Message brokers like Kafka enable microservices to scale. But this same quality makes them hard to troubleshoot. How can developers avoid messages and errors getting stuck in oblivion? In this post we look at a few solutions: Kafka Owl, Redpanda, and Helios.

Step into the world of End-to-End Network Monitoring, where the mystical realms of cyberspace converge with the tangible reality of cables and connectors. It's a journey that takes us from the sprawling wilderness of the Wide Area Network (WAN) to the bustling cityscape of the Local Area Network (LAN). Prepare to unlock the secrets of seamless connectivity, as we embark on an adventure to gain unparalleled visibility and control over your network infrastructure.

In today's interconnected world, networks are the backbone of businesses and organizations, facilitating seamless communication, data exchange, and collaboration. However, ensuring the optimal performance and security of a network can be a complex undertaking. That's where end-to-end network monitoring tools come into play.

The Uptime Institute recently released its Annual Outage Analysis 2023 report. Overall, the report highlights the increasing costs, frequency, and duration of outages, the prominent role of cloud and digital services in outages, the shortcomings of service providers, and the need to address human error and management failures. It also underscores the ongoing challenges of handling failures in complex distributed architectures.

Welcome to the third part of this series of blog posts on How to throw custom exceptions inside Logic Apps. In this series of five blogs, I will cover throwing custom exceptions in Logic Apps. I will cover the following topics: In this third approach, we are going to do a considerable fine-tuning of the previous approach, keeping the same capability to define custom error messages but redesigning the business logic in order to minimize the number of actions and optimize performance.

Before we dive into the nitty-gritty of incident management, let’s look a bit closer at the actual meaning of ‘incident.’ In the world of IT service management, the official definition for ‘incident’ is an “unplanned interruption to an IT service or reduction in the quality of an IT service.” Whether that means a slowdown in response time or a total system crash, you’re looking at an incident.

Missed our latest webinar on FinOps for MSPs? We’ve got you covered! This blog post will cover what the FinOps experts discussed and the main things to remember. FinOps are revolutionizing MSP operations by adding a data-driven approach to cost management. This method helps MSPs optimize their cloud usage, provide white-glove support to customers, and give visibility on their expenses.

Do you know what your website users are really experiencing? Are they satisfied with your website's performance? Are they able to easily navigate and find what they're looking for? Real User Monitoring (RUM) is a powerful technique that can answer these questions and more. By collecting and analysing data on real user interactions, RUM provides valuable insights into user behaviour, website or application performance, and overall user experience.

SIEM is an overarching mechanism combining Security Event Management (SEM) and Security Information Management (SIM). It is a combination of different tools such as Event Logs, Security Event Logs, Event Correlation, SIM etc. These work in tandem to provide you an up-to-date threat intelligence infrastructure and enhanced security for your applications and hardware.

Understanding Metrics, Logs, Events and Traces - the key pillars of observability and their pros and cons for SRE and DevOps teams.