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April 2024
Real-time, continuous DevOps monitoring: Why it matters and how to go about it
Flawless software performance and reliability are paramount for organizations to achieve success in the form of business value. To ensure this, real-time, continuous monitoring of development and operations (DevOps) pipelines has become more than just a formality for DevOps teams. In this blog, we’ll look at why DevOps monitoring has become a prominent part of IT engineering, exploring its benefits for DevOps practices and outlining practical strategies for successful implementation.
5 Ways DevOps Consulting Services Accelerates Your Product Lifecycle
DevOps consulting services enable companies to accelerate their product development. We'll explore how partnering with experienced DevOps consultants will help your product lifecycle.
The State of the Industry With Security Expert Matt Johansen
In this livestream, I talked to security expert Matt Johansen, a computer security veteran who has helped defend everyone from startups to the largest financial companies in the world. We talked about the current state of cybersecurity, why attacks are on the rise, and what can be done to prevent threats in the future. Matt’s blog covers the latest news in cybersecurity and also touches on mental health and personal growth for tech professionals.
Webex integration
Introducing the latest addition to our ever-expanding family of chat integrations: Webex. You asked for it, and we’ve delivered! If your team relies on Webex as one of its primary communication channels, you can now seamlessly connect StatusGator to your Webex account. By doing so, you’ll receive instant status change notifications directly within your Webex environment, ensuring that your team stays informed and up-to-date on any changes affecting your monitored services.
3 Ways Site Uptime Monitoring Boosts SEO
About 25 years ago, if someone told you to “Google” something, you’d probably smile, nod politely, and walk (or perhaps run) away. But now, Googling is the unofficial international pastime.
This Month in Datadog: Bits AI for Incident Management, KSPM, New Observability Pipelines, 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. To learn more about Datadog and start a free 14-day trial, visit Cloud Monitoring as a Service | Datadog. This month, we put the Spotlight on Bits AI for Incident Management.
Organizing your Grafana k6 performance testing suite: Best practices to get started
In 2017, we open sourced Grafana k6 and made its first beta available to everyone. This wasn’t our first rodeo — k6 marked the third load testing tool our team had developed over a decade. We had recognized the gaps in existing solutions, as well as the barriers that were hindering adoption in the developer community. The plan was simple yet ambitious: let’s build a tool developers actually enjoy using and that helps engineering teams build more reliable software.
Navigating the Complexities of Hybrid and Multi-cloud Environments
Today’s evolving digital landscape requires both hybrid cloud and multi-cloud strategies to drive efficiency, innovation, and scalability. But this means more complexity and a unique set of challenges for network and cloud engineers, particularly when it comes to managing and gaining visibility across these environments.
From chaos to clarity: Using NetFlow analysis for efficient network management
Analyzing network traffic data can quickly descend into chaos due to the increasing number of devices and applications in organizations, making it difficult to untangle the complexity manually. Many organizations now use network traffic analyzers to streamline this process. But what exactly is a network traffic analyzer, and how can it help with effective network management? Let's explore this in detail.
Prioritize Internet Performance Monitoring, Urges EMA
“Internet Performance Monitoring solutions close the observability gap…” states Enterprise Management Associates in its new White Paper, Modern Enterprises Must Boost Observability with Internet Performance Monitoring. How? “…By providing visibility into global Internet performance and reporting on how that performance impacts application performance and end-user experience.”
The Final Frontier: Using InfluxDB on the International Space Station
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) conducts long-duration missions of fundamental physics research on board the International Space Station (ISS). Its research includes searching for antimatter, investigating dark matter, and analyzing cosmic rays. The AMS collected over 200 billion cosmic ray events since its installation in 2011. Scientists at CERN Payload Operations and Control Center (POCC) in Geneva and the AMS Asia POCC study data from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer around the clock.
ScienceLogic in Action: Real World Examples of IT Operations Optimization
It’s one thing to conceptualize a solution to streamline and automate IT operations in modern hybrid cloud environments, but it’s another entirely to build a platform that stands up to the genuine rigors of real-world large enterprise use cases. With the ScienceLogic SL1 platform for IT operations monitoring and management, we deliver the right combination of capabilities and features designed to work together seamlessly at scale, not in abstract, in real time.
The Modern SOC Platform
On April 24, 2024, Francis Odum, released his research report titled, “The Evolution of the Modern Security Data Platform” in The Software Analyst Newsletter. This report examines the evolution of modern security operations, tracing its evolution from a reactive approach to a proactive approach. It highlights the shift towards automation, threat intelligence integration, and controlling the costs of ingesting and storing data as crucial elements in enhancing cyber defense strategies.
Optimizing Cloud Center Resource Utilization with Network Monitoring
Cloud computing has completely changed the way businesses operate nowadays. Businesses can now seamlessly scale their operations thanks to Cloud computing’s scalable and flexible features. With the help of cloud computing technology, businesses can easily adapt to changing demands and manage complex operations without any hassle. But in order to process, store, and provide services, the entire cloud computing process demands access to a variety of data center resources.
