The heart of problem-solving is to outline and define the problem effectively, therefore, if you aren’t aware of what the problem is then it’s particularly challenging to accurately problem solve. This is where root cause analysis tools come in, root cause analysis software and tools are designed to identify the the cause of the issue to aid your ability to rectify the problem effectively.
Hi everyone. As we stand at the threshold of 2024, on behalf of our CEO, Michal Aftanas, and the entire UptimeRobot team, I’d like to thank you for your never-ending support. Thank you for being part of our journey over the last 12 months! It was an amazing ride full of great news (and more to come), so I’d like to take this opportunity to summarize our year together and give a peek at our plans for 2024.
The year might be ending, but the Kentik news never stops. We’re back with our bite-sized roundup of everything you might have missed at Kentik in December 2023.
Magento is a popular open-source e-commerce platform that offers merchants a flexible and powerful solution for their online stores. It's known for its scalability, extensive features, and ability to customize, making it a choice for businesses of all sizes. Magento was launched in 2008 by a company called Varien. It quickly rose to prominence as one of the leading e-commerce solutions. It came in two primary editions previously.
Grant Pinkos manages two businesses near Detroit, Michigan. He enjoys Industrial IoT, Industry 4.0, guitar solos, and Pomeranians, and holds a BS in engineering and an MBA. Grant is a Grafana Champion and is very active in community discussions. He has also presented at GrafanaCON and authored a tutorial.
On November 7, 2023, the AIOps and Observability team announced general availability of DX Operational Intelligence 23.3 and DX APM 23.3 for on-premises deployments. While the announcements and Release Notes cover all the important enhancements, several new capabilities deserve additional attention—especially those for installing and upgrading the DX Platform. These enhancements offer the following benefits: Below, you’ll see seven enhancement areas involving installation and upgrades.
DX Unified Infrastructure Management (DX UIM) is a powerful solution that enables IT operations teams to monitor and manage the performance and availability of their IT infrastructure and applications. One of the key core components of DX UIM is the Discovery Server probe. This probe collects, processes, and stores information about devices and applications. In this blog, we will explore some of the benefits and use cases for Discovery Server.
No matter what industry you work in, your customers need to trust you. And, with 70% of internet users now taking various steps to protect their digital footprint online, your website must be secure. As online shoppers become more security-savvy and demand more from online services, an SSL certificate error has the power to lose valuable website visitors and ultimately reduce sales. Adopting SSL certificates is fast becoming the best practice for websites worldwide. Here's why.
Time difference analysis is a method of analyzing data points at regular time intervals over a set period. However, in time series analysis, we derive crucial information such as the variance of the variables among data points over a period of time. This gives additional information on how the data adapts over time. This can be used to analyze data during different trends at different time intervals.
I can't believe it's already been a year since the release of Avantra 23 in 2022. Over the past year, we've released three minor releases, 23.1, 23.2 & 23.3 that brought meaningful quality of life improvements across the entire product. We are bringing new checks, new performance optimizations, and highly requested features from our ideas portal (login needed). Additionally, there will be two new editions (Automation & Observability) so that customers can make better use of the features we have, and we have squashed 100s of bugs in different scenarios that our customers encounter in their day to day.
Today's applications demand efficient data handling to provide users with seamless experiences. One solution that has gained prominence is the use of embedded databases, which are integrated within applications rather than relying on external servers. Different from a database for embedded systems, databases embedded within applications offer several advantages for storing data and analyzing it, especially in scenarios where performance, deployment simplicity, and data security are important. Embedded databases, or an embedded database management system (DBMS), can serve a variety of use cases, but are especially valuable for applications that need to provide analytics capabilities.
Thanks for joining me for Part 3 of “The concise guide to Grafana Loki,” a series of blog posts that takes a closer look at best practices for various aspects of using the log aggregation system. Today’s post is my holiday present for all the folks out there running Loki who would like to get the most query performance they can out of their cluster.
In the most distinct term, time-series monitoring is all about you analyzing a data or a process over a certain period of time. This period of time can vary according to our needs. We can set the monitoring to provide results every day, every week or even once in a month. Time-series monitoring works like logging, where all the activities your system goes through, are logged and stored in a file.
With the recent integration between SUSE and StackState, SUSE customers will benefit from the enhanced observability StackState offers for their applications running on SUSE’s diverse Kubernetes distributions. As businesses increasingly rely on Kubernetes, ensuring the stability and performance of applications becomes of great importance.
Grafana Alerting helps you identify issues almost immediately after they occur — and you don’t have to constantly check your system to get the insights you need. Instead, Grafana Alerting sends alert notifications to reach you wherever you are, whether that’s in a Slack channel or in a messaging app like Telegram. Telegram is a viable option for receiving alerts, especially when you want personal or individual notifications rather than those sent to a team.
Just in time for your holiday viewing! Learn how to solve real-time time series processing challenges with Quix—the stream processing framework using Kafka and Python—and purpose-built time series database InfluxDB.
An IT service desk is the backbone of enterprises that rely highly on technology. It is responsible for providing technical support and assistance to employees and customers who experience issues with their technology. This signifies an IT service desk’s integral role in enhancing an enterprise’s internal/external service delivery and user experience. However, enterprises can only enhance their service delivery and IT operations when they maximize their service desk.
Reflecting on a year of resilience and growth at Uptime.com, our CEO Jonathan Franconi has shared his gratitude for the team and our customers in the latest holiday blog post. Uptime.com is immensely proud to announce our contribution to UNICEF, supporting their mission to make a positive impact worldwide. Dive into the festive spirit with us!
As the number of Grafana users grows each year, so does the variety of reasons people are using Grafana dashboards. During 2023, members of the our community — both inside and outside of the company — shared some of their incredible professional and personal projects, including how Grafana has allowed them to successfully launch a rocket, cut back on carbon emissions, and even help balance a national power grid.
Website uptime is crucial for businesses to maintain a strong online presence and ensure a positive user experience. However, frequent website downtime can harm your brand reputation, customer loyalty, and your bottom line. This blog post will explore the common causes of website downtime and provide practical solutions to diagnose and resolve these issues effectively.
Your applications are only as powerful as they are iterable. To keep up with their rapidly changing production environments, your teams need reliable CI/CD systems that implement best practices—including build and test automation, flaky test management, and deployment management. By optimizing their CI/CD pipelines, your teams can build their apps more efficiently, deploy them more safely, and catch bugs and security vulnerabilities before they make it to production.
Open source is the foundation of everything we do here at Grafana Labs, and that was on full display this year as we celebrated the 10th anniversary of Grafana and continued to improve and expand our lineup of OSS projects. But 2023 was also a banner year for Grafana Cloud, as more organizations than ever turned to the fully managed stack to carry out their observability strategies more easily and quickly.
As an engineer, you know your company’s problems, and you know what to do about them. However, being heard within your organization and funding a project can be challenging. Top executives might not understand your job’s ins and outs of the tools you need to do it well. Still, you need people holding the purse strings to understand why investing in your idea is brilliant.
With constantly decreasing user attention spans, ensuring a seamless user experience has become a priority for all digital businesses. Users who encounter minimal application disruptions and responsive interactions will likely stay engaged and loyal to your product. And that’s exactly what RUM or Real User Monitoring tools such as Coralogix’s RUM solution offer.
Does your business have a help desk in place? Are you tracking its performance? Knowing which metrics and KPIs to measure can differentiate success and failure. This article will explore the essential helpdesk metrics and KPIs and how they can help you optimize customer service. The help desk is responsible for providing support to employees and customers who need assistance with technical issues.
