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Raygun Alerting: Monitor your latest deployment

Modern development teams are shipping code faster than ever before. Having visibility into the issues that will inevitably get introduced into your software is crucial for the development process. Latest deployments for Raygun Alerting helps with just that. Now, you can tick the latest deployment checkbox on all Raygun alert types to only monitor your latest deployment and resolve issues before your customers ever even notice.

4 reasons why network visualization is integral to successful network management

Businesses in today’s world use networks for almost all their operations. As businesses grow and expand with time, so do their needs. As a result, their networks can become increasingly complex and sophisticated. This can result in network administrators having a harder time monitoring devices and identifying faults. These bottlenecks can be circumvented with network visualization.

What is Observability? Benefits, Use Cases & More

The year is over, and the word ‘Observability’ has been one of the buzzwords that kept everyone checking throughout the year for deserving reasons. The organizations do not want to leave any stone unturned to maintain performance and offer robust services from ‘monitoring’ practices to ‘observability’, ‘telemetry’, and visibility capacities. So let’s get into the meaning of each term and understand how they are vital for business growth.

Grafana Tempo 1.3 released: backend datastore search, auto-forget compactors, and more!

Grafana Tempo 1.3 has been released! We are proud to add the capability to search the backend datastore. This feature will also appear soon in Grafana Cloud Traces. If you want to dig through the nitty-gritty details, you can always check out the v1.3 changelog. If that’s too much, this post will cover the big ticket items. You can also register for our upcoming webinar “Distributed tracing in Grafana: From Tempo OSS to Enterprise” on Jan.

Automating Notification & Response with Notification & Collaboration Tools

With the ScienceLogic SL1 platform correlating and contextualizing data to generate actionable events that accurately reflect the issues that need attention, how do you make sure all your engineers and system admins are on the same page?

Datadog Cloud Security Platform

Datadog's Cloud Security Platform—consisting of Cloud SIEM, Posture Management, and Workload Security—delivers real-time threat detection and continuous configuration audits across your applications, hosts, containers, and cloud infrastructure. Datadog derives security insights from your observability data, enabling security and DevOps teams to work together to detect, investigate, and remediate threats.

How managed service provider CTAC onboards customers at lightning speed

As a managed service provider, CTAC provides all kinds of IT services for its clients. Efficient monitoring is crucial for them: that way, they can stay on top of performance issues within their customer's IT environments and, eventually, keep their customers happy. However, because CTAC works with many different clients and platforms (such as Microsoft and SAP), their monitoring is often very siloed - which makes it difficult to get an overall view of the performance and health of their customers' IT services.

An introduction to the Avantra SUSE hardening Add in

Included with Avantra Enterprise edition, Avantra Add ins are pre-packaged best practice scenarios that accelerate your business time to value using our expertise. One such Add in is SUSE hardening and is based on the hardening guide from the makers of SUSE Enterprise Linux. This Add in is a collection of eight custom checks that are designed to be extensible by you to match your organizational requirements.

Using Oracle Cloud as a Data Lake Made Simple With Cribl LogStream

All Cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Oracle Cloud offer Object Storage solutions to economically store large volumes of data and retrieve it on demand. It’s far cheaper to store one petabyte of data in object storage than in block storage. As AWS S3 has become the standard, many on-premise storage appliance vendors have incorporated S3 APIs to store and retrieve data. Oracle wisely continued that trend to OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure).