with monitoring client networks and servers exhaustively. It has a wide range of out-of-the box features to help MSPs in their multi-client network monitoring journey. The ManageEngine team works hard to make products that cater to the needs of MSPs, which is why OpManager MSP undergoes regular improvements, because even the most feature-rich tools need tune-ups every now and then.

Recent events have changed the world forever. For network operations (NetOps) teams, it means there’s no going back to the way things used to be. Virtually overnight, teams had to adapt to work-from-anywhere (WFA) models. The move to SaaS, cloud, and SD-WAN continue to accelerate—and in the process fundamentally alter the nature of network environments.

A full Observability stack has the goal of providing full centralized visibility to Development, Operations and Security teams into all of the Metrics, Logs and Traces generated by the applications and services under their domain. Many companies address these observability needs by buying a complete application performance management (APM) solution from a single vendor, like DataDog.

When evaluating a monitoring product, it is essential you fully understand its alerting capabilities. Alerting is a responsive action triggered by a change in conditions within the system being monitored. Typically, an alert can be defined by a condition to trigger the alert and an action defining what that alert should do when the trigger condition occurs.