As we step into 2024 and look toward the future, it’s evident that the world faces a multitude of challenges. From global risks to technological advancements, these changes will shape our lives in profound ways. This blog post delves into Apica‘s predictions for 2024 and beyond, exploring the impacts and adaptations required in various sectors.
“Hasn’t everyone already migrated to the cloud?” is a question you might be considering now. For many businesses – sure, they’ve migrated workloads and operations to the major cloud providers like Amazon Web Service, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure. Still, many businesses have just now worked through their due diligence and scalability concerns. While many businesses are “fully cloud,” there are just as many yet to migrate.
So, here’s the deal with AntiVirus software these days: It’s mostly playing catch-up with super-fast athletes — the malware guys. Traditional AV software is like old-school detectives who need a picture (or, in this case, a ‘signature’) of the bad guys to know who they’re chasing. The trouble is, these malware creators are quite sneaky — constantly changing their look and creating new disguises faster than AntiVirus can keep up with their photos.
Below are the most noteworthy updates from this year, highlighting our journey of continuous improvement and dedication.
At Grafana Labs, open source has always been part of our DNA. But in 2023 — a year in which we reflected on 10 years of Grafana, among other major OSS milestones — the power of our open source community felt especially palpable.
As the year 2023 draws to a close, we at Uptime.com want to extend our heartfelt thanks to our valued customers for their unwavering support and continued dedication to our platform. Your engagement and feedback have been crucial in guiding our developments and enhancements. It’s been a journey of continuous innovation, fueled by our entire team’s commitment to enhancing customer experience and engagement.
With 2023 drawing to a close, the final OpenObservability Talks of the year focused on what happened this year in open source, DevOps, observability and more, with an eye towards the future. I was delighted to be joined by a special guest, Kelsey Hightower, a renowned figure in the tech community, especially known for his contributions to the Kubernetes ecosystem.
Understanding the expected behavior of the Splunk Load Balanced (Splunk LB) Destination when Splunk indexers are blocking involves complex logic. While existing documentation provides details into how the load-balancing algorithm works, this blog post dives into how a Splunk LB Destination sends events downstream and explains the intricacies of blocking vs. queuing when multiple targets (i.e., indexers) are involved.
In a keynote at AI.Dev, Robert Nishihara (CEO, Anyscale) described the shift: A year ago, the people working with ML models were ML experts. Now, they’re developers. A year ago, the process was to experiment with building a model, then put a product on top of it. Now, it’s ship a product, find the market fit, then create customized models. The general-purpose generative AI models available to all of us today (such as ChatGPT) change the way work is done.
As the holiday season rolls in, it’s not just about festive cheer and resolutions; it’s also time for industry leaders to cast their predictions for the new year. This year, Catchpoint’s thought leaders have stepped up with their hottest takes for 2024. Catchpoint experts are envisioning a transformative shift in the monitoring technologies, a heightened focus on performance as a key metric, and an integrated strategy for managing digital performance management.
Kubernetes stands out as a powerful orchestrator, managing the deployment, scaling, and operation of containerized workloads. A key component of Kubernetes observability and troubleshooting capabilities is the generation of events. These events serve as vital records, documenting incidents and changes within the cluster, offering real-time insights into the health and dynamics of the system.
While Sentry can automatically detect unhandled exceptions, poor performance, and even signals of user frustration such as rage clicks, there are some problems that only a human can identify. This is where Sentry’s new User Feedback widget can help.
Monitoring your machine's internal temperatures is important for maintaining system health, optimizing performance, and ensuring the longevity of your computer hardware. It allows you to take proactive measures to prevent potential damage caused by overheating and helps in diagnosing and addressing cooling-related issues effectively. In this article we'll detail how to use the Telegraf agent to collect temperature readings from a Mac computer, that you can forward to a datasource.
How much do Synthetics matter to your team? I think they matter a whole lot. Back when I was a freelance developer, I doubled my annual income with synthetics. Working mainly in database optimizations, I would finish out a contract and leave a synthetic monitor running at a very low frequency on their service. When I saw a pattern of slower performance, I knew it was time to hit the team lead-up to ask if I could help.
As we close out another year, we want to take this moment to thank you, our customers, for your continued support. Whether you have been with us from the start or are just discovering our brand, we appreciate your business. This year's theme is IT resilience, which refers to the ability of an organization to withstand, adapt, and recover from disruptions or attacks with minimal or no impact.
There are several reasons for creating a highly efficient and performant database in the current web era. RocksDB is an embedded key-value store designed for efficient data storage and retrieval. It is an open-source database engine developed by Facebook, which builds upon the strengths of LevelDB while incorporating several enhancements for durability, scalability, and performance.
As a Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) administrator, several challenges might be encountered in managing and maintaining this complex monitoring and management tool. These challenges can vary depending on the organization's size, infrastructure, and specific requirements. Here are some of the common challenges faced by SCOM administrators.
Hello again, folks! It sure has been a while. For those of you who know me, you may remember I used to work at SquaredUp as a tech evangelist until a couple of years ago. Then some things happened, and I left in pursuit of something else. However, life has come full circle after about 2 years and boy am I glad to be back!
Welcome to Part 2 of the “Concise guide to Loki,” a multi-part series where I cover some of the most important topics around our favorite logging database: Grafana Loki. As I reflect on the fifth anniversary of Loki, it felt like a good opportunity to summarize some of the important parts of how it works, how it’s built, how to run it, etc. And as the name of the series suggests, I’m doing it as concisely as I can.
In this post, Doug Madory reviews the highlights of his wide-ranging internet analysis from the past year, which included covering the state of BGP (both routing leaks and progress in RPKI), submarine cables (both cuts and another historic activation), major outages, and how geopolitics has shaped the internet in 2023.
Recently, InfluxData CEO Evan Kaplan sat down with Developer Advocate Jay Clifford to discuss the role of time series data and AI in industry, how it’s evolving, and specifically, the role of time series data in AI. They also discussed the future of InfluxDB in terms of real-time analytics and its role in the AI landscape.
Large-scale organizations typically collect and manage millions of logs a day from various services. Within these orgs, many different teams may set up processing pipelines to modify and enrich logs for security monitoring, compliance audits, and DevOps. Datadog Log Pipeline let you ingest logs from your entire stack, parse and enrich them with contextual information, add tags for usage attribution, generate metrics, and quickly identify log anomalies.
This is the second post in a 3-part series about shifting Observability left. If you have not had a chance to read the first, you can find it here. In today’s complex microservices deployments, gaining visibility into deployments is vital for optimal system performance and scalability. This has become even more important as the tech industry has moved toward microservice architecture reliance. Navigating through logs has become increasingly complex as requirements have grown.
Your FinOps foundations are down in your company’s cloud (woohoo!), but what comes next? How can you boost your MVP success in the cloud with your FinOps strategy? In this blog post, we’ll briefly dive into the three phases of your FinOps for top-notch implementation from beginning to end. Need a refresher on setting up an MVP FinOps framework for your cloud? In part 1 of our series, we’ll show you how it’s done!
Everyone has their own toys to play with this Christmas, but we all have more fun when we share. The same applies to the tools we use, the data we collect, and the insights we act on. In this video, I'll show you how one of our valued (and definitely real) customers “North Pole Industries” utilizes SquaredUp to share the magic of observability.
The service company continues to demonstrate market superiority in website and service monitoring, solidifying its status as the preferred provider for unified, dependable solutions for maintaining website availability. PALO ALTO, Calif., December 20, 2023 (Newswire.com) – Uptime.com, a global leader in website monitoring services, proudly announces tremendous sales results for the last two quarters of 2023, marking a new pinnacle in its growth trajectory.
