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Modern Network Observability: Device Discovery, CMDB, and AIOps

Understanding the state of your network and infrastructure is a critical responsibility for operations teams. Without their ever-watchful eye, network issues can cause problems ranging from annoying performance issues to downtime. To detect, prevent, and address these issues, operations teams have relied on a combination of monitoring and manual correlation, leveraging whatever tools were available.

Australian local governance: How to choose the right IT monitoring tool

Touching every life across the population—right down to the last mile—city councils provide digital access to essential services and information systems and ensure they are easily accessible to safeguard civic well-being, law and order, and quality of life for everyone.

Transforming IT into the Enterprise Innovation Engine

IT does not need to be a cost-center; this session explores the opportunity for IT to become the enabler of business, enable digital experiences, and align the IT organization with the business – proving its strategic value. Learn how a digital operations center can demonstrate alignment between top-tier applications, improving resilience and ensuring great digital experiences for your users. The session also covers an approach based on a maturity model approach as a roadmap to ensure IT is strategically aligned with the business and is value-led.

How to Customize & Manage Network Monitoring Dashboards | Obkio NPM Onboarding Series

Welcome! In this video, we’re looking at the “Dashboards” tab in Obkio’s Network Performance Monitoring App. The Network Monitoring Dashboards allow you to visualize all the information and metrics collected from your Obkio account. You can leverage dashboards to analyze and compare information and find answers when monitoring and troubleshooting network performance. In this video, we will show you what you can do at the widget level in a single dashboard, and also, how to manage multiple dashboards in Obkio’s app.

Why holistic monitoring is the key to future-proof your application

The days of monolithic applications and simple monitoring tools are gone. With the arrival of public and private cloud infrastructure and hyperconnectivity on Edge devices, organizations struggle to scale their applications, identify issues before it affects their customers, and to maintain their SLA s. Enter a pplication p erformance m onitoring(APM), a game-changer in the realm of IT operations.

Nexthink is a Leader in the Forrester Wave

We’re thrilled to announce that Nexthink has been recognized as a Leader in the Forrester Wave: End-User Experience Management Solutions, Q3 2024 report! To us, this recognition underscores our commitment to excellence in digital employee experience and our innovative solutions that keep your workforce productive and engaged. Dive into the report to see why Forrester positioned us as a Leader and how we see Nexthink continuing to transform digital workplace strategies.

Splunk vs Prometheus: a Side-by-Side Comparison [2024 Guide]

When it comes to monitoring and observability, Splunk and Prometheus are two prominent tools with distinct strengths. Splunk excels in enterprise-level security and observability, while Prometheus is known for its efficient handling of time-series data. In this blog, I have compared these two tools, focusing on their unique features, and strengths. Remember, some insights may reflect personal preferences, helping you find the best fit for your specific monitoring needs.

Icinga Director: Cloning dictionary row entries for objects from import sources

Over use of dictionaries in monitoring leads to complex and ugly configurations. This in turn makes monitoring complicated. Hence, it is advisable to use it, only if it is needed or in special cases. Even in these cases it is worthwhile to keep it simple. On that note, in this blogpost let me demonstrate how to clone dictionary row entries for objects from import sources to object properties in Icinga Director.