Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

There is a phenomenal amount of Observability tools on the market, coming in all shapes and sizes, offering many tools and approaches to solve what seems to be an endless number of problems. It also can be overwhelming to use, hard to set up and expensive to run, especially if you are going with SaaS based market leaders like DataDog.

At Request Metrics, we’re always looking for ways to help you make your websites faster and your users happier. Today, we’re excited to announce a major new capability: Unified Performance Monitoring. Request Metrics now combines the power of real-user monitoring with automated lab performance testing to get a complete picture of your website’s performance.

Broken links are more than minor annoyances—they can significantly harm your website’s user experience, SEO rankings, and overall credibility. Whether managing a small blog or a complex e-commerce platform, ensuring that your site functions flawlessly is essential to keeping visitors engaged and search engines satisfied. However, identifying and fixing broken links manually can be time-consuming and error-prone. That’s where website monitoring software comes into play.

When it comes to Digital Employee Experience (DEX), the key to success is treating it as a journey, not a destination. Organizations need to deliver outcomes and value quickly, while simultaneously building the maturity of their DEX initiatives over time. The journey involves deliberate planning, with clearly defined milestones and goals along the way.

Instead of sifting through mountains of metrics across different network types, what if you had an AI-powered tool that could display all the necessary insights in an easy-to-understand format?

Kubernetes is known to be the best container orchestration tool, but it can also add complexity to resource management, particularly as your clusters expand. Without proper monitoring, problems can rapidly worsen, resulting in subpar application performance, service interruptions, and higher expenses. In this blog, you will learn the key metrics for monitoring Kubernetes performance and how monitoring these can assist you in maintaining optimal performance in your environment.

Managing a complex IT environment with both on-premises data centers and multiple cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud) brings a unique set of challenges. Commvault’s cloud operations team, led by Ernie Costa, was well aware of the high-performance systems running on technologies like Hyper-V and NVMe storage. In these systems, even a second’s delay could mean missed opportunities to prevent incidents or optimize performance.

For IT teams seeking speed and agility, agentless monitoring offers a lightweight approach. This is particularly useful for Microsoft servers like Windows Nano Server, where resources may be constrained, or in environments where gaining approval for agent installations could be a hurdle. An agentless Microsoft monitoring tool is ideal if: However, there are limitations.

The SRE Report is now seven years old. I’ve had the honor and privilege of authoring it for the last five years. This 2025 version included working with some amazing individuals like Kurt Andersen and Denton Chikura. My heartfelt thanks go to them for shouldering the weight of what is both a labor of love and an often daunting, procrastination-inducing marathon of analysis.