Monitoring your instance of NGINX gives you insight into your webserver's requests and connections. These insights can help in identifying performance bottlenecks, optimizing configurations, and ensuring efficient load handling. Monitoring all layers of your technology infrastructure allows for the early detection of potential problems such as server overload, disk space shortages, or network issues.
Audit finds that there are 1,200+ government AI use cases in development and in use today.
MetrixInsight for Citrix Logon Simulator will be available to our valued MetrixInsight for Citrix VAD/DaaS customers, as part of our ongoing commitment to enhancing their Citrix monitoring experience. Stay tuned!
Networks are the lifeblood of organizations. They facilitate data flow, applications, and services while keeping operations running smoothly. However, there’s a critical challenge that often goes unnoticed – network visibility gaps. Progress WhatsUp Gold release 2023.1, available as of December 19, 2023, is set to change that. This release includes several exciting updates meant to close gaps in Network Visibility.
For businesses reliant on customers’ positive digital experiences to achieve their goals, the seamless operation of cloud applications and infrastructure is paramount for financial success. Observability holds a pivotal role in modern enterprises, offering critical insights into your IT system’s health and performance. However, persistent issues of complexity and high costs have plagued the observability landscape.
Elastic is transforming the log experience to meet the needs of modern workflows In the absence of other observability signals, generally everything in your infrastructure (hardware, software, and services) emits log lines. Logs, however, are often structured at a developer’s whim and, first and foremost, serve the developer’s needs (e.g., debugging).
This is the first post in a 3-part series about shifting Observability left. When it comes to the reliability and performance of your applications, compromise is not an option in the world of software development. This is where observability can help developers achieve a more robust and scalable infrastructure.
If you ask us to score 2023, we would give it a 10 out of 10. Not only because we released Grafana 10 and celebrated the 10-year anniversary of the Grafana project with the first-ever Golden Grot Awards and the launch of a four-part documentary series.
TrackJS is the best frontend error monitoring tool. It’s all we do and we do it well. To keep it simple we have just two different JavaScript agents. One for the browser, and one for Node server environments. That’s it. No other languages or platforms are supported. Just JavaScript.
In today’s digital landscape, cybersecurity is a top priority for organizations. Hackers are continuously finding new ways to exploit vulnerabilities and compromise systems. PowerShell, a powerful scripting language and automation framework developed by Microsoft, has unfortunately become a favored tool among attackers due to its capability to run.NET code and execute dynamic code downloaded from another system (or the internet) and execute it in memory without ever touching disk.
Modern networking relies on the public internet, which heavily uses flow-based load balancing to optimize network traffic. However, the most common network tracing tool known to engineers, traceroute, can’t accurately map load-balanced topologies. Paris traceroute was developed to solve the problem of inferring a load-balanced topology, especially over the public internet, and help engineers troubleshoot network activity over complex networks we don’t own or manage.
Learn how an on-prem application performance monitoring practice enables quick understanding of exactly how application health impacts transaction KPIs. Application users want seamless digital experiences — and they want them now. This common thread has organizations grappling with how to meet user expectations in increasingly complex application environments.
As a serverless computing service, AWS Lambda has revolutionized deployment with its pay-as-you-go model. Yet, users often grapple with unexpected costs. This guide underscores the criticality of cost optimization and prepares to unveil quintessential strategies to trim down your Lambda bills without compromising performance.
A big part of elmah.io is our clients for various web and logging frameworks. All of them are open-source, hosted on GitHub, and available as NuGet packages on nuget.org. I have blogged about building on GitHub Actions in the past. It struck me that I have never actually shared anything about the various steps we take for validating NuGet packages before pushing them. Let's fix that!
We are happy to announce that we have upgraded our Lighthouse check from v9 to the latest version, Lighthouse v11. Lighthouse is an open-source tool by Google that helps developers improve the quality of their web pages. Oh Dear can run this check frequently for your site, informing you when SEO-related problems arise. Our check may suggest optimizing images or minifying JavaScript to improve performance.
This is the last part of our 12-day Advent of Monitoring series. In this series, Checkly's engineers will share practical monitoring tips from their own experience. At Checkly, the commitment to reliability is not just a tagline; it's embedded in our DNA. As software engineers, we understand the critical importance of dogfooding—using our own product to ensure its robustness and effectiveness. This approach holds immense value, especially since Checkly is designed for observability.
The European Union’s new legislation is the first of its kind — and has global reach On December 8, 2023, the European Union made a significant step in digital governance by introducing the first set of comprehensive artificial intelligence (AI) regulations. This legislation, poised for a European Parliament vote by early 2024, is first out of the gate in regulating AI.
While tuning isn’t strictly required, Cribl Support frequently encounters users who are having trouble getting data into Stream from Splunk forwarders. More often than not, this is a performance issue that results in the forwarders getting blocked by Stream. When they encounter this situation, customers often ask: How do I get data into Stream from my Splunk forwarders as efficiently as possible? The answer is proper tuning!
Monitoring services and running processes on your server is crucial for maintaining system stability, optimizing performance, ensuring security, and making informed decisions regarding resource management and scaling strategies.
Apica ProxySniffer V5.1-C is now ready with major updates and new features. The new version has support for multiple IP-addresses, housekeeping for Exec Agents and Job Controller and Automatic Detection of Insufficient Java Memory for Load Test Jobs added and more.
As we draw the curtains on a transformative year in the realm of IT monitoring solutions, it’s a pleasure to reflect on the pivotal developments that have shaped the landscape of monitoring technologies in 2023. This year has seen remarkable strides in enhancing monitoring capabilities, and we’re thrilled to share these exciting advancements with you.
If you’ve landed on this blog, you’re likely either considering starting your OpenTelemetry journey or you are well on your way. As OpenTelemetry adoption has grown, not only within the observability community but also internally at Grafana Labs and among our users, we frequently get requests around how to best implement an OpenTelemetry strategy.
The two key pillars of building reliable applications are: testing and monitoring. With testing, you can verify that each pull request works before it’s merged and deployed to production. Just testing isn’t enough, though. You also need to make sure that the application continues to work on production. Database rollovers, third-party outages, and unexpected spikes in traffic can all cause issues that need to be detected.
Effective monitoring and observability tools are critical for modern enterprises. Daily operations, digital transformation, moving to a cloud-native architecture, and an ever-evolving tech stack all require ITOps, DevOps, and SRE teams to monitor increasingly complex systems. So what happens if your applications suddenly cease to function? Every moment of downtime translates to lost income, decreased customer satisfaction, and harm to your company’s reputation.
Ray is an open source compute framework that simplifies the scaling of AI and Python workloads for on-premise and cloud clusters. Ray integrates with popular libraries, data stores, and tools within the machine learning (ML) ecosystem, including Scikit-learn, PyTorch, and TensorFlow. This gives developers the flexibility to scale complex AI applications without making changes to their existing workflows or AI stack.
In this webinar hosted by InfluxDB and HiveMQ, we focus on how you can create value for your business using new tools in the AI and database ecosystem to quickly deploy AI models to perform tasks like anomaly detection. The webinar starts with a high-level overview of how MQTT and time series data can be valuable in an industrial IoT environment.
Black Friday and Cyber Monday this year marked a strong recovery for the retail and e-commerce sectors. Consumers were more eager to spend compared to 2022. Adobe Analytics highlights a significant jump in online sales, reaching $9.8 billion on Black Friday, up 7.5% from last year. Cyber Monday also saw an impressive rise, with sales hitting $12.4 billion, a 9.6% increase from 2022.
