N-sight Monthly Release Roundup June-July 2025
Joe Ferla, Head Nerd at N-able, walks you through the latest capabilities and enhancements in N-sight. Watch the video for a quick update.
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Why AIOps Isn't Optional Anymore: The Metrics That Prove It
The CFO slides a single sheet of paper across the conference table, without saying a word. It’s not a budget approval or strategic roadmap—it’s a simple question written in red ink: “What’s our ROI on IT operations?” For too many IT leaders, this moment represents a reckoning. After years of investing in monitoring tools, staffing up operations teams, and implementing “best practices,” the measurable business impact remains frustratingly unclear.
2025 Buyer's Guide - Choosing Unified Infrastructure Monitoring
Unified infrastructure monitoring delivers a single, enterprise-grade platform to oversee hybrid environments, providing real-time insights and proactive health monitoring across on-premises, cloud, and edge systems. As 2025 brings new challenges with artificial intelligence (AI), edge computing, and hybrid complexity, SolarWinds stands out as a thought leader in unified infrastructure monitoring for enterprises.
What Is Log Monitoring (and Why IT Teams Are Shifting to Log Intelligence)
Your infrastructure isn’t confined to a single location anymore. It’s spread across clouds, containers, and on-prem systems, and every layer is spitting out logs: access attempts, performance spikes, error codes, config changes. That data is invaluable if you can find the signal in the noise. But with millions of logs flying by every day, that’s easier said than done.
PHP Performance Monitoring with Atatus PHP APM
PHP is used by millions of websites and applications around the world because it’s easy to work with and very flexible. But like any technology, PHP apps can run into problems like slow performance or errors that affect users and your business. Atatus PHP APM provides developers, DevOps engineers, and SREs with clear insights into what is happening inside PHP applications, helping them find and fix issues faster, improve performance, and keep things running smoothly.
Advanced PHP Monitoring for Enterprise Applications
During critical business periods, enterprise PHP applications can experience significant performance challenges, including slow page loading, workflow delays, and essential integrations timing out. As a result, operational efficiency declines, customer satisfaction decreases, and revenue streams are at risk. Enterprise PHP applications power complex business portals, SaaS platforms, internal tools, and mission-critical workflows.
Discover Puppet Enterprise Health & Status Checks
Enhance your Puppet Enterprise installation with powerful health and status check tools. This video dives into the PE Status Check module, showing the steps for how you can inspect and monitor your infrastructure, troubleshoot issues, and optimize performance effortlessly. See how to get data about your installed packages, review operational status, and extract JSON-based outputs that integrate seamlessly into alerting systems. Perfect for Puppet administrators and IT professionals aiming to enhance system reliability.
Error Analysis in Honeycomb for Frontend Observability Now in Public Beta
You just shipped your latest frontend release. It passed QA, CI ran, and it looked great in pre-production. But now it’s live and users are hitting an unexpected error: TypeError: undefined is not a function in Chrome. Your error tracking tool flags the exception. You get a stack trace, some breadcrumbs, maybe a session replay.
Why Sustainable Cloud Starts With The Bottom Line - Not Before
If you want to align green awareness with bottom-line impact, start by looking at your cloud waste. Not just as a budget problem, but also as wasted energy, because that’s exactly what it is. AI, especially, is a mounting factor. Deloitte’s Tech Trends 2025 report highlights the growing energy demands of large AI models, warning that electricity use in data centers could soon rival that of entire nations like Sweden or Germany.
APM vs observability: why your definitions are broken
Recently I was asked to offer my opinions on Application Performance Management (APM) and Observability (o11y) - how they overlap, compete, and conflict. I was just one of several folks who's ideas were solicited, so (understandably) some of my thoughts were left out of the original article. HOWEVER, I'm never one to let good words (or at least a lot of words) go to waste, so I thought I'd pull them together here.