Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

January 2024

Is Downdetector an Effective Monitoring Tool?

The internet has become an essential part of our lives, especially when it comes to business. Whether for work, communication, or entertainment, we heavily rely on the internet’s availability. However, when the internet goes down unexpectedly, it can be frustrating and disruptive. This is where Downdetector has become integral for many people in determining the status of an internet service.

Introducing ManageEngine DDI: The key to unlocking the full potential of your critical network infrastructure

Building a future-ready network begins with integrating three core network services: DNS, DHCP, and IPAM, collectively known as DDI, which serves as the heart of network connectivity and operations.

RCAs Within Incident Management Tools

The IT world thrives on uptime, efficiency, and seamless experiences. But amidst software and servers, glitches and disruptions threaten to bring operations to a halt. When these disruptions arrive, Incident Management takes center stage, collecting resources to restore order and minimize the chaos. Yet, simply fixing the immediate issue isn't enough. Preventing future disruptions requires delving deeper, finding the root cause, the reason that triggered the incident.

Aiven workshop: Search and aggregations made easy with OpenSearch and NodeJS

In this session you'll learn how to interact with the OpenSearch cluster with the help of OpenSearch NodeJS client - create an index, add documents, search and aggregate data. At the end we’ll visualise results with OpenSearch Dashboards and sink the data from Apache Kafka. Prerequisites: During the workshop you’ll create an Aiven account using the free trial.

Introduction to Charmed Spark, A cloud-native Apache Spark solution on Kubernetes

🚀 A cloud-native Apache Spark® solution on Kubernetes with 10 years of support, compliance, and security maintenance, Charmed Spark® is now available! Enterprise data engineers want Apache Spark® with the ease and long-term security commitment of Ubuntu, and Charmed Spark is the first of many Canonical open-source data solutions designed for reliability and multi-cloud operations.

Evaluating New Tools with Cribl

Discover how Cribl's suite of products can be utilized to assess security and analytics tools, thereby reducing the duration of POVs and simplifying the process of tool migrations. Cribl, the Data Engine for IT and Security, empowers organizations to transform their data strategy. Customers use Cribl's suite of products to collect, process, route, and analyze all IT and security data, delivering the flexibility, choice, and control required to adapt to their ever-changing needs.

Simple. Streamlined. Secure. Effortless user management has arrived with Teams

Have you ever found yourself dreaming of an easier way to collaborate on projects? Tired of individually managing users across multiple projects? Or perhaps you long for the day when auditing user access across your organization can be done in a flash? Well, you’re in luck!

Best Programming Languages for DevOps in 2024

We're StatusPal. We help DevOps and SRE engineers effectively communicate to customers and stakeholders during incidents and maintenance with a super-charged hosted status page. Check us out—your status page can be up and running in minutes. As the DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) fields continue to mature in 2024, the choice of programming languages has become more critical than ever.