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The latest News and Information on Monitoring for Websites, Applications, APIs, Infrastructure, and other technologies.

Drain the Data Swamp! Tagging your Data in a Data Lake to help Organize and Optimize Search

Sending events into a data lake can make it challenging to find and organize them. Using tagging with Cribl Lake in conjunction with Cribl Search across a primary data source will increase speed of analysis and reduce costs, as well as help keep your data organized. This scenario involves us performing an investigation for an incident that occurred where our systems indicated unusual activity from an IP address of aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd.

Application Experience - Amplifying Observability for Today's Experiential World

Nexthink’s industry-leading Experience 24 Events in Boston and London brought together over 1000 IT professionals dedicated to accelerating the value of strategic adoption of DEX. A hot topic was the growing recognition that traditional Observability solutions (APM’s and other high-cardinality technology monitoring solutions) while necessary, are insufficient to solve the full, end-to-end visibility of how employees are experiencing the totality of their web applications.

What is Uptime?

What is uptime anyway? Behind any successful online operation is a resilient infrastructure and a team with a well-honed operational discipline dedicated to ensuring uptime metrics consistently meet the benchmarks required to fulfill service commitments. However, brief downtime can have serious repercussions when infrastructure falters or servers are pushed past their limits.

Getting Started with Icinga: Your All-in-One Guide to Mastering Monitoring

Whether you’re new to Icinga or a seasoned user who thinks they’ve seen it all, some of these resources could surprise you with a few tricks. Let’s dive into the resources that’ll have you saying, “Why didn’t I think of this sooner?” Or send this to someone you would like to rope into the Icinga universe.

Scaling Observability for Dexory's Global Fleet of Autonomous Robots with Grafana Cloud:

Join Dexory's VP of Software, Matt MacLeod, as he explains how Dexory, a Grafana Labs customer, uses Grafana Cloud to monitor and manage a global fleet of autonomous robots for warehouse inventory. Hear about Dexory's journey from prototype to scalable observability solution, the challenges of high-frequency data collection in harsh environments, and how advanced monitoring enables proactive issue resolution. Discover Dexory’s insights on improving customer satisfaction and lowering operational costs through effective observability practices.

6 Benefits of Remote Monitoring and Management for Your Clients' IT Infrastructure

Effective management of IT infrastructure is essential for any business looking to minimize interruptions, enhance system performance, and secure a competitive advantage. Among those benefiting from these tools are managed service providers (MSPs), who play a pivotal role in optimizing and securing IT infrastructures for a diverse clientele. In today's complex business landscape, managed service providers are crucial to achieving sustained operational efficiency and resilience in IT systems.
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AI Operations: Integrating Agentic AI for Seamless Workflow Automation

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Stop Guessing, Start Knowing: The Power of Integrated Logging and APM

‍ Let’s talk about something we’ve all experienced: a customer reports that their checkout process is “sometimes slow,” – or maybe you noticed an unexpected spike in response times. So, you dive into the logs, grep through thousands of lines, and try to match timestamps with your APM traces. Sound familiar? At Scout, we’ve seen countless engineering teams struggle with this disconnect between their logging and APM tools.