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Anomaly Detection and AIOps - Your On-Call Assistant for Intelligent Alerting and Root Cause Analysis

In this blog, we examine how anomaly detection helps by setting up healthy alerts and providing efficient root cause analysis. Anomaly detection, part of AIOps, guides your attention to the places and times where remarkable things occurred. It reduces information overload, thereby speeding up RCA investigation.

Enterprise vs. SMB IT: What's the Difference?

Enterprises have always had more money to spend on IT than small-and-medium businesses (SMBs). This has traditionally resulted in a disparity in the technology and services available to each. However, with the rise of cloud-based services and the increasing need for remote working, this gap is starting to close. While there are still some differences between enterprise IT management and SMB IT management, the two are becoming more similar.

FinOps: Measuring Allocatable Cloud Spend

Cloud services are the number one source of unexpected overspending for companies today. As a result, cloud financial management is a major focus for most organizations. But how do you track the success of cloud efficiency? Full allocation of multicloud costs is a critical component for understanding your actual cloud services usage, establishing cloud cost management ownership, and creating accurate budgets and forecasts at the line of business, project, application and even team levels.

How to monitor Couchbase with Google Cloud Ops

You can now easily monitor couchbase metrics and logs in Google Cloud. All of our logging and monitoring Google Cloud contributions are available through the Google Ops Agent GitHub repository. You can check it out here! The Google Ops Agent uses the built-in Prometheus exporter and receiver to monitor Couchbase sources running Couchbase 7.0. You can find documentation on the Prometheus exporter in the Couchbase documentation.

What is FSLogix?

FSLogix is a profile management solution used to apply personalization to user sessions for application and desktop virtualization technologies such as Citrix and Microsoft Azure AVD (Azure Virtual Desktop) and enable “roaming profiles”. It used to be common to copy a profile to and from the network when a user signs in and out of a remote environment. Because user profiles can often be large, sign in and sign out times often became unacceptable.

How Does Unified Monitoring Reduce MTTR?

Give your team a break from the blame game. When IT issues occur, you don't want to spend precious time trying to figure out whose domain is the problem instead of actually RESOLVING the issue. A single, holistic view leads to much faster root-cause identification and reduced downtime from issues in your dynamic environment. The Parkview Health team is able to take these insights and automate a rapid resolution when issues occur.

How to get base URL in ASP.NET Core

You typically don't and shouldn't need to know where a web app is deployed. At least not from within the code of the web app itself. I keep seeing questions related to this, though. There are a range of reasons why this can still be relevant like if you want to generate and output an absolute URL in an MVC controller or Razor page. Here's a blog post about how to get the base URL in ASP.NET Core. Let's rewind a bit before we start looking into the code. All websites are deployed somewhere.

Icinga for Windows v1.10.0 - The Next Level

After some drawbacks we are very happy today to finally release Icinga for Windows v1.10.0! The past weeks we have spent a lot of time to polish this release, test many different aspects and optimize the user experience in general. Please make sure to read the upgrading docs carefully, before upgrading to v1.10.0. Otherwise, your installation might not work as expected, or Icinga for Windows might not load anymore.

Fire up new Browser checks with our new templates

Let’s admit it: end-to-end testing is a technical challenge. How do you make features testable? What testing framework should you use? When should you run your test suite? There are so many things to learn and consider. At Checkly, we want to ease end-to-end monitoring so that you can focus on shipping excellent software instead of figuring out how you monitor and test it. But before getting into our latest feature addition, let me answer the above questions.