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Unlock your potential with the Avantra certified training sessions in 2024
At Avantra, we believe in empowering our customers to make the most of their digital transformation journey. In line with our commitment to provide you with the tools and knowledge you need to succeed, we are excited to announce not one, but two exclusive 4 day automation training sessions in 2024! Frankfurt, Germany - January 15th to 18th, 2024 USA - middle of the year (Specific dates to be announced)
How Mezmo Used Telemetry Pipeline to Handle Metrics
This is going to be the first of at least two posts about how we, in the Mezmo platform team, use Pipeline to handle metrics. It’s an ongoing effort and everything might change as we move forward and learn, but this is our plan and vision.
Overview of Check Types
This video is an overview of all the check types we have on offer at Uptime.com.
Using Visual Regression checks to Make Sure You Never Miss a Problem on Production
This webinar introduces an approach to visual regression monitoring, utilizing Playwright and Checkly. Playwright, an open-source end-to-end testing framework supported by Microsoft, enables you to simulate complex paths through your site. Checkly, which uses playwright to create synthetic service monitors, enables the execution of visual regression tests at regular intervals. This combination alerts developers to potential interface problems before they become visible to users.
Monitoring IGEL Endpoint Deployments with eG Enterprise
eG Innovations has joined the new IGEL Ready program as a technology partner. IGEL Ready opens up the company’s core enterprise software for tech companies like eG Innovations to integrate and validate its products, driving business growth and flexible access to enterprise applications for mutual customers of eG Innovations and IGEL.
Leveraging Log Monitoring for Superior SaaS Performance
The combination of cost-effectiveness, scalability, accessibility, rapid deployment, and focus on core competencies has fueled the growth of Software as a Service (SaaS) applications, making them increasingly popular among businesses of all sizes and industries. However, because of this increased dependency on SaaS applications, it has become essential to conduct effective monitoring.
Log-based search and alert queries for syslog monitoring
Syslog entries offer crucial information about the health and status of various components within a system or network. Administrators can utilize syslog data to monitor system activities, identify anomalies, and take proactive measures to ensure system stability and security. In this blog, we'll share a few useful queries for monitoring syslog using Site24x7's log management features. These queries are meant to improve network visibility and simplify troubleshooting.
Simulation Theory, Observability, and Modern Software Practices
The 1981 book Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard is widely read and cited within academic circles but also permeates popular culture, influencing films, literature, and art. His theories notably influenced the Wachowski siblings' The Matrix series, bringing some of his ideas into mainstream awareness.
PTO peace of mind: Sync Grafana OnCall with Google Calendar out-of-office events
Sometimes, the little things can make a big difference. We’ve added a new feature in Grafana Incident & Response Management (IRM) that lets you sync your Google Calendar out-of-office events with Grafana OnCall.
From the Edge to the Cloud - How HPE and OpsRamp Can Help Power & Manage Your Hybrid IT Estate
You may have heard the phrase “from the edge to the cloud” but what does it really mean, how can your organization take advantage of it, and how can HPE and OpsRamp, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, help? Edge to cloud refers to the fact that enterprise data is no longer confined to the traditional data center. It is being generated and processed at the edge in ever-increasing amounts, then stored in the cloud, and used by an increasingly distributed global workforce.
Back to the Future: The R-C-A of alerting
Dissecting the RCA of Alerting - Reliability, Correlations, Actionability.
Universal Monitoring Agent: A Powerful, Flexible and Innovative Approach to Monitor Modern Apps
With the advent of microservices and cloud native, organizations are shifting how they approach software development and deployment to become more agile and respond quickly to continually evolving business needs. These changes result in fundamental transformation for IT.
Best practices for monitoring managed ML platforms
Machine learning (ML) platforms such as Amazon Sagemaker, Azure Machine Learning, and Google Vertex AI are fully managed services that enable data scientists and engineers to easily build, train, and deploy ML models. Common use cases for ML platforms include natural language processing (NLP) models for text analysis and chatbots, personalized recommendation systems for e-commerce web applications and streaming services, and predictive business analytics.
Optimize Dell ECS Storage Performance with Flowmon Network Performance Monitoring
Gain insights into how Dell ECS and Progress Flowmon partnership enhances performance and enables quick root cause analysis. Watch now for a short demo example for practical insights.
How Dell ISG Consolidated Observability Tooling Without Losing Functionality | Grafana Customer
In this recorded session, Brian Murphy, Technical StafF SRE at Dell Technologies shares how his team, Dell ISG consolidated Observability tooling without losing functionality using Grafana Cloud. The ISG team own “Northstar Tooling” which consists of Artifactory, Github Enterprise, Jenkins, and more. They also They also manage the Internal Cloud and k8s clusters, as well as all the hardware and networking that goes with it.
