Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

August 2023

Strategies for Success in Business Energy Management

Effective energy management is a crucial aspect of business operations, offering substantial cost savings and environmental benefits. Implementing strategies to optimize energy consumption not only enhances a company's bottom line but also aligns with sustainability goals. This article delves into key strategies that businesses can adopt to succeed in energy management.

Why every developer needs to learn about source maps (right now)

You did it! Sure, it might be four weeks overdue and late on a Friday, but you’ve finally finished deploying a long-awaited update to the web app. However, your celebrations are cut short as your phone vibrates off the table. Picking it up, you’re confronted with a developer’s worst nightmare. You’re getting flooded with messages that the login is no longer working. Was it your deployment? This is bad. Nobody can use the site if they can’t log in.

A better Grafana OnCall: web-based scheduling, mobile app, email support

Does anyone really enjoy being on-call? That looming dread over what could go wrong? The alarms in the middle of the night when everything does in fact go wrong? Of course not! But that doesn’t mean on-call shifts need to be a giant bundle of anxiety and exhaustion. This is something near and dear to our hearts at Grafana Labs, since the majority of our engineers participate in on-call shifts.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

What's New with Fluentd & Fluent Bit

At the recent KubeCon EU, we learned the significant news of the FluentBit v2.0 major release with numerous new features. What’s new and what’s to come for this key log aggregation tool? On the latest OpenObservability Talks, I hosted Eduardo Silva, one of the maintainers of Fluentd, a creator of Fluent Bit and co-founder of Calyptia.

How To Increase Revenue and Protect Your Business from Internet Disruptions with IPM

Over the last few months, we’ve been analyzing the thought-provoking findings of a recent study conducted by Forrester Consulting. This study illuminated the notoriously challenging-to-measure financial impact of Internet disruptions on eCommerce companies.

This Month in Datadog: DASH 2023 Recap, featuring Bits AI, Single-Step APM Instrumentation, and more

Datadog is constantly elevating the approach to cloud monitoring and security. This Month in Datadog updates you on our newest product features, announcements, resources, and events. This month, we’re recapping DASH 2023..

The Impact of Network Topology

When it comes to arranging your network architecture, there are different methods to consider, each with its own pros and cons depending on your business needs. The way you design your network can improve connectivity for data sharing or increase security. This arrangement of components and their proximity to each other is known as network topology. In this article, we’ll explore network topology, different types of topologies, and how they impact speed, reliability, security, and other functions.

LogicMonitor Envision Dexda Demo

Watch this demo video to learn about our latest offering in AIOps, Dexda. Dexda ingests events from LogicMonitor Envision and seamlessly transforms them into episodes. Advanced machine learning techniques automatically identify features in the alert data to correlate the disparate alerts into connected insights based on time, resources involved, environment, and other significant features of the enriched alert data.

Log Data 101: What It Is & Why It Matters

If you mention 'log data' at a crowded business event, you'll quickly be able to tell who's in IT and who isn't. For the average person, log data is about as thrilling as a dental appointment or reconciling a years-old bank account. At the mere mention of log data, their eyes glaze over as they search for an escape from the conversation. Conversely, IT professionals' eyes light up and they become animated when the topic of log data arises.

Enriching your Search Results with Lookups

It’s quite common for data from a Search to contain references to information that is, well, unintuitive. Error or Message Codes, Port Numbers, Reference IDs, and Customer Numbers are all useful pieces of information, but far from being human-readable. That information is often available in a collateral location, often a spreadsheet or database, where it can be looked up with a “key” field.

k6 extensions updates with Ivan Szkiba (k6 Office Hours #99)

In this episode of k6 Office Hours, Developer Advocates Marie Cruz and Paul Balogh are joined by Ivan Szkiba, the latest Grafanista of the k6 team, to discuss the latest developments on the k6 extensions. Links shared: List of templates and extensions discussed: ⏰ TIMESTAMPS.

How to learn Grafana with Grafana Play (Grafana Office Hours #10)

If you were wondering how to learn Grafana, Grafana Play is probably the easiest way. Grafana Play is a collection of ready-made dashboards and apps that you can use without creating an account. Developer Advocates Matt Abrams, Paul Balogh, and Nicole van der Hoeven discuss how to take advantage of this awesome tool and what you can do with it.
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Serverless Elasticsearch: Is ELK or OpenSearch Serverless Architecture Effective?

Here's the question of the hour. Can you use serverless Elasticsearch or OpenSearch effectively at scale, while keeping your budget in check? The biggest historical pain points around Elasticsearch and OpenSearch are their management complexity and costs. Despite announcements from both Elasticsearch and OpenSearch around serverless capabilities, these challenges remain. Both of these tools are not truly serverless, let alone stateless, hiding their underlying complexity and passing along higher management costs to the customer.

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Azure Service Bus Dead-Letter Queue Monitoring

Azure Service Bus, a cloud-based messaging service, facilitates communication between applications and services. Within Azure Service Bus queues and topic subscriptions, there exists an additional sub-queue known as a Azure Service Bus dead-letter queue (DLQ). The Dead-Letter Queue (DLQ) serves as a storage area for messages that the receiving application from the main queue cannot deliver or process successfully. These messages are referred to as “dead-lettered” messages.

Simplifying Microservices Debugging on Kubernetes with Istio, OTel, and Apica

Microservices architecture has become increasingly popular in modern software development due to its scalability, resilience, and flexibility. However, with the benefits of microservices come the challenges of debugging and monitoring these distributed systems. Using the Istio service mesh, OpenTelemetry distributed tracing, and Apica’s Kubernetes-native observability platform, developers can easily collect and visualize performance data in real-time to identify and fix issues quickly.

Getting started with RabbitMQ

RabbitMQ is an open-source message broker software that facilitates communication and data exchange between various components of distributed applications. Acting as an intermediary, RabbitMQ enables different software systems, services, and devices to exchange information in a seamless and efficient manner. It follows the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP), a standardized communication protocol designed for robust and scalable messaging.

How to configure Grafana Incident with Microsoft Teams

Grafana Incident, the powerful incident response tool that is part of the Grafana IRM suite in Grafana Cloud, comes with a range of integrations out of the box, including Zoom and Google Meet spaces, GitHub and JIRA issues, and even a Google Doc template for post-incident review documents. One of the key features in Grafana Incident is the chatbot integration, which previously only supported Slack.

Grafana JSON API: How to import third-party data sources in Grafana Cloud

Have you ever wanted to test out Grafana Cloud but don’t have any available data to monitor? Well, have no fear! With the Grafana JSON API plugin, you can query publicly available JSON endpoints. The JSON API is a wonderful way to start using Grafana Cloud. You can quickly see data in action, and there are a multitude of things you can build, analyze, and monitor using the JSON API.

Migrating to Icinga DB

Although Icinga DB has been around for some time and many customers and users are already using it, there may still be some who are wondering how to upgrade/migrate to Icinga DB. This post will briefly explain the components of the Icinga DB and how to install them in a reasonable order. Note that it is assumed that all components are installed on the Icinga primary node(s) using a MySQL/MariaDB database.

Alerting with Grafana and InfluxDB Cloud Serverless

Combining these two platforms provides an efficient, scalable and customizable tool for real-time data monitoring and alerting. In the data analytics and visualization world, it is crucial to have a system that not only effectively monitors your data, but can also alert you about any potential discrepancies or anomalies that may arise. One powerful tool set that enables you to monitor and alert on time series data is Grafana and InfluxDB Cloud Serverless.

Calculating Sampling's Impact on SLOs and More

What do mall food courts and Honeycomb have in common? We both love sampling! Not only do we recommend it to many of our customers, we do it ourselves. But once Refinery (our tail-based sampling proxy) is set up, what comes next? Since sampling is inherently lossy, it’s good to be sure the organization’s most important measurements aren’t negatively affected.

LogicMonitor Envision Platform UIv4 Overview Demo

Take your user experience to the next level and get the most out of the LM Envision platform with UIv4! LM Envision's New UI provides the fewest clicks to get users where they are trying to go, intuitive next steps, pre-set defaults, consistency of bulk actions, better search and filtering, all coupled together with modern React components that make for fast, reliable, consistent execution of common tasks.

Enhancing Your Heroku Postgres Performance: A Guide to Effective Monitoring with Hosted Graphite

When it comes to managing your database, monitoring is crucial for maintaining data integrity, optimizing performance, and ensuring efficient resource allocation. In today's fast-paced technological landscape, having real-time insights into your database's health is more important than ever. This is where Heroku Postgres and Hosted Graphite come into the picture.

Hosted Graphite and Printers: Boosting Efficiency and Performance

Printers play a crucial role in various industries, helping businesses efficiently manage their document workflows. However, ensuring optimal printer performance and minimizing downtime can be a challenge. This is where hosted graphite comes into the picture. Hosted graphite is a powerful monitoring tool that allows businesses to graph metrics and gain valuable insights into their printer systems.

Ditch Nagios Errors for A Streamlined Alternative: "Return code of x is out of bounds"

In the realm of IT infrastructure monitoring, Nagios has long been a popular choice due to its robust feature set and flexibility. However, even reliable systems can encounter issues, and one recurring problem that Nagios users might encounter is the "Return code of x is out of bounds" error. In this blog post, we'll dive into the details of this error, what causes it, and how it can impact your monitoring efforts.

SMTP Monitoring Uncovered: How Does It Work?

SMTP, which stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, is a crucial component in the world of email communication. It’s a protocol used within the TCP/IP suite that facilitates the sending and receiving of email. SMTP is commonly used by a range of email clients such as Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail, and Yahoo Mail. As of 2023, the number of daily worldwide emails reached an astounding 4.26 billion worldwide.

How to Monitor VoIP PBX Systems for Call Quality

If you’ve ever used a business phone system, chances are that you’ve used a VoIP PBX or IP PBX system at least once. There are many advantages of using VoIP PBX for your business, but like most applications that work over a network, they’re prone to performance issues if network problems arise. In this article, we’re running you through how to monitor VoIP PBX systems to ensure optimal call quality with network monitoring.

Distributed Systems Explained

Distributed systems might be complicated…luckily, the concept is easy to understand! A distributed system is simply any environment where multiple computers or devices are working on a variety of tasks and components, all spread across a network. Components within distributed systems split up the work, coordinating efforts to complete a given job more efficiently than if only a single device ran it.

Why Observability Architecture Matters in Modern IT Spaces

Observability architecture and design is becoming more important than ever among all types of IT teams. That’s because core elements in observability architecture are pivotal in ensuring complex software systems’ smooth functioning, reliability and resilience. And observability design can help you achieve operational excellence and deliver exceptional user experiences. In this article, we’ll delve into the vital role of observability design and architecture in IT environments.

The Quirky World of Anomaly Detection

Hey there, data detectives and server sleuths! Ever find yourself staring at a screen full of numbers and graphs, only to have one data point wave at you like a tourist lost in Times Square? Yup, you’ve stumbled upon the cheeky world of Anomaly Detection—where data points act more mysterious than your cat when it suddenly decides to sprint around the house at 2 AM. So buckle up!

Why you should monitor Kubernetes in SCOM

Why you should monitor Kubernetes in SCOM Kubernetes is one of the most prominent container orchestration platforms available today. As cloud-native and container solutions gain attention, so does Kubernetes. With the new incline towards cloud-native application development, there is a big focus on software development and how to migrate to the cloud. What cannot be forgotten is what needs to be taken care of once the applications are up and running – monitoring.

2023 Cloud Cost Management Platforms: A FinOps Tools Competitive Analysis

Managing cloud costs has become a must for FinOps-focused businesses. Gotta keep a close eye on those expenses! So, what is the best way to do it? Find a platform that can help you get cost visibility and catch any cloud costs anomalies before they turn into a money waste! With tons of FinOps tools, how do you figure out which one suits your needs? And what exactly should you be looking at? We get it! There’s much to consider when picking the best platform to get those cloud cost insights.

Grafana Pyroscope 1.0 release: continuous profiling for a modern open source observability stack

When we launched Pyroscope in 2021, we had one clear goal: Give developers a powerful open source continuous profiling tool for collecting, storing, and analyzing profiling data. Grafana Labs had a similar goal when they released Grafana Phlare, a horizontally scalable, highly available open source profiling solution inspired by databases like Grafana Loki, Grafana Mimir, and Grafana Tempo.

Centralize AWS observability with Grafana Cloud

If you’re using AWS, you’re almost certainly using Amazon CloudWatch to collect and analyze observability data from your favorite AWS services. And while AWS remains the most broadly adopted cloud platform, not every company uses it exclusively, which means you need a tool that gives a centralized view across all your environments. With Grafana Cloud, you can do just that.

Infrastructure Monitoring Basics with Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana

Earlier this year, I had the pleasure of speaking at the Open Source Summit North America. When choosing a topic, I felt it was time to return to our roots and discuss the subject that originally put InfluxDB on the map: infrastructure monitoring. What was especially exciting was the opportunity to showcase the new capabilities of InfluxDB 3.0 to the open source community and explain their significance for the future of infrastructure monitoring use cases.

Datadog On Mobile Software Development

Understanding the health and user experience of your mobile application is critical in order to avoid user frustration, understand application crashes, and reduce bugs mean time to resolution. To help with that task, Datadog has a mobile monitoring solution that allows developers to better understand and improve their application. But what are the things to take into account when building observability mobile SDKs? How can we gather the right telemetry without affecting the underlying application?

Prevent Critical Issues Resulting from Using EOL Citrix Receiver Versions

When I speak with IT professionals about end user experience and Citrix session performance, unsurprisingly, the subject of Citrix Workspace app versioning pops up. What is surprising, however, is their various degrees of attention toward maintaining up-to-date versioning of the Citrix Workspace app. Citrix Receiver was the previous iteration of Citrix Workspace app, but many organizations are still leveraging dated or unsupported Citrix Receiver versions.

Coralogix Deep Dive - Remote Query for Logs

In this video, we'll explore the functionality and best practices with Coralogix Remote Query for Logs. Coralogix supports direct, unindexed queries to the archive for both logs and traces, and stores data in cloud object storage directly in the customers cloud account, making for rock bottom retention costs, blazing fast performance and outstanding scalability.

Unlocking the Power of Hosted Graphite and Machine Learning

Monitoring and optimizing IT infrastructure, applications, and networks is crucial for businesses in today's digital landscape. It allows them to proactively identify issues, ensure optimal performance, and deliver a seamless user experience. However, traditional monitoring methods often fall short when it comes to handling the increasing complexity and scale of modern systems. That's where hosted graphite and machine learning come into play.

Making your JavaScript projects less noisy

If you’re using Sentry for JavaScript error monitoring, you may be familiar with a common challenge: sifting through noisy, low-value errors that hinder identifying high-priority issues for you and your team. Capturing errors in JavaScript browser project can be tricky. Why? Well, it’s not just a single environment.

Network Monitoring: A Comprehensive Overview

Imagine this: You’re a doctor. Your patient is a colossal network of computers, servers and cables, all intertwined and humming with activity. Your job? To keep an eye on this complex entity’s vital signs, ensure it runs smoothly and intervene when things start to look a little off. Welcome to the world of network monitoring and the role of network administrators.

Platform Engineers: Applied Best Practices Are Baked-in to Kubernetes Monitoring

Operating Kubernetes reliably and efficiently involves adhering to a set of best practices. These practices help ensure the stability, scalability and maintainability of your Kubernetes clusters and their applications. It's crucial for platform teams (responsible for the infrastructure) and software development teams (responsible for deploying applications) to work together in applying these practices.

The Top 4 Use Cases for Generative AI in Customer Experience

Up until recently, machines mainly focused on analyzing large, existing amounts of data and finding patterns for a multitude of use cases. This is called “traditional AI.” But lately, machines have also started creating new content. And this is now known as “generative AI.” And given the rise of ChatGPT and its peers, generative artificial intelligence (AI) has quickly emerged as one of the most transformative technologies in recent years.

6 Underutilized Ways to Use AI in Customer Service in 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is surely revolutionizing numerous industries. The AI market is projected to grow from $150 billion in 2023 to $1,345 billion in 2030, at a whopping 36.8% Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR). And at least 35% of companies are already using AI in their business, and an additional 42% are exploring it. However, the exhaustive list of AI business applications is still in the early stages.

The 10-Step Guide To Your Online Presence with Squarespace

Currently, there are about 1.13 billion websites around the world. Actually, 3 new websites are created every second. Even more so, it has become particularly powerful to pair a website with an ecommerce platform, thereby broadening customer reach and 24/7 accessibility. And this global e-commerce market is expected to total a whopping$6.3 trillion in 2023. 79% of shoppers already shop online at least once a month.

Scaling Window Event Forwarding with a Load Balancer

Scaling to collect Windows Event logs with the Windows Event Forwarding Source can be tricky. Luckily, you can use a load balancer, and with some math to scale the number of workers to collect the amount of data you expect, you can use workers to collect Windows logs from a large number of endpoints. Endpoint logs are the lifeblood of observability in an incident response program.

Advancing Seamless IT Infrastructure Monitoring

We hope you’ve enjoyed a fantastic summer and are all eager to gear up for the next phase of advancing seamless IT infrastructure, services, and performance monitoring. As a seasoned SCOM administrator, you know the intricacies of orchestrating IT infrastructure monitoring. The landscape has evolved dramatically in recent years, with an exponential surge in monitoring alongside the expected depth of observations.

Rogers Outage: How to Identify Network Outages & Internet Outages

The nationwide Rogers outage in Canada majorly disrupted the lives of many, affecting wireless, Internet, and even people’s ability to call 911. When major network outages or Internet outages occur, it’s important to be notified as soon as they happen. Understanding the causes and identifying network outages or Internet disruptions is not only essential for individual users but also for businesses striving to maintain uninterrupted operations.

The Leading APM Use Cases

The majority of users continually depend on a variety of web applications to meet their everyday needs, so a business’s success is now often proportionate to the success of its application performance. As a result, the importance of using an appropriate APM solution has become even greater to businesses globally. Application Performance Monitoring (APM) still continues to grow in popularity and is now considered a must for observing the health and performance of your organization's applications.

Generative AI at Grafana Labs: what's new, what's next, and our vision for the open source community

As you’d imagine, generative AI has been a huge topic here at Grafana Labs. We’re excited about its potential role in bridging the gap between people and the beyond-human scale of observability data we work with every day. We’ve also been talking a lot about where open source fits in — especially if that Google researcher is right and OSS will outcompete OpenAI and friends. What role can we play to bring the community along?

DX NetOps in Action: Fujitsu Reduces TCO by 75% with Expanded "HumanCentric" Approach to NetOps

Fujitsu is a Japanese multinational information technology equipment and services company. Headquartered in Tokyo, Fujitsu has over 100 data centers worldwide. The company and its subsidiaries offer a diverse range of products and services in areas such as personal and enterprise computing (including x86), SPARC, and mainframe-compatible server products.

12 Best Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Tools

In today’s fast-paced world, applications are vital for driving businesses forward. However, without proper monitoring and insights into your application’s performance, you can’t identify what causes slow response times, high CPU usage, or database bottlenecks. But with an Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tool, you can gain deep visibility into your application’s performance by tracking critical metrics.

What are the Benefits of Using Cribl Stream with Amazon Security Lake?

In a recent user group meeting, guest speaker Marc Luescher from Amazon Web Services (AWS) joined us to give an overview of Amazon Security Lake. We talked about Cribl use cases and how Cribl Stream can bring your non-AWS data into the Security Lake. Enterprises are dealing with some significant challenges with security data in 2023. Inconsistent, incomplete, poorly-formatted log data is simultaneously scattered across companies and locked up in different silos within the organization.

Parquet File Format: The Complete Guide

How you choose to store and process your system data can have significant implications on the cost and performance of your system. These implications are magnified when your system has data-intensive operations such as machine learning, AI, or microservices. And that’s why it’s crucial to find the right data format. For example, Parquet file format can help you save storage space and costs, without compromising on performance.

Deleting Fields with BindPlane OP

Are you ingesting unnecessary fields? See how to use the "Delete Fields" processor to remove fields from your log stream in BindPlane OP. Then use our live preview capabilities to see the changes prior to rolling out to your agents. About ObservIQ: observIQ brings clarity and control to our customer's existing observability chaos. How? Through an observability pipeline: a fast, powerful and intuitive orchestration engine built for the modern observability team. Our product is designed to help teams significantly reduce cost, simplify collection, and standardize their observability data.

How to deploy Hello World Elastic Observability on Google Cloud Run

Elastic Cloud Observability is the premiere tool to provide visibility into your running web apps. Google Cloud Run is the serverless platform of choice to run your web apps that need to scale up massively and scale down to zero. Elastic Observability combined with Google Cloud Run is the perfect solution for developers to deploy web apps that are auto-scaled with fully observable operations, in a way that’s straightforward to implement and manage.

Detecting Performance Monitoring Issues in Prometheus & Grafana | 2023 Guide

Stay ahead of performance hiccups with our comprehensive Prometheus & Grafana monitoring tutorial. From setup to advanced detection techniques, this guide ensures your systems run smoothly. Facing challenges or want to exchange tips? Connect with peers and mentors in our dedicated community space.

Advanced Monitoring and Observability Tips for Kubernetes Deployments

Cloud deployments and containerization let you provision infrastructure as needed, meaning your applications can grow in scope and complexity. The results can be impressive, but the ability to expand quickly and easily makes it harder to keep track of your system as it develops. In this type of Kubernetes deployment, it’s essential to track your containers to understand what they’re doing.

LogicMonitor Kubernetes Helm Monitoring

LogicMonitor recently added support for monitoring Kubernetes Helm Charts. This new module helps customers clearly see the health and performance of their Kubernetes applications, quickly respond when configured metrics exceed thresholds or deviate from patterns, and take action on critical issues to detect anomalies or issues early on.

Introducing Error Groups to the Raygun API

We’re excited to announce an important extension to our API. After rigorous research, testing, and feedback, we’ve launched the Error Groups endpoints. This powerful new addition aims to enhance your monitoring experience and better handle errors across your applications. Our primary aim with the introduction of these endpoints is to offer you a more detailed view into your applications’ error groups, and to offer a way to update their statuses using the API.

New Feature: Enhance Security with Status Page SSO

We’ve heard your feedback and it’s here: Status page SSO is now available on our Enterprise plan. Status Page Single Sign-On (SSO) empowers StatusGator customers to safeguard their status pages through a seamless Single Sign-On experience. You can now restrict access to your status page to only your team, employees, or users who have SSO access through your organization’s identity provider.

Getting started with Grafana Loki (Grafana Office Hours #09)

Senior Principal Solutions Engineer Ward Bekker talks about getting started with Grafana Loki: what Loki is, why you need log aggregation, and how it fits into the rest of the Grafana stack. He is joined by Developer Advocates Paul Balogh and Nicole van der Hoeven to tell you everything you need to know about Loki.

25 Essential Salesforce Monitoring Strategies for Optimal Performance and Security

In this definitive guide, we present to you the “25 Essential Salesforce Monitoring Strategies for Optimal Performance and Security.” The health of your CRM environment is pivotal to your organizational success. From analyzing user activity to optimizing API usage, from monitoring data quality to fortifying compliance measures, we’re here to equip you with the tools and knowledge to thrive.

Blackhat 2023 Recap: How Will Advanced AI Impact Cybersecurity?

Ed Bailey and Jackie McGuire from Cribl will recap Black Hat 2023, focusing on emerging trends in cybersecurity, including the rise of advanced AI. We’ll share insights and anecdotes from our time at the event. Tune into the live stream for an engaging discussion, and come prepared with your thoughts and questions about Black Hat and the future of cybersecurity.
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How Nagarro transforms SAP operations with Avantra

E-3 Magazine, in the June 2023 issue, featured a cover story about Avantra and the collaboration with our customer Nagarro. Reason enough to let the mind wander a bit and write a little more about this exceptionally good collaboration. It all started in 2013, back when CIBER Managed Services GmbH and our solution was not yet called Avantra, but Xandria. From the initial product presentation in Freiburg im Breisgau, my hometown, it was easy to see how well the attendees understood the solution, and from the questions and answers, it became clear how well we, at Avantra, knew the problems of a fast growing managed services business.

Top MySQL Monitoring Tools

As a database administrator, ensuring the smooth running of your MySQL database is paramount. Keeping an eye on vital statistics such as uptime, query performance, and resource utilization is a crucial aspect of maintaining database health. Fortunately, several monitoring tools are available in the market to help you keep track of these metrics. These tools provide you with insights that enable you to optimize database performance and prevent any potential threats.

Everything You Need to Know About Kubernetes

Welcome to the world of Kubernetes - a powerful container orchestration platform. Before we dive deep into the concepts of Kubernetes, let's grasp the concept of containers - a lightweight, and isolated units that package applications along with their dependencies, ensuring seamless deployment and portability. In this blog, you will witness Kubernetes incredible abilities. It can handle the ups and downs of your applications, ensuring they scale seamlessly, even when facing tough challenges.

How to Utilize Dark Web Monitoring Protection

Odds are, you've heard about the dark web. Nevertheless, you may be unsure about its threat to your business and how to address it. The dark web is a set of anonymously hosted websites within the deep web accessible through anonymizing software, commonly "TOR" (The Onion Router). The anonymity these websites provide makes them the perfect online marketplace for illegal activities.

Mean Time to Repair (MTTR): Definition, Tips and Challenges

The availability and reliability of any IT service ultimately govern end-user experience and service performance, both of which have significant business impact. These two concepts — availability and reliability — are particularly relevant in the era of cloud computing, where software drives business operations, but that software is often managed and delivered as a service by third-party vendors.

A complete guide to metrics cost management in Grafana Cloud

The macro economy can put a lot of pressure on organizations to reduce costs, typically with the central SRE and platform engineering teams coming under scrutiny. One common workaround we’ve seen countless teams make is compromising their observability by ingesting fewer metrics in the name of cost savings. But for centralized SRE/observability teams, the response to macro conditions should not be monitor less, but rather monitor smarter.

When Two Worlds Collide: AI and Observability Pipelines

In today's data-driven world, ensuring the stability and efficiency of software applications is not just a need but a requirement. Enter observability. But as with any evolving technology, there's always room for growth. That growth, as it stands today, is the convergence of artificial intelligence (AI) with observability pipelines. In this blog, we'll explore the idea behind this merge and its potential.

25 Best Status Page Examples Showcasing Top Communication Practices

Status pages are a transparent and effective way to inform users of any downtime or incidents disrupting the company’s service. Without a status page, users are left in the dark, and support tickets pile up, affecting your relationship with them and their trust. That’s why having a status page is essential for a business in 2023.

A Release Strategy for Continuous Innovation

At Cribl, we take pride in doing things differently. Our Customers First mentality is at the heart of everything we do as an organization–from free education and sandboxes, community programs, and platforms, to streamlining legal reviews on contracts. We strive to solve problems from first principles – understanding root causes to build optimal experiences vs. piecemeal solutions together. We aim to be a partner—working with you to address your challenges holistically.

What is MITRE ATT&CK and How to Use the Framework?

The MITRE ATT@CK® framework is one of the most widely known and used. The Flowmon Anomaly Detection System (ADS) incorporates knowledge of the MITRE ATT&CK framework. Using ADS and its MITRE ATT&CK knowledge makes detecting advanced threats against networks and IT systems easier and simplifies explaining the danger and risks when outlining an attack to all stakeholders.

How a Globoplay engineer discovered the power of SigNoz, with Paulo Henrique de Morais Santiago

We sit down with Globo engineer and DevOps wizard Paulo Henrique de Morais Santiago, who along with experimenting with SigNoz as a New Relic alternative for Observability, is also the author of one of the top DevOps courses on Udemy. Check out his course at More about SigNoz.

Top tips: 3 ways emerging technologies can transform banking

Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world today and list out ways to explore these trends. This week, we’re sharing a few tips on how cutting-edge technologies can transform banking. The latest advancements in technology have improved banking in numerous ways. Cashless payments and digital banking have gained immense popularity in the last few years, so that traditional methods of banking are almost obsolete.

What is a Real-Time Data Lake?

A data lake is a centralized data repository where structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data from a variety of sources can be stored in their raw format. Data lakes help eliminate data silos by acting as a single landing zone for data from multiple sources. But what’s the difference between a traditional data lake and a real-time data lake?

Grafana 10.1 release: Enhanced flame graphs, new geomap network layer, and more

Grafana 10.1 is here! The latest Grafana release introduces new features and improvements that help deepen your observability insights in Grafana, including an improved flame graph, a new geomap network layer, simplified alerting workflows, and more. Grafana 10.1: Download now! For an overview of all the features in this release, check out our What’s New documentation. And to learn the details about all the Grafana 10.1 updates, read our changelog for more information.

Grafana k6 v0.46.0 release: TLS per gRPC connection support, new usage reports in Grafana Cloud k6, and more!

Grafana k6 v0.46.0 is here! The new release features the ability to configure TLS, new usage reports and PDF reports in Grafana Cloud, and tons of improvements for Grafana k6 OSS and Grafana Cloud k6. Here’s an overview of Grafana k6 v0.46.0, as well as some other important updates from the k6 team and community.

A Practical Developer's Guide on How to Troubleshoot HTTP 5XX errors

Imagine the following situation: You are on call, and your monitoring dashboard has flickering red lights due to an increased number of 5xx HTTP responses from one or more of your Kubernetes services. Now it is time to start to troubleshoot 500 Errors. Instead of panicking, you can use this blog as a guide.

Stopping in Style: 9 Unique Designs for Website Maintenance Pages

We’ve already demonstrated how to maintain a fresh and functional website. Now, let’s explore some examples of creative maintenance pages! Nothing brings a good scrolling session to a halt quite like stumbling upon a website maintenance page. While maintenance pages can be annoying interruptions, they can also serve as attractive temporary visuals for sites undergoing updates. Many brands even elevate these pages into imaginative and artistic displays.

Introducing Rage & Dead Click Detection for Session Replay

Sentry developers work ridiculously hard to make sure that every update makes the developer experience better. And, just like you, we use Sentry to monitor…Sentry. While our issues feed seems under control, alerts aren’t popping off, and our releases are all healthy, our experience has taught us the undeniable value of taking a proactive approach to unseen customer-impacting issues.

Coralogix vs Splunk: Support, Pricing and More

Splunk has become one of several players in the observability industry, offering a set of features and a specific focus on legacy and security use cases. That being said, how does Splunk compare to Coralogix as a complete full-stack observability solution? Let’s dive into the key differences between Coralogix vs Splunk, including customer support, pricing, cost optimization, and more.

Comparing Six Top Observability Software Platforms

When it comes to observability, your organization will have no shortage of options for tools and platforms. Between open source software and proprietary vendors, you should be able to find the right tools to fit your use case, budget and IT infrastructure. Observability should be cost-efficient, easy to implement and customers should be provided with the best support possible.

Honeycomb + Tracetest: Observability-Driven Development

Our friends at Tracetest recently released an integration with Honeycomb that allows you to build end-to-end and integration tests, powered by your existing distributed traces. You only need to point Tracetest to your existing trace data source—in this case, Honeycomb. This guest post from Adnan Rahić walks you through how the integration works.

ExpressJS Container Debugging

In recent years, the landscape of application development has experienced a paradigm shift, largely driven by the rise of containerization and microservices architectures. Amid this transformation, Express.js has emerged as a dynamic and versatile framework that stands as a one-stop shop for crafting robust web applications. Its popularity owes much to its minimalist approach, allowing developers to swiftly build APIs and web applications with ease.

Preventing Outages: Implement an Internet Performance Monitoring Plan

Just implementing Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM) is only a first step. A complete and thoughtful Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM) Plan is essential to ensure user experience over time. Your Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM) plan should include: Watch Howard Beader and Akshita Agarwal as they teach the steps required to create a successful IPM plan.

Top Features of Grafana Versions 7 & 8

Grafana is a monitoring system that helps you visualize your infrastructure and provides notifications when errors occur. It offers interesting features on some versions as it's the case on v7 and v8. We will go through some that are very interesting in particular Panel editor, Tracing UI, bar graph, and visualization. With MetricFire specializing in hosted monitoring, you can easily make a Grafana dashboard by booking a demo or signing on to the free trial immediately.

Breaking the Cloud Illusion: The Hard Truth about Successful Migrations

Join our Kentik experts and Andrew Green, Research Analyst at GigaOm for a panel discussion on common challenges organizations face as they move their workloads to the cloud. They will discuss some tales from the field and ways organizations can mitigate some of these challenges, such as cost overruns, connectivity interruptions, and security considerations.

How to Detect Microsoft Teams Outages: Is MS Teams Down?

Microsoft Teams is a vital tool for businesses, organizations, and individuals seeking seamless connectivity. Whether it's coordinating projects, holding virtual meetings, or sharing critical information, Teams has redefined how we interact and cooperate. However, even the most robust platforms occasionally face disruptions, and when Microsoft Teams encounters an outage, the impact can ripple through workflows, communications, and productivity.

Unleash an Avalanche of Streaming Data into Snowflake Snowpipe with Cribl Stream

Cribl Stream users have been successfully setting up security data lakes alongside, instead of, and underneath their SIEM solutions. Regardless of their architecture, they all want to reduce their latency and cut their costs. Snowflake, a popular choice for security data lakes due to its scalability and ease of use, recently released a new streaming ingest capability that Cribl Stream is ready to unlock.

Is Topology really needed while finding Root Cause?

There are many instances in our lives where we are stuck in issues and try to understand what caused them. Our initial thoughts are to identify the reason and the cause. We aim to trace the issue back to the origin and try to address them from where it all started. Just like, when we get common cold, we try to figure out where we contracted it. Was it the late-night smoothie or exposure to someone with COVID symptoms? We never know until we figure out.

Network Health and Performance Monitoring: SolarWinds MIB DB

This series trains users how to effectively use the network health and performance monitoring features of SolarWinds® Hybrid Cloud Observability. Participants will learn how to build effective custom SNMP pollers, use NetPath to troubleshoot network connections, and learn about other features such as Network Insight, capacity planning, and forecasting critical resources.

Network Health and Performance Monitoring: Custom Pollers

This series trains users how to effectively use the network health and performance monitoring features of SolarWinds® Hybrid Cloud Observability. Participants will learn how to build effective custom SNMP pollers, use NetPath to troubleshoot network connections, and learn about other features such as Network Insight, capacity planning, and forecasting critical resources.

Network Health and Performance Monitoring: SNMP Fundamentals

This series trains users how to effectively use the network health and performance monitoring features of SolarWinds® Hybrid Cloud Observability. Participants will learn how to build effective custom SNMP pollers, use NetPath to troubleshoot network connections, and learn about other features such as Network Insight, capacity planning, and forecasting critical resources.

4 Tips for AWS Lambda Performance Optimization

By the end of this AWS Lambda optimization article, you will have a workflow of continuously monitoring and improving your Lambda functions and getting alerts on failures. Serverless has been the MVP for the last couple of years and I’m betting it’s going to play a bigger role next year in backend development. AWS Lambda is the most used and mature product in the Serverless space today and is also at the core of Dashbird.

Apica wins the Silver Stevie Award in IoT Analytics Solutions

In the ever-evolving landscape of digital performance monitoring and observability, Apica has proven once again that it stands at the forefront of innovation. The recent recognition of Apica’s exceptional contributions comes in the form of the prestigious Silver Stevie Award in the Product & Service Category. The winners were announced in the 20th International Business Awards on August 14, 2023. We are elated to win the Silver Stevie Award in the category of (IoT) Analytics Solutions.

How eG Enterprise IT Monitoring Licensing is Cost-Effective and Flexible

IT monitoring tools are often complex to license and their licensing models are not always cost-effective. Today, I’ll cover some of the licensing models you may encounter as you evaluate IT monitoring tools. I will also highlight how eG Enterprise licensing makes it a cost-effective, affordable and flexible choice for our customers using our monitoring and observability platform.

What's New in the Kubernetes 1.28 Second Release

From its humble beginnings, Kubernetes’ growth story continues to be a testament to the power of open-source collaboration, and its current 1.28 second release is certainly no exception. It’s not just a product of ingenious coding but also the sweat and night oil of a global community – from seasoned industry stalwarts to students just making their debut in the open-source world.

The Future of Observability: Navigating Challenges and Harnessing Opportunities

Observability solutions can easily and rapidly get complex — in terms of maintenance, time and budgetary constraints. But observability doesn’t have to be hard or expensive with the right solutions in place. The future of your observability can be a bright one.

Epic 2.0 Module Launch

Philadelphia, PA – August 23, 2023 – Goliath Technologies, a leading provider of end-user experience monitoring and troubleshooting solutions, is proud to announce the second version of its Epic Module, which further enhances our exclusive integration designed to help improve clinician and healthcare worker satisfaction with Epic. Goliath is an Epic App Market Member, and our new module is available on the Epic Connection Hub.

Fixing Docker's Slow Performance on MacOS

Docker is designed for Linux. It works most efficiently on Linux systems due to its close integration with the Linux kernel. When handling large filesystems, like the ones built with PHP and Node, Docker desktop (MacOS Environment) experiences significant lag. The main reason is how file synchronization is implemented in Docker for Mac. Plus, disk space consuming behavior of such big PHP Projects.

Splunk and the Four Golden Signals

Last October, Splunk Observability Evangelist Jeremy Hicks wrote a great piece here about the Four Golden Signals of monitoring. Jeremy’s blog comes from the perspective of monitoring distributed cloud services with Splunk Observability Cloud, but the concepts of Four Golden Signals apply just as readily to monitoring traditional on-premises services and IT infrastructure.

How we scaled Grafana Cloud Logs' memcached cluster to 50TB and improved reliability

Grafana Loki is an open source logs database built on object storage services in the cloud. These services are an essential component in enabling Loki to scale to tremendous levels. However, like all SaaS products, object storage services have their limits — and we started to crash into those limits in Grafana Cloud Logs, our SaaS offering of Grafana Loki.

Cisco AppDynamics GovAPM delivers FedRAMP authorized all-in-one visibility

A FedRAMP authorized, single source of truth for your multi-layer tech stack. Similar to private sector counterparts, government organizations are embracing innovative cloud strategies. Cloud migration can unlock powerful outcomes, but it doesn’t change the need for compliance and great application performance. Cisco AppDynamics GovAPM delivers both — and much more.

Dashboard Stories: Gamified bug bash tracking

We love a ‘bug bash’ here at SquaredUp, so we regularly encourage our developers and testers to down tools on major features to go after smaller issues that have been 'bugging' them. This dashboard helps us measure the success of the teams latest bug bash and adds a little gamification for some competitive fun! Using the Jira plugin in SquaredUp, we can stream our data on demand into this centralized dashboard for the whole team. Now we can easily see how we're doing against our target, without having to trawl through Jira.

Black Hat 2023 Recap: The Future is Artificial

After a solid week in Vegas and another solid week of recovery, I’m back in the office (AKA sitting on my couch eating Doritos with chopsticks so I don’t get my keyboard dirty) to bring you my official Black Hat 2023 recap. This year’s event was noticeably scaled back, with fewer people swag surfing the business hall and more technical security folks in search of solutions for actual business problems.

New Item List

We are proud to announce that we are starting to roll out access to the new version of the item list page. The new page has been redesigned, refreshed and rebuilt from scratch; the fresh new look and feel is mobile friendly and also brings a number of immediate new benefits compared to the legacy page. Access will be available through a header to allow users to switch to the new page, with the ability to switch back to the legacy page if needed.

Dashboard Stories: Observing Garden Irrigation water usage with SQL

This useful garden irrigation dashboard built in SquaredUp displays a series of data on system availability, water usage and weather conditions. Using the SQL plugin, it pulls data from the Arduino device, allowing me to quickly visualize water usage across any timeframe I choose. This means that I can spot irregularities in usage, which could indicate a leak. I chose to use SquaredUp dashboards for this project, as even though I’m only working with simple data, once you surface it there’s a lot you can do with it!

Top 4 best practice recommendations to reimagine AWS Lambda monitoring

AWS Lambda monitoring best practices Site24x7's AWS monitoring tool for AWS Lambda enhances real-time visibility into your Lambda functions. It monitors the health, efficiency, and log details of your Lambda functions. Site24x7 provides effective management of serverless operations by gathering statistics on function engagement, code execution duration, and anomalies, enhancing the performance of your AWS serverless functions.

Catchpoint recognized in Six Gartner Hype Cycle 2023 Reports

Catchpoint is pleased to announce that Gartner has released six new Hype Cycle reports that mention Catchpoint in respective categories. Gartner Hype Cycles provide a graphic representation of the maturity and adoption of technologies and applications, and how they are potentially relevant to solving real business problems and exploiting new opportunities.

NestJS Monitoring with Atatus

NestJS is a popular and powerful open-source framework for building scalable and maintainable server-side applications with Node.js. It follows the principles of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), Dependency Injection (DI), and Functional Programming (FP), making it an excellent choice for developers who prefer a modular and organized codebase. NestJs facilitates the creation of reliable, efficient, and scalable server-side applications using Node.js.

Code, Coffee, and Unity: How a Unified Approach to Observability and Security Empowers ITOps and Engineering Teams

In today's fast-paced and ever-changing digital landscape, maintaining digital resilience has become a critical aspect of business success. It is no longer just a technical challenge but a crucial business imperative. But when observability teams work in their own silos with tools, processes, and policies, disconnected from the security teams, it becomes more challenging for companies to achieve digital resilience.

Visualize service ownership and application boundaries in the Service Map

The complexity of microservice architectures can make it hard to determine where an application’s dependencies begin and end and who manages which ones. This can pose a variety of challenges both in the course of day-to-day operations and during incidents. Lacking a clear picture of the ownership and interplay of your services can impede accountability and cause application development, incident investigations, and onboarding processes to become prolonged and haphazard.

Data Quality Metrics: 5 Tips to Optimize Yours

Amid a big data boom, more and more information is being generated from various sources at staggering rates. But without the proper metrics for your data, businesses with large quantities of information may find it challenging to effectively and grow in competitive markets. For example, high-quality data lets you make informed decisions that are based on derived insights, enhance customer experiences, and drive sustainable growth.

Dashboards & Reports for New-Age Observability with DX UIM from Broadcom

In this 10-minute how-to video, 2nd in a series, learn more about DX UIM for new-age infrastructure observability. Watch to learn about inventory view and grouping, creating metric view dashboards and reports, Performance Reports Designer, List View Designer, and a sneak peek at a unified view.

Configuring Kubernetes and OpenShift Monitoring with DX UIM by Broadcom

In this 10-minute how-to video, 1st in a series, learn about DX UIM for new-age infrastructure observability. Watch to learn about the cloud infrastructure monitoring deployment model schematic, how to deploy container monitoring, and how to configure monitoring in the DX UIM Operator Console.

Sneak Peek: New-Age Infra Observability Viewer with DX UIM from Broadcom

In this 6-min. video, see how an upcoming feature, Observability Viewer, will provide a new, consolidated view across the infrastructure estate. The DX UIM Observability Viewer feature is intended to allow customers to more quickly understand their operational situation.

IT Orchestration vs. Automation: What's the Difference?

As modern IT systems grow more elaborate, encompassing hardware and software across hybrid environments, the prospect of managing these systems often grows beyond the capacity an IT team can handle. Automation is one great way to help. But it's important to know that not all automation is the same — chatbots are probably not the solution your team is looking for to handle these incredibly complex systems.

Using Traces for Testing - SigNoz Community Call with TraceTest and DevOps Educator Paulo

This week we welcomed the TraceTest team to talk about how TraceTest can use your OpenTelemetry Traces to do truly deep end-to-end tracing of your stack. We also had Globo engineer and DevOps wizard Paulo Henrique de Morais Santiago, who along with experimenting with SigNoz as a New Relic alternative for Observability, is also the author of one of the top DevOps courses on Udemy. Check out his course at.

How to get actionable insights from your data

“When you peel back business issues, more times than not, you will find that the root cause is directly tied to data problems,” says Matthew Minetola, CIO at Elastic®. In today's world, all companies, new and old, are awash in data from multiple sources — stored in multiple systems, versions, and formats — and it’s getting worse all the time.

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VMware Horizon Monitoring

Regardless of whether you are a system administrator or an end-user, convenient and secure access to essential apps and desktops is essential to perform your tasks efficiently. Due to the new imperative of working remotely, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solutions such as VMware Horizon, Citrix VDI, and many more have significantly boosted over the past few years. In fact, the VDI market is expected to grow from about $14 billion in 2022 to about $50 billion by 2030. Today we want to take a closer look at VMware Horizon, the importance of having proper monitoring, and what options to choose from.

Telegraf Deployment Strategies with Docker Compose

This article, written by Shan Desai, was originally published on his blog and is reposted here with permission. Shan is a Software engineer currently employed at Emerson Discrete Automation and is an Open-Source Contributor / DIY Tech Enthusiast currently working with Industrial IoT. Telegraf is widely used as a metric aggregation tool thanks to the diverse number of plugins it provides that interface with a multitude of systems without having to write complex software logic.

Simplifying Data Lake Management with an Observability Pipeline

Data Lakes can be difficult and costly to manage. They require skilled engineers to manage the infrastructure, keep data flowing, eliminate redundancy, and secure the data. We accept the difficulties because our data lakes house valuable information like logs, metrics, traces, etc. To add insult to injury, the data lake can be a black hole, where your data goes in but never comes out. If you are thinking there has to be a better way, we agree!

Lookup Tables and Log Analysis: Extracting Insight from Logs

Extracting insights from log and security data can be a slow and resource-intensive endeavor, which is unfavorable for our data-driven world. Fortunately, lookup tables can help accelerate the interpretation of log data, enabling analysts to swiftly make sense of logs and transform them into actionable intelligence. This article will examine lookup tables and their relationship with log analysis.

Scaling Monitoring Administration with Experience-Driven NetOps: AppNeta and DX NetOps

Today, pretty much every critical business service, every critical employee job function, every critical customer transaction, and so much more are all reliant upon network connectivity. It falls to network operations (NetOps) teams to ensure network connections continue to support these demands. Over time, the scale and the complexity of the networks the organization relies upon have continued to grow, making the job of NetOps teams increasingly challenging.

What is Website Maintenance: Your Ultimate Guide to Keeping Your Site Functional

Website maintenance is not that different from keeping up with the maintenance of real brick-and-mortar stores. Would you shop at a dirty store, filled with broken furniture, and selling outdated products? We didn’t think so. Website maintenance plays the same role: it makes the business inviting, makes you look professional, and engages customers.

Observability and the DORA metrics

The Accelerate State of Devops Report highlights four key metrics (known as the DORA metrics, for DevOps Research & Assessment) that distinguish high-performing software organizations: deployment frequency, lead time for changes, time-to-restore, and change fail rate. Observability can kickstart a virtuous cycle that improves all the DORA metrics.

Less is more: How Grafana Mimir queries run faster and more cost efficiently with fewer indexes

Over the past six months, we have been working on optimizing query performance in Grafana Mimir, the open source TSDB for long-term metrics storage. First, we tackled most of the out-of-memory errors in the Mimir store-gateway component by streaming results, as we discussed in a previous blog post. We also wrote about how we eliminated mmap from the store-gateway and as a result, health check timeouts largely disappeared.

A Closer Look at AlertBot's Alert Group Feature

If we start by sharing that AlertBot’s alert group feature lets you, well, alert certain groups, then you might wonder what earth-shattering revelations we have in store — such as water is wet, fire is hot, and the pain of Game of Throne’s final season will never, ever go away (seriously, whatever happened to Gendry?!). Yes, you’re right: the alert group feature IS about alerting groups of people about a site failure — but as George R.R.

CISO's MOST WANTED: Outsmarting Cyber Criminals with Tips from a Former FBI Agent

It's not a matter of IF you’ll be hacked, it’s a matter of when. No one understands that more than FBI Special Agent, Scott Augenbaum, who spent 30 years as a Supervising Agent for the FBI’s Cyber Crimes Unit. Scott joins our panel of experts to discuss today’s cyber threats and practical security solutions to keep you one step ahead of cyber criminals.

SolarWinds Replacements: 6 Best Alternatives

SolarWinds is a trusted name in the world of IT management. This comprehensive suite of tools is designed to help organizations manage, monitor and troubleshoot their IT infrastructure. Solarwinds encompasses several capabilities, including network performance monitoring, systems management, IT security, database management, and IT helpdesk. Still, many SolarWinds replacements exist for IT teams looking for an alternative.

Upgrading NPM and SAM to Hybrid Cloud Observability

This video discusses and demonstrates upgrading an Orion Platform installation running NPM and SAM, to Hybrid Cloud Observability – advanced license. The video discusses system requirements, installation methods and walks through a full demonstration of the upgrade. This video is suitable for anyone who wishes to understand more and see an upgrade from a module based install to Hybrid Cloud Observability.

Top Elasticsearch Metrics to Monitor | Troubleshooting Common error in Elasticsearch

Monitoring Elasticsearch metrics is absolutely essential! Monitoring gives you information about the functionality, overall condition, and performance of your Elasticsearch cluster. Without monitoring, you risk missing important “red-flags” that could make your cluster inaccessible or crash. Which could result in data loss and downtime; both of which would be expensive for your company.

The Power of Visibility: Energy Company Uncovers the True Root Cause At Last

If you work in end user computing, you’re no stranger to the irritation of mystery issues. Tickets come in weekly but no matter how many teams you talk to, or fixes you try to implement, the issues never go away. You search and search for the root cause - but can’t find it. Frustrated, you assume it’s something outside of your control. Maybe the issues is caused by home Wi-Fi or end user error. That must be it – right?

What causes Azure costs to increase?

As the adoption of cloud computing continues to surge, Microsoft Azure remains one of the leading platforms for businesses seeking scalable and efficient cloud solutions. I have been using Azure for a couple of years now; it provides a wide range of services and features, allowing organizations to host applications, store data, and deploy various workloads on a pay-as-you-go basis.

Mastering Microsoft 365 Monitoring for Businesses

In the ever-evolving landscape of modern business, the shift towards cloud-based solutions has been nothing short of transformative. Among these technological advancements, Microsoft 365 has emerged as a cornerstone, offering a comprehensive suite of tools to streamline operations, boost collaboration, and enhance productivity. As organizations increasingly embrace the cloud, the need to ensure the performance, security, and availability of these critical services becomes paramount.

A Complete Guide to Tracking CDN Logs

The Content Delivery Network (CDN) market is projected to grow from 17.70 billion USD to 81.86 billion USD by 2026, according to a recent study. As more businesses adopt CDNs for their content distribution, CDN log tracking is becoming essential to achieve full-stack observability. That being said, the widespread distribution of the CDN servers can also make it challenging when you want visibility into your visitors’ behavior, optimize performance, and identify distribution issues.

Scaling microservices: Challenges, best practices and tools

Scaling the deployment, in order to meet demand or extend capabilities, is a known challenge in many fields, but it’s particularly pertinent when scaling microservices. This article looks at the challenges of scaling microservices and examines best practices to overcome them while maintaining app quality, dev efficiency, and a good developer experience.

OpenTelemetry Webinars - Getting Started with OpenTelemetry

We often get asked, what's the best place to get started with OpenTelemetry - host metrics, traces, or even logs? Hosts Nočnica Mellifera and Pranay will talk about taking your first steps to gathering OpenTelemetry data Below is the recording and an edited transcript of the conversation. Find the conversation transcript below.

Parsing logs with the OpenTelemetry Collector

This guide is for anyone who is getting started monitoring their application with OpenTelemetry, and is generating unstructured logs. As is well understood at this point, structured logs are ideal for post-hoc incident analysis and broad-range querying of your data. However, it’s not always feasible to implement highly structured logging at the code level.

Part two: 7 must-know object-oriented software patterns (and their pitfalls)

Dr. Panos Patros, CPEng This is the second and final part in our exploration of must-know OOP patterns, and covers the composite bridge pattern, iterator pattern, and lock design pattern. Find part one here covering extension, singleton, exception shielding and object pool patterns. Object-oriented design is a fundamental part of modern software engineering that all developers need to understand.

The Significance of Root Cause Analysis in Revolutionizing Enterprise IT Operations

Ever been jolted awake by a midnight alarm because some server decided to take a sudden break? If you’ve been in IT operations, you know this isn’t just about fixing a problem; it’s about understanding and fixing it. Think of a favorite detective show, the detective is not just identifying the culprit, they are aiming to unravel the mystery “who done it?” and understand the motive.

Monitoring machine learning models in production with Grafana and ClearML

Victor Sonck is a Developer Advocate for ClearML, an open source platform for Machine Learning Operations (MLOps). MLOps platforms facilitate the deployment and management of machine learning models in production. As most machine learning engineers can attest, ML model serving in production is hard. But one way to make it easier is to connect your model serving engine with the rest of your MLOps stack, and then use Grafana to monitor model predictions and speed.

DX NetOps In Action: How Altice Accelerates Network Transformation with Broadcom

Altice Portugal is a wholly owned subsidiary of Altice Group, a multinational cable and telecommunications company. They have a presence across Europe, including in Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Portugal, and Switzerland, as well as in the Dominican Republic, the French West Indies, and Israel. With annual revenues of more than $2.8 billion (2,629 million Euros), Altice Portugal is Portugal’s largest telecom company. Altice offers fixed, mobile, and satellite network services to consumers.

Top Microsoft Azure Cloud Services Explained with Use Cases

Microsoft Azure is one of the most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud service providers in the industry, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. A wide spectrum of organizations across all verticals use Azure – to lower costs, become more agile and innovate faster. Tight integrations with the Microsoft ecosystem and product portfolio make Azure highly attractive to many.

Choosing a Client Library When Developing with InfluxDB 3.0

A common question we get asked is “what client library should I use with InfluxDB 3.0?” This question isn’t as simple as it may seem. It can get confusing when deciding which client library to use while developing applications to write to and query from InfluxDB. There are numerous options to choose from and the answer may differ based on the following criteria: At first, this seems like an easy answer.

What Is ITOPs? IT Operations Defined

IT operations, or ITOps, refers to the processes and services administered by an organization's IT staff to its internal or external clients. Every organization that uses computers has a way of meeting the IT needs of their employees or clients, whether or not they call it ITOps. In a typical enterprise environment, however, ITOps is a distinct group within the IT department. The IT operations team plays a critical role in accomplishing business goals.

Developing the Splunk App for Anomaly Detection

Anomaly detection is one of the most common problems that Splunk users are interested in solving via machine learning. This is highly intuitive, as one of the main reasons our Splunk customers are ingesting, indexing, and searching their systems’ logs and metrics is to find problems in their systems, either before, during, or after the problem takes place. In particular, one of the types of anomaly detection that our customers are interested in is time series anomaly detection.

ITSM and monitoring: A match made in IT heaven

It has been a veeeeery long time since we discussed a technical concept from an ingenious allegory. Many people send us emails asking us why, and we have to admit that… it’s true, everything is quite more fun with fantastic allegories. So be it then! At the request of our fans. Let’s talk today about ITSM and Monitoring Support through an invented event from which we can then draw a technical lesson.

Exploring & Remediating Consumption Costs with Google Billing and BindPlane OP

We’ve all been surprised by our cloud monitoring bill at one time or another. If you are a BindPlane OP customer ingesting Host Metrics into Google Cloud Monitoring, you may be wondering which metrics are impacting your bill the most. You may have metrics enabled that aren’t crucial to your business, driving unnecessary costs. How do we verify that and remediate?

BindPlane OP Architecture Overview

In this overview we dive into the BindPlane architecture focusing on the two main components. 1) BindPlane OP Server: acts as a orchestration layer that all of your agents are connected to giving you visibility into what is happening. 2) BindPlane Agent: is a distribution of the OpenTelemetry collector, sitting on your edge nodes collecting your telemetry data or acting as an aggregator (or gateway node) collecting from other edge devices and then routing to your destinations.

Using Kubernetes with AWS Lambda: Scaling Up Your Serverless Applications

In today’s world, with Large tech giants and businesses looking forward to moving toward serverless architecture, there has been a significant demand for scaling the applications. It’s therefore no surprise that millions of companies worldwide have adopted, or are planning on migrating to a Kubernetes and AWS Lambda solution to take their serverless applications to the next level.

Grafana vs. SolarWinds - The Dashboards

Dashboards are great ways to visualize different KPIs in a single place. Metrics from all over your system can be framed together and viewed on a single screen, helping to correlate them and reducing the overall effort of analysis. But when it comes to Grafana vs. SolarWinds, which one is better? It is often difficult to choose between their dashboarding capabilities. Both tools provide their own visualizations and help bring out interactive dashboards for users to use.

Improving infrastructure visibility through custom monitoring with plugin integrations

With IT infrastructures getting more complex and distributed each day, IT teams need comprehensive visibility into their entire stack to deliver seamless user experiences. Join our webinar to learn how Site24x7's plugin integrations with custom monitoring capabilities and a collection of more than 100 ready-to-install integrations—including web servers, databases, messaging queues, and more—can help you monitor all your apps, systems, and services in one place.

Revolutionizing IT Monitoring with AIOps and generative AI

Revolutionizing IT Monitoring with AIOps and Generative AI: Achieving Smarter Infrastructure Management AIOps helps IT teams do more with less, with automated remediation and proactive provisioning to ensure business applications are available and functional. Generative AI is revolutionizing every technology, and IT monitoring is no exception.

Understanding Site24x7's NCM Automation, reports, and compliance

As exponential growth increases the complexity of your organizational network, how can you minimize downtimes due to device configuration issues? Join us to learn about network configuration management (NCM) and how Site24x7 can fulfill your device configuration management needs. You'll also benefit from an exclusive sneak peek of our soon to be released compliance modules. Don't miss it!

Mastering Capacity Planning with ManageEngine Site24x7

Capacity planning provides the ability to analyze resource usage and plan resource provisioning, thereby enabling the application to perform with the optimal infrastructure. View and track the capacity utilization of your resources (based on metrics like the CPU, memory, and storage utilization) and monitor the health and statuses of your resources grouped under a Capacity Planning monitor with Site24x7's Capacity Planning.

DGTTG short - The Spindlewhorl Enigma of Serverless Debugging

Embark on an astral journey through 'The Spindlewhorl Enigma of Serverless Debugging' with our Debuggers Guide to the Galaxy livestream. Unravel cosmic code mysteries and venture where no debugger has gone before! By the light of the Guide and the glow of the trace, the stars and deployed apps shall reveal their secrets. To infinity, and beyond bugs! Make sure to subscribe so you don't miss out on any new livestreams and observability content!

Debuggers Guide to the Galaxy - Pilot Episode

Grab your digital towel and embark on an intergalactic coding adventure with 'The Debuggers Guide to the Galaxy,' hosted by the serverless sage Yan Cui and the code-wielding DeveloperSteve. In a universe where devops are as perplexing as Vogon poetry and deployment seems guided by Infinite Improbability Drives, our hosts will guide you through the cosmic chaos. With introductions that defy normal spacetime and a #Dart container #debugging session that's almost, but not quite, entirely out of this world.

How Gaming Analytics and Player Interactions Enhance Mobile App Development

The number of mobile game users is expected to increase to 2.3 billion users by 2027, with a CAGR of 7.08%. The resulting projected market volume is a staggering $376.7 billion by 2027. Competition is fierce, and differentiation is key to winning out in this rapidly growing market. To understand their users and build better games, gaming companies need to use data analytics to interpret how players interact with their games. Effective use of video game data can help companies.

Top tips: 5 use cases for digital twins in the manufacturing sector

Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world today and list out ways to explore these trends. This week we take a look at how manufacturing firms can use digital twins to completely overhaul the production process. A depiction of the digital twin-enabled industry of the future.

How to Identify Network Problems & Diagnose Network Issues

Just because your network is "UP," doesn't mean it’s working well! Network issues like choppy VoIP, jerky video calls, and network and application slowness issues can affect your business in drastic ways - which is why it’s important to know how to identify network issues for network performance troubleshooting. There are many problems that can affect network performance, and some of them are very complex to identify and understand.

10 Observability Tools in 2023: Features, Market Share and Choose the Right One for You

Understanding what's happening within your systems is a necessity. Have you ever wondered how experts keep an eye on systems to make sure everything's running smoothly? That's where observability tools come in! Observability tools are like helpers that give you a peek inside your tech. In this blog, we will talk about observability tools and how they can be used in different situations so it's easier for you to choose the right one for your organization.

Eliminating Bias in Machine Learning: Gold In, Garbage Out

Data scientists have long been aware of the concept of “garbage in, garbage out” — the idea that the quality of results is a direct indicator of the quality of data. Indeed, much effort has been expended in the pursuit of cleansing data to ensure its accuracy. It then should come as no surprise that AI and machine learning (ML) algorithms are also subject to the same quality standards.

How to Strengthen Kubernetes with Secure Observability

Kubernetes is the leading container orchestration platform and has developed into the backbone technology for many organizations’ modern applications and infrastructure. As an open source project, “K8s” is also one of the largest success stories to ever emanate from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). In short, Kubernetes has revolutionized the way organizations deploy, manage, and scale applications.

Infinite Retention with OpenTelemetry and Honeycomb

The needs of observability workloads can sometimes be orthogonal to the needs of compliance workloads. Honeycomb is designed for software developers to quickly fix problems in production, where reducing 100% data completeness to 99.99% is acceptable to receive immediate answers. Compliance and audit workloads require 100% data completeness over much longer (or "infinite") time spans, and are content to give up query performance in return.

Using DX NetOps Dashboards To Harness the Power of AppNeta Data

In today’s dynamic, complex network environments, there’s a big difference between having monitoring data and having intelligence. To troubleshoot issues quickly, it’s vital to have timely, intuitive visibility into the metrics that matter. With the combination of AppNeta and DX NetOps, teams can gain the insights they need to efficiently and intelligently manage their environments.

Dual Subsea Cable Cuts Disrupt African Internet

On Sunday, August 6, an undersea landslide in one of the world’s longest submarine canyons knocked out two of the most important submarine cables serving the African internet. The loss of these cables knocked out international internet bandwidth along the west coast of Africa. In this blog post, we review some history of the impact of undersea landslides on submarine cables and use some of Kentik’s unique data sets to explore the impacts of these cable breaks.

Sentry Profiling now supports Browser Javascript, React Native, and Ruby

Profiling is an essential component of a developer’s toolkit for identifying and addressing the thorniest performance bottlenecks. Whether you’re a backend developer looking to cut down cloud infrastructure costs, a frontend developer trying to speed up page load times, or a mobile app developer working to ensure smooth scrolling for users, Sentry Profiling pinpoints hot code paths in your production environment, so you can identify and optimize the slowest parts of your code.

Incident Management: A Complete Introduction

In the dynamic landscape of IT operations, incidents are bound to occur. Incident management is a structured and proactive approach to address and resolve these unexpected events promptly and effectively. It forms a crucial component of IT service management (ITSM), ensuring smooth operations and minimizing the impact of incidents on an organization’s productivity and customer experience.

How to Effortlessly Deploy Cribl Edge on Windows, Linux, and Kubernetes

Collecting and processing logs, metrics, and application data from endpoints have caused many ITOps and SecOps engineers to go gray sooner than they would have liked. Delivering observability data to its proper destination from Linux and Windows machines, apps, or microservices is way more difficult than it needs to be. We created Cribl Edge to save the rest of that beautiful head of hair of yours.

New API authentication Pandora FMS

Pandora FMS external API is used to integrate third party applications with Pandora FMS and now we will be able to authenticate against it using the Bearen Token. It is a type of identification through HTTP headers that allows that each registered user in our Pandora FMS server can generate its own identifier of unique correspondence to make calls to the same API. In today's video we are going to show you how to generate these identifiers of the users of our server and how to make calls to the API with this identifier.

Monitoring Kubernetes with Prometheus

In part I of this blog series, we understood that monitoring a Kubernetes cluster is a challenge that we can overcome if we use the right tools. We also understood that the default Kubernetes dashboard allows us to monitor the different resources running inside our cluster, but it is very basic. We suggested some tools and platforms like cAdvisor, Kube-state-metrics, Prometheus, Grafana, Kubewatch, Jaeger, and MetricFire.

IBM performance monitoring with OpManager: How governance eliminates outages

Performance monitoring is an essential practice in network monitoring. When something goes wrong with a device, be it a physical server, a network storage system, or a virtual switch, there are often signs or symptoms. These symptoms might display in various places, and they could be related to the CPU, to the hardware, or maybe bandwidth usage. Only by tracking them can you be aware of performance issues.

The Importance of Monitoring XML Broker Services in Citrix StoreFront

In the complex and dynamic landscape of modern IT environments, the availability and smooth functioning of Citrix StoreFront are paramount. Citrix StoreFront is responsible for providing users with access to their virtual apps and desktops, but what ensures this seamless accessibility? Enter the critical role of XML broker services, and why monitoring them is an absolute necessity.

Monitor all operating systems with one solution: Icinga 2

We as a company build monitoring software. And we have committed to diversity. It is just logical and consequent for us to apply this principle not only to the people who do the work, but also to the work itself. To the monitoring software we build. Especially to Icinga 2 which, in a perfectly monitored environment, runs on every single machine. I.e. on every single OS powering all those machines.

What Is AI Monitoring and Why Is It Important

Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative force, empowering businesses and software engineers to scale and push the boundaries of what was once thought impossible. However as AI is accepted in more professional spaces, the complexity of managing AI systems seems to grow. Monitoring AI usage has become a critical practice for organizations to ensure optimal performance, resource efficiency, and provide a seamless user experience.

Teréga Replaced Its Legacy Data Historian with InfluxDB, AWS, and IO-Base

Teréga, a gas storage and transportation company in southwest France, manages a network of 5,000 kilometers of natural gas pipelines. The company’s mission is to accelerate the energy transition currently taking place, both at a territorial and a European level. It aims to extend a culture of responsibility to all its business and day-to-day activities.

Unveiling Splunk UBA 5.3: Power and Precision in One Package

In the face of an ever-evolving cybersecurity landscape, Splunk never rests. Today, we're ecstatic to share the release of Splunk User Behavior Analytics (UBA) 5.3, delivering power and precision in one package, and pushing the boundaries of what's possible in user and entity behavior analytics.

4 Ways a Consistent Schema Drives More Value From Your Observability Data

One of the hardest challenges in computer science is deciding what to name things. Adoption of consistent nomenclature is difficult because there is no one right answer. In fact, it’s not uncommon for different teams within organizations to choose different names for the same technologies. In the world of monitoring and observability, this can create quite a lot of confusion – not to mention wasted resources.

How business acumen boosts application security

To outpace the competition in an era where high-performing, secure digital experiences are expected, business acumen can inform AppSec priorities. Now more than ever, business leaders are racing to build, modernize and deploy business-critical apps on-premises and within distributed, cloud native environments.

Troubleshooting and Fixing Kubernetes CrashLoopBackOff

In this post, we'll dive into what CrashLoopBackOff actually is and explore the quickest way to fix it. Fasten your seat belts and get ready to ride. Everyone working with Kubernetes will sooner or later see the infamous CrashLoopBackOff in their clusters. No matter how basic or advanced your deployments are and whether you have a tiny dev cluster or an enterprise multi-cloud cluster, it will happen anyway. So, let’s dive into what CrashLoopBackOff actually is and the quickest way to fix it.

Prometheus vs. AppDynamics

‍In the fast-evolving landscape of technology and software applications, ensuring optimal performance and reliability has become paramount. This article delves into two powerful tools that facilitate effective monitoring and management of digital systems: Prometheus and AppDynamics. With a focus on different aspects of application performance, these tools offer distinct advantages to businesses aiming to elevate their user experiences and operational efficiency.

Advance Azure message failure tracking for efficient business transaction management

In today’s fast-paced business world, organizations rely heavily on data to make wise decisions and streamline operations. Efficiently managing and accessing critical information, such as customer data, orders, and bills, is essential for the success of any business. Serverless360 Business Activity Monitoring offers advanced search capabilities and many other features that empower businesses with a self-service portal to find and retrieve relevant data quickly and easily.

Reduce MTTR with Grafana, Grafana k6, and Prometheus: Inside DHL's observability stack

Each year, more than 296 million packages are shipped around the world via DHL and their premium service, Time Definite International. And at DHL Express Switzerland, a local unit of the international logistics and shipping company, the IT team provides solutions for tracking customs clearance progress, analytics, mobile and optical character recognition (OCR) scanning, and warehouse management on every package that moves through Switzerland.

Getting _____________ for Less from Your Analytics Tools

Your analytics system of choice is probably pulling triple-duty for your enterprise–data collection, data storage, and its primary goal: analytics for monitoring, reporting and taking action. In this session we discuss considerations for various use cases, and why and how to use Cribl Stream to customize the processing and routing of various data sources to optimize, enrich, and route your data based on its content, value, and purpose.

Modernizing Monitoring: LogicMonitor's Latest Innovations

Christina Kosmowski, CEO of LogicMonitor, is here today to introduce the latest innovations for our quarterly Summer 2023 Launch, which is focused on extending visibility wherever your business demands through unified monitoring across your entire hybrid cloud ecosystem! How is it already August? As I look back at the intensely busy spring and summer we had here at LogicMonitor, I can’t help but romanticize the idea of journeys and road trips.

SQL Sentry Quick Demo | Query Tuning

SolarWinds SQL Sentry is designed to help you quickly identify and address Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL database performance problems that could delay, or even halt, data delivery. Find out how SQL Sentry can help you troubleshoot bottlenecks and optimize database performance. SolarWinds® SQL Sentry is a powerful database performance monitoring solution designed to help you find and fix database performance problems—and prevent future challenges—that could delay data delivery or even bring business data systems to a halt.

SQL Sentry Quick Demo | Performance Monitoring

SolarWinds SQL Sentry is designed to help you quickly identify and address Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL database performance problems that could delay, or even halt, data delivery. Find out how SQL Sentry can help you troubleshoot bottlenecks and optimize database performance. SolarWinds® SQL Sentry is a powerful database performance monitoring solution designed to help you find and fix database performance problems—and prevent future challenges—that could delay data delivery or even bring business data systems to a halt.

SQL Sentry Quick Demo | Capacity Planning

SolarWinds SQL Sentry is designed to help you quickly identify and address Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL database performance problems that could delay, or even halt, data delivery. Find out how SQL Sentry can help you troubleshoot bottlenecks and optimize database performance. SolarWinds® SQL Sentry is a powerful database performance monitoring solution designed to help you find and fix database performance problems—and prevent future challenges—that could delay data delivery or even bring business data systems to a halt.

SQL Sentry Quick Demo | Alerting

SolarWinds SQL Sentry is designed to help you quickly identify and address Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL database performance problems that could delay, or even halt, data delivery. Find out how SQL Sentry can help you troubleshoot bottlenecks and optimize database performance. SolarWinds® SQL Sentry is a powerful database performance monitoring solution designed to help you find and fix database performance problems—and prevent future challenges—that could delay data delivery or even bring business data systems to a halt.

Apica Acquires LOGIQ.AI to Revolutionize Observability

In the world of observability, having the right amount of data is key. For years Apica has led the way, utilizing synthetic monitoring to evaluate the performance of critical transactions and customer flows, ensuring businesses have important insight and lead time regarding potential issues.

Generative AI and Observability Automation - Sajid Mehmood & Michael Gerstenhaber

One of the biggest challenges in observability is separating the signal from the noise. As artificial intelligence (AI) tools become more powerful and accessible, it has generated a lot of buzz around the role of AI with respect to the performance and reliability of our technical systems and the teams that build and operate them. In this fireside chat, Michael Gertenhaber (Datadog VP of Product) and Sajid Mehmood (Datadog VP of Engineering) will sift through the hype to chat about what generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) will really mean for the future of observability and how it can benefit your teams today.

Optimizing cloud resources and cost with APM metadata in Elastic Observability

Application performance monitoring (APM) is much more than capturing and tracking errors and stack traces. Today’s cloud-based businesses deploy applications across various regions and even cloud providers. So, harnessing the power of metadata provided by the Elastic APM agents becomes more critical. Leveraging the metadata, including crucial information like cloud region, provider, and machine type, allows us to track costs across the application stack.

What is eBPF?

eBPF, or Extended Berkeley Packet Filter, is a kernel technology available since Linux 4.4. It lets developers run programs without adding additional modules or modifying the kernel source code. Think of it as a lightweight, sandboxed virtual machine (VM) within the Linux kernel that lets you run Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) bytecode that uses certain kernel resources. Utilizing eBPF removes the need to modify the kernel source code and improves the software’s capacity to use existing layers.

The Benefits of Using Application Performance Monitoring Software for Website Performance Optimization

Website performance optimization has become critical for businesses in this digital era. If you want to maintain a competitive edge and ensure exceptional user experiences, application performance software is necessary. This indispensable tool empowers businesses to monitor, analyze, and optimize their website and application performance proactively. This article will explore the seven key benefits of implementing APM software for website performance optimization.

Is your cloud provider telling you everything, everywhere, all at once?

Today the Internet IS the new enterprise network your organization relies upon. However, most of your key applications and systems are outsourced to the cloud. In fact, huge parts of your Internet Stack are either outsourced to the cloud or to 3rd-parties who themselves rely upon the cloud. And that's an issue because if any of those cloud-based services go down, your network is going to be impacted.

Maximizing Efficiency and Savings: Explore Virtana's Latest Innovations to IPM and Cloud Cost Management

In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, where IT infrastructure and cloud costs play a pivotal role, organizations demand advanced solutions that streamline operations, optimize performance, and drive cost efficiency. Virtana, a trailblazer in infrastructure monitoring and observability and true multicloud cost management, has taken another leap forward by introducing a host of groundbreaking features to our flagship products.

Performance Testing: Types, Tools & Best Practices

To maximize the performance and value of your software apps, networks and systems, it’s critical to eliminate performance bottlenecks. Performance testing has become critical in every organization to reveal and fix performance bottlenecks, ensuring the best experience to end users. This article explains what performance testing is, its importance, and the various types of performance testing.

Cloud Analytics 101: Uses, Benefits and Platforms

Cloud analytics is the process of storing and analyzing data in the cloud and using it to extract actionable business insights. Simply one shade of data analytics, cloud analytics algorithms are applied to large data collections to identify patterns, predict future outcomes and produce other information useful to business decision-makers.

From Disruptions to Resilience: The Role of Splunk Observability in Business Continuity

In today's market, companies undergoing digital transformation require secure and reliable systems to meet customer demands, handle macroeconomic uncertainty and navigate new disruptions. Digital resilience is key to providing an uninterrupted customer experience and adapting to new operating models. Companies that prioritize digital resilience can proactively prevent major issues, absorb shocks to digital systems and accelerate transformations.

Reducing Mean Time to Diagnosis: How Salary Finance Uses Honeycomb to Ask the Right Questions

Salary Finance is a UK-based financial well-being employee benefit program. Over the last seven years, the company grew from a startup to a scaleup, earning rave reviews along the way from its more than 4,000 customers. However, with fast growth also comes natural growing pains. As their customer base expanded, so did the number of incidents they experienced, which also became harder to diagnose due to lack of visibility into their increasingly complex environment.

Right Size, Right Performance, Right Time

It’s been said that, “premature optimization is the root of all evil.” Contrarily, many engineers have also had to work with software riddled with so much technical debt and inefficiency that optimization is practically impossible and a complete rewrite is required. So when is the right time? In this panel session, we’ll talk with engineering leaders and architects about their approach to software optimization, when to do it, and how to design systems that scale and stay performant.

CTO Fireside Chat

Building large scale technical systems is hard, but building and scaling high performing technical organizations is even more difficult. In this session, Datadog Co-founder and CTO Alexis Lê-Quôc will sit down with Prashant Pandey, Head of Engineering at Asana, to discuss their approach to engineering leadership. They’ll share the hard-learned lessons from their long careers to help you cultivate better technical teams, covering topics from staying in tune with new technologies, enabling innovation, shipping modern ML and AI-based features, and scaling teams.

Efficiency and Effectiveness

WIth unlimited money, most technology problems become easy to solve. But how do you design, build, and operate large scale, performant systems without breaking the bank? In this session, Chandru Subramanian (Director of Engineering, Runtime Efficiency at Datadog) and Neil Innes (Sr. Engineering Manager, DevOps at FanDuel) will discuss how they balance efficiency and effectiveness to save money while also meeting key goals.

Managing your applications on Amazon ECS EC2-based clusters with Elastic Observability

In previous blogs, we explored how Elastic Observability can help you monitor various AWS services and analyze them effectively: One of the more heavily used AWS container services is Amazon ECS (Elastic Container Service). While there is a trend toward using Fargate to simplify the setup and management of ECS clusters, many users still prefer using Amazon ECS with EC2 instances.

OpenTelemetry Webinars - Gathering data with the OpenTelemetry Collector

Join Nočnica Mellifera and Pranay as they discuss architecting and collecting data with the OpenTelemetry Collector. We discuss using Apache Kafka queues to handle OTLP data, and why you probably shouldn't push OTel data straight to Postgres. Below is the recording and an edited transcript of the conversation. Find the conversation transcript below.👇 Nica: Hi everybody! If you're seeing this we're starting up we'll get started in just a moment here.

What Does Real Time Mean?

Cindy works long hours managing a SecOps team at UltraCorp, Inc. Her team’s days are spent triaging alerts, managing incidents, and protecting the company from cyberattacks. The workload is immense, and her team relies on a popular SOAR platform to automate incident response including executing case management workflows that populate cases with relevant event data and enrichment with IOCs from their TIP, as well execute a playbook to block the source of the threat at the endpoint.

A Deep Dive into Microsoft Cloud Monitoring for IT Pros

As businesses increasingly rely on the power of the cloud, maintaining optimal performance is paramount. Enter network monitoring tools - the guiding stars that help IT pros navigate the expansive cosmos of Microsoft's cloud services with precision and confidence. In this article, we're embarking on a comprehensive exploration into the world of Microsoft Cloud Monitoring using network monitoring tools.

How to Perform a Forensic Analysis After a Security Breach

In this Kentik demo, Phil Gervasi shows how to perform a forensic analysis after a security breach. Leveraging Kentik's robust visibility into public cloud traffic, we showcase how engineers can effectively identify, analyze, and respond to security incidents. Through a hypothetical scenario, we trace a security alert from its origin—a suspected attack on an Azure-hosted system—to its resolution. Using tools like the Kentik Map and Data Explorer, we identify the attacker's entry point, compromised internal devices, and potential data exfiltration activities.

Item Summarization

We are happy to announce the release of item summarization - a powerful tool to help users understand and utilize the data contained within the occurrences that make up an item. Organizations and engineers often deal with many occurrences within an Item when investigating underlying causes. With such vast amounts of data, spotting patterns and insights can be incredibly challenging and time-consuming.

The Sound of Code: Instrument with OpenTelemetry - Civo Navigate NA 2023

Join Henrik Rexed in this insightful talk as he explores "The Sound of Code" and demonstrates how to instrument your code with OpenTelemetry for improved observability. penTelemetry enables the generation of traces, metrics, and logs, providing valuable insights into application performance and troubleshooting in production environments. The talk covers the components of OpenTelemetry, how to customize telemetry data, and the importance of context in observability solutions.

SigNoz Demo - Application Monitoring (APM), distributed tracing, Logs Management, Exceptions, Alerts

Chapters More about SigNoz: SigNoz - Monitor your applications and troubleshoot problems in your deployed applications, an open-source alternative to DataDog, New Relic, etc. Backed by Y Combinator. SigNoz helps developers monitor applications and troubleshoot problems in their deployed applications. SigNoz uses distributed tracing to gain visibility into your software stack. If you need any clarification or find something missing, feel free to raise a GitHub issue with the label documentation or reach out to us at the community slack channel.

Dashboards, Metrics & Alerts management in SigNoz

More about SigNoz: SigNoz - Monitor your applications and troubleshoot problems in your deployed applications, an open-source alternative to DataDog, New Relic, etc. Backed by Y Combinator. SigNoz helps developers monitor applications and troubleshoot problems in their deployed applications. SigNoz uses distributed tracing to gain visibility into your software stack. If you need any clarification or find something missing, feel free to raise a GitHub issue with the label documentation or reach out to us at the community slack channel.

Exceptions Monitoring in SigNoz

More about SigNoz: SigNoz - Monitor your applications and troubleshoot problems in your deployed applications, an open-source alternative to DataDog, New Relic, etc. Backed by Y Combinator. SigNoz helps developers monitor applications and troubleshoot problems in their deployed applications. SigNoz uses distributed tracing to gain visibility into your software stack. If you need any clarification or find something missing, feel free to raise a GitHub issue with the label documentation or reach out to us at the community slack channel.

Query Builder Capabilities in SigNoz

More about SigNoz: SigNoz - Monitor your applications and troubleshoot problems in your deployed applications, an open-source alternative to DataDog, New Relic, etc. Backed by Y Combinator. SigNoz helps developers monitor applications and troubleshoot problems in their deployed applications. SigNoz uses distributed tracing to gain visibility into your software stack. If you need any clarification or find something missing, feel free to raise a GitHub issue with the label documentation or reach out to us at the community slack channel.

OpenTelemetry - Why it's important?

More about SigNoz: SigNoz - Monitor your applications and troubleshoot problems in your deployed applications, an open-source alternative to DataDog, New Relic, etc. Backed by Y Combinator. SigNoz helps developers monitor applications and troubleshoot problems in their deployed applications. SigNoz uses distributed tracing to gain visibility into your software stack. If you need any clarification or find something missing, feel free to raise a GitHub issue with the label documentation or reach out to us at the community slack channel.

APM & Distributed Tracing in SigNoz

More about SigNoz: SigNoz - Monitor your applications and troubleshoot problems in your deployed applications, an open-source alternative to DataDog, New Relic, etc. Backed by Y Combinator. SigNoz helps developers monitor applications and troubleshoot problems in their deployed applications. SigNoz uses distributed tracing to gain visibility into your software stack. If you need any clarification or find something missing, feel free to raise a GitHub issue with the label documentation or reach out to us at the community slack channel.

Logs Management & Correlating Logs with Traces in SigNoz

More about SigNoz: SigNoz - Monitor your applications and troubleshoot problems in your deployed applications, an open-source alternative to DataDog, New Relic, etc. Backed by Y Combinator. SigNoz helps developers monitor applications and troubleshoot problems in their deployed applications. SigNoz uses distributed tracing to gain visibility into your software stack. If you need any clarification or find something missing, feel free to raise a GitHub issue with the label documentation or reach out to us at the community slack channel.

The Top 15 Application Performance Metrics

Monitoring the key metrics of your application’s performance are essential to keep your software applications running smoothly as one of the key elements underpinning application performance monitoring. In this article, we will cover many of the key metrics that you should strongly consider monitoring to ensure that your next software engineering project remains fully performant.

Enhancements To Ingest Actions Improve Usability and Expand Searchability Wherever Your Data Lives

Splunk is happy to announce improvements to Ingest Actions in Splunk Enterprise 9.1 and the most recent Splunk Cloud Platform releases which enhance its performance and usability. We’ve seen amazing growth in the usage of Ingest Actions over the last 12 months and remain committed to prioritizing customer requests to better serve cost-saving, auditing, compliance, security and role-based access control (RBAC) use cases.

How to monitor pool water levels from anywhere with Grafana

I’ve had a swimming pool at my house in Massachusetts since 2016. One of the problems that pool owners like myself face when we go on vacation or leave for several days is evaporation from the pool and the water level dropping below the skimmers. This can happen due to sunlight and warm temperatures. It can also happen when temperatures drop at night and the pool is being heated — the water temperature is warmer than the air, causing the water to evaporate.

Netreo How To: Troubleshooting No Alerts Received

henToo many alerts are frustrating and have an even worse trickle down effect on IT teams. When alert deluge turns to alert fatigue, critical issues may be ignored. But seasoned IT pros will tell you that receiving no alerts causes even greater distress. When monitoring tools go silent, user complaints are sure to follow. Even with Netreo’s high-value, intelligent alert management capabilities, issues can go undetected from time to time.

Best Practices for Collecting and Querying Data from Multiple Sources

In today’s data-driven world, the ability to collect and query data from multiple sources has become a very important consideration. With the rise of IoT, cloud computing and distributed systems, organizations face the challenge of handling diverse data streams effectively. It’s common to have multiple databases/data storage options for that data. For many large companies, the days of storing everything in the singular database are in the past.

Exploring the Intelligence Gap: Robocop and Cyber Criminals

As technology professionals, we must consider the evolution of security and its connection to literature, such as George Orwell’s “1984” and Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World.” The digital threats we face are often unseen, lying dormant until they can be weaponized for both good and evil purposes. Advancements in machine learning and algorithms have revolutionized data analysis, allowing us to observe and analyze behavioral patterns both online and offline.

Troubleshooting Salesforce with Exoprise

In this tutorial video, we'll be walking you through troubleshooting end user experience issues with Salesforce utilizing Exoprise CloudReady Synthetics and Service Watch. With how Important salesforce is to organizations using it, it is critical to ensure its uptime and availability. Salesforce issues are extremely costly due to potential revenue loss, the cost of downtime for both customers and internal users, customer dissatisfaction, and many other impacts.

How the user interface of Request Metrics differs from Google Analytics 4

#Shorts Tired of the hassle of building custom reports in Google Analytics 4? Say hello to Request Metrics! We provide instant answers to common questions like screen sizes and user activity. No more manual setup or slow processes. Discover a better way to understand your users at https://drp.li/dPLro. 🚀

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Monitoring Django Performance with Scout APM: A Step-by-Step Guide

Django is one of the most popular web frameworks for building applications. Its elegance and flexibility make it a favorite among developers, enabling them to craft intricate applications with ease. However, as applications grow in complexity and user traffic grows, the need for active performance monitoring becomes imperative.

Monitoring Your Metrics with Aiven

In this tutorial, we'll explore the powerful monitoring capabilities offered by the Aiven platform. Monitoring metrics is crucial for ensuring the optimal performance and health of your databases. We'll dive into the various monitoring tools and features provided by Aiven, allowing you to track real-time metrics, analyze database performance, and gain valuable insights into your system. Whether it's monitoring CPU usage, query performance, or resource utilization, Aiven provides a comprehensive monitoring dashboard to help you stay informed and make data-driven decisions.

How to manually instrument iOS Applications with OpenTelemetry

In this tutorial, we dive into the practical application of OpenTelemetry in an iOS project built with SwiftUI. We demonstrate how to set up the OpenTelemetry SDK, generate spans, and send them to a configured OpenTelemetry collector. Our example application displays a random sentence every few seconds. Each sentence generation process is instrumented with OpenTelemetry spans, which include an attribute representing the word count of the sentence.

What is an API Gateway?

API Gateways are vital components in today's digital landscape, facilitating seamless communication between systems and applications. To ensure optimal performance, monitoring API Gateways is crucial. MetricFire offers a comprehensive monitoring platform that tracks and analyzes key metrics, providing real-time insights into performance indicators such as latency, error rates, and throughput.

Effective Remote Debugging with VS Code

This post will discuss remote debugging in VS Code and how to improve the remote debugging experience to maximize debugging productivity for developers. Visual Studio Code, or VS Code, is one of the most popular IDEs. Within ten years of its initial release, VS Code has garnered the top spot among popularity indices, and its community is growing steadily. Developers love VS Code not only for its simplicity but also due to its rich ecosystem of extensions, including the support for debugging.

The Evolution of the Service Model In the Data Industry

Cribl’s Ed Bailey will lead a great discussion with nth degree’s Paul Stout and Scott Gray about the evolution of the service model from time and materials to outcome-based services. We will share our own stories about our experiences with services and how to make them better. Join the live stream for a fun discussion and come armed with suggestions for how to make your next services engagement better.

Azure Monitoring Agent: Key Features & Benefits

In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, businesses increasingly rely on cloud computing and infrastructure to support their operations. As organizations migrate their workloads to the cloud, robust monitoring and management tools are paramount to ensure optimal performance, security, and efficiency. In response to this demand, Microsoft Azure has introduced the Azure Monitoring Agent (AMA), a powerful and versatile solution designed to enhance the monitoring capabilities of Azure resources.

How Does The Food Industry Secure The Quality Of The Final Product

Producing safe, quality food products is an important function of the food industry, but how do they ensure that their processes are in compliance with set standards? While there has been a focus on developing technologies for this purpose, many companies still rely on good manufacturing practices combined with environmental monitoring to guarantee the safety and quality of their foods.

What's new in k6 browser? (k6 Office Hours #98)

k6 browser adds browser-level APIs to automate browser actions and collect web performance metrics as part of your k6 test. It's an experimental module, and there is a good reason why! In this k6 Office Hours, Developer Advocates Marie Cruz and Nicole van der Hoeven are joined by Software Engineers Ankur Agarwal and Daniel Jimenez to discuss the breaking changes that are about to come to k6 browser! You wouldn't want to miss this.

New Raygun JS provider v2.27.0 to support performance timing

The popular chromium based browser ecosystem has recently changed how performance metrics can be collected in relation to performance.timing. Before we get into the details, the TLDR is: if you use the Raygun CDN for raygun4js, you’re up to date. If you self-host raygun4js and use Raygun Real User Monitoring, you’ll want to upgrade to version 2.27.0.

Top 5 network management trends in 2023

New trends emerge in network management every year, and 2023 is no exception. This year the industry is set to witness a plethora of advancements and breakthroughs that will revolutionize network administration. From the adoption of sophisticated analytics and machine learning to the proliferation of cloud-based solutions and the surging significance of cybersecurity, here are the top network management trends to watch out for in 2023.

10 Best Dynatrace Alternatives [2023 Comparison]

Dynatrace has established itself as a prominent player in the field of application performance management, but given that Dynatrace is an expensive solution aimed at large enterprises, exploring your options is essential. This comprehensive article presents a handpicked selection of the top 10 Dynatrace alternatives, each offering distinct advantages and capabilities.

What is Network Troubleshooting? - The Ultimate Survival Guide

Are you tired of feeling like a lost sailor on a stormy sea of computer problems? Well, fear not, dear reader, for we are about to embark on a journey to demystify the world of network troubleshooting! Intermittent network problems interrupt your flow of work, frustrate users, and can wreak havoc on your business. Troubleshooting network problems as fast as possible is the key to making sure that doesn’t happen.

Follow Splunk Down a Guided Path to Resilience

The dynamic digital landscape brings risk and uncertainty for businesses in all industries. Cyber criminals use the advantages of time, money, and significant advances in technology to develop new tactics and techniques that help them evade overlooked vulnerabilities. Critical signals — like failures, errors, or outages — go unnoticed, leading to downtime and costing organizations hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The Darkside of GraphQL

GraphQL is a query language for APIs that provides a powerful and efficient way to query and manipulate data. As powerful and versatile as GraphQL is, its downside is that it can be vulnerable to certain security threats. In this presentation, we will discuss the security vulnerabilities associated with GraphQL, from the basics to more advanced threats, and how to best protect against them. After this presentation, attendees will have a better understanding of security vulnerabilities in GraphQL, as well as an understanding of the steps needed to protect against them.

Innovating with Faster, Safer Experimentation

Experimentation is the key to innovation. But experiments come with risks, not just of failure, but of wasted time, effort, and money. I’ll share the experimental approach that NTT DOCOMO, Japan’s largest wireless provider, takes to build digital products that customers love. I’ll also present examples from experiments we performed on NTT DOCOMO’s Smart-life website that improved the user experience and significantly increased conversion rates. In this session, you’ll learn how to reduce the risk of experiments and iterate faster to improve your services.

How Qonto used Grafana Loki to build its network observability platform

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Integrating Calico statistics with Prometheus

Metrics are important for a microservices application running on Kubernetes because they provide visibility into the health and performance of the application. This visibility can be used to troubleshoot problems, optimize the application, and ensure that it is meeting its SLAs. Some of the challenges that metrics solve for microservices applications running on Kubernetes include: Calico is the most adopted technology for Kubernetes networking and security.

Splashing into Data Lakes: The Reservoir of Observability

If you’re a systems engineer, SRE, or just someone with a love for tech buzzwords, you’ve likely heard about “data lakes”. Before we dive deep into this concept, let’s debunk the illusion: there aren’t any floaties or actual lakes involved! Instead, imagine a vast reservoir where you store loads and loads of raw data in its natural format. Now, pair this with the idea of observability and telemetry pipelines, and we have ourselves an engaging topic.

Transforming Bank Operations

With the recent advancements in technology and online digital services have transformed the way the banks work. Decades ago, banks used to handle everything on paper and the services opted for were very limited. Services were not unified, and account holders were forced to visit the bank even for small number of deposits or withdrawals or just to raise concerns. Today, technology has penetrated almost every industry and the banking sector is no exception to this undeniable reality.

Empowering IT Teams: Harnessing Microsoft Teams User Ratings for Enhanced User Experience

In today’s digital landscape, effective communication and collaboration are vital for the success of any organization. Microsoft Teams has emerged as a leading platform for seamless teamwork, enabling teams to connect, share, and work together effortlessly. Ensuring a positive user experience on this platform is crucial for maximizing productivity and fostering a collaborative culture.

Fixing Citrix Issues with eG Enterprise's Automation

Without any ability to self-heal, fixing Citrix usually requires manual intervention to remediate problems. This leads to time spent on mundane tasks managing the care and feeding of Citrix. Automation of these tasks for fixing Citrix provides: In our latest release, eG Enterprise v7.2, we have added new auto-correction and auto-remediation capabilities for Citrix administrators that remove the need for scripting. There are a few issues that can be a cause of constant frustration for admins.

How to Assess Device Readiness for Enterprise-wide Windows 11 Migration using Nexthink

The modern workplace demands hybrid working, robust security, and enhanced user experience features. All these interactions rely heavily on the Operating System (OS) and associated software stacks. The sheer scale of migrating tens of thousands of remote devices and their users to a new OS can lead to potential technical failures, delays in migration roadmap and budget overruns. OS migration can be a daunting task for organizations, as it is plagued by uncertainities.

More modern monitoring: how telemetry and machine learning revolutionize system monitoring

It’s time, take your things and let’s move on to more modern monitoring. Relax, I know how difficult the changes are for you, but if you were able to accept the arrival of DTT and the euro, you sure got this! But first let us do a little review: Traditional system monitoring solutions rely on polling different meters, such as the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), to retrieve data and react to it.

The State of Client-Side JavaScript Errors

As JavaScript has grown more prevalent on the web, so have JavaScript errors. As an error monitoring service, we have a unique perspective on how errors impact the web globally, and we are constantly learning more about how the web breaks. We’re thrilled to share this report today so we can all understand it better, and build a better web. We produce this report every week, you can check it out anytime via the free Global Error Statistics report.

Data Retention Policy Guide

Data retention policy will become a major focus for CIOs in 2021. Here’s why: First, enterprise organizations are producing larger volumes of data than ever before and utilizing enterprise data across a wider range of business processes and applications. To maximize its value, this data must be managed effectively throughout its entire life cycle - from collection and storage, through to usage, archiving, and eventually deletion.

How system enterprise vendors are adopting AIOps through acquisitions/organic growth

It’s been two years since Gartner published the Market Guide for AIOps Platforms in April 2021. The report states, “There is no future of IT operations that does not include AIOps. It is simply impossible for humans to make sense of thousands of events per second being generated by their IT systems.” The recent wave of acquisitions of AIOps vendors makes us reminisce about a time when AIOps was a buzzword.

How to Monitor the Performance of Mobile-Friendly Websites

Mobile-friendly websites are a must. We are all using mobile devices more and more to access information and perform all kinds of work and tasks – shopping, banking, communication, dating, etc. Needless to say, if you operate a website, you more likely want to ensure people accessing it using mobile devices – tablets, smartphones, etc. – have a great experience.

Agentless Network Monitoring: An Introductory Guide

From communication and collaboration to data storage and sharing, networks are critical to almost every business operation today. Thus, monitoring the reliability and security of your network infrastructure is more critical than ever. Network monitoring entails observing and analyzing network traffic to identify issues, optimize performance, and ensure security.

Container Security Fundamentals - Linux Namespaces (Part 4): The User Namespace

In this video we continue our examination of Linux namespaces by looking at some details of how the user namespace can be used to de-couple the user ID inside a container from the user ID on the host, allowing a container to run as the root user without the risks of being root on the host. To learn more, read our blog on Datadog’s Security Labs site.

Three Code Instrumentation Patterns To Improve Your Node.js Debugging Productivity

In this age of complex software systems, code instrumentation patterns define specific approaches to debugging various anomalies in business logic. These approaches offer more options beyond the built-in debuggers to improve developer productivity, ultimately creating a positive impact on the software’s commercial performance. In this post, let’s examine the various code instrumentation patterns for Node.js.

Introducing the Telemetry Cloud: An All-In-One Observability Platform All Enterprises Can Afford

We’re excited to announce that we just released the next-generation of our observability platform – the Circonus Telemetry Cloud™. Here’s a closer look at what it is and why we think it’s a standout in the monitoring and observability space.

Understanding Grafana k6: A simple guide to the load testing tool

Grafana k6 is a powerful, developer-friendly tool designed and engineered with a focus on load testing — but it boasts capabilities that extend far beyond that use case. Understanding the inner workings of k6 is helpful to fully leverage its potential, and to tailor the tool to your specific testing needs. Read on to learn how k6 is structured, and how its underlying design provides the best possible reliability and load testing experience.

Diving in to OpenTelemetry data with our new Trace and Logs Explorer

The team at SigNoz would like to share recent developments released this month that greatly enhance the ability to dynamically query your trace and log data. With these tools anyone can explore complex OpenTelemetry data and gain insight into their stack.

How to monitor Azure App Registration Client Secret Expiration Notification?

Security remains a paramount concern in the rapidly evolving landscape of cloud computing. Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is a cornerstone for securing applications and services within the Azure ecosystem. Azure App Registrations offer a crucial mechanism to manage application identities and enable secure authentication and authorization. However, the expiration of client secrets associated with these app registrations can introduce security vulnerabilities.

The Benefits of Business Monitoring in the Gaming Industry: Enhancing Savings, User Experience, and Performance

The gaming industry has always been a highly lucrative and adored field. According to online gaming industry statistics, it is projected to surpass $33.77 billion by 2026. However, a downside emerges when governments impose substantial taxes on the income generated from gaming. It’s happening now. The Indian government has decided to impose a 28% tax on online gaming, which may lead to a funding shortage and a decrease in investor confidence.

Iraq Blocks Telegram, Leaks Blackhole BGP Routes

This past weekend, the government of Iraq blocked the popular messaging app Telegram, citing the need to protect Iraqi’s personal data. However, when an Iraqi government network leaked out a BGP hijack used for the block, it became yet another BGP incident that was both intentional, but also accidental. Thankfully disruption was minimized by Telegram’s use of RPKI.

Leveraging Cribl as an Integral Part of Your M&A Strategy

One of the most exciting things about bringing products to market at Cribl is seeing customers continually find new ways to leverage them to help solve their data challenges. I recently spoke to a customer who described Cribl as the foundation of their data management strategy and a key part of their post-acquisition data engineering process. Let’s take a deeper look into how Cribl can help.

Key questions to ask when setting SLOs

Many organizations rely on service level objectives (SLOs) to help them gauge the reliability of their products. By setting SLOs that define clear and measurable reliability targets, businesses can ensure they are delivering positive end-user experiences to their customers. Clearly defined SLOs also make it much easier for businesses to understand what tradeoffs they may have to make in order to deliver those specific experiences.

The Guide to MSP Network Monitoring for Multi-Client Visibility

Managed Service Providers (MSPs) are entrusted with the important task of orchestrating complex networks, ensuring uninterrupted service, and safeguarding the delicate balance between digital innovation and operational stability. In this article, we’ll be delving into the importance of MSP Network Monitoring and the pivotal role that MSPs play in maintaining the intricate web of connections that power our interconnected world.

Restarting Kubernetes Pods: A Detailed Guide

This blog will help you learn all about restarting Kubernetes pods and give you some tips on troubleshooting issues you may encounter. Kubernetes pods are one of the most commonly used Kubernetes resources. Since all of your applications running on your cluster live in a pod, the sooner you learn all about pods, the better.

Install Pandora FMS with our online installation tool

Hello again, Pandoraphiles! Today on our beloved blog we want to introduce you to a video. You know that from time to time we do just that, don’t you? Bringing back some video from our channel, the nicest and most relevant one, no question, and break it down a little bit in writing. All of that so that you may have the book and the audiobook, so to speak.

Release 1.42.0 - Integrations Marketplace, SystemD Journal Function, and more!

The Netdata Team is very excited to introduce you to all the new features and improvements in the new version. HIGHLIGHTS: There is now a beta version of the Netdata Marketplace with this release, containing more than 800 integrations, directly from the Dashboard! For each integration, all the information required to get it up and running is included, along with info about metrics, alerts and more!

Debuggers Guide to the Galaxy - Promo Video

Grab your digital towel and embark on an intergalactic coding adventure with 'The Debuggers Guide to the Galaxy,' hosted by the serverless sage Yan Cui and the code-wielding DeveloperSteve. In a universe where devops are as perplexing as Vogon poetry and deployment seems guided by Infinite Improbability Drives, our hosts will guide you through the cosmic chaos. With introductions that defy normal spacetime and a dart container debugging session (using dartfrog) that's almost, but not quite, entirely out of this world.

Free Jaeger Alternatives [comparison 2023]

Jaeger, a renowned distributed tracing system, has been a trusted companion for developers and operations teams seeking to unravel the complexities of microservices architectures. However, as the landscape continues to evolve, the time has come to explore Jaeger alternatives that offer distinct features and advantages.

Checkly Advances Monitoring as Code with New User-Centric Features

Checkly, the leading provider of monitoring solutions powered by a Monitoring as Code (MaC) workflow, has unveiled two groundbreaking features: the Activity Log and Code Exporter. These innovative features not only enhance transparency and simplify the adoption of MaC practices but also mark a significant step forward in Checkly's commitment to advancing the MaC movement, offering users an end-to-end workflow that integrates seamlessly with modern software development practices.

Unify your observability signals with Grafana Cloud Profiles, now GA

Observability has traditionally been conceptualized in terms of three core facets: logs, metrics, and traces. For years, these elements have been seen as the “pillars” of observability, serving as the foundational components for system monitoring and delivering key insights to improve system performance. However, with the exponential growth in system complexity, a more comprehensive and unified perspective on observability has become necessary.

Top 5 Guidance Report recommendations by Site24x7 to enhance visibility into your AWS EC2

AWS EC2 Monitoring- Guidance Report recommendations Getting visibility into your Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances is a challenge. Site24x7 enables you to enhance your visibility into AWS EC2 instances, consolidating all information in a unified location. You can replace the isolated monitoring approach for EC2 instances by combining instance metadata with system-level metrics. This allows for effective monitoring of your dynamic AWS EC2 environment.

Mainframe Observability with Elastic and Kyndryl

As we navigate our fast-paced digital era, organizations across various industries are in constant pursuit of strategies for efficient monitoring, performance tuning, and continuous improvement of their services. Elastic® and Kyndryl have come together to offer a solution for Mainframe Observability, engineered with an emphasis on organizations that are heavily reliant on mainframes, including the financial services industry (FSI), healthcare, retail, and manufacturing sectors.

Cribl Makes Waves at Black Hat USA 2023, Unveils Strategic Partnership with Exabeam to Accelerate Technology Adoption for Customers

One of our core values at Cribl is Customers First, Always. These aren’t just buzzwords we use to sound customer friendly; it’s ingrained in our daily communication and workload. Without our customers, we wouldn’t exist. One of the ways we’ve upheld this value is to seek out strategic partnerships with other companies aligned with our customers’ needs – both present and future.

Measuring the time between spans in an OpenTelemetry trace with a Clickhouse query

In a recent conversation on our SigNoz community Slack, a user shared their query that asks a deceptively simple question: what is the average time between two spans in a trace? The usefulness of this answer is evident if you think about how often the total trace time does not highlight the time you care about most. This could mean any number of things: that the total trace time of handling a web request might include lots of spans after a satisfying response was sent to the user.

DataDog Flex Logs vs Coralogix Remote Query

While Coralogix Remote Query is a solution to constant reingestion of logs, there are few other options today that also offer customers the ability to query unindexed log data. For instance, DataDog has recently introduced Flex Logs to enable their customers to store logs in a lower cost storage tier. Let’s go over the differences between Coralogix Remote Query vs Flex Logs and see how DataDog compares. Get a strong full-stack observability platform to scale your organization now.

InfluxDB 3.0 is up to 45x Faster for Recent Data Compared to InfluxDB Open Source

With the release of InfluxDB 3.0, one of the big questions is: how does it compare to previous versions of InfluxDB? We have begun benchmarking InfluxDB 3.0 with production workloads to start giving users more insight into the benefits of adopting InfluxDB 3.0. In this post, we look at recent benchmarks comparing InfluxDB 3.0 to InfluxDB Open Source (OSS) 1.8.

Monitoring as Code in Your Software Development Lifecycle

When we launched the Checkly CLI and Test Sessions last May, I wrote about the three pillars of monitoring as code. Code — write your monitoring checks as code and store them in version control. Test — test your checks against our global infrastructure and record test sessions. Deploy — deploy your checks from your local machine or CI to run them as monitors.

How to monitor CoreDNS with Datadog

In Part 1 of this series, we introduced you to the key metrics you should be monitoring to ensure that you get optimal performance from CoreDNS running in your Kubernetes clusters. In Part 2, we showed you some tools you can use to monitor CoreDNS. In this post, we’ll show you how you can use Datadog to monitor metrics, logs, and traces from CoreDNS alongside telemetry from the rest of your cluster, including the infrastructure it runs on.

Tools for collecting metrics and logs from CoreDNS

In Part 1 of this series, we looked at key metrics you should monitor to understand the performance of your CoreDNS servers. In this post, we’ll show you how to collect and visualize these metrics. We’ll also explore how CoreDNS logging works and show you how to collect CoreDNS logs to get even deeper visibility into your Deployment.

Key metrics for CoreDNS monitoring

CoreDNS is an open source DNS server that can resolve requests for internet domain names and provide service discovery within a Kubernetes cluster. CoreDNS is the default DNS provider in Kubernetes as of v1.13. Though it can be used independently of Kubernetes, this series will focus on its role in providing Kubernetes service discovery, which simplifies cluster networking by enabling clients to access services using DNS names rather than IP addresses.

Enhancing Security Workflows with Real-Time Notifications via Microsoft Teams and Slack

The integration with popular collaboration platforms like Microsoft Teams and Slack marks a pivotal advancement in security workflows. We are introducing new capability to post events from Flowmon ADS into Teams channel or Slack to instantly notify security teams. Integrations scripts are based on simple webhooks and available out of the box on our support portal both for Teams and Slack.

Kubernetes Liveness Probe Guide

Kubernetes liveness probes are a critical component for monitoring the health and availability of application containers running within a Kubernetes cluster. They allow Kubernetes to determine whether a container is running as expected and take appropriate actions if it is found to be unresponsive or in an unhealthy state. Liveness probes periodically check the health of containers by sending requests to a specified endpoint or executing a command within the container.

9 Popular Kubernetes Distributions You Should Know About

Kubernetes has become the go-to platform for container orchestration, allowing teams to more efficiently manage their containerized applications. Vanilla Kubernetes, as well as managed Kubernetes, are the two options available when building up a Kubernetes system. A group of programmers using vanilla Kubernetes must download the source code files, follow the code route, and set up the machine's environment.

SRE in Transition: From Startup to Enterprise

"Startups are defined by “ship or die”. As a result, SRE teams at a startup should be focused on enabling product engineers to ship features as quickly as possible. As your startup transitions from “we’ll run out of money in the next 18 months” to “we have more than 1000 engineers”, how should the SRE organization evolve and provide the best value through that transition (including booting one up if you don’t have one)? I will discuss specific ways the organization needs to evolve to meet this challenge, how the SRE org can advocate for and support this change (both in direct actions and in “influence”), and how the overhang of startup technical and cultural debt can make this shift more challenging (but also more necessary).

From On-call to Non-call: Resolving Incidents Before They Even Happen

Artificial intelligence has captured the attention of the world, with tools like ChatGPT and large language models (LLMs) driving the conversation. But you don’t need to wait for the future or new features powered by LLMs to start working smarter—the tech industry has been investing in intelligent, automated tools for years and they’re ready for production now. In this talk, you’ll learn how the engineering teams at Toyota Connected use tools like Datadog Watchdog, Anomaly Detection, and Workflows to make our lives easier and keep our platform stable.

Troubleshooting Cloud Application Performance: A Guide to Effective Cloud Monitoring

The scalability, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness of cloud-based applications are well known, but they’re not immune to performance issues. We’ve got some of the best practices for ensuring effective application performance in the cloud.

Unleash Microsoft Call Quality Dashboard Insights

Finding answers when someone has a Teams performance issue is clunky and time-consuming for IT teams. The Microsoft Call Quality Dashboard (CQD) has a wealth of data, but there’s so MUCH data that it can be hard to find the answers quickly to optimize Microsoft Teams performance.

Integrate Monitoring as Code into your Software Development Lifecycle

Learn how the new Checkly features (code exporter and activity log) enable you to integrate Monitoring as Code into your Software Development Lifecycle. Define and debug your monitoring resources during development, test your preview deployments and start monitoring productions with ease.

From Solution to Startup

Before Datadog was a widely adopted SaaS platform, it was a tool developed to solve our founders’ own monitoring needs. As technology-oriented people, we often build solutions for our own problems, then discover those problems are widespread. But how do you know when your solution should be something more? In this panel session, we’ll talk with tech startup founders to hear their stories and advice for turning tools into businesses.

ML-Powered Assistance for Adaptive Thresholding in ITSI

Adaptive thresholding in Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) is a useful capability for key performance indicator (KPI) monitoring. It allows thresholds to be updated at a regular interval depending on how the values of KPIs change over time. Adaptive thresholding has many parameters through which users can customize its behavior, including time policies, algorithms and thresholds.

ITOps vs. DevOps: what's the difference?

Titles within an organization evolve nearly as fast as the technology itself. For a long time, the title of DevOps was considered a literal interpretation of “Development” and “Operations” – a catch-all term for hybrid roles encapsulating everything from on-prem, cloud, and hybrid infrastructures, to code execution and lifecycle management. Sounds like a lot? It is.

Deliver exceptional digital experiences with Cisco Cloud Native Application Observability

From the application layer down to your Kubernetes® infrastructure, Cisco Cloud Native Application Observability delivers cross-domain visibility with correlated MELT data and AI/ML-driven insights to simplify the complexity of observing the performance of modern applications, multi-cloud Kubernetes, and hybrid cloud infrastructure.

ManageEngine Site24x7: One-stop observability platform for website monitoring

Website performance requires real-time monitoring data from actual user experience and simulated data from synthetic monitoring for a firm grip on how your website functions worldwide in different settings. Every second of website downtime from issues such as domain misconfiguration or regional ISP glitches affects your reputation and revenue, requiring you to stay alert always.

Best tools for monitoring IoT devices

The security camera is one of the most prevalent IoT devices being used today. Ironically, one of these cameras' primary vulnerabilities is that they may be stolen or damaged - you need protection for the security cameras. Having gadgets that operate independently saves time since you may leave them to do the job they intended. However, remotely placed, unsupervised equipment must be monitored, and the most effective method is through the use of an automated monitoring system.

What's new in distributed trace visualization in Grafana

At Grafana Labs, we are constantly improving our feature set, and tracing is no different. Traces are often overshadowed by logs and metrics, but they’re a pillar of observability for a reason. Used correctly, organizations that can quickly and successfully follow a chain of events through a system gain a more holistic view of their systems and are better equipped to find and fix issues faster.

Unraveling AWS Lambda: Exploring Scalability and Applicability

In our previous blog, we shared our firsthand experience of implementing a tracing collector API using serverless components. Drawing parallels with Amazon Prime Video’s architectural redesign, we discussed the challenges we encountered, such as cold-start delays and increased costs, which prompted us to transition to a non-serverless architecture for more efficient solutions.

IT Event Correlation: Software, Techniques and Benefits

IT event correlation is the process of analyzing IT infrastructure events and identifying relationships between them to detect problems and uncover their root cause. Using an event correlation tool can help organizations monitor their systems and applications more effectively while improving their uptime and performance.

When Third-Party Plugins Go Wild

Every single day RapidSpike detects thousands of problems with website third-party plugins that are causing revenue and customer experience issues, and 90% of them are not just affecting our users; they are affecting every user of that third party. The difference is with RapidSpike, we tell them about it. In 2018, a major e-commerce website experienced a significant performance failure due to a third-party plugin.

Introducing the new Lumigo Live Tail

As developers, we understand the immense value of having real-time access to live traces. It significantly enhances our ability to identify, debug, and troubleshoot potential issues within applications, streamlining the development and deployment process. Today, we are excited to introduce the new and improved Live Tail feature at Lumigo, which enhances your observability experience to a whole other level.

Cut through the complexity of your public sector cloud migration

Learn how application performance monitoring can ease cloud migration challenges for public sector agencies. Cloud technology has come of age, and organizations across every industry are rapidly migrating their key applications to these flexible environments. Like their enterprise counterparts, public sector agencies are excited about the potential of cloud services.

The Road Ahead: 4 Ways AIOps Will Build More Resilient IT Operations

This article is the final installment in a 4-part series on leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) for IT operations (AIOps) to provide a more efficient, reliable, agile, cost-effective, and optimized IT infrastructure. Just as our roads and highways evolve overtime to meet the demands of the travelers who use them, AIOps will continue to transform how organizations build, use, and manage their infrastructures.

Benefits and challenges of containerization for IT operations

Your IT teams are critical to improving the efficiency of your operations and ensuring long-term business scalability. But as your organization grows and demands become more complex, the challenges of managing IT operations can become difficult, especially when managing multiple applications across various server environments. Containerization has become a popular solution for some of these challenges.

