Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

August 2023

Introducing N-ableMe: A New Platform to Empower our Partners

The launch of N-ableMe represents a significant milestone on our journey to ensure our Partners’ interactions with N-able are easy and efficient. We heard your call for simplicity, recognizing that navigating our expanse of resource locations was difficult and time-consuming, and we’ve been hard at work for the past 6 months to make it better.

Better Together: Creating an AI-friendly Culture to Optimize Business Outcomes

Are business outcomes, with the potential to make or break an organization’s future, becoming more important than they’ve ever been before? It sure seems that way. Embarking on the journey of business growth despite a treacherous path of challenges, all departments are biting at the bit for stability, solid strategies, and a reliable plan for what’s ahead.

Shift Left Monitoring: A Pathway to Optimized Cloud Applications

I recently worked on a customer project to migrate an in-house application to the cloud, using a shift-left monitoring and testing strategy. The original application was developed with LAMP architecture and was being migrated to Spring Boot to modernize it and then run it on the cloud. I was fortunate to be part of the conversation during the day-0 talks. Not all IT managers do this.

Automating Kubernetes Deployments with GitHub Actions

Kubernetes orchestrates the management of containerized applications, with an emphasis on declarative configuration. A DevOps engineer creates deployment files specifying how to spin up a Kubernetes cluster, which establishes a blueprint for how containers should handle the application workloads.

Dashboard Studio: How to Configure Show/Hide and Token Eval in Dashboard Studio

You may be familiar with manipulating tokens via `eval` or `condition`, or showing and hiding panels via `depends` in Classic (SimpleXML) dashboards, and wondering how to do that in Dashboard Studio. In this blog post, we'll break down how to accomplish these use cases in Dashboard Studio, using the same examples that were shown at.conf23.

Incident Management Today: Benefits, 6-Step Process & Best Practices

Disruptive cybersecurity incidents become more and more commonplace each day. Even if nothing is directly hacked, these incidents can harm your systems and networks. Navigating cybersecurity incidents is a constant challenge — the best way to stay ahead of the game is with effective incident management.

Operational Intelligence: 6 Steps To Get Started

The ability to make decisions quickly can mean the difference between success and stagnation. Of course, quick decisions aren’t necessarily the right decisions. The right decisions are the best informed, and the best way to get informed is through data. That’s what operational intelligence is all about. In this article, we’re diving into all things operational intelligence (OI), including key benefits, goals and how to get started.

10 Critical Server Performance Metrics You Should Consider

More and more developers are worried about the end-to-end delivery of online apps as the DevOps movement gains attention. This covers the application's launch, functionality, and upkeep. Understanding the function of the server becomes more and more important as an application's user base grows in a live setting. You must collect speed data for the computers hosting your web apps in order to assess the health of your applications.

10 Ways Your CMDB Influences ITIL Success

The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Service Asset and Configuration Management process, described in its Service Transition guide, requires IT organizations to establish and maintain a configuration management database (CMDB) to keep track of configuration items (CIs) and the relationships between them. An up-to-date and functioning CMDB is one of the most important indicators of ITIL implementation success.

Monitor Google Cloud Vertex AI with Datadog

Vertex AI is Google’s platform offering AI and machine learning computing as a service—enabling users to train and deploy machine learning (ML) models and AI applications in the cloud. In June 2023, Google added generative AI support to Vertex AI, so users can test, tune, and deploy Google’s large language models (LLMs) for use in their applications.

Democratize Automation with AI-Generated Runbooks

Operational efficiency is as critical within the IT and engineering teams as any other part of the business. Automating repetitive tasks and reducing escalations within and to these teams is of immense value. While automation saves time and boosts productivity, the complexity of developing automation can be a limiting factor and bottleneck. Generative AI is a paradigm shift here, in that it brings consumer-style simplicity to assisting in the development of enterprise-grade automation.

What's New: Enhanced PagerDuty Analytics for Faster Insights and Smarter Recommendations

Data has become the lifeblood of businesses, empowering organizations to make more informed decisions, drive innovation, and gain a competitive edge. McKinsey touts the benefits of adopting data-supported capabilities, referring to the various ways data is utilized to enable and enhance the functioning of an organization.