Why the internet is unreliable and how can you track ISP bottlenecks
The internet serves as the backbone for communication, collaboration, and access to information in today’s digital world. However, despite its widespread use and importance, the internet is not immune to reliability issues. From occasional slowdowns to complete outages, internet users often encounter disruptions that can impact their productivity and connectivity. Several factors contribute to internet unreliability.
Boost application speed by monitoring key Redis cache metrics
With users today expecting speed, reliability, and responsiveness from every application they use, the delivery of seamless experiences across various platforms becomes essential for organizations. Caching solutions like Redis play a vital role in these ecosystems by storing frequently accessed data in memory, reducing the need to retrieve it from slower back-end systems, such as databases.
How To Automate The Continuity Of Your Configuration Manager (SCCM) Client Health With Nexthink Flow
Devices without a Configuration Manager (SCCM) client present or functioning properly represent significant compliance issues. In addition, detecting, troubleshooting, and remediating the root cause of broken clients can be a lengthy process for support agents. When the client goes dark, support agents are often unaware of the issue until a ticket is raised.
Your Guide to Network Capacity Planning: Definitions, Benefits & Best Practices
In the ever-evolving landscape of digital connectivity, businesses face a relentless demand for faster, more reliable networks. Whether it’s the surge in remote work, the proliferation of devices that can connect to the internet, or the exponential growth of data-intensive applications, the strain on network infrastructure is ever-growing. In this era where every byte counts, network capacity planning emerges as a critical strategy for organizations seeking to stay ahead in the digital race.
Maximizing Efficiency: Understanding How Often Printer Ink Cartridges Should Be Replaced
The longevity and efficiency of printer ink cartridges play a pivotal role in determining the overall cost-effectiveness and productivity of printing operations. However, determining the optimal replacement frequency for ink cartridges can be a nuanced task, influenced by various factors ranging from printing frequency to cartridge type and environmental conditions.
Explore the Best StatusGator Alternative: IsDown
Are you searching for a reliable StatusGator alternative? Welcome to IsDown, your premier choice for status page aggregation! Unlike simply comparing features, we invite you to experience the distinct advantages of IsDown firsthand, tailored to your unique requirements.
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The journey to observability delivers benefits for the entire the IT department
Across all industries, IT departments are moving from traditional application monitoring approaches towards full-stack observability. Rapid adoption of cloud native technologies has led to spiraling complexity and exposed the limitations of the Application Performance Management (APM) tools being deployed by IT teams.
The Ultimate Guide to Developing Your Business in a New Market
Expanding your business into a new market can be an exhilarating yet challenging endeavor. Whether you're a startup looking to broaden your reach or an established company seeking growth opportunities, venturing into new territories requires careful planning, strategic decision-making, and adaptability to varying market dynamics. In this comprehensive guide, we'll delve into the essential steps and considerations for successfully developing your business in a new market.
Cisco announces standalone Secure Application, offering increased flexibility to security teams
Cisco's Secure Application is now available as an independent application on the Cisco Observability Platform and can be deployed with or without Cisco Cloud Observability. This announcement increases the flexibility offered to IT professionals and allows in house security teams to harness powerful security capabilities without committing to cloud native application performance monitoring.
How to Improve Network Performance & Unleash its Full Potential
In this age of rapid technological advancement, businesses rely heavily on their networks to thrive in the digital landscape. Whether you're a startup, a small enterprise, or a multinational corporation, the efficiency and speed of your network can make all the difference in achieving success or getting lost in the digital abyss.
OpenTelemetry Looks Good To Me: Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir | GrafanaCON 2024 | Grafana
In this talk, D-EDGE Principal Engineer Clément Boudereau introduces you to Loki for logs, Tempo for traces, and Mimir for metrics by using two simple Java applications, OpenTelemetry, and Grafana dashboards. Helpful links:☁️ Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more. We also have plans for every use case.
A Product Manager's Insights from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024
I recently had the privilege of attending KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024 in Paris. The conference, hosted by the Linux Foundation, marked the 10th anniversary of Kubernetes. Here are the key takeaways and highlights from the conference.
Datadog vs. New Relic: 2024 Comparison
If you're working in IT monitoring and observability, you simply cannot ignore the power of Datadog and New Relic. These two tools have plenty of features that can revolutionize your entire observability strategy and give you complete control over your infrastructure. These tools are built so as to capture the tiniest of details, be it on applications, infrastructure, databases, servers, or something completely on the cloud.
Workshop: Using AI powered Autofix to fix your broken code
Join this session to learn how we are making Sentry smart(er) with artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML). In addition to previewing Autofix, we’ll share how we are using ML to better prioritize issues and alerts.
5 Best IT Monitoring Software
IT monitoring software tracks the operations and activities of your end users and any software in your IT environment. IT experts use this specific type of software to determine the health and performance of your IT infrastructure and its components so that you can make well-informed and real-time decisions for resource provisioning and IT security. You may be researching the best IT monitoring software on the market today but don’t know where to start. That’s where we come in.
