Unplanned downtime is an eventuality every business tries to avoid but will face. In today’s digitally interconnected world, outages can be particularly damaging, especially if the business is unprepared. Not only can outages cause employee frustration and anger customers, leading to numerous intangible costs like lower satisfaction hurting a company’s reputation, but the loss of employee productivity caused by unplanned downtime can significantly affect the bottom line.

Many of us remember the public service announcements asking parents if they knew where their kids were at night. They were ominous and a little alarming. Asking yourself the same question about your data can be equally as scary, but Cribl Edge can help.

I recently read this thread in the CNCF slack from someone wanting to send metrics and traces directly to Postgres. Reasonable enough right? After all once your data is in postgres you can query it to your heart’s content. And isn’t the general culture of OpenTelemetry that you should be able to do all of Observability without resorting to SaaS tools? The thread, however, is pretty universally opposed to this approach; and I have to say that I agree.

Many thanks to everyone who joined us for our recent virtual meetup, during which we discussed some of our Q2 2023 highlights, including features highlights, the 2023 roadmap for VictoriaMetrics and of course: The launch of VictoriaLogs! In this blog post, we’d like to share a summary of these highlights.

We’re thrilled to announce new feature updates for Logz.io’s Kubernetes 360 to provide deeper visibility and additional troubleshooting capabilities for your Kubernetes environment.

Dynamics 365 CRM has become a vital tool for organizations to effectively manage customer relationships, streamline processes, and drive growth. However, to fully leverage the power of Dynamics 365 CRM, it is crucial to ensure optimal performance. Slow-loading pages, sluggish response times, and system bottlenecks can hamper productivity, frustrate users, and impact customer satisfaction.

Datadog and Sentry are two popular tools used for application performance monitoring and observability. Sentry is a dedicated error tracking and performance monitoring service, while Datadog is a comprehensive monitoring platform that unifies logs, metrics and traces. While there are similarities in their capabilities, there are also important differences that organizations should consider when deciding which tool to use.

We are happy to announce the release of Icinga 2.14.0 and 2.13.8 today. Especially the 2.14.0 release comes with a lot of fixes and improvements and this blog post will highlight the most important ones. There are some breaking changes in 2.14.0, so please make sure to read the corresponding section before upgrading.

I’m thrilled to announce that ServiceNow has been recognized as a Visionary in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability. We believe this validates our strong vision and unique ability to help customers bring unified telemetry into their existing ServiceNow® Event Management and Service Operations solutions, reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR), and accelerate innovation.

Distributed tracing enhances observability by providing detailed insights into the performance, behavior, and dependencies of your distributed system. It empowers you to proactively identify and resolve issues, optimize performance, and deliver a reliable and high-performing application.