Custom Java Instrumentation with OpenTelemetry

Discover how to gain unparalleled visibility and traceability into your applications with our latest video! As an expansion of our blog post, this tutorial dives into the world of Site Reliability Engineering and IT Operations, guiding you step-by-step through the process of implementing a plugin for the OpenTelemetry Java Agent using its Extensions framework.

Elasticsearch Vs OpenSearch | Comparing Elastic and AWS Search Engines

🔍 In this video, we will explore the differences between OpenSearch vs. Elasticsearch. We will look at the history of opensearch, compare performances, ecosystems, and much more. Brought to you by Sematext – your cloud monitoring and centralized logging solution.

Microsoft Teams Monitoring to Troubleshoot & Optimize Performance

If there's one thing we know about successful teams, it's that they need top-notch communication to conquer the corporate jungle. That's where Microsoft Teams swoops in to save the day! As you probably already know, Teams is the ultimate collaboration playground for businesses, connecting people, and getting things done in a snap. But here's the thing: even the most powerful tools need a little TLC to stay in their prime. And that's where we come in!

A glimpse into the day-to-day life of a software monitoring expert

Working in the field of software monitoring may seem boring or too technical, but let me tell you that there is more fun and excitement than one might imagine at first. Not that we’re all day doing barbecues and celebrating, but once we almost did our very own Olympics in the office! Kind of like The Office, you know. *Long live Michael Scott. Anyway, join me on this journey for a day in the life of a software monitoring expert, where code lines mingle with laughter and soluble coffee.

A guide to single-page application performance

Many of us have heard single-page applications (SPAs) hailed as the future of web applications. Proponents of SPAs point to increased code reusability and development velocity, and the advantage SPAs can give when it comes to delivering a fast and seamless user experience. Massive sites like Facebook, AirBnB and Trello are all built as SPAs. On the flipside, monitoring SPAs for performance is pretty challenging.
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Automate network topology mapping with OpManager's topology software

Network topology mapping is the process of mapping topological relationships between network components and establishing those relationships in the form of network diagrams. Network mapping helps visualize physical and logical connections between all elements and nodes, thus simplifying network management. A network topology mapper is a tool that helps perform network mapping effectively.

How to Transform the Management and Modernization of Your Infrastructure to Maximize Business Outcomes

But whether it’s replatforming legacy applications or migrating them to the cloud, enterprise IT leaders routinely suffer from run-away costs, unforeseen complications, and out-of-control environments on the other side of the modernization process. Yet, as an enterprise IT leader you have little choice but to forge ahead.

Driving A Successful SD-WAN Migration: Obkio's NPM Solution Empowers StableLogic in a Global SD-WAN Deployment

The rapid adoption of software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) has revolutionized how organizations connect their distributed networks. As businesses strive for improved performance, cost efficiency, and enhanced security, SD-WAN solutions have emerged as a game-changer. However, orchestrating a successful SD-WAN migration at a global scale presents numerous challenges that demand careful planning, meticulous execution, and robust network performance monitoring (NPM) capabilities.

Synthetic Monitoring: What is it, Challenges, and How to Get Started

With Infrastructure as Code and service-oriented development, a modern web app can consist of countless moving parts developed by multiple development and DevOps teams. When establishing a high-velocity development environment, the main question is, "How can you guarantee a stellar end-user experience when lots of engineers are constantly pushing and deploying code?" Solid, easy-to-write, and clearly defined monitoring practices are the only answer to this question.

Mastering Kubernetes Pod Restarts with kubectl

Managing containerized applications efficiently in the dynamic realm of Kubernetes is essential for smooth deployments and optimal performance. Kubernetes empowers us with powerful orchestration capabilities, enabling seamless scaling and deployment of applications. However, in real-world scenarios, there are situations that necessitate the restarting of Pods, whether to apply configuration changes, recover from failures, or address misbehaving applications.

Troubleshooting Wi-Fi Issues for Hybrid Workers: Key Requirements for NetOps Teams

In recent years, employees have grown increasingly accustomed to the untethered connectivity of Wi-Fi. For many, the days of having a computer tethered to an ethernet cable can seem like a distant memory. That was true when employees were working in an office, and it is all the more the case as we’ve moved to a hybrid work world.

Monitoring Redis Clusters with Prometheus

This article will outline what Redis database monitoring is and how to set up a Redis database monitoring system with MetricFire. Then we’ll show what the final graphs and dashboards look like when displayed on Grafana. We will be using Prometheus and Grafana to power the monitoring, and we'll use a simulated Redis DB to generate the data for the Grafana dashboards. ‍ ‍

Modeling and Unifying DevOps Data

“How can we turn our DevOps data into useful DevSecOps data? There is so much of it! It can come from anywhere! It’s in all sorts of different formats!” While these statements are all true, there are some similarities in different parts of the DevOps lifecycle that can be used to make sense of and unify all of that data. How can we bring order to this data chaos? The same way scientists study complex phenomena — by making a conceptual model of the data.

13 Best Cloud Cost Management Tools in 2023

Businesses are increasingly turning to cloud computing to drive innovation, scalability, and cost efficiencies. For many, managing cloud costs becomes a complex and daunting task, especially as organizations scale their cloud infrastructure and workloads. In turn, cloud cost management tools can help teams gain better visibility, control, and cost optimization of their cloud spending. These tools not only provide comprehensive solutions to track and analyze, they also optimize cloud expenses.

IDC Market Perspective published on the Elastic AI Assistant

IDC published a Market Perspective report discussing implementations to leverage Generative AI. The report calls out the Elastic AI Assistant, its value, and the functionality it provides. Of the various AI Assistants launched across the industry, many of them have not been made available to the broader practitioner ecosystem and therefore have not been tested. With Elastic AI Assistant, we’ve scaled out of that trend to provide working capabilities now.

Cloud Observability: Unlocking Performance, Cost, and Security in Your Environment

A robust observability strategy forms the backbone of a successful cloud environment. By understanding cloud observability and its benefits, businesses gain the ability to closely monitor and comprehend the health and performance of various systems, applications, and services in use. This becomes particularly critical in the context of cloud computing. The resources and services are hosted in the cloud and accessed through different tools and interfaces.

Creating a Location Based Business Service

Location-based business services allow customers to manage their site’s infrastructure devices very easily and monitor the Health, Availability and Risk of each service in a single pane of glass. Automating the creation and updating of the schema for location-based business services can save time and cost. This video explains how this new solution can help you to create/update your location-based business service.

Elastic APM - Automatic .NET Instrumentation with OpenTelemetry

Check out this YouTube video on Elastic Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and its integration with OpenTelemetry for.NET! In this informative and practical tutorial, we delve into the world of APM and demonstrate how to effectively instrument your.NET applications using OpenTelemetry with Elastic APM. Additional Resources: Connect with us on social media.

SOLD IN 6 SECONDS: Formulas to Fast & Friction-Free E-commerce

Today, the modern Internet is one that we rely upon for all things: from purchasing a $3 coffee to buying brand new shiny laptops. There are many moving parts in the modern web, each of which can create a chaotic experience. With back-to-school season around the corner, Sold in 6 Seconds is a discussion about what makes a smooth and successful e-commerce experience. The curriculum? Watch and learn the formula to ensure your conversion rates pass the test.

Managing Prometheus cardinality in Grafana Cloud: Adaptive Metrics FAQ

One of the most talked about topics in observability today is centered around the question of how to get more value out of the ever-increasing amount of data collected by agents, collectors, scrapers, and the like. Back in May, we announced Adaptive Metrics, a new feature in Grafana Cloud that allows you to reduce the cardinality of Prometheus metrics and the overall volume and costs of your metrics.

How to monitor connector's API Connections in Logic Apps?

Let us consider a scenario where a Logic App is used to communicate with SharePoint through API connections, known as connectors. When configuring the connector, it communicates with Azure AD, retrieving a username and password and continuously refreshing the authentication token. When the Logic App calls the connector, it performs operations like uploading files to SharePoint.

4 Node.js Logging libraries which make sophisticated logging simpler

Node.js logging, like any form of software instrumentation, isn’t an easy thing to get right. It takes time, effort, and a willingness to continue to iterate until a proper balance is struck. There are so many points to consider, including: Previously, here on the Loggly blog, I began exploring these questions in the context of three of the most popular web development languages: PHP, Python, and Ruby. But these aren’t the only popular languages in use today.

Rethinking Observability with MinIO and CloudFabrix

While the growth trajectory for data in general is extraordinary, it is the growth of log files that really stand out. As the heartbeat of digital enterprise, these files contain a remarkable amount of intelligence – across a stunning range, from security to customer behavior to operational performance. The growth of log files, however, presents particular challenges for the enterprise. They are not “readable” per se, they require machine intelligence.

Load Testing vs. Performance Testing vs. Stress Testing

Just conducting one type of testing is generally not enough. For example, let’s say you decide to perform unit testing only. However, unit tests only verify business logic. Many other types of tests exist to verify the integration between components, such as integration tests. But what if you want to measure the maximum performance of your application? Or what if you want to know how the application behaves under extreme stress?

Monitoring Digital Ocean with MetricFire

Cloud monitoring is like a health check-up for our online spaces. It tells us what's going well and what we need to improve. It is critical because it lets us fix problems before they get too big and helps our online services work at their best. This article talks about how we can use MetricFire to monitor DigitalOcean environments.

What are Traceroutes and How Do Traceroutes Work?

If you've ever wondered why your Internet connection seems slow or experiencing connection problems with a website, you might have heard of a tool called "traceroute." But what is a traceroute, and how does it work? In this article, we'll be giving a quick and simple introduction to what are traceroutes, and how traceroutes work to help identify and troubleshoot network problems.

The First 48 Hours of Ransomware Incident Response

The first 48 hours of incidents response is the most critical. We will explain few important steps that need to be taken to mitigate the impact on service availability, information systems integrity and data confidentiality. The cyber resilience is also covered by the individual national regulations and directives, so let's take a closer look at it and explain why principles of Network Detection and Response shall be a crucial part of technical measures implementation for regulated entities.

Benefits of using AIOps in ITSM

“Necessity is the mother of invention,” so here is a quick backstory to understand what brought AIOps into the ITSM landscape In the fast-paced world of Information Technology Service Management (ITSM), staying ahead of challenges and effectively managing complex systems is crucial. As organizations embrace digital transformation and adopt cutting-edge technologies, the volume of data and incidents generated becomes overwhelming for IT teams to handle manually.

The Quixotic Expedition Into the Vastness of Edge Logs, Part 2: How to Use Cribl Search for Intrusion Detection

For today’s IT and security professionals, threats come in many forms – from external actors attempting to breach your network defenses, to internal threats like rogue employees or insecure configurations. These threats, if left undetected, can lead to serious consequences such as data loss, system downtime, and reputational damage. However, detecting these threats can be challenging, due to the sheer volume and complexity of data generated by today’s IT systems.

IoT Dashboards with Grafana and Prometheus

The Internet of Things (IoT) - is a number of physical devices connected to one network that enables the system to interact with the external world. A great deal of the work surrounding IoT is monitoring, as it’s impossible to react without knowing the situation. For example, we might build a greenhouse system for agriculture that can maintain optimal conditions for growing crops. For this purpose, we need to have sensors picking up information about the temperature and humidity.

Integrating BindPlane Into Your Splunk Environment Part 2

Often it can be a challenge to collect data into a monitoring environment that does not natively support that data source. Bindplane can help solve this problem. As the Bindplane Agent is based on OpenTelemetry (and is also as freeform as possible), one can bring in data from disparate sources that are not easily supported by the Splunk Universal Forwarder.

How to Manually Instrument .NET Applications with OpenTelemetry

Welcome to our deep-dive tutorial on manually instrumenting.NET applications with OpenTelemetry! In this comprehensive guide, we walk you through the process of adding OpenTelemetry to your.NET applications to help you better understand and optimize their performance. Whether you're an experienced.NET developer or just getting started, you'll find actionable insights and tips to improve your application monitoring and tracing capabilities.

Getting started with AWS CloudWatch

Out of more than 100 services that Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides, Amazon CloudWatch was one of the earliest services provided by AWS. CloudWatch was announced on May 17th, 2009, and it was the 7th service released after S3, SQS, SimpleDB, EBS, EC2, and EMR. AWS CloudWatch is a suite of tools that encompasses a wide range of cloud resources, including collecting logs and metrics; monitoring; visualization and alerting; and automated action in response to operational health changes.

Dashboard Stories: High-level Jira ticket summary

Luke Gackle, ICT Service Desk Officer at the South Australian Tourism Commission presents this Jira Ticket Summary dashboard built in SquaredUp using the Jira plugin. Built to provide his support team an at-a-glance view of ticket statuses nearing an SLA breach, it now serves as as key overview / reference point for their daily stand-ups. With no good way of displaying these numbers in a native Jira dashboard, Luke used the Jira plugin to effortlessly fill these gaps in a SquaredUp dashboard.

Dashboard Stories: A unified view of NSW snowboarding conditions

Adam Hewins, Senior Operational Support Engineer, presents this cool snowboarding conditions dashboard built in SquaredUp using the WebAPI plugin. As a long-time snowboarder, this dashboard was built so Adam can see at-a-glance the weather and trail conditions in Perisher, NSW. Learn how Adam used the WebAPI plugin to effortlessly surface data for snowfall, snowdepth, temperature and even Perisher live camera imagery in one centralized dashboard.

Troubleshooting ECS Container Crashes

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) is a versatile platform that enables developers to build scalable and resilient applications using containers. However, containerized services, like Node.js applications, may face challenges like memory leaks, which can result in container crashes. In this blog post, we’ll delve into the process of identifying and addressing memory leaks in Node.js containers running on ECS. First, let’s look closer at what a memory leak is.

Send your logs to multiple destinations with Datadog's managed Log Pipelines and Observability Pipelines

As your infrastructure and applications scale, so does the volume of your observability data. Managing a growing suite of tooling while balancing the need to mitigate costs, avoid vendor lock-in, and maintain data quality across an organization is becoming increasingly complex. With a variety of installed agents, log forwarders, and storage tools, the mechanisms you use to collect, transform, and route data should be able to evolve and adjust to your growth and meet the unique needs of your team.

Integration roundup: Monitoring your AI stack

Integrating AI, including large language models (LLMs), into your applications enables you to build powerful tools for data analysis, intelligent search, and text and image generation. There are a number of tools you can use to leverage AI and scale it according to your business needs, with specialized technologies such as vector databases, development platforms, and discrete GPUs being necessary to run many models. As a result, optimizing your system for AI often leads to upgrading your entire stack.

Enhance code reliability with Datadog Quality Gates

Maintaining the quality of your code becomes increasingly difficult as your organization grows. Engineering teams need to release code quickly while still finding a way to enforce best practices, catch security vulnerabilities, and prevent flaky tests. To address this challenge, Datadog is pleased to introduce Quality Gates, a feature that automatically halts code merges when they fail to satisfy your configured quality checks.

Store and analyze high-volume logs efficiently with Flex Logs

The volume of logs that organizations collect from all over their systems is growing exponentially. Sources range from distributed infrastructure to data pipelines and APIs, and different types of logs demand different treatment. As a result, logs have become increasingly difficult to manage. Organizations must reconcile conflicting needs for long-term retention, rapid access, and cost-effective storage.

DASH 2023: Guide to Datadog's newest announcements

This year at DASH, we announced new products and features that enable your teams to get complete visibility into their AI ecosystem, utilize LLM for efficient troubleshooting, take full control of petabytes of observability data, optimize cloud costs, and more. With Datadog’s new AI integrations, you can easily monitor every layer of your AI stack. And Bits AI, our new DevOps copilot, helps speed up the detection and resolution of issues across your environment.

Leveraging Git for Cribl Stream Config: A Backup and Tracking Solution

Having your Cribl Stream instance connected to a remote git repo is a great way to have a backup of the cribl config. It also allows for easy tracking and viewing of all Cribl Stream config changes for improved accountability and auditing. Our Goal: Get Cribl configured with a remote Git repo and also configured with git signed commits. Git signed commits are a way of using cryptography to digitally add a signature to git commits.

Google and Goliath - An Ideal Match

The rise of ChromeOS has been a significant development in the world of technology, particularly in the enterprise world. As an IT professional, I have witnessed firsthand how businesses have shifted their approach towards technology to boost productivity and efficiency. ChromeOS has emerged as a cloud-based operating system that is gaining popularity due to its simplicity, affordability, and security features.

New in Grafana 10: Grafana Scenes for building dynamic dashboarding experiences

With Grafana 10, the latest major release of our data visualization platform, we wanted to explore new ways to empower our developer community. Case in point: Grafana Scenes, a new frontend library that enables developers to create dashboard-like experiences — such as querying and transformations, dynamic panel rendering, and time ranges — directly within their Grafana application plugins.

7 OpenTelemetry Metrics to Track for Better Visibility

In today’s rapidly evolving software landscape, ensuring observability is crucial for building robust and reliable applications. One of the critical components of observability is metrics, which provide valuable insights into the performance and behavior of our systems. OpenTelemetry, an open-source observability framework, offers a standardized approach to capturing, exporting, and analyzing metrics. This blog post explores seven OpenTelemetry metrics for tracking better visibility.

Anything But Tech Debt

Tech debt is usually one of the most fraught topics on engineering teams. Engineers often feel they aren’t allowed enough time to address tech debt. Product partners wonder why engineers spend so much time working on it—or at least talking about it. “The business” always seems to insinuate that engineers should do less of it, instead focusing on shipping value to customers.

BindPlane Agent Resiliency

A quick video about the resiliency of your BindPlane agent showing the parameters to tweak on destinations and best collector architecture to ensure you're not losing any data. About ObservIQ: observIQ brings clarity and control to our customer's existing observability chaos. How? Through an observability pipeline: a fast, powerful and intuitive orchestration engine built for the modern observability team. Our product is designed to help teams significantly reduce cost, simplify collection, and standardize their observability data.

Automatic log level detection reduces your cognitive load to identify anomalies at 3 am

Let’s face it, when that alert goes off at 2:58am, abruptly shaking you out of a deep slumber because of a high-priority issue hitting the application, you’re not 100% “on”. You need to shake the fog out of your head to focus on the urgent task of fixing the problem. This is where having the best log analytics tool can take on some of that cognitive load. Sumo Logic recently released new features specific to our Log Search queries that automatically detect log levels.

Using UX and Observability to Track Application Health

UX (user experience) is a core factor that determines the success of an application or platform in a distributed system. Specifically, developers need to understand the infrastructure within an entire application stack to improve and refine the user experience to meet customer expectations without guesswork. System downtime remains a significant source of revenue and reputational losses for enterprises, employees, and customers.

Stopping Agents and modules during a time interval

Learn how to create planned stops. Imagine that we are monitoring our resources, and we have to do a maintenance of an equipment that is being monitored, that equipment, or some of its services, will stop being operative and false alerts and events will be generated. To avoid this, there are the planned stops, a PandoraFMS system that allows us to deactivate the agents and modules that we select during a time interval, this way we will avoid receiving false alerts and events.

What is Garbage Collection in Java: Detailed Guide

The Garbage Collection (GC) feature in the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is truly remarkable. It automatically identifies and cleans up unused Java objects without burdening developers with manual allocation and deallocation of memory. As an SRE or Java Administrator you need a strong understanding of the Java Garbage Collection mechanism to ensure optimal performance and stability of your Java applications.

