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Managing web applications is not a small task and making sure that these web-based business applications are online when that busy workday starts is a challenge for many enterprises. The ability to proactively test the user experience would go a long way for being able to ensure application stability and performance around the clock.

Are you craving for new technology trends? Do you also want to know them in order to discover whether they can benefit your company in any way? The technological wheel does not stop going forwards, affecting the results of companies in an increasingly drastic way. That is why it is increasingly necessary to know what technologies are going to make an impact on the business world. In Pandora FMS blog, we do not want to stay behind either.

New eGuide takes a closer look at Prometheus, ELK and Jaeger:

In a previous blog post, we introduced a new method of monitoring the Elastic Stack with Metricbeat. Using Metricbeat to externally collect monitoring information about Elastic Stack products improves the reliability of monitoring those products. It also provides flexibility with how the monitoring data may be routed to the Elasticsearch monitoring cluster.

OpsRamp helps IT teams monitor the availability of physical, logical, and virtual storage resources with performance indicators for storage capacity, overall utilization, and disk latency. IT teams can optimize their storage environments with granular visibility for storage components such as volume, fiber channel, RAID, SAN switches, LUNs, caches, and disks.

SaaS adoption is continuously on the rise and so is the number of companies migrating their email services to Microsoft Office365. It’s the most popular SaaS service and while over 90% of enterprises use it, only less than a quarter of them have already migrated to the cloud-based suite. Nonetheless, this number is growing steadily, as cloud adoption rates are increasing.

As developers, we need to get back to being diligent - and consistently diligent - about questions of security, provenance, reliability and availability when it comes to packages and dependencies.

It’s Friday afternoon, the majority of the development staff has already packed up and headed home for the weekend, but you remain to see the latest hotfix through to production. To your dismay, immediately after deployment, queues start backing up and you begin to get alerts from your monitoring system. Something has been broken and all evidence points to an application performance bottleneck.

When the web was first constructed, it became clear the servers that sent web pages, images and other digital assets to browsers would need some kind of standardized system of error notification. Since there were several errors that always reported the same basic fault, it was decided this would be a good way to diagnose network problems without specialized tools or elaborate communications protocols.