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Distributed architectures are becoming an increasingly important source of application services for organizations. Advances in observability and monitoring are being driven by this trend. But exactly how do observability and monitoring differ from one another? It's essential to know when something goes wrong in the application delivery chain so you can identify the root cause and resolve it before it has an impact on your business. Monitoring and observability offer a two-pronged strategy.

As you adopt modern, serverless, microservices-based architectures, it can become more challenging to monitor and understand the state of your applications at any given time. That’s where event bus capabilities from services like Amazon EventBridge can come in handy. AWS EventBridge can help you build loosely coupled, event-driven architectures and applications, and deploy new features faster.

It’s hard to think of a use case that Grafana hasn’t been used for. When Torkel Ödegaard launched the Grafana open source project with his first commit in December 2013, “my goal was to make time series data accessible for a wider audience, to make it easier to build dashboards, and to make graphs and dashboards more interactive,” he said.

Asset Health Management (AHM) helps organizations to proactively monitor and manage the condition of physical assets, in order to minimize downtime and extend asset lifespan. This is a relevant part of IT Asset Management, and they typically go hand in hand to ensure that all assets are properly managed.

Learn how Automic can help NetOps speed up triage, reduce MTTR, and alleviate the load on your NOC Today’s network team is committed to advancing the speed of triage and resolution. This can be a titanic task in modern networks, which are fueled by SDN and becoming more agile and dynamic than ever. These new networks have introduced traffic, congestion, and outages on a greater scale.

Knowing who is in charge helps teams avoid confusion about who to turn to during a crisis, allowing them to focus their efforts where needed. When the pressure is on, an incident commander should have an established response plan to ensure that responders act quickly and coordinate efficiently, and with actionable insights this can be made possible.

Content What’s New in Sysdig is back again with the November 2022 edition! I am Matt Shirilla, an Enterprise Sales Engineer based in Texas, and I am very excited to update you with the latest feature releases from Sysdig. For Sysdig Monitor, this month brings new filtering for AWS Cloudwatch Metric Streams and a new Lambda Extension for AWS Lambda Telemetry API , plus the release of new Advisories.

GitLab is a complete DevOps platform that enables enterprises and organizations to deliver software to markets smoothly while ensuring high product quality. Software engineering practices use many testing techniques, from unit tests to integration tests. This article helps you understand software testing with unit and integration tests. It highlights the fundamental differences between unit and integration tests and demonstrates how to write integration tests for your applications.