The latest News and Information on Monitoring for Websites, Applications, APIs, Infrastructure, and other technologies.
Dashboards are one of the most basic and popular tools software engineers use to operate their systems. In this post, I'll make the argument that their use is unfortunately too widespread, and that the reflex we have to use and rely on them tends to drown out better, more adapted approaches, particularly in the context of incidents.
In April 2021, Splunk launched Splunk Cloud on Google Cloud. Since then, a large and growing number of integrations, applications, tools, and solutions have been created to enable or enhance use cases across data protection, productivity, safer remote working and other security visibility needs. We’ve highlighted a few of the more noteworthy additions below for any current or prospective users of Splunk Cloud on Google Cloud.
It is no secret that for IT teams, troubleshooting Microsoft 365 or Microsoft Teams issues takes time, and more often than not, the culprit is not even Microsoft.
Microsoft Teams users, whether they use peer-to-peer calls, meetings, or PSTN Telephony very often switch from their laptop to their mobile and expect reliable call quality on all devices. Monitoring and ensuring call quality for Microsoft Teams users, in general, is already challenging at times. But when it comes to Microsoft Teams mobile calling, there is added complexity for IT teams.
As an industry analyst at Gartner, we would often discuss whether people were in a centralized or decentralized cycle. In business, it’s normal to investigate options for creating innovation and moving quickly, or focus on reducing cost and optimizing teams and technologies.
We are excited to be named a Representative Vendor in the domain-agnostic AIOps platforms market in the 2021 Gartner Market Guide for AIOps Platforms. We believe that this validates our unique approach to delivering an observability solution that accelerates your success with: Read our summary of this Gartner research report, below. If you haven’t noticed, AIOps is taking off.
We are pleased to announce that an independent service auditor has certified that Rollbar meets SOC 2 Type II criteria and also SOC3 criteria. This extends our security, data privacy, and compliance certifications. Last year Rollbar was certified to meet SOC Type I to go with our existing ISO 27001 certification. The ISO 27001 standard promotes continuous improvement of security processes and demonstrates our commitment to customer support, customer excellence, and data privacy and security.
Prometheus is a metrics-based monitoring and alerting stack that is purpose-built for handling metrics generated by dynamic cloud environments such as Kubernetes. Another example target for Prometheus to gather metrics from could be a web app or an API server. As well as its use as an alerting and monitoring stack, Prometheus is also able to perform addition, average metrics over time and add and multiply any time-series data ingested.
