Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Observability isn’t just a nice-to-have—it’s essential. OpenTelemetry steps in as a unified framework that helps you collect, process, and export telemetry data across distributed systems. The OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib extends this framework, offering extra components that make it even more powerful and flexible, helping developers and operators monitor and optimize systems with ease.

Availability is the most important driving factor that shapes every decision an organization makes. To ensure high availability, failover clustering is one of the most commonly used solutions in modern IT infrastructure. In this article, we'll learn what failover cluster storage, cluster shared storage, and cluster shared volumes are. Then, we will guide you on how to manage and monitor these crucial resources.

IIS has evolved a lot since its GA release in 1995. It is the second-most used web server platform (the first being Apache—the pioneer of web servers). It supports multiple protocols like HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, SMTP, and NNTP, which makes it a single solution for hosting both websites and applications.

Your Kubernetes environment feels perpetually sluggish. Applications that once met performance benchmarks and service-level agreements are now struggling to keep up and operating costs continue to rise. With no clear indicators, you’re left sifting through application logs and dependencies for a root cause.

We’re excited to introduce Regression Alerts, a powerful new tool designed to help you catch and address defects that resurface in newer versions of your software.

With almost all of 2025 out in front of us, we wanted to make sure that you saw all of the great progress and useful features that got pushed live in 2024! Last year was a year of big strides forward, meaningful conversations with our community, and exciting updates to our product. Before we dive into all the exciting things ahead in 2025, let’s take a moment to celebrate the progress we made this past year.

Do you remember Back to the Future Day? The day in 2015 when the world celebrated Marty McFly’s trip to a futuristic 2015 in the iconic movie? We laughed at the idea of hoverboards and self-tying shoes while marveling at how much of what was once science fiction was becoming real. Here’s the thing, though: the future never announces its arrival with a neon sign or a ringing bell. It just happens.

Picture this: Your marketing team just launched a major campaign, driving thousands of visitors to your website. The CEO is eagerly watching sales metrics, and your IT team has spent weeks optimizing the infrastructure. Then it happens — your website slows to a crawl. Cart abandonment spikes. Social media lights up with frustrated customers. And just like that, your big moment transforms into a costly nightmare. Sound familiar? You’re not alone.

Rust’s strong memory safety and efficient code execution make it a top choice for building robust, high-performance systems. But even with its powerful guarantees around memory management and thread safety, Rust applications in production environments can still face challenges such as latency spikes, resource contention, and unexpected bottlenecks. For this reason, monitoring Rust applications is essential to ensure they meet performance expectations and remain reliable under load.