Did you miss our latest roundtable on AI-driven FinOps? Don’t worry, we got you! In this recap, we’ll review what our FinOps experts discussed and the key takeaways from the roundtable discussion. Not much of a reader? Watch it on demand!
One announcement that caught my attention in the EKS space during this year’s AWS re:Invent conference was the addition of the Amazon EKS Pod Identities feature. This new addition helps simplify the complexities of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) within Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). EKS Pod Identities simplify IAM credential management in EKS clusters, addressing a problematic area over the past few years as Microservice adoption has risen across the industry.
Monitoring your instance of MongoDB is important for maintaining optimal database performance, ensuring security, detecting and addressing issues promptly, and planning for future growth and scalability. Database and infrastructure monitoring allows for the early detection of potential problems such as server overload, disk space shortages, or network issues.
Monitoring your GitHub account is important for maintaining code quality, facilitating collaboration, ensuring security, enabling smooth development workflows, and improving overall project management and efficiency. This will allow you to stay updated on code changes, pull requests, issues, and comments and facilitates collaboration among team members, ensuring everyone is informed about the progress and status of your projects.
Welcome to 2024, a year where the digital landscape is not just evolving—it’s revolutionizing. In this dynamic world, particularly in the realms of tech, finance, business, and real estate, staying abreast of the latest website monitoring services trends is more than a necessity—it’s your superpower. Those beginning their journey in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and DevOps must understand these trends are the key to unlocking a world of possibilities.
Cribl Stream is awesome at routing your server logs and making your job easier, but could it help you outside of work and potentially make your personal life easier? The short answer is: Yes. I’ve personally used Stream to build a notification system to inform me when certain products go on sale or when fully booked appointments become available. In this blog, I’m going to take this a step further and show you how to.
Cloud-based database providers often provide great observability out of the box. But, what if you’re developing a tricky feature locally and need more details about what your local Clickhouse is doing? There are many options, but if you’re a numbers and graphs person like me, you’ll want to be able to view the inner workings of Clickhouse in something like Grafana.
Rollbar is acclaimed as the top error monitoring tool - with 4.5 out of 5 stars on both Capterra and G2 - amongst a competitive field. That said, we recognize there are alternatives some people consider when also looking at us. Here is our perspective on what these other tools are for, and when to choose Rollbar instead.
This is the ninth part of our 12-day Advent of Monitoring series. In this series, Checkly's engineers will share practical monitoring tips from their own experience. As a Checkly user, you’ve always had access to our two core check types: API and browser checks. API Checks are much cheaper, and therefore only run a curl-like request against the endpoint of your choice.
This recurring blog will look at specific ITOM technologies within the OpsRamp solution and general ITOM challenges. Got an idea for this blog or want to learn more about ITOM at OpsRamp?
I have spoken with many prospects and partners over the years and one of the more frequent questions I am asked is: “How do you build Custom Monitoring”. This is not an easy question to answer as there are so many variables at play, including: what type of device are you trying to monitor, what metrics are you looking for, what thresholds should trigger a warning or failure, etc.
If you have large(r) customers, there is a point where they ask you for service-level agreements, or short SLAs. These are customer contracts defining different aspects of your service and what you guarantee for them. One common agreement is around availability, or, colloquially speaking, uptime. Your contract might state, and I am not a lawyer, that you guarantee that your service (or core parts of it) is available 99.99% of the time of a given period, mostly per month, quarter, or year.
When your apps and infrastructure rely on dozens of third-party providers for key functionality, it’s important to closely track their outages. If a service you rely on goes down, you need to move quickly to limit the outage’s impact on your users. IsDown provides a detailed status page aggregator and uptime monitoring for all your third-party dependencies.
Today marks an exciting milestone at Honeycomb, and we're thrilled to share it with you. We officially launched our integration with Microsoft Teams, a step forward in our continuous effort to streamline and enhance your observability experience. Teams now joins our growing list of over 100 Honeycomb integrations.
Bundle Size matters - this is something we SDK engineers at Sentry are acutely aware of. In an ideal world, you’d get all the functionality you want with no additional bundle size - oh, wouldn’t that be nice? Sadly, in reality any feature we add to the JavaScript SDK results in additional bundle size for the SDK - there is always a trade off to be made. With Session Replay, this is especially challenging.
As we look back on 2023, Martello’s focus was squarely on the success of our customers and shared achievements with our partners. Our journey is deeply rooted in a commitment to our customers and the meaningful partnerships that propel our innovations forward. Here’s a closer look at what has defined Martello’s 2023 and the spirit of collaboration with our customers and partners that continues to shape our path.
Encountering problems with Microsoft Teams can disrupt your workflow, but don’t worry! This comprehensive guide for troubleshooting Microsoft Teams covers various common issues you might encounter while using Microsoft Teams. From connection hiccups to audio and video glitches, login errors, and notification mishaps, we’ve got you covered. in our e-book titled “Troubleshooting Microsoft Teams”: What Native Tools Can (and Can’t) Do.
Observe is a SaaS based observability tool built on Snowflake. It offers a graph-style approach to observability data, claiming that this makes it easier to correlate data in a seamless fashion. Let’s see how Observe compares to Coralogix.
Have you seen this problem? Or maybe this one? You’ve most likely seen this: Hint: they’re all the same. The first image is Sentry’s Event Details page, the second is Chrome’s Network tab, and the code snippet is what causes it. If you can answer yes to any of these, then you need to keep reading. If not, you still need to keep reading, so your future self can thank you. This is called “fetch waterfall” and it’s a common data fetching issue in React.
Monitoring your Docker environment is critical for ensuring optimal performance, security, and reliability of your containerized applications and infrastructure. It helps in maintaining a healthy and efficient environment while allowing for timely interventions and improvements. In general, monitoring any internal services or running process helps you track resource usage (CPU, memory, disk space), allowing for efficient allocation and optimization.
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At Lumigo, building developer-first tools has always been at the forefront of our approach to troubleshooting and debugging. As developers ourselves, we have experienced firsthand the frustration and intricacies of sifting through logs looking for answers. We’ve also felt the pressure of the clock ticking, with production issues waiting to be resolved and the need for timely answers to surfaced application issues.
How AppDynamics Mobile Real User Monitoring (MRUM) delivers true end-to-end visibility of your network and application data — wherever your customers are. As we gear up for the holiday season, we’re excited to unwrap a special gift for our customers — the gift of end-to-end visibility. Last summer, we announced the integration between Cisco AppDynamics and Cisco ThousandEyes to enhance Browser Real User Monitoring (BRUM) with network intelligence data.
Despite the siren song of AI in the keynotes, visitors were far more focused on solving real-world problems. These are the issues that have plagued IT practitioners for years, if not decades: troubleshooting and validating performance and availability of their applications, services, and infrastructure.
Table of contents This is the seventh part of our 12-day Advent of Monitoring series. In this series, Checkly's engineers will share practical monitoring tips from their own experience. At Checkly, we manage various scheduled jobs, some of which play a crucial role in our application's functionality, and others exist to support different teams within Checkly.
When it comes to the best cloud monitoring tools, there are various services you can rely on or choose to support your IT infrastructure. After all, cloud monitoring is critical to ensure the performance, uptime, and overall health of cloud services. Numerous teams in modern IT, SaaS, and app development companies, including DevOps, SREs, and security analysts depend on cloud monitoring solutions.
Your images are 404ing all over the place. You’ve got an angry email from a client. Their site is “broken”, images aren’t loading, cumulative layout shift is running riot, and everything is messed up. The crowds are mocking your broken code on Twitter. A fun GIF loaded via a Giphy URL no longer exists. And someone has accidentally deleted an image from the CMS.
