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The latest News and Information on Monitoring for Websites, Applications, APIs, Infrastructure, and other technologies.

Cloud Application Performance Monitoring

Source: APM in the new normal, survey by eG Innovations and DevOps Institute Cloud adoption is increasing at a rapid pace. The eG Innovations & DevOps Institute APM survey indicates that 88% of organizations are using at least one form of cloud technology. Organizations move to the cloud for agility – they can deploy and have applications running in the cloud in minutes. Cloud computing also offers options for high availability, automated backups, and such.

Taking care of your loved ones with Grafana and other open source solutions

Amon Reich is the founder of SmartLiving.Rocks based out of Schweinfurt, Germany, an IoT solutions provider for smart homes and small businesses. Amon maintains the open source SeniorenSmarthome project, which enables Ambient Assisted Living through Grafana dashboards and other open source technologies. I’ve been working in the field of smart technology for over 10 years.

Eliminate Network Blind Spots with SL1 and Restorepoint

ScienceLogic customers are well-aware of the challenges inherent with the growing complexity of their IT infrastructures. That’s why you’re making investments in digital transformation and adopted SL1 as your AIOps platform of choice for your IT operations monitoring and management strategy.

A Monitoring Reality Check: More of the Same Won't Work

On December 7, 2021, Amazon’s cloud services recently suffered a major outage that not only affected Amazon services, but also many third-party services we use day-to-day, including Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Alexa, Amazon deliveries and Amazon Ring. Causes for the outage, which began at 7:30 am PST and lasted nearly seven hours, were detailed in a Root Cause Analysis report published by AWS that shed light on factors that may have contributed to the extended length of the disruption.

Interview with Tom Granot - Developer Observability, KoolKits and Reliability

In preparation for the upcoming Developer Observability Masterclass we’re hosting at Lightrun with Thoughtworks and RedMonk, I sat down for a brief interview with Tom Granot – the Director of Developer Relations at Lightrun. Tom will MC the event as he did for the Developer Productivity Masterclass we ran back in December.

Real-time distributed tracing for .NET Lambda functions

In 2020 we released distributed tracing for AWS Lambda functions written in Python, Node.js, and Ruby, providing you with health and performance insights across your serverless applications. Since then, we’ve expanded our support to additional Lambda runtimes such as Java and Go, and are pleased to announce that real-time distributed tracing is now also available for.NET Lambda functions.

Returning to the Office? Learn Best Practices to Support ITOps

Whether you accept it or not, the return to the office is happening. Companies like Microsoft, Google, Apple, Goldman Sachs, and Citigroup have asked their employees to resume operations on-site. Overall, the number of Covid cases in the US has steadily declined. And many states are now lifting their mask mandates. So sooner or later, more businesses will follow a similar suit, including yours.