Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Once your monitoring is operational for a while, it becomes evident that infrastructure monitoring alone is not enough. Sure, SCOM is excellent when focused on an infrastructure level problem. Do you have an alert that your Windows server is running out of space? Check. Can you check to see if your SQL Server has had a lot of deadlocking recently? Check. Do you know if your Linux server is out of swap space? Can you report on how fast it has been running out? Check.

Today’s Tip focuses on one of Catchpoint’s core functionalities: our real user monitoring or RUM solution. While recording and replaying transactions with Catchpoint’s synthetic monitoring offering is undeniably robust and powerful thanks to our 830+ worldwide monitoring locations, it doesn’t change the inherent value of live data when it comes to analyzing real user experience.

Pandora FMS is a proactive, advanced, flexible and easy-to-configure monitoring tool according to each business. It gets integrated into all the needs of servers, network computers, terminals and whatever needs to be monitored. In this article, we will focus on monitoring openHAB (Smart Home Solution), using the software agent installed on our Raspberry Pi (this article applies to both Pandora FMS Community and Enterprise versions).

Virtana metrics reveal most applications migrated to the public cloud since March were simply “lifted and shifted” without being optimized

The head of AXA IM’s proximity services discusses the importance of creating a digital experience during the lockdown in France. I remember a discussion I had with a senior manager at AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) right at the beginning of what in France has been termed the “confinement” – or “lockdown” in the UK.

Our customers often stress the phenomenal power that comes from the integration of Nexthink and ServiceNow. Bernardo Ramos, for example, former Director of IT for Arkema, saw their integration as a way of getting real-time information on all their workstations automatically and without effort. “With ServiceNow I had the feeling of having something the best of its class,” he told us, shortly before his retirement earlier this year.

Today is an exciting day for Splunk! In just 12 months since the acquisition of SignalFx and Omnition, our vision of a fully integrated Observability Suite is now a reality! As IT and DevOps teams strive to keep up with ever changing business requirements and deliver flawless customer experiences, we’re seeing the pace of digital and cloud initiatives accelerate.

When it comes to DevOps, Splunk has a lot to say at .conf20. There’s a lot to digest from new product names to introducing new products to create a complete observability experience. We announced the Splunk Observability Suite, which creates a seamless workflow across monitoring, investigation and troubleshooting tasks. We also extended our portfolio with Splunk Real User Monitoring, which provides front end engineers better insights into performance.

Tracing is a critical part of monitoring application performance, especially as organizations shift to deploying services using distributed systems, serverless computing, and containerized environments. Teams need real-time, end-to-end visibility into all of the traces relevant to performance issues such as an application outage or an unresponsive service, but managing tracing costs often results in gaps in valuable tracing data.

It was a dark and stormy night. Not really, of course; it was warm and pleasantly mild (the weather never seems to co-operate on these occasions), but indulge me by imagining appropriate meteorological conditions for the spine-tingling story I’m about to relate. It was Morgan’s very first night on call, and they were a mite nervous, as you can imagine.