Last week, I attended the Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference (IOCS). Gartner IOCS is my favorite conference every year because of the quality and level of the presentations. Gartner analysts deliver most sessions and put a lot of effort into the presentations and supporting research. I’d like to highlight two sessions that I found to be very informative.
Monitoring the performance of your MySQL database will help identify performance bottlenecks, inefficient queries, and resource-intensive processes. By tracking metrics like query execution times, server load, and resource usage, administrators can optimize configurations and fine-tune the database for better efficiency and speed. Additionally, monitoring any running process allows for the early detection of potential problems such as server overload, disk space shortages, or network issues.
Large Language Models (LLMs) are advanced artificial intelligence models designed to comprehend and generate human-like language. With millions or even billions of [parameters, these models, like GPT-3, excel in natural language processing, understanding context, and generating coherent and contextually relevant text across various applications.
Monitoring distributed systems means collecting data from various sources, including servers, containers, and applications. In large organizations, this data distribution makes it harder to get a single view of the performance of their entire system. OpenTelemetry helps you streamline your full-stack observability efforts by giving you a single, universal format for collecting and sending telemetry data. Thus, OpenTelemetry makes improving performance and troubleshooting issues easier for teams.
In this conversation, Cribl’s Carley Rosato talks to Aflac’s Shawn Cannon about his role as a Threat Management Consultant, and how he manages their SIEM environment, brings in new data as needed, and works to improve the ingestion process. Our customers are always coming up with new and exciting ways to implement Cribl tools — importing a 34 million-row CSV file into Redis and enriching events in Splunk might be one of the most impressive we’ve seen so far.
As per a survey by Comcast Business, around 85% of IT leaders trust AI networking tools for meeting their organization’s goals. This stat alone is enough to show how big of a role AI is playing in network monitoring. And it’s just the beginning, with rapid development in Artificial Intelligence, we might see a lot more sophisticated AI use cases for network monitoring. But how exactly does AI help in network monitoring? What its roles, benefits, challenges, and how to implement it?
Gone are the days of juggling multiple monitoring tools and piecing together fragmented data. The modern IT landscape demands a holistic approach known as unified monitoring when it comes to streamlining all your mission-critical services and vendors. Partner your business infrastructure with a status page aggregator and establish a health dashboard with all your dependencies.
In the previous installment of our series, we explored the initial findings of our comprehensive survey. Today, we continue our journey, focusing on the readiness of IT teams for remote work challenges and beyond.
We're excited to announce AppSignal support for Vector logs and metrics! AppSignal's Vector support allows you to expand your monitoring horizons beyond our standard language integrations, making it possible to leverage AppSignal to both monitor the performance and manage the logs of components of your stack that fall outside a standard application. With Vector, you can use AppSignal to monitor how your databases and Kubernetes clusters perform and metrics from many other sources.
Incidents almost never happen in a vacuum. When you receive an alert about a potential issue, odds are pretty good that you’ll need to navigate between different tools and teams to get things resolved. Of course, timing is critical in these situations, so the easier it is to communicate — between both tools and teams — the better off you’ll be.
You probably have seen ads where someone claims that their app can save you money by finding subscriptions you forgot about. I have a hard time imaging someone with $100s of dollars of expenses they forgot about, but I have had the occasional one that was missed. The problem is that people are inefficient when it comes to managing “stuff”. That is why there are so many places to store “stuff”.
In the intricate landscape of contemporary network management, comprehensive and insightful tools have never been more critical. One tool that stalwartly deciphers the complexities of network traffic is NetFlow. Developed by Cisco Systems, NetFlow is a robust protocol that serves as a cornerstone for understanding, monitoring, and optimizing the flow of data within a network.
As we continue to navigate the ongoing evolution of the observability landscape, Logz.io is constantly striving to provide our customers with the advanced platform capabilities needed to make sense of their increasingly complex environments. Sometimes that means taking a new approach to long-standing practices.
Lumigo is excited to announce its microservice troubleshooting platform now provides developers and DevOps with the power of OpenTelemetry (OTel) with a single click. Lumigo has long been the leading troubleshooting platform for serverless, but now, users can harness its best-in-class debugging and observability platform for all microservices-based environments.
Kentik now provides network insight into Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) workloads, allowing customers to map, query, and visualize OCI, hybrid, and multi-cloud traffic and performance.
We are pleased to announce that several Broadcom software products are now available on the Google Cloud Marketplace, providing Google Cloud customers with market leading value stream management and network performance monitoring capabilities via a simplified procurement process and consolidated billing with their Google Cloud account.
In today's dynamic cloud computing environment, effective monitoring of cloud services is essential. Developed in partnership with Google Cloud, Google Test Suite offers easy-to-deploy test templates to monitor your Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services.
Monitoring your network performance is important for many reasons and can help in detecting network issues such as bandwidth congestion, latency, packet loss, or hardware failures. By continuously monitoring your network, you can identify areas where improvements can be made, allowing for optimization of resources, better allocation of bandwidth, and overall enhancement of network efficiency.
Microsoft introduced new Quality of Service (QoS) monitoring rules for Microsoft Teams and their administrators. These rules empower organizations to be notified of Teams call quality issues when users are experiencing problems during audio, video, or screen sharing. This article discusses the new monitoring rules, how Exoprise can enhance the rules, and how to monitor Microsoft Teams effectively.
Virtualization and the creation of many virtual machines (VMs) within the same infrastructure was the solution organizations came up with when faced with expansive, expensive networks that needed more hardware and thus more capital expenditure to host applications. While they resolved the bigger pain points, VMs still have to be monitored as they are heavy on resource usage.
On December 8, 2023, Adobe's extensive customer base was impacted by a series of outages in the Adobe Experience Cloud, starting from 8:00 AM EST and continuing until 1:45 AM EST on December 9. We haven't seen a third-party outage of this magnitude since the DoubleClick outage of 2018.
Why shared intelligence across business, security and application performance is a pivotal growth driver — and how to achieve it. In a global application survey, 62% of consumers agreed that mobile app security protection and features are equally important. Additional research suggests brands have one shot to get it right — or risk losing 32% of their users after just one poor experience.
How do you know that your open source project has been enthusiastically adopted by the community? A) Engineers give you a raucous standing ovation when a feature is revealed. B) People form a long line to meet you at an industry event. C) Every time there is a release, social media notifications blow up your phone. If you’re Grafana founder Torkel Ödegaard, the answer is D) all of the above.
Learn how to analyze subscriber behavior using Kentik. In this post, we focus on the challenges and solutions of identifying and tracking the customers in an IP network while complying with regulations such as GDPR, show how Kentik Custom Dimensions and Data Explorer provide the analysis, and finally touch on how the associated APIs help automate and ease the entire process.
When we’re testing our apps, it's a big headache to simulate what the user goes through while steering clear of the more problematic parts of those processes. These parts, often external and beyond our control and responsibility, are usually not the focus of our testing. Think external services, third-party modules, or APIs. Relying on these unpredictable elements for our tests is a no-go. Nor do we want to rework our tests to check internal implementations just to dodge these issues.
Google Workspace is a robust set of productivity applications with billions of users and millions of paying organizations. These include small mom-and-pop shops and the largest enterprises. Google provides the Google Reports API, “a RESTful API you can use to access information about the Google Workspace activities of your users.” This data is critical for establishing a solid security posture.
