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Why is Causation Important in AIOps?

Modern IT environments have become much more complex to manage thanks to hybrid infrastructures and comprehensive instrumentation that generate metrics, alerts and events data constantly. ITOps (IT Operations) and SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) teams are tasked with providing superior performance and user experience for the numerous applications while not letting the budget out of hand.

Use Real User Monitoring to Optimize Real User Experience on Websites and Applications

What if I told you one of the most common mistakes businesses make is reporting on website performance without understanding user experience? What if I said there was much more to website performance monitoring than simply alerting you when your site is experiencing a downtime outage? No two websites – or baselines – are exactly the same.

SAP Cloud Security: A strong defense is the first step

Securing an SAP environment is critical to any organization and as the use of public clouds grows for these environments, so does the concern of SAP security. These hyperscalers all have teams of people working around the clock to ensure their solutions are impenetrable. Third party cybersecurity solutions are often used as well to make sure these environments are safe and secure.

8 Best Network Monitoring Tools to Try-on

Network monitoring tools are an important part of any network management strategy since it gives you valuable information about network-related issues that could damage your business. Overloaded networks, router difficulties, downtime, cybercrime, and data loss are all dangers that can be mitigated by frequently monitoring networks.

reCAPTCHA: Easy for Humans and Hard for bots

Captchas are used on many websites to protect user accounts from bots and other automated programs, preventing them from accessing the website. According to Imperva's research, harmful bots generate 25.6% of all web traffic in 2020. They are used by spammers to send automated messages to users, and by hackers to attack websites with automated scripts that often wreak havoc on the site’s performance.

Introducing exemplar support in Grafana Cloud, tightly coupling traces to your metrics

We’ve talked in previous posts about why we think the concept of exemplars are so valuable: They make it easy to jump from metrics into exactly the right traces, eliminating the needle in the haystack problem. We were enthusiastic enough about the idea that we helped contribute the necessary code changes to bring this functionality to the Prometheus ecosystem.