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Key Considerations for Integrating MQ Monitoring During Mainframe Upgrades

Mainframes are the workhorses of many enterprise systems, known for their reliability and ability to handle high transaction volumes. However, as technology evolves, even these robust systems need upgrades to keep up with modern demands. A smooth mainframe upgrade isn’t just about upgrading the core system; it’s also about ensuring that the surrounding infrastructure, including messaging systems like IBM MQ, functions seamlessly during and after the upgrade.

Monitoring Automation with Icinga Director

Automating the monitoring process for a huge amount of servers, virtual machines, applications, services, private and public clouds is a main driver for users when they decide to use Icinga. In fact, monitoring large environments is not a new demand for us at all. We experienced this challenge in tandem with many corporations for many years.

Rails Community Survey 2024: AppSignal Ranks in Top 5

We're excited to share that AppSignal has once again been recognized as one of the top performance and error monitoring tools in the 2024 Ruby on Rails Community Survey. This year, we maintained our position as the fifth most popular performance monitoring tool and climbed from seventh to fourth place in the error tracking rankings. This result means that AppSignal now stands shoulder-to-shoulder alongside some much larger competitors that are backed by a combined $600 million in venture capital funding.

Frontend Observability: A Candid Conversation With Emily Nakashima and Charity Majors

Frontend development has evolved rapidly over the past decade, but one challenge remains constant: understanding what’s happening in real-time across diverse browsers, environments, and user interactions. This is where observability steps in—but how does it apply to the frontend world where user experience can break in countless, unexpected ways?

Simplifying Your Data Node Migration with Graylog

Migrating your data infrastructure can sound daunting, especially when you’re dealing with complex systems like OpenSearch. But what if it could be easier—almost ridiculously easy? If you’re thinking, “Hey, wait a second—could this be as seamless as it sounds?” You’re in for a pleasant surprise. In this blog, we’re diving into how moving and Simplifying Your Data Node Migration with Graylog makes the process smooth, secure, and efficient.

Understanding Core Web Vitals - Key Metrics for Optimizing Your Website for Better User Experience

Core Web Vitals are a set of performance metrics introduced by Google to help website owners and developers improve the user experience. These metrics are: “Core Web Vitals are a set of real-world, user-centered metrics that quantify key aspects of the user experience.” — Google.

The Importance of Microsegmentation in a Multilayered Cybersecurity Defense Model

Cybercrime is expected to exceed $10.5 trillion in 2025. To put that into perspective, the total U.S. GDP in 2023 was $21 trillion. So why is cybercrime so profitable? The answer lies in the ‘perfect storm’ of conditions we currently face. Today’s organizations are totally reliant on their digital assets to function. This dependence gives bad actors the opportunity to extract data, digital assets, and money once they are inside a network—often without human intervention.

Grafana's Prometheus libraries: How we built libraries to create a truly vendor-neutral data source

Over the summer we told you about an update to our core Prometheus data source, which was part of a larger shift in our effort to meet users where they are. It’s a change we’re really excited about, as it represents our biggest step yet toward enabling the creation of truly vendor-neutral data sources for Grafana.

How search accelerates your path to "AI first"

The combination of AI and search enables new levels of enterprise intelligence, with technologies such as natural language processing (NLP), machine learning (ML)-based relevancy, vector/semantic search, and large language models (LLMs) helping organizations finally unlock the value of unanalyzed data. Search and knowledge discovery technology is required for organizations to uncover, analyze, and utilize key data.