3 Ways to Lower Costs and Improve Efficiency This Year and Every Year

The second half of 2023 is officially in full swing, and with that comes everyone’s favorite topic of conversation; end of year fiscal targets and annual budget reviews. For IT teams, the perennial ask will come down from above…. “we need to find $X, what can we cut, where can we find efficiencies and how much can your department save?”. You need to figure out how to save money and improve efficiency – and you don’t have much time to do it.

Revolutionizing call center management: The power of Full-Stack Observability with UCCE/PCCE

Full-stack observability with Cisco AppDynamics revolutionizes call center management, optimizing performance, improving customer experience and driving business success. Full-stack observability has revolutionized call center management by integrating Cisco AppDynamics into Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise (UCCE). Let’s explore the value of UCCE monitoring and its ability to deliver exceptional customer experiences.

How Technology Solutions Safeguard Your Domain from Content Thieves

Content theft has become an increasingly prevalent issue in today's digital landscape. From plagiarized articles to stolen images and videos, the unauthorized use of intellectual property poses significant challenges for businesses and individuals alike. However, with the right technology solutions in place, you can effectively safeguard your domain and protect your valuable content from being stolen. In this blog post, we will explore how technology solutions play a crucial role in combating content theft and preserving the integrity of your digital assets.
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Cloud Provider Uptime Monitoring: July 2023 Insights

Check our July 2023 health report on the top most popular cloud providers. We analyze the health of the cloud providers based on the number of outages and problems during the month. The source of the data is made available by the cloud providers themselves via their status page. We normalize it and use it to generate the report.

How to save on container costs efficiently using Kubernetes cost reporting in CloudSpend

Kubernetes reports in CloudSpend In the current era focused on cloud computing, it is essential for businesses to streamline costs. As containerization and Kubernetes become increasingly popular, efficiently managing costs related to Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is crucial for maintaining a successful infrastructure.

Cloud connectivity and interoperability

The post-pandemic world has transformed our work habits and the landscape of conducting business. Organizations now take the hybrid approach to work, wherein employees may work from an office, while travelling, or from a remote location. This fundamental shift has accelerated the pace of cloud adoption, as the cloud makes data access possible from anyplace, anytime. But the cloud brings with it a set of complexities that must be managed.

Using Grafana and Graphite to monitor server load

Since server outages can lead to a loss of customers, reputation, and other troubles and it is important to get information on the status of the server on time. MetricFire's Hosted Grafana and Graphite will help you monitor server load in a timely and efficient manner. Servers generate a large number of metrics and it is essential to not only track their values but also to observe their changes over time. There is also a possibility to correlate app statistics with server load metrics.

What Is APM and How Can It Help Your Services/Applications?

APM is one of those buzzwords that is slowly becoming a necessity. Most people are still unsure what APM means and how it can help their services. But what is it? What does it stand for? And how can it help your services or digital products? This blog will answer your questions—and more.

How we use trace-based alerts to reduce MTTR

On-call shifts are part of every developer’s job – we’ve all been there. It’s 3am, suddenly you get an alert for an issue occurring in production. The microservices landscape is complicated and finding the root cause of an issue is like looking for a needle in a haystack. How can you get to the root of what’s happening in the system so you can analyze and resolve the issue quickly and effectively?

Grafana Tempo 2.2 release: TraceQL structural operators are here!

Get excited about Grafana Tempo 2.2! Not only is this release on time, but it is also chock full of TraceQL features and performance improvements. I was honestly a little shocked by how much we have accomplished in the last three months when summarizing the changelog.

Mapping hostnames to locations with Icinga Director

Recently I came across the Maps module build and maintained by our community. The module displays host objects and annotations on openstreetmap using the JavaScript library leaflet.js. The module reads the coordinates for each host from custom variables and is able to group multiple hosts on the same location. There is already a guide on our blog that describes how you can use the module with human readable locations instead of numeric geolocations.

How to Tackle Spiraling Observability Costs

As today’s businesses increasingly rely on their digital services to drive revenue, the tolerance for software bugs, slow web experiences, crashed apps, and other digital service interruptions is next to zero. Developers and engineers bear the immense burden of quickly resolving production issues before they impact customer experience.

Optimize Equipment with Data-Driven Analytics

We want machines in good working order, making products of superior quality. This isn’t news. But what is newsworthy is that routine maintenance can still lead to more downtime than necessary. Not all maintenance programs are created equally. Keeping capital equipment running doesn’t exist inside a vacuum of chance. Outside the fraction of unavoidable catastrophes, there’s much power in the decision-making process.

Crafting Prompt Sandwiches for Generative AI

Large Language Models (LLMs) can give notoriously inconsistent responses when asked the same question multiple times. For example, if you ask for help writing an Elasticsearch query, sometimes the generated query may be wrapped by an API call, even though we didn’t ask for it. This sometimes subtle, other times dramatic variability adds complexity when integrating generative AI into analyst workflows that expect specifically-formatted responses, like queries.

Azure Distributed Transaction Performance Monitoring

In this article, we will explore Azure Distributed Transaction Performance Monitoring using Serverless360’s new feature called BAM Duration Monitoring. Our primary focus will be effectively monitoring a long-running business process implemented using the dynamic combination of Logic Apps and Data Factory.

Dive Deeper into your Trace and Logs Data with Query Builder - Community Call Aug 1

This week for our community call we show our new Trace explorer with a GUI for creating queries, custom dashboards, and alert thresholds. Great participation from the community, thank you so much for participating. SigNoz - Monitor your applications and troubleshoot problems in your deployed applications, an open-source alternative to DataDog, New Relic, etc. Backed by Y Combinator. SigNoz helps developers monitor applications and troubleshoot problems in their deployed applications. SigNoz uses distributed tracing to gain visibility into your software stack.

What is AWS Lambda, and How Does it Work with CloudWatch?

Modern businesses are constantly looking for more efficiency and better performance in their daily operations. This is why embracing cloud computing has become necessary for many businesses. However, while there are numerous benefits to utilizing cloud technology, obstacles can get in the way. Managing a cloud environment can quickly overwhelm organizations with new complexities.

Kubernetes Troubleshooting Reimagined: Operators and Auto-Tracing

Kubernetes operators help to simplify, streamline, and automate application tasks beyond the conventional Kubernetes offerings. In this webinar, AWS Developer Advocate for Kubernetes, Lukonde Mwila, will delve into the remarkable capabilities of Kubernetes operators and how to leverage them in your applications. You’ll also learn how Lumigo built a Kubernetes operator for seamless distributed tracing leveraging OpenTelemetry. We will also demonstrate how our operator transforms complex processes into a single command, promising an unmatched user experience and exceptional app health insights.

Introducing our free Hobby plan

We're excited to announce that starting today, Spectate is free to use. With our free Hobby plan, we're aiming to be more accessible to hobby and freelance developers and system administrators. It allows you to become even more familiar with Spectate and the variety of features it offers such as uptime monitoring, domain monitoring and status pages - all for free!

Golang Monitoring using OpenTelemetry

When it comes to monitoring Golang applications, there are various tools and practices you can use to gain insights into your application's performance, resource usage, and potential issues. By using OpenTelemetry for monitoring in your Go applications, you can gain valuable insights into the behavior, performance, and resource utilization of your distributed systems, allowing you to troubleshoot issues, optimize performance, and improve the overall reliability of your software.

OpManager celebrates Top Rated accolade from TrustRadius!

We believe that our customers’ satisfaction speaks volumes about the value we deliver. That’s why we’re absolutely thrilled to share the news: ManageEngine OpManager has been honored with the 2023 Top Rated Award in five categories by TrustRadius. TrustRadius is a trusted review site for business technology, supporting both buyers and vendors in making informed product decisions through unbiased and insightful reviews.

AIOps And Supercloud Adoption

For the last couple of years, I have been highlighting yearly predictions at the beginning of each year. For 2023, I would like to expand on one of the trends that I briefly mentioned in my 2022 predictions: superclouds. Since then, there have been a lot of discussions, vendors staking their claims, and clarity around superclouds. In this article, I will look at how observability, AIOps and automation are going to be key tenets for supercloud abstraction and adoption in 2023.
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Best Practices for SaaS and Network Incident Management

Computer and network systems have (obviously) become vital to business operations. Occasionally, there are SaaS or network incidents and these systems do not operate as needed. Enterprises want to minimize the potential damage and get their systems back online ASAP. Integrated incident management and a strong End User Experience Management (EUEM) platform that provides synthetic and real-user monitoring is a foundation for meeting that objective.

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Best practices for tracing and debugging microservices

Tracing and debugging microservices is one of the biggest challenges this popular software development architecture comes with - probably the most difficult one. Due to the distributed architecture, it's not as straightforward as debugging traditional monolithic applications. Instead of using direct debugging methods, you'll need to rely on logging and monitoring tools, coding practices, specific databases, and other indirect solutions to successfully debug microservices.

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3 Reasons to Prioritize Observability as part of Application Integration Strategy

Most companies in today's business landscape that deal with large amounts of data want to integrate their applications so that they can pass data between them seamlessly and easily. Being able to ensure that you can see exactly what is happening at every stage of the process is key, and this is where approaching the process with observability in mind can make a real difference. Deciding at the outset that observability is something that you want to be baked into the process means that you can plan and execute with that in mind.

Monitor gRPC calls with OpenTelemetry - explained with a Golang example

gRPC (Google Remote Procedure Call) is a high-performance, open-source universal RPC framework that Google developed to achieve high-speed communication between microservices. gRPC has Protobuf (protocol buffers) by default which would format or serialize the messages to a specific format that will be highly packed, highly efficient data. By its virtue of being a lightweight RPC, gRPC is suited for many use-cases. gRPC can be considered a successor to RPC, which is light in weight.

Empowering AIOps With Zenoss Smart View: Unleashing the Power of Intelligent Diagnostics

In this video blog post, I delve into the world of Zenoss Smart View, an indispensable tool that has revolutionized the way IT operations personnel approach diagnostic challenges. In today's fast-paced and complex digital landscape, swift problem resolution is paramount. That's precisely where Smart View shines. Smart View is a critical, differentiated tool in Zenoss’ toolkit to identify critical issues with time-sensitive, contextual information.

Save money on Serverless: common costly mistakes and how to avoid them

When used properly, serverless technologies like AWS Lambda can lower the cost of running a system. This is because you only pay for these services when you’re using them, so you don’t waste any money. Serverless technologies also have other benefits. They can provide better security, built-in redundancy and scalability. The biggest plus is that they let you do more with less time and effort. You can focus on the things that directly add value to your business.

New Logs Explorer & Query Builder

We recently released 🛳️ updated logs explorer page and query builder in SigNoz to make experience of our logs product much more intuitive and seamless. Some of the key features: More about SigNoz: SigNoz - Monitor your applications and troubleshoot problems in your deployed applications, an open-source alternative to DataDog, New Relic, etc. Backed by Y Combinator. SigNoz helps developers monitor applications and troubleshoot problems in their deployed applications. SigNoz uses distributed tracing to gain visibility into your software stack.

Cisco completes Cisco AppDynamics and Cisco Secure Application IRAP assessment

Learn why IRAP recognition at the PROTECTED level for Cisco AppDynamics and Cisco Secure Application enables end users to rest assured their applications are secure. Cisco has completed an Infosec Registered Assessors Program (IRAP) assessment of Cisco AppDynamics and Cisco Secure Application at the PROTECTED level. This milestone represents a crucial step in reaffirming Cisco’s commitment to its Australian public sector customers, including its industry partners.

Are you ready for DORA?

Not to be confused with the popular children’s TV character, DORA is a new EU regulation for the financial sector, which stands for the Digital Operational Resilience Act. DORA became law on 16 January 2023 and will start to apply from 17 January 2025, so it’s crucial that senior executives in the financial sector, such as Chief Risk Officers and Chief Information Security Officers, understand its implications and prepare for compliance from day one.

End-to-End Citrix Monitoring, Diagnosis and Reporting with eG Enterprise

The toughest problem for a Citrix admin to solve is users complaining that "their desktop/app is slow". End-to-end correlated visibility is required to address this problem. Watch this video and learn how eG Enterprise provides unparalleled insights into Citrix user experience, the performance of the key Citrix tiers, the performance of all supporting tiers and how it uses AIOps capabilities to auto-detect the root-cause of a Citrix slowdown.

Grafana Cloud Free: Actual stories about our 'actually useful' hosted free tier

It’s no secret that anyone can download our open source software and run it, because — once more with feeling — open source is in our DNA. But it can be hard to set up and configure a whole stack from scratch, which is why we offer Grafana Cloud as a fully managed observability platform.

Prometheus Monitoring 101

Prometheus is an increasingly popular tool in the world of SREs and operational monitoring. Based on ideas from Google’s internal monitoring service (Borgmon), and with native support from services like Docker and Kubernetes, Prometheus is designed for a cloud-based, containerized world. As a result, it’s quite different from existing services like Graphite. ‍ Starting out, it can be tricky to know where to begin with the official Prometheus docs and the wave of recent Prom content.

Connecting Prometheus and Grafana

Using Prometheus and Grafana together is a great combination of tools for monitoring an infrastructure. In this article, we will discuss how Prometheus can be connected with Grafana and what makes Prometheus different from the rest of the tools in the market. MetricFire's product, Hosted Graphite, runs Graphite (a Prometheus alternative) with Grafana dashboards for you so you can have the reliability and ease of use that is hard to get while doing it in-house.

AWS CloudWatch Custom Metrics vs Prometheus Custom Metrics

Understanding the state of your systems and their underlying infrastructure at all times is paramount for ensuring the stability and reliability of your services. Up-to-date information about the performance and health of your deployments not only helps your team react to issues in real time, but it also gives them the security to make changes with confidence and to safely forecast system failures or performance hiccups even before they occur.

Monitoring Webapp Performance with Sitespeed

In today's digital landscape, optimal web application performance is crucial for business success. Slow loading times, unresponsive pages, and inefficient code can drive away users and harm your reputation. This makes monitoring web app performance extremely important to prevent them and to provide a smooth user experience. Sitespeed, a powerful web performance monitoring framework, analyzes metrics like page load time, resource usage, and user interactions to identify performance bottlenecks.

The Uphill Battle of Consolidating Security Platforms

A recently conducted survey of 51 CISOs and other security leaders a series of questions about the current demand for cybersecurity solutions, spending intentions, security posture strategies, tool preferences, and vendor consolidation expectations. While the report highlights the trends around platform consolidation over the short run, 82% of respondents stated they expect to increase the number of vendors in the next 2-3 years.

Automatic Instrumentation for OpenTelemetry Go

The OpenTelemetry Go project now supports automatic instrumentation via eBPF! This is a big milestone for the project and makes it significantly easier to generate data from your Go apps: The automatic instrumentation agent is still in s/alpha/beta today, but it’s ready for you to try on your applications!

Pump the Brakes: Some Key Considerations in Your Journey to AIOps

Every well-oiled machine needs both a gas and a brake pedal. If our article titled How IT Teams Can Leverage AIOps’ Capabilities is the gas pedal in this analogy, then this writing is the proverbial brakes in which we explore some educational pit stops organizations should make on their way to integrating artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) into their IT operations (AIOps).

July Product Updates for Sentry

During the past month of July, the Sentry dev team dropped new capabilities to help you better understand, prioritize, and respond to errors and performance problems. From new ways of sorting priority issues to helping you be more proactive in identifying problems earlier in the dev lifecycle, we’ve picked a handful of recent releases to dive into. Plus we’ll highlight a couple of new integrations with our friends at Slack and Atlassian.

3 Steps to Get DX NetOps Events in Slack and Google Chat

Network operations centers (NOCs) play a critical role in any organization’s operational and business continuity. To meet their vital charters, NOC teams must constantly strive to maintain uninterrupted network availability and to minimize the business impact of network issues. Within the NOC, effective collaboration is essential for quick troubleshooting and resolution of network issues.

5 Things to Look for in a SaaS Management Platform and Why

SaaS management platforms are helping IT solve a new version of an old problem: user behavior and software application visibility. With endpoint solutions like remote monitoring and management (RMM) agents, MSPs and IT teams have had deep visibility into desktop applications for years. But, once a user opens a browser and logs into a SaaS app, it’s a different story. Apps and user accounts are often manually tracked via spreadsheets, and shadow IT is common.

Quickstart network investigations with NPM's story-centric UX

Datadog Network Performance Monitoring (NPM) gives you visibility into all the communication that takes place between the network components in your environment, including hosts, processes, containers, clusters, zones, regions, and VPCs. As organizations scale, and as their networks grow in complexity, the massive volume of network data to be monitored can become overwhelming. Knowing precisely what network data to surface to resolve issues within these larger environments can be a challenge.

Announcing Easy Connect - The Fastest Path to Full Observability

Logz.io is excited to announce Easy Connect, which will enable our customers to go from zero to full observability in minutes. By automating service discovery and application instrumentation, Easy Connect provides nearly instant visibility into any component in your Kubernetes-based environment – from your infrastructure to your applications. Since applications have been monitored, collecting logs, metrics, and traces have often been siloed and complex.

Enable and use GKE Control plane logs

Are you having any issues with the control plane components in your GKE Cluster? Are you interested in gaining visibility into the control plane side of the cluster to troubleshoot the issues by yourself? Then GKE Control Plane Logs is a great way to gain insights on what's going on with your cluster. In this video, we provide a quick overview about Control Plane components and logs, and show how to enable control plane logs on the new and existing GKE clusters. Watch this video to learn how to use Control plane logs to troubleshoot webhook and control plane latency issues in GKE clusters.

Why we generate & collect logs: About the usability & cost of modern logging systems

Logs and log management have been around far longer than monitoring and it is easy to forget just how useful and essential they can be for modern observability. Most of you will know us for VictoriaMetrics, our open source time series database and monitoring solution. Metrics are our “thing”; but as engineers, we’ve had our fair share of frustrations in the past caused by modern logging systems that tend to create further complexity, rather than removing it.

Kubernetes Troubleshooting with Operators and Auto-Tracing

Kubernetes has revolutionized the way we manage and deploy applications, but as with any system, troubleshooting can often be a daunting task. Even with the multitude of features and services provided by Kubernetes, when something goes awry, the complexity can feel like finding a needle in a haystack. This is where Kubernetes Operators and Auto-Tracing come into play, aiming to simplify the troubleshooting process.

How Novacy Shortened Troubleshooting Time by 90% with Helios

When I first met Uria Franko, the CTO of Novacy, I immediately knew we’d hit it off. He was looking for an observability solution for his team with a specific need around Celery, after they had been using logs but found they lacked the depth and granularity they needed. Luckily, our mission at Helios is to help organizations gain visibility and drill down into services through traces. So this was a perfect match.

How to monitor your Python app performance with Site24x7

What is Site24x7 APM Insight? Prevalence and importance of Python code in application design, and how to monitor its performance? Site24x7 helps monitor Python app performance with its agent-based APM Insight. Site24x7 APM provides metrics like response time, throughput, database ops, and error handling in your Python applications.