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Webinar: Still using spreadsheets to track your services? You need a developer portal.

Back by popular demand, Ganesh Datta will cover Developer Portals and why users look to Cortex for running efficient engineering teams. Developer portals have become increasingly important to run an efficient engineering team especially as the number of services or engineers scale. Learn more about why companies adopt developer portals, how to maximize their impact, and how they can help your team reduce the organizational complexity that comes with running a service oriented architecture.

Rescue Struggling Pods from Scratch

Containers are an amazing technology. They provide huge benefits and create useful constraints for distributing software. Golang-based software doesn’t need a container in the same way Ruby or Python would bundle the runtime and dependencies. For a statically compiled Go application, the container doesn’t need much beyond the binary.

The IT Compliance Management Process: Steps, Roles, And Main Tasks

Compliance Management is the set of practices that keeps your organization safe and in order. Implemented effectively, it can increase colleague and customer confidence, reduce the potential for legal exposure, and support governance. The implementation process comes with its challenges, as you have to coordinate different teams and at the same time address a range of regulations and laws.

New DX UIM Release: Start Monitoring New Linux Distributions on Day 1

From DX UIM 20.4 CU4 onward (that is, releases that have robot version 9.36 or above), robots automatically support Linux versions with newer GNU C Library (commonly known as “glibc”) versions. Prior to CU4, DX UIM robots needed certification and a release to provide support or compatibility with newer Linux operating systems that have a higher glibc version.

LogicMonitor Secures Multiple Leader Badges in G2's Fall 2023 Log Analysis and Monitoring Reports

Fall 2023 Reports, including Enterprise Monitoring, Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring, and Network Monitoring were announced September 12, 2023 from G2, the world’s leading business software review platform. Take a look inside highlights of the G2 Fall 2023 Log Analysis and Monitoring Reports below to see where LogicMonitor stood out among the rest.

How to monitor SLOs with Grafana, Grafana Loki, Prometheus, and Pyrra: Inside the Daimler Truck observability stack

In order for fleet managers at Daimler Truck to manage the day-to-day operations of their vast connected vehicles service, they use tb.lx, a digital product studio that delivers near real-time data along with valuable insights for their networks of trucks and buses around the world. Each connected vehicle utilizes the cTP, an installed piece of technology that generates a small mountain of telemetry data, including speed, GPS position, acceleration values, braking force and more.

Better anomaly detection in system observability and performance testing with Grafana k6

Grzegorz Piechnik is a performance engineer who runs his own blog, creates YouTube videos, and develops open source tools. He is also a k6 Champion. You can follow him here. From the beginning of my career in IT, I was taught to automate every repeatable aspect of my work. When it came to performance testing and system observability, there was always one thing that bothered me: the lack of automation. When I entered projects, I encountered either technological barriers or budgetary constraints.

What is Shadow IT? Will AI make this more challenging?

Shadow IT is a term used to describe IT systems, applications, or services that are used within an organization without the explicit approval, knowledge, or oversight of the IT department or the organization’s management. It typically arises when employees or departments adopt and use software, hardware, or cloud services for their specific needs without going through the official IT procurement or security processes.