Table of contents As a golden rule of building a developer tool, you should always dog-food your own product. But, how does this work with a monitoring solution 🤔? Doesn’t it create a chicken and egg problem? Checkly uses multiple tools to monitor the platform, and tools from our competitors as well. However, we still dogfood our platform heavily. I believe this is mainly due to our engineers also liking the product and finding it quite easy to monitor their features.
In today's digital-first landscape, maintaining the health and performance of your network is critical for the seamless operation of your business and its services. To that end, network observability has emerged as a key concept and discipline in ensuring the robustness and performance of networks. But what is network observability?
The adoption of AIOps monitoring technologies has been somewhat slower in EUC than many other areas of IT. The legacy VDI and DaaS vendor tools set expectations low for many. It is still relatively common for us to come across potential customers who are using legacy tools and manually exporting 6 months of data into an excel spreadsheet to try and work out average and peak usage of resources such as CPU to then manually calculate alert thresholds.
Are you relying on outdated manual methods to monitor your network? Struggling to keep up with the increasing complexity of your IT infrastructure? Being constantly reactive to network problems instead of proactive in preventing them? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you’re putting your business at risk. But don’t worry, there’s a way out — Remote Network Monitoring.
This is the fourth part of our 12-day Advent of Monitoring series. In this series, Checkly's engineers will share practical monitoring tips from their own experience. One challenge in conducting end-to-end (E2E) testing is managing the artifacts created during the process. These artifacts are necessary for asserting specific functionalities.
Five years ago today, Grafana Loki was introduced to the world on the KubeconNA 2018 stage when David Kaltschmidt, now a Senior Director of Engineering at Grafana Labs, clicked the button to make the Loki repo public live in front of the sold-out crowd. At the time, Loki was a prototype: We bolted together Grafana as a UI, Cortex internals, and Prometheus labels to find out if there was a need for a new open source tool to manage logs.
Assign items to teams as well as individual owners! We’re excited to announce a new feature for Advanced and Enterprise customers - the ability to set a team as the owner of an item. Previously, Rollbar has only allowed users to assign a specific team member as the owner of an item. However, recognizing the need for flexibility in ownership, especially in collaborative environments, we now allow a team to be set as the owner of an item.
In the US, a recurring news topic is the state of the federal budget – and if we’ll get one signed. Government budgets have hundreds of thousands of line items; each bickered over to gain or lose political capital with one group or another. However, most government budgets aren’t up for debate. Only about 30% of the US federal budget is discretionary or flexible. Nearly two-thirds, or 63%, is mandatory spending required due to prior commitments.
Data is growing, and we are being asked to search larger and larger amounts of data. This puts larger and larger demands on Search resources. Reading all the data to find matching events is muscling through the data. Wouldn’t it be more efficient to be able to do filtering before reading the data? Cribl Search does precisely that by leveraging Parquet Pushdowns.
Grab your favorite mug, fill it with some warm chocolatey goodness – it is hot cocoa season after all –, and check out our most recent product updates to Sentry.
Your website is more than just a digital storefront—it’s a vital part of your business’s infrastructure. But how do you know when it’s time to implement serious website monitoring? Here are five telltale signs that your site needs immediate attention, and why Uptime.com is your go-to solution.
This is the third part of our 12-day Advent of Monitoring series. In this series, Checkly's engineers will share practical monitoring tips from their own experience. When it comes to running self-hosted services or side projects, monitoring is key. But, who has the time to set up a complex monitoring system? We want to deliver cool software and not be busy with configuring Prometheus servers or Grafana Dashboards.
Table of contents This is the second part of our 12-day Advent of Monitoring series. In this series, Checkly's engineers will share practical monitoring tips from their own experience. We encountered a tricky issue with our public dashboards: they were experiencing sporadic outages, happening about once every two days. The infrequency and unpredictability of these outages made them particularly challenging to diagnose.
Today’s end users have little to no patience for performance issues. Jitters, slow load times, and full-blown outages can quickly lead to brand damage, lost customers, and diminished revenue. That’s why it’s essential for DevOps and engineers to be able to quickly identify and resolve issues before users ever notice them. Doing this requires collecting and analyzing massive amounts of telemetry data – metrics, traces, and logs.
Working in the cloud is certainly convenient, but the convenience comes at a price. With more and more organizations transitioning to the cloud, and a rise in preference towards cloud-native applications, hosting most, if not all the components of your business in the cloud is becoming increasingly common.
I recently delved into the idea of using labels within Prometheus to craft objects and hierarchies where none initially existed. Check out that piece here. The essence was harnessing the prowess of OTEL to achieve more, faster. The ambition? Transform these abstract virtual objects and integrate them into SquaredUp's knowledge graph, thereby unlocking the potential of data mesh and correlation.
Steadybit is a software reliability platform that uses chaos engineering and fault injection to help organizations improve the stability and performance of their applications. By allowing customers to simulate turbulent scenarios in a controlled environment, Steadybit enables you to identify and mitigate potential system issues to reduce downtime and improve resilience.
Internally, VictoriaMetrics makes heavy use of sync.Pool, a data structure built into Go’s standard library. sync.Pool is intended to store temporary, fungible objects for reuse to relieve pressure on the garbage collector. If you are familiar with free lists, you can think of sync.Pool as a data structure that allows you to implement them in a thread-safe way.
This is the first part of our 12-day Advent of Monitoring series. In this series, Checkly's engineers will share practical monitoring tips from their own experience. Hey there! Here is my take on what synthetic monitoring means and why it’s awesome! I think it’s a very complicated word for a very straightforward concept. In fact, I am convinced, that once you've used it, you will never want to live without it.
With the release of Grafana 10.2, we made a number of enhancements to Grafana Alerting. These updates included the rollout of Insights, a new section of the Grafana Alerting home page. Available now to all Grafana Cloud users, Insights offers valuable information, such as statistics on alert rules and notifications, to help you monitor alerting data and quickly analyze alert performance.
As we reflect on AWS re:Invent 2023, the Coralogix team is invigorated by the incredible response and feedback we received from the thousands of participants who visited our booth. It was clear that a recurring theme among companies is the need for an observability solution that not only scales affordably with increasing data volumes but is also at the forefront of innovation. Coralogix stands out as the ideal match for these requirements.
In the ever-evolving world of data analysis, the ability to interact directly with live API endpoints is a significant advancement for practitioners. Cribl Search now offers this capability, enhancing your data analysis toolkit. This new feature allows you to gain broader visibility into the periphery of your infrastructure, enabling a more comprehensive analysis of user journeys and operational trends.
Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world and list ways to explore these trends. This week we’re looking at four revolutionary ways IoT is transforming healthcare. The past four years have brought about a series of unprecedented events that challenged our worldview, our lifestyle, and most importantly, how we view healthcare.
In a previous blog post, we explained how containers’ CPU and memory requests can affect how they are scheduled. We also introduced some of the effects CPU and memory limits can have on applications, assuming that CPU limits were enforced by the Completely Fair Scheduler (CFS) quota. In this post, we are going to dive a bit deeper into CPU and share some general recommendations for specifying CPU requests and limits.
As applications in the cloud become more distributed and complex, the Mean Time To Resolution (MTTR) for production issues is getting longer. Modern systems are built with hundreds of distinct, ephemeral, and interconnected cloud components, which can make it exceptionally hard for engineers to understand the current state of their applications, what problems are impacting customers, and why those problems are occurring.
Years before founding Logz.io, I was a software engineer, working with various tools to ensure my products and services performed correctly. There were few tools I dreaded using more than application performance management (APM), and I know that I’m not alone. I hated traditional APM. It’s heavy. It’s hard to implement. It’s expensive. It takes a very long time to derive business value.