API Monitoring
API monitoring is crucial for the health of your digital services. This article goes straight to the heart of it, addressing the tools, strategies, and metrics essential in spotting and solving API issues quickly. Learn to maintain and enhance the performance of your APIs, prevent downtime, and improve user experiences through effective monitoring techniques.
Best practices for monitoring ML models in production
Regardless of how much effort teams put into developing, training, and evaluating ML models before they deploy, their functionality inevitably degrades over time due to several factors. Unlike with conventional applications, even subtle trends in the production environment a model operates in can radically alter its behavior. This is especially true of more advanced models that use deep learning and other non-deterministic techniques.
An overview of ManageEngine Site24x7: AI-powered observability platform for DevOps and IT operations
Here is a quick overview of ManageEngine Site24x7. The cloud-based platform’s broad capabilities help predict, analyze, and troubleshoot problems with end-user experience, applications, microservices, servers, containers, multi-cloud, and network infrastructure, all from a single console.
Webinar Recap: Mastering Telemetry Pipelines - A DevOps Lifecycle Approach to Data Management
In our webinar, Mastering Telemetry Pipelines: A DevOps Lifecycle Approach to Data Management, hosted by Mezmo’s Bill Balnave, VP of Technical Services, and Bill Meyer, Principal Solutions Engineer, we showcased a unique data-engineering approach to telemetry data management that comprises three phases: Understand, Optimize, and Respond.
Availability Zones: The Complete Guide for 2024
During the early periods of cloud computing, most organizations used single-location data centers. These single-location data centers often faced higher risks of downtime and service disruption due to localized disasters or hardware failures. As a solution to these problems, cloud services like AWS introduced the concept of availability zones. This introduction was an important milestone in the evolution of cloud computing, as it facilitated high availability through geographic distribution.
Resource Availability Monitoring with Turbo360
In the ever-evolving landscape of cloud computing, Azure stands out as a powerhouse for businesses seeking scalable, reliable, and efficient solutions. One of the fundamental aspects of Azure’s appeal is its vast array of resources catering to diverse needs. Azure offers a rich ecosystem of resources, ranging from virtual machines (VMs) and storage accounts to databases, networking components, and beyond.
Simplifying Data Management in the Cloud: How Cribl and AWS' Strategic Collaboration Agreement Benefits Customers
Without collaborations between organizations, the tech industry wouldn’t be where it is today. Customer expectations and needs don’t exist in a silo. They need their tools to work together to solve problems and deliver value regardless of the vendor. With data growth at a 28% CAGR and cybersecurity threats on the rise, customers need their entire suite of tools working for them in a cohesive manner.
Understanding AWS NAT Gateway: Key Features & Cost Optimization
Network Address Translation Gateway or NAT Gateway is a managed service provided by Amazon Web Services(AWS) that allows instances in a private Subnet within a Virtual Private Cloud(VPC) to connect services outside the VPC. NAT ensures that even though your instances can connect to the outside world, outside services can’t establish a direct connection with them. It’s a tool that secures the instances, simplifies network architecture, and reduces administrative overhead.
April 2024: New Mattermost & Telegram bot integrations, and sponsorship for non-profits
What’s the most important integration? It’s the one that sends you immediate alerts when your attention is needed! As promised in our 2023 wrap-up, we’ve been continuously enhancing both our service and new web app by developing new features and updating our integrations. In addition, we’ve prepared a special offer for non-profit and charitable organizations.
Consolidate Tools and Solve Enterprise Tech Sprawl with ScienceLogic SL1
The proliferating array of technology tools within many organizations today can make it exceedingly difficult to get true visibility and insight into the IT estate. Amid this tech sprawl, teams find themselves siloed and struggle to monitor and manage diverse tool sets across the enterprise – a state of affairs that increases both costs and complexity while limiting the ability to accurately assess, optimize, and enhance operations.
The Five Ways OpsRamp Can Manage Your Virtualization Environment and Hybrid IT Landscape
In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, efficient management of virtualized environments is crucial for businesses to maintain operational excellence and a competitive advantage. These virtualized environments are the foundation of most private cloud initiatives. OpsRamp, a leading provider of digital operations management solutions and a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, offers a comprehensive set of capabilities tailored to streamline virtualization management.
ZenOps & StackState Partner for Kubernetes Observability Solution in France
ZenOps and StackState announce a partnership for the distribution in France of StackState solutions for Kubernetes problem detection and resolution, observability of containerized environments and application performance management. ZenOps will be able to offer these solutions to enterprises and the public sector, drawing on its technical expertise in cloud-native approaches and providing first-level support.
Prometheus Basics in 143 Seconds
In this video, we cover the key the basics of Prometheus Monitoring in 143 seconds. This video was brought to you by PagerTree. On-Call. Simplified.
