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Wireshark is one of the most popular network packet analyzers available. It has been embraced by network admins worldwide and has become one of the essential network troubleshooting tools for IT teams. Read on to learn more about Wireshark, how to use it, and some relevant cases and alternatives. We will mainly focus on how you can use this tool to maintain a robust network within your organization.

Are you looking for affordable software? Want to know precisely what an application is doing behind the scenes, or maybe you just want to stop giving massive corporations your hard-earned money? There is a ton of software and web platforms available online. Some cost money and infringe on your privacy, while others are open-source, transparent, and run by nonprofit organizations. The term “FOSS” is usually associated with the latter.

Welcome to the August 2022 edition of Open Source Matters: our regular publication about the latest happenings in open source! Let’s dive into the news.

Welcome back to our monthly product updates - SigNal! Our team shipped some major upgrades to SigNoz last month. We’re elated to share that SigNoz is now available with log management. It’s a major milestone in our journey of democratizing observability for developer teams of all sizes. We also shipped an intuitive alerts builder, attended conferences, and played new games in our Friday chit-chats 🥳 A lot of new open source contributors also helped us in making SigNoz better.

A Two Sigma engineer explains why we built Tensu, an open source TUI (text user interface)-based program for interacting with Sensu Go’s observability pipeline and backend API. In this article we will be putting a spotlight on Tensu, an open source terminal-based dashboard for interacting with and responding to events from the Sensu Go observability pipeline and backend API.

Pandora FMS Open Source is not a freemium software, it is not bloatware nor shareware (*Wink for those born before the 80s). Pandora FMS is licensed under GPL 2.0 and the first line of code was written in 2004 by Sancho Lerena, the company’s current CEO. At that time, free software was in full swing and MySQL was still an independent company, as was SUN Microsystems.

Application performance monitoring software is a basic need for most tech-related companies in the world. APM software is built by tech companies to help in the performance management of the application. Open Source APM tools are those whose source code is publicly accessible. In fact, for any software which is open source, the source code of the application must be publicly accessible on Github or any other website.

“Overwhelming.” It was the only word Grafana Labs CEO and Co-founder Raj Dutt could use to describe how it felt to look out at the sea of more than 600 Grafanistas gathered together in Whistler, British Columbia, for the first company-wide employee event in two years.

There are hundreds of monitoring tools available in the market for enterprises and MSPs to choose from. Many of these tools are open source or freeware. Over the years, the functionality of many of these open source tools have improved greatly. In this blog, we highlight the top open source IT monitoring tool options and discuss their pros and cons.