In the dynamic landscape of digital business, the pursuit of delivering exceptional user experiences in every digital interaction continues to be a challenge. Cisco, a pioneer in full-stack observability, announced on November 28 at AWS re:Invent the release of business metrics for Cisco Cloud Observability. Let’s delve into the revolutionary landscape that this innovation is carving for both business owners and technical users.
Tracing of “runnables” is a fairly new feature in Percepio Tracealyzer, added in v4.7.0. One of our automotive customers needed this feature to make ISO 26262 certification of their Electronic Control Unit (ECU) software easier. In order to properly allocate ECU functions to tasks and to cores, and to ensure that they meet the budgeted resources, it is useful to know execution times, response times and wait times for each task and runnable.
Most SREs and IT Ops manage Java applications without source code access or communication with AppDev teams. When applications have performance issues those SREs or IT Ops teams deploying and maintaining the infrastructure often have to prove that it is the application at fault and supply information to the app supplier which provides evidence of the issue.
Last week, I attended the Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, NV, with 50,000+ others. It was quite a busy week with several keynotes, announcements, and many sessions. While the hot topic at re:Invent was generative AI, I’ll focus my blog post on a few customer sessions I attended around observability: Stripe, Capital One, and McDonald’s.
In the realm of data and complex scenarios, we humans naturally gravitate towards visualizing things as entities with attributes, rather than just raw data. Consider the phrase, “The response time on our Ad Generation service has increased.” It immediately resonates with the audience supporting the service.
In a significant achievement in digital transformation, APICA has been honored with the prestigious Winter 2023 Intellyx Digital Innovator Award. This recognition comes from Intellyx, the pioneering analyst firm exclusively focused on digital transformation, and the trailblazing vendors spearheading this journey. The Intellyx Digital Innovator Awards are not just accolades; they are a testament to a company’s ability to stand out in an intensely competitive and innovative field.
In observability, finding the root cause of a problem is sometimes likened to finding a needle in a haystack. Considering that the problem might be visible in only a tiny fraction of millions or billions of individual traces, the task of reviewing enough traces to find the right one is daunting and often ends in failure.
In the world of data management, Cribl offers various methods to enhance data using the Lookup Function and many C.Lookup Expressions. While Cribl’s documentation is comprehensive, practical examples are often the most effective learning tools. That’s why we’ve introduced the new Lookup Examples Pack.
Around 70% of companies experienced cyberattacks in the past year. With this increase in cyberattacks, the importance of log management in IT security has also increased over the years. That’s the reason why small and enterprise businesses have started to invest in log management tools to protect their businesses from cybersecurity breaches.
In the world of software development, quickly finding and fixing errors drives better experiences for both end-users and developers. One key tool in this process is the symbol map, which records debugging information that was lost in the compilation process. Symbol maps (or source maps if we're talking JavaScript) connect the code developers write to the minified code in production, making it easier to decipher crashes by pinpointing the exact source code that caused the error.
A long time ago I worked on a project called Django Debug Toolbar (DJDT). It was a local development plugin that would give you a debug overlay within Django’s development environment, helping you diagnose things like the SQL queries being made, environment configuration, and what templates were rendered. In general, it made the local dev experience much better, helping you prevent or more easily fix things like N+1 queries.
Cloud-native developers and practitioners gathered from around the world to learn, collaborate, and network at KubeCon/CloudNativeCon North America 2023 between November 6th and 9th at McCormick Place in Chicago, IL—myself included. This wasn’t my first time attending—I’ve been coming to KubeCon since 2016—but it was easily one of the most exciting experiences I’ve had as part of the Cloud Native community.
We’re happy to announce that we now offer a free trial of our VictoriaMetrics Enterprise solution! Designed to help solve an organisation’s monitoring and observability set ups, no matter the scale, VictoriaMetrics Enterprise provides reliable, secure and cost-efficient monitoring. The free trial of VictoriaMetrics Enterprise is perfect for organisations with large data loads, for whom cost-efficient monitoring is mission-critical.
Tracealyzer version 4.8.2 has just been released. This version mainly fixes bugs, such as custom state machine models not being remembered on trace reload, and eliminates a number of compiler warnings in the Recorder source code. In addition, the update features improved streaming over UDP, and the bundled SSH library SSH.NET has been updated to the latest version. Users with a current maintenance contract can upgrade to Tracealyzer 4.8.2 from within the application, or by visiting the update page.
We're excited to share that Checkly has been named a 2023 Winter Intellyx Digital Innovator. This recognition resonates deeply with our Monitoring as Code (MaC) workflow and the values we uphold in delivering Checkly to cloud-native engineers, solving uptime and reliability challenges to ship with confidence.
The Experience Everywhere tour is a wrap, and what a tour it was! We had an incredible time meeting up with our customers, partners, and DEX practitioners from all around the world to share expertise, learn, and grow. If you couldn’t make it (or even if you could) – you can relive all the action now over on our Experience Replays. Below, we asked a few Nexthinkers to send us their thoughts on each of the four Experience locations.
Cribl Stream is a real-time security and observability data processing pipeline that can be used to collect, transform, enrich, reduce, redact, and route data from a variety of sources to a variety of destinations. One of the popular destinations for Cribl users is Elastic SIEM. This blog post will walk you through the steps on how to set up Cribl Stream to normalize and forward data to use with Elastic Security for SIEM.
This is the final article of a three-part series. To start at the beginning, read Part 1: Benefiting from multi-cluster setups requires familiarity with common variations and Part 2: Exploring the facets of a multi-cluster observability strategy. As companies scale software production, they lean on Kubernetes as a crucial container orchestration platform for managing, deploying and ensuring software availability.
This blog post by Grafana Labs Senior Software Engineer Milan Plžík was originally published on the Kubernetes.io blog on Nov. 16, 2023. There’s been quite a lot of posts suggesting that not using Kubernetes resource limits might be a fairly useful thing (for example, For the Love of God, Stop Using CPU Limits on Kubernetes or Kubernetes: Make your services faster by removing CPU limits ).
As 2023 draws to a close, we’re celebrating a full year since the release of SquaredUp Cloud – our revolutionary observability portal for product, engineering, and IT teams. In the last six months, we’ve packed in a ton of product improvements, including new visualizations, even more out-of-the-box dashboards, and a fast growing suite of pre-built plugins.
In the dynamic world of IT, traditional network monitoring approaches are no longer sufficient to manage the complexities of today’s networks—be they wired or wireless. To stay ahead of network events, IT administrators must shift from being reactive to adopting a proactive stance. This transition involves a comprehensive approach to network monitoring that includes forecasting future network requirements with the help of machine learning (ML) technology.
Exoprise supports monitoring from inside the firewall and outside the firewall. Every day, we have prospects spin up Synthetic Transaction Monitoring (STM) as part of their free trial to test tenant access and performance from one of the Exoprise public points of presence, which we refer to as public sites.
Whether or not you made the journey to this year’s re:Invent, there’s always a variety of great announcements lost amid an action-packed week of keynotes, breakouts, expo hall demos, and networking sessions. No need to worry—we’re always happy to be a big part of the re:Invent experience and share our observations with you.
On Dec. 5, 2013, Torkel Ödegaard made the first commit in GitHub for a personal project that would become Grafana. “It’s hard to believe it’s been 10 years since Torkel launched Grafana, growing from a small man with a big dream to becoming the most popular data visualization software in the world,” says Grafana Labs co-founder and CEO Raj Dutt. “The Story of Grafana” chronicles that meteoric journey.
In this blog series, we’ll explore how Cribl Stream can leverage your existing cross-domain solution (CDS) to easily collect and send your log and metric data between disparate security domains or across air-gapped networks. The goal is to retain as much fidelity of the data as possible, deduplicating processes and simplifying management efforts.
Survey results reveal the critical role of applications and digital services during the most wonderful time of the year. Research published today by Cisco reveals that consumers around the world will be using more applications and digital services over the holiday season than ever before. But seasonal goodwill will quickly turn to festive fury if applications don’t perform as they should. And some people claim they will turn into the Grinch!
ShipHero needed a robust, cost efficient observability platform to support DevOps, customer support, and more. Committed to timely service, ShipHero recognizes that the seamless performance of its software is paramount to customer satisfaction. To maintain this high standard, the development team needs the right data at their fingertips to quickly find and solve problems as they occur.
Windows is widely used by developers, businesses, and individuals alike. Renowned for its adaptability, security, and reliability, the operating system is a preferred choice for servers, desktops, and embedded devices. It also holds a significant presence in the cloud, serving as the foundation for numerous major websites and applications.
Network outages have become a dreaded reality, disrupting businesses, personal lives, and communication channels. While no network is immune to this unfortunate event, the recent Australian telecom outage serves as a stark reminder of the impact such disruptions can have. The outage, which lasted for several hours, caused nationwide disruptions to Australian businesses, essential services, and daily life.
Monitoring Microsoft 365 is crucial for maintaining a secure and efficient digital workspace. It enables real-time tracking of user activities, ensuring compliance with security protocols and identifying potential threats or anomalies. Continuous monitoring helps in the early detection of issues, preventing downtime and data loss, while also providing insights for optimizing system performance.
Monitoring VMware environments is crucial for maintaining optimal performance and ensuring seamless operations within an organization. It provides real-time visibility into the health, performance, and utilization of virtualized infrastructure, enabling proactive identification of potential issues before they impact critical systems.
Monitoring VMware environments is crucial for maintaining optimal performance and ensuring seamless operations within an organization. It provides real-time visibility into the health, performance, and utilization of virtualized infrastructure, enabling proactive identification of potential issues before they impact critical systems.
Monitoring Oracle databases is crucial for maintaining optimal performance, identifying potential issues, and ensuring data integrity within an organization. It allows real-time tracking of database health, performance metrics, and resource utilization, enabling timely interventions to prevent downtime or performance bottlenecks. Additionally, monitoring helps in detecting and addressing security threats, ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations.
Werner Vogel’s keynote is usually the highlight of re:Invent and 2023 is no different. Although there were no noteworthy service announcements, Werner gave a timely reminder that cost is an important non-functional requirement and that we should all strive to be a frugal architect.
Now that we’ve had time to decompress from KubeCon, we wanted to do a writeup about our collective experience. Six of us spoke at the conference and Charity participated in a panel, so we included short talk recaps.
Gartner recently held their annual IT Symposium/Xpo in Orlando and Barcelona, respectively. We attended both events, a jam-packed four days of learning, dynamic conversations, and innovative sessions. It was great showcasing our latest capabilities, reconnecting with our clients, and witnessing first-hand the demand for Internet resilience within the broader community.
While we built Grafana Loki as an open source log aggregation system that is cost effective and easy to operate, let’s face it: sometimes there is no time or bandwidth to mess around with self-managing and self-hosting. Luckily there’s the fully managed Grafana Cloud observability stack for log management. “Grafana Cloud is a no-BS platform. The engineering costs of hosting it ourselves would be much higher," says Jameel Al-Aziz, a software architect at Paradigm.
Event. Alert. Incident. These terms are bandied about, often interchangeably, in IT operations management. Broadly speaking, they all refer to situations where something is potentially amiss and needs to be investigated and resolved. Each of these three words does, however, have a distinct definition. Because they are used in scenarios where clear communication and timeliness are critical, it’s important to understand the differences and use them appropriately.
TrackJS started ten years ago. To date, the only funding TrackJS ever received was the initial founder investment of $4,500 dollars (a whopping $1,500 per founder). Today, you’d call us a “bootstrapped” business. We’re proud of that fact. It means there’s no outside investors. No one to make us build a product we don’t want to build. And no one that can pull the plug if the growth chart doesn’t look like a hockey stick.
Apica’s Ascent has achieved remarkable results in the 2023 Application Performance Management Data Quadrant Report published by SoftwareReviews, a notable source for insights on the software provider landscape. The report gathers extensive customer experience data from business and IT professionals, offering detailed and authentic insights into the experience of evaluating and purchasing enterprise software.
Your device pings, signaling another tech alert. Before you can address it, two more chime in. We all know the feeling. In today’s digital world, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the sheer number of notifications we receive. But what if there was a smarter way to handle them?
In the world of nonprofits, every interaction, every donation, and every piece of content delivered serves a mission. Your website isn’t just a portal—it’s a lifeline connecting needs to solutions, dreams to reality, and intentions to impacts. However, like a capricious trickster, downtime slinks around corners, ready to sever those connections in an unanticipated moment.
The pandemic has made Unified Communications and Collaboration (UCC) Platforms like Microsoft Teams essential for remote work. As organizations rely on Teams (and similar applications) for meetings, user experience becomes critical. Many DEM solutions promise effective Microsoft Teams monitoring. However, many such solutions lack data acquisition to measure and quantify results. Many DEM tools struggle with the nomadic nature of work today and can't capture or partition metrics depending on where employees work; hybrid, at home, or at the corporate HQ. This article assesses the effectiveness of performance monitoring compared to other solutions.
Circles X uses DORA DevOps best practices to build the first telco-as-a-service in Indonesia, helping partners to launch a digital telco.
In today’s hybrid cloud era, the volume and diversity of log data have exploded, which makes managing them ever so challenging. IT teams need to conquer the gush of logs by providing context whilst having an effective log management strategy. Without a powerful log management solution, it all becomes too cumbersome. And even if you do get your hand around a good log management platform, you’ll find yourself stuck with hefty licensing costs and impractical compliance issues.
So you’ve taken a look at the core web vitals for your site and… it’s not looking good. You’re overwhelmed, and you don’t know what change to make because everything seems like too big of a project to make a real difference. There are so many measurements to keep track of and the standards cited seem even scarier. This is extremely normal. Web performance standards can feel impossible to meet for a lot of us.
Recently, I sat down with Adelaide O’Brien, research vice president at IDC Government Insights, to discuss the current and future state of generative AI in the public sector worldwide. The full conversation is available to view on demand, but I also wanted to highlight some of the takeaways from the discussion.
In the following comparison table, we will provide you with an extensive guide designed to enable a detailed assessment of Cassandra and OpenSearch. This comparison aims to supply an in-depth exploration of multiple aspects of these two database systems, providing you with the insights required to make informed decisions tailored to your specific use case.
Grafana Cloud constantly evolves to include new, cutting-edge features for end-to-end observability. In fact, just last month at ObservabilityCON 2023, we made a number of updates to our fully managed observability platform, including the general availability of Grafana Cloud Application Observability, Grafana SLO, and Adaptive Metrics.
The big data landscape is always changing to solve existing problems and continues to push the boundaries of performance and scale. Data lakehouses are a new architectural pattern that is rapidly gaining popularity by solving a variety of problems seen with previous solutions like data warehouses and data lakes. In this article, you will learn the following.
Transunion is an American consumer credit reporting agency that operates in over 30 countries. They use Cribl Stream to aggregate and route regional data into a centralized hub, presenting it in a single dashboard that admins can use to interpret the overall health of their system. Watch the full video on YouTube or below to see Transunion’s Steve Koelpin and Don Reilly walk through this use case.
