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System Center 2025 Migration: Preparing for a Smooth Transition

Microsoft System Center has been a cornerstone of enterprise IT management, evolving to meet the dynamic demands of modern IT infrastructures. The release of System Center 2025 represents a significant advancement, introducing new capabilities designed to enhance security, streamline operations, and support hybrid cloud environments. These enhancements address the growing complexity of IT ecosystems, enabling organizations to manage workloads more efficiently and securely across on-premises and cloud environments.

Optimize AWS Transit Gateway Usage

AWS Transit Gateway simplifies network architecture by connecting multiple VPCs and on-premises networks through a centralized hub—but it's easy to incur unnecessary costs if not managed properly. Learn how Kentik provides deep visibility into your AWS Transit Gateway usage, quickly highlighting expensive or inefficient traffic patterns. Using Kentik's Data Explorer, we show how to identify unnecessary intra-VPC traffic that's adding costs and potentially degrading performance.

Distributed Network Monitoring: Guide to Getting Started & Troubleshooting

When systems span clouds, containers, and regions, knowing what’s happening under the hood is more than a nice-to-have—it’s critical. Traditional monitoring tools often fall short in these complex setups. That’s where distributed network monitoring steps in. This guide cuts through the noise to offer a clear, practical approach to keeping tabs on distributed systems—without drowning in dashboards or alert fatigue.

Network Monitoring Automation: Streamlining Operations and Efficiency with Motadata AIOps

Did you know the network infrastructure market revenue is expected to reach YS$253.21bn by the end of 2025? Over the years, small businesses and large organizations have been using networks to communicate and exchange information. With digital transformation and adoption of new technologies, networks are becoming increasingly complex. Organizations find it challenging to track these complex, extensive networks and identify issues in real time through manual monitoring.

How One Enterprise Reduced 1,600 Trap Alerts by 80% and Saved 26 Hours During Migration

For large-scale IT organizations, SNMP traps and log alerts are critical, but they can also be a hidden source of technical debt. Over time, alerting systems balloon with noise like redundant conditions, alerts from decommissioned tools, and logic that no longer maps to today’s hybrid infrastructure.

New Feature: Manage Your session.id in Honeycomb's Web SDK

The session.id field is special in Honeycomb for Frontend Observability. It’s a default option for filtering and grouping, and it’s the basis for session timeline analysis (in Early Access). Now you can control how session.id is set. In prior releases (< 0.15.0) of the Honeycomb Web SDK, we used our own UUID generator for session.id, and it was not accessible outside of the Web SDK itself. As of version 0.15.0, we give you full control.