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

Implementing a Bring Your Own Device Policy (BYOD) in Your Organization

Bring your own device (BYOD) policies are more important than ever since smartphones became pervasive. I’d argue that even if you don’t want to allow personal user devices to access corporate data or applications, you still need BYOD policy best practices if only to acknowledge the fact that users are already bringing their personal devices into your organization.

What is Azure Government? A Complete Guide for U.S. Government Agencies in the Cloud

Every government – especially the U.S. government – needs secure cloud space. And there is no better way to get guaranteed security and compliance-ready services than through Microsoft Azure Government’s world-class cloud offerings. But what is Azure Government? How does it work? And, most importantly, will your organization qualify to reap the benefits?

Investigate Performance issues with SLOs

When an alert goes off because a Service Level Objective (SLO) is in danger of violation, it comes with a lot of context about what has been going wrong and for how long. Then Honeycomb gives you tools to explore the where & why. Here, Martin Thwaites walks through an example of diagnosing slower performance. What service is the problem, and under what circumstances?
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From Legacy to Future-proof: Transforming Your Enterprise Data Architecture

Enterprise data and analytics is a fast-evolving field in enterprise IT, where new technologies and solutions are creating revolutionary ways to extract insights from data. To keep pace with these changes and drive value creation through data analytics initiatives, organizations must be willing to adopt innovative solutions, embrace new and emerging best practices, and move beyond obsolete or outdated methods that are no longer effective. Our blog post this week is all about transforming your enterprise data architecture to elevate your data management and analytics capabilities.

Implementing OpenTelemetry with Nginx - Instrument and visualize traces

OpenTelemetry is an open-source standard for instrumenting cloud-native applications for generating different types of telemetry data. A robust observability framework set up using OpenTelemetry can help tremendously while troubleshooting software in production. Nginx is one of the most widely adopted web servers. Most often, nginx is used as a reverse proxy. It serves the frontend or backend applications behind the reverse proxy.

Single Pane of Glass Monitoring - Quick Guide & Open Source Solution

Single Pane of Glass (SPOG) monitoring is a term used to denote monitoring applications with a single tool that provides a comprehensive set of dashboards for the entire software system of an organization. Managing multiple monitoring tools for different aspects of the IT system becomes too cumbersome. And that’s how the concept of a single pane of glass monitoring evolved. Most modern applications are now built using distributed software systems.

How to Maximize the Benefits of Blockchain Monitoring

When it comes to cryptocurrency and blockchain activities, staying alert is one of the most important parts of the game. Monitoring these ever-changing spaces is all about being the first to spot opportunities and threats, and keeping your digital operations running around the clock. From websites hosting initial coin offerings (ICOs) to trading platforms, it’s important to maintain operational integrity and protect against unexpected downtimes or breaches.