Build vs. Buy: How To Decide on Software
To buy or to build... that is the question businesses must ask when deciding to buy off-the-shelf software or create custom software to satisfy their business needs. Deciding whether to buy off-the-shelf software or create custom software is a lot like choosing between a ready-made meal and cooking a meal from scratch. It's a big decision for any business (or hungry person). Let's imagine we're planning dinner...
Enhancing Cloud Center Cost Efficiency through Network Monitoring
Today, almost 90% of organizations use cloud computing services to reduce their operating expenses and scale with changing business requirements. With the adoption of cloud computing technology, businesses are able to operate better and more efficiently. However, the whole process of cloud computing demands access to a wide range of data center resources for processing, storing, and providing services. This requirement can indirectly affect our cloud computing expenses.
Observability for Everyone
What do you need to achieve observability? Who you ask and the role they hold will influence the answer, but the answer likely follows this pattern: “You only need is how you define observability.” I cannot disagree with this logic. A specific use case may only need a specific type of telemetry. Experience and expertise allow engineers to quickly answer questions about a system without expanding into adjacent data types.
How to narrow and chain your Playwright locators
Locating elements in your end-to-end tests can sometimes be a challenge. In this video, we tackle the problem of hard-to-locate elements by chaining multiple locators using `locator().and()`. By chaining locators you'll be able to combine user-first locators with specific locators reaching for a test id or CSS class.
The Top 10 Most Common Website Monitoring Mistakes (and How to Avoid Them)
Websites are the digital storefronts for your business. If your website goes down, you risk losing out on customers, sales, and opportunities in general (not to mention what it can do for your reputation). That’s why using a website monitoring tool is crucial. Done properly, it gives you a vigilant eye on your site’s health, alerting you to problems before they snowball into major delays. But… website monitoring is deceptively tricky to get right.
New AIX and Linux Monitoring Features on Microsoft SCOM and Azure
We’re thrilled to announce the latest releases of the NiCE Linux Power Management Pack and the NiCE AIX Management Pack for Microsoft SCOM and Azure Monitor SCOM MI, packed with exciting new features and enhancements to bolster your monitoring experience across Linux and AIX environments. Our team has been hard at work to ensure seamless compatibility, robust performance, and enhanced security across both platforms, and we’re excited to share what’s new.
From bottlenecks to breakthrough: The impact of closed-loop remediation
The economy and businesses closely rely on network infrastructures functioning efficiently. Minor network bottlenecks and snags can cost companies a good chunk of money and negatively affect their reputation. When there is so much to lose, the natural reaction of organizations is to throw more people and, in turn, more money at the problem.
Hybrid Observability for health and life sciences: Top 6 challenges and how monitoring can help
As the healthcare industry has introduced more complex IT infrastructure, it now faces many challenges as it strives to deliver high-quality services to patients. From adapting to remote work and telemedicine to resource constraints, healthcare organizations must continually adapt to new technologies. Some of the nascent technologies, like remote triage of patients, telemedicine, and IoT, have all seen an acceleration in innovation as the industry pivots to visit patients remotely.
Spain's top insurance giant, Mutua Madrileña, counts on Icinga
We take pride in our diverse range of customers and users worldwide who trust Icinga for their monitoring needs. That’s why we’re showcasing some of these enterprises with their Success stories. It’s stories from companies or organizations just like yours, of any size and different kinds of industries.
KubeCon Europe 2024: Highlights from Paris
KubeCon Europe 2024 in Paris was the biggest event of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) to date. With over 12,000 participants, it was a monumental event, setting the stage for the latest trends and developments in cloud-native computing. As your loyal CNCF Ambassador, I’m here to share some of the important updates you don’t want to miss. I also invited fellow CNCF Ambassador Thomas Schuetz to join me with his own insights.
Top 10 Docker Container Monitoring Tools
Monitoring tools are critical for DevOps, enabling them to quickly find and rectify performance issues. With the increasing popularity of Docker, it has become crucial that organizations can effectively monitor these containers. But, as monitoring Docker containers is particularly complex, developing a strategy and an appropriate monitoring system is not simple. However, this process can be streamlined by utilizing a Docker monitoring tool.
Launching Alert Studio
Modern monitoring systems depend heavily on ‘Alerting’ to reduce the Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) faulty systems. But, alerting hasn’t evolved to meet the demands of modern architectures. We’re changing that with Alert Studio.
How to use the Grafana Operator: Managing a Grafana Cloud stack in Kubernetes
When deploying an application using Kubernetes, you get used to all your resources being manageable by describing them to the Kubernetes API. Whether it’s deployments, secrets, configurations, or entire machines, everything exists as code somewhere. Introducing a cloud service into such an environment often means introducing additional ways to configure it, which can become cumbersome, given the rising number of cloud services modern applications depend on.
Google Announces Broadcom as Partner of the Year for Infrastructure: Networking
As part of the Google Cloud Next ‘24 conference this year, Broadcom has been named a Google Cloud Partners Awards winner in the Technology category, specifically for Infrastructure - Networking. This award recognizes a winning combination of technologies to deliver innovative solutions in the network space.
Bridging the IT-business comms gap comes down to this one word: Ask
A highlight of the SRE Report is the insightful analysis based on the organizational ranks of respondents. The 2023 installment exposed significant misalignment between practitioners and management in several key areas, including the benefits of AIOps, the challenge of tool sprawl, and attitudes towards blamelessness. While the 2024 SRE Report showed a rare consensus on the importance of monitoring external endpoints, it uncovered yet more ongoing differences. Let’s dive in.
Why don't we talk about minifying CSS anymore?
Minifying your CSS helps improve your website performance. But as developers, we don’t really talk about minifying CSS anymore. Why? The TL;DR is that the delivery and optimization of CSS have both been improved with modern tech stacks, making it practically a non-issue. The efficient and performant delivery of CSS is largely solved by HTTP/2 and modern compression algorithms, whilst modern front end frameworks take care of the boring optimization jobs such as code-splitting and minification.
When Code Breaks, Fix it Faster with Sentry
See why 4M developers consider Sentry “not bad”. Get the context you need when your code breaks. See the environment, OS, device, and commit that introduced an error, and what’s causing slowdowns in your application, down to the broken line of code.
How Lack of Knowledge Among Teams Impacts Observability
Without a doubt, you’ve heard about the persistent talent gap that has troubled the technology sector in recent years. It’s a problem that isn’t going away, plaguing everyone from engineering teams to IT security pros, and if you work in the industry today you’ve likely experienced it somewhere within your own teams. Despite major changes in the tech landscape, it is clear that organizations are still having significant difficulty keeping their technical talent in-house.
The All New Performance Insights for Splunk
Splunk gives you amazing tools to analyze system data and make business-critical decisions, react to issues, and even proactively address future problems. And since it is so good at those things, it’s not surprising that there are myriad tools to help you reflexively analyze your own Splunk deployment.
NMS Migration Made Easy: Get Stakeholders Aligned
Migrating network monitoring solutions is more than just a list of devices and technical requirements. It’s also about ensuring that all stakeholders are aligned - from team members to customers and everyone in between.
Profiling Vs Tracing in OpenTelemetry
When OpenTelemetry first came into the picture with the merger of OpenCensus and OpenTracing in 2019, it was pretty much all about classic telemetry data, namely- logs, metrics, and traces. Since then, OpenTelemetry has become an indispensable tool in the modern observability landscape. With frequent integrations and introduction to new capabilities every year or so, it has poised itself as an invaluable tool for cloud enterprises.
Mastering Observability with OpenSearch: A Comprehensive Guide
Observability is the ability to understand the internal workings of a system by measuring and tracking its external outputs. In technical terms, it entails collecting and examining data from numerous sources within a system to attain insights into its behavior, performance, and health. All organizations are now familiar with how essential observability is to ensure optimal performance and availability of their IT infrastructure.
Navigating the Mainframe Logging Maze: Insights for the Modern IT Professional
Mainframes might seem like relics of a bygone era to many of us in 2024, but the truth, however, is far from that. Despite their reputation as ancient behemoths—and frequent targets of jokes—mainframes continue to be vital powerhouses driving the global economy. Their capability to process billions of transactions daily, including the majority of credit card transactions, underscores their enduring significance.
Datadog Pricing Explained: A 2024 Guide
In today’s fast-paced cloud environment, understanding the pricing model of some of the best cloud monitoring tools like Datadog is essential in optimizing costs. With several features and adaptable pricing, clarifying Datadog costs and aligning them with your organization’s operational needs is vital for fully harnessing this robust monitoring tool. This guide simplifies Datadog pricing, offering a clear overview of its cost structure.
How to automatically find unattached Azure VM disks to reduce cost
Many articles that you may find on the web discuss the importance of reducing Azure costs by identifying and removing unused resources. Still, they often fall short of providing practical methods to achieve this. However, Turbo360 has introduced a new feature that simplifies identifying idle or unattached Azure VM disks, eliminating the need for complex queries or PowerShell scripts.
Using Multi-factor Authentication with WhatsUp Gold
Watch this video to learn how to can implement multi-factor authentication in WhatsUp Gold by leveraging an external OpenID provider.
The loser tree data structure: How to optimize merges and make your programs run faster
“Okay,” said Bryan Boreham, distinguished engineer at Grafana Labs, as he took to the stage at GopherCon 2023 in September. “Who loves algorithms?” A room full of software engineers raised their hands in response — and with that, Bryan kicked off his talk at the annual event dedicated to the Go open source programming language. GopherCon 2023, which took place in San Diego, Calif.
Monitoring Policies: Network Rules
AppNeta by Broadcom recently introduced monitoring policies that streamline monitoring setup and maintenance, significantly reducing the time needed to manage your monitoring. AppNeta is now introducing a range of new network rules in monitoring policies. These rules extend monitoring policies and make it simple to select the networks that should be monitored. This update is designed to further simplify your ongoing operations, particularly in managing dynamic, diverse networks.
Unlock the Potential of Digital Government: How Agencies Can Improve Citizen Access to Digital Services
Government agencies are embracing digital modernization to transform the delivery of public services and reimagine the constituent experience. Recent research shows that citizens have a clear preference for engaging with government through websites and mobile applications over in-person or telephone interactions, just as the experience in their everyday life as commercial consumers – creating a win-win for governments and constituents.
Elastic Universal Profiling: Delivering performance improvements and reduced costs
In today's age of cloud services and SaaS platforms, continuous improvement isn't just a goal — it's a necessity. Here at Elastic, we're always on the lookout for ways to fine-tune our systems, be it our internal tools or the Elastic Cloud service. Our recent investigation in performance optimization within our Elastic Cloud QA environment, guided by Elastic Universal Profiling, is a great example of how we turn data into actionable insights.
Kubernetes Monitoring: Best Practices and Essential Tools
As Kubernetes adoption continues to surge across various industries, the need for robust monitoring solutions is more critical than ever. Effective Kubernetes monitoring not only ensures the health and performance of your containerized applications but also provides valuable insights for troubleshooting and optimizing your infrastructure. However, Kubernetes's distributed and dynamic nature presents unique challenges regarding monitoring and observability.
Avoid Observability Failure
The public Internet is now a core component of every company’s digital architecture. Given its nature as a shared resource, the Internet is also the biggest variable in digital experience today. Therefore, application performance management solutions, which typically monitor application transactions and the cloud infrastructure that applications reside upon, can only offer IT operations teams a partial view of the overall health and performance of digital services. IT organizations must modernize their observability toolsets with Internet Performance Monitoring solutions.
How to visualize your network using topology maps
Topology maps offer a comprehensive overview of your entire network through a single console, enabling you to respond quickly to any issues that may arise. You can create custom network maps that arrange your network devices and their connections logically and hierarchically over a predefined or custom background so you can visualize how your network is structured and how it operates.
Enhance Infrastructure Monitoring to Optimize Root Cause Analysis
Today, almost 90% of businesses use highly advanced technologies to deliver the best performance and user experience. However, maintaining infrastructure performance at all times in today’s digital age is quite challenging without the right tools and practices. System failure, security incidents, and other issues can happen at any time of the hour and degrade your performance.
30 Network Auditing Tools for Network Assessments in 2024
Imagine your network as a complex orchestra. A harmonious interplay of various instruments—applications, servers, devices, firewalls, and more—creates the symphony of efficient data flow that keeps your business operations running smoothly. But just like a conductor needs a keen ear to identify even minor imbalances within the orchestra, you need a way to assess and audit the health of each network component.
NiCE Active 365 Management Pack 4.3 for Microsoft SCOM and Azure
We are thrilled to announce the release of the latest version of the NiCE Active 365 Management Pack v4.3 for Microsoft SCOM, packed with exciting features and enhancements based on valuable feedback from our customers like you. Our focus on optimizing Azure Monitoring, refining naming conventions, and enhancing collector performance ensures a seamless monitoring experience tailored to your needs.
Announcing AI Error Resolution
After months of anticipation (and invaluable input from our beta testers!) we’re so excited to officially share AI Error Resolution. We can say firsthand that this tool helps developers resolve issues with renewed speed and accuracy, using AI-powered suggestions on the root cause of errors and how to fix them. Testing has shown how effectively this feature can pinpoint the source of an error and produce the most efficient method to resolve it, accelerating the entire debugging process.
Jaeger vs Tempo - key features, differences, and alternatives
Both Grafana Tempo and Jaeger are tools aimed at distributed tracing for microservice architecture. Jaeger was released as an open-source project by Uber in 2015, while Tempo is a newer product announced in October 2020. Jaeger is a popular open-source tool that graduated as a project from Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Grafana Tempo is a high-volume distributed tracing tool deeply integrated with other open-source tools like Prometheus and Loki.
The Top 15 Real-Time Dashboard Examples
Monitoring your data with dashboards and visualizations is perfect for improving the efficiency of your team and facilitating data-driven decisions from insights. They provide a different perspective to your data and by utilizing this data and trends you can clearly view if your system, application, or server is performing optimally, and if it isn’t performing as expected you can analyze where the issue is and promptly rectify this.
10 Hottest Network Monitoring Support Topics
Network monitoring is perhaps the most indispensable tool in a network professional’s toolbox because it offers a deep understanding of IT infrastructure. Many IT pros use network monitoring daily the same way a teenager stares for hours at TikTok. Progress WhatsUp Gold has been making IT lives easier since its beta release in 1996. Here are the ten most popular how-to videos to help you make the most out of WhatsUp Gold.
Significance of SQL Query Consumption Analysis
In the digital era, where data reigns supreme, the ability to extract meaningful insights from vast datasets has become indispensable. Though we have many data sources and data processing languages, SQL (Structured Query Language) stands as a cornerstone in this realm, empowering analysts, and data scientists to navigate through intricate databases with ease.
Going green: How to monitor your cloud carbon footprint using Kepler, Prometheus, and Grafana
At this point, the technical and operational benefits of cloud computing are pretty much indisputable. But the cloud industry, as a whole, still has a long way to go in one critical area: sustainability. In fact, as shocking as it may sound, it’s estimated that cloud data centers have a greater carbon footprint than the entire aviation industry. Ida Fürjesová and Niki Manoledaki, both software engineers at Grafana Labs, are passionate about helping to change that.
Lessons learned from running a large gRPC mesh at Datadog
Datadog’s infrastructure comprises hundreds of distributed services, which are constantly discovering other services to network with, exchanging data, streaming events, triggering actions, coordinating distributed transactions involving multiple services, and more. Implementing a networking solution for such a large, complex application comes with its own set of challenges, including scalability, load balancing, fault tolerance, compatibility, and latency.
Introducing Relational Fields
We’re excited to bring you relational fields, a new feature that allows you to query spans based on their relationship to each other within a trace. Previously, queries considered spans in isolation: You could ask about field values on spans and aggregate them based on matching criteria, but you couldn’t use any qualifying relationships about where and how the spans appear in a trace.
Improving our Multi-Factor Authentication
This week we introduced two new updates to enhance the user/team security administration. These updates focus on improving the Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) setup and visibility for team management. Let’s take a look.
Every second counts in our UI
Downtime has always been shown in minutes, hours, and days but for shorter downtimes you would see "0m" even if the actual downtime was less than a minute. We've updated the UI to show downtime in seconds. This means no more manually calculating brief outages — you’ll see exactly how long the system was down :) Did you know you can add notes to downtime periods?
How to Monitor & Identify Google Meet Performance Issues
Virtual meetings have become essential for businesses, connecting teams and enabling collaboration from anywhere. Google Meet has been a reliable platform for these meetings, but ensuring smooth performance requires some know-how. In this article, we'll break down how to monitor and identify Google Meet performance issues. Whether you're an IT professional, network admin, or remote user, this guide is tailored to help you optimize your virtual meetings.
Revealing unknowns in your tracing data with inferred spans in OpenTelemetry
In the complex world of microservices and distributed systems, achieving transparency and understanding the intricacies and inefficiencies of service interactions and request flows has become a paramount challenge. Distributed tracing is essential in understanding distributed systems. But distributed tracing, whether manually applied or auto-instrumented, is usually rather coarse-grained.
This Earth Day, Gain New Sustainability Insights from your IT Infrastructure with OpsRamp and HPE
It’s April 22 and everybody knows today is Earth Day. But do you know how much energy your IT infrastructure is consuming and what that translates to in cost and carbon footprint? As we place more demands on our IT infrastructure to store and manage the reams of data we’re collecting and run advanced analytics and artificial intelligence on that data, we are inevitably consuming more energy in our data centers.
Nearly Everything You Need To Know About Vantage DX
Vantage DX, the only Experience Management Solution purpose-built for Microsoft Teams. This might well be your first-time hearing about Vantage DX. If it is…welcome! We’re here to help enterprises improve their communication and collaboration by giving them the tools they need to understand what is and isn’t working with their Microsoft Teams setup. Here’s just a quick starter to give you some idea of what Vantage DX is capable of.
Beginners Guide - How to Configure a Candlestick Visualization | Grafana
💡 What is a candlestick and how can you visualize price movements in Grafana? Join Senior Developer Advocate Marie Cruz in this beginner-friendly tutorial to learn what candlesticks are and how to configure a candlestick visualization in Grafana.
Open-source Telemetry Pipelines: An Overview
Imagine a well-designed plumbing system with pipes carrying water from a well, a reservoir, and an underground storage tank to various rooms in your house. It will have valves, pumps, and filters to ensure the water is of good quality and is supplied with adequate pressure. It will also have pressure gauges installed at some key points to monitor whether the system is functioning efficiently. From time to time, you will check pressure, water purity, and if there are any issues across the system.
Uptime.com HTTPS Check Setup
Review basic checks settings and optional fields for the Uptime.com HTTP(S) check.
What is a Subnet Mask? Examples, Uses and Benefits
“What is a subnet mask?” is among the most common questions for aspiring network engineers. Network veterans have all been through it at one stage or another and we all have our tips and tricks for figuring them out. But, that initial understanding is typically a grind involving some combination of cheat sheets, IP to binary converters, books, articles, and online resources.
Access Datadog privately and monitor your Google Cloud Private Service Connect usage
Private Service Connect (PSC) is a Google Cloud networking product that enables you to access Google Cloud services, third-party partner services, and company-owned applications directly from your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). PSC helps your network traffic remain secure by keeping it entirely within