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Covering your bases: three ways to achieve network visibility

There’s an old adage that says happy employees equals happy customers. Reputable magazines like Forbes, Harvard Business Review, and Entrepreneur have dedicated significant brainpower to dissecting this concept, and customer success leaders acknowledge its truth. Just as in business, a little “self care” in IT will go a long way.

LM Envision: Spring 2023 product release lookback

Over the past few months, LogicMonitor released a number of enhancements to the LM Envision platform across all of our solutions. We’re excited to share some of these new capabilities with you. We’ll begin by looking at a few recent innovations within LM Envision, LogicMonitor’s unified monitoring platform.

Automating with LogicMonitor: Ansible, Terraform, Stackstorm

Automation has been a bit of a buzzword in the IT community in the last few years. Companies around the world are looking for ways to scale and automate routine tasks so they can focus on more strategic initiatives. But “automation” is a word that can cover a lot of workflows and can mean something different to every team. What do we mean when we talk about automation here at LogicMonitor?

Announcing LM Exporter

We recently introduced the LogicMonitor Exporter which is now a part of OpenTelelemetry Collector Contrib distro. This allows you to bring your collector for streaming telemetry data from your environment to LM Envision, LogicMonitor’s hybrid and multi-cloud monitoring platform. LogicMonitor associates the exported logs and traces from a single OpenTelemetry collector to simplify your application’s operations and troubleshoot issues.

Web checks in Kubernetes: a simple alternative to Prometheus Blackbox Exporter

The continued adoption of Kubernetes, a leading container orchestration platform, increases the demand to monitor these complex environments accurately and efficiently. Maintaining optimal performance and ensuring quick issue resolution are vital aspects of efficient Kubernetes management.

Why the visibility gap is holding your IT operations back

Depending on your business, MTTR stands for mean time to repair or mean time to recovery – but it can also mean resolution, resolve, or restore. No matter how you define it, the basic measurement is the same: it’s the time it takes from when something goes down to when it is back and fully functional. This includes everything from finding the problem to fixing it. For ITOps teams, keeping MTTR to an absolute minimum is crucial.

LogicMonitor Maintains Leader Rankings in G2 Spring 2023 Reports

G2’s Spring 2023 Reports were announced March 30, 2023, with LogicMonitor grabbing several number-one spots and Leader rankings. This recognition is based on the responses of real users featured in the G2 review form. “Rankings on G2 reports are based on data provided to us by real software buyers,” said Sara Rossio, Chief Product Officer at G2.

What do you see in the clouds?

Remember being a carefree kid? Laying down in a field on a warm spring day, gazing up at the sky, and imagining shapes in the clouds. Maybe you saw a lion or an elephant dancing across the sky. You felt grounded and safe, enjoying the breeze while listening to cheers from the football game in the distance. But could you see the rain forming on the horizon threatening to distort your animal shapes and send the football team running for cover?