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Checkly Named a Cool Vendor in the 2023 Gartner Cool Vendors in Monitoring and Observability Report

Checkly announced its inclusion in the 2023 Gartner Cool Vendors Report, Gartner Cool Vendors in Monitoring and Observability. Following Recent Inclusion in Two Gartner Hype Cycles, the Third Recognition Affirms Checkly as an Innovation Leader in Monitoring as Code. Checkly provides synthetic monitoring as code that offers a faster, integrated and more scalable approach to API and browser digital experience monitoring. This enables a unified process to be followed through the entire software development life cycle, from test through staging and continuous monitoring production environments.

Post-Mortem: Microsoft Teams Monitoring Issue September 2023

At StatusGator, we understand the critical importance of providing reliable monitoring services to our valued customers. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused by the recent issue affecting the monitoring of Microsoft Teams, which occurred from September 27, 2023, at 04:56 UTC to September 28, 2023, at 11:11 UTC. We deeply appreciate your patience and understanding as we addressed this incident and share our findings and actions taken to prevent future occurrences.

APM Today: Application Performance Monitoring Explained

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is a technology approach that provides real-time information about how your software applications are performing. With a comprehensive view into application health and availability, APM can do things like: Both the importance and the usage of APM has grown in recent years. That’s because companies rely on increasingly complex applications to run their businesses. Here is what you need to know about Application Performance Monitoring.

Elastic SQL inputs: A generic solution for database metrics observability

Elastic® SQL inputs (metricbeat module and input package) allows the user to execute SQL queries against many supported databases in a flexible way and ingest the resulting metrics to Elasticsearch®. This blog dives into the functionality of generic SQL and provides various use cases for advanced users to ingest custom metrics to Elastic®, for database observability. The blog also introduces the fetch from all database new capability, released in 8.10.

Create MySQL tasks easily

Databases are a critical component of our systems and their malfunction can affect business productivity. Therefore, we must make sure that they are working correctly. PandoraFMS has a plugin that allows the remote monitoring of MySQL databases through a Discovery task, by means of this task we can obtain information about the performance and status of the database, such as the number of connections, the availability of the database, the number of queries that are being made, buffer status and cache status, among other types of information.

Using Cribl Stream to Correct Misconfigured Data in Datadog

The challenge for every organization is gathering actionable observability information from all your systems, in a timely manner, without creating a substantial operational burden for the teams managing the collection tooling. While each observability solution has its unique benefits and challenges, the one common burden expressed by teams is the management of the metadata of the metrics, traces, and logs.

The importance of Azure cost to DevOps

Cloud computing’s ascent has redefined modern business operations. Azure, among other platforms, offers unparalleled scalability, speed, and resilience. However, this vast potential brings about the challenge of cost management. Although DevOps teams traditionally focus more on deployment and uptime, addressing Azure costs is essential. Here’s why.

Monitoring Amazon SageMaker with Datadog

Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed service that enables data scientists and engineers to easily build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models. Whether you are integrating a personalized recommendation system into your video streaming application, creating a customer service chatbot, or building a predictive business analytics model, Amazon SageMaker’s robust feature set can simplify your ML workflows.

Syslog Tutorial: How It Works, Examples, Best Practices, and More

Syslog is a standard for sending and receiving notification messages–in a particular format–from various network devices. The messages include time stamps, event messages, severity, host IP addresses, diagnostics and more. In terms of its built-in severity level, it can communicate a range between level 0, an Emergency, level 5, a Warning, System Unstable, critical and level 6 and 7 which are Informational and Debugging. Moreover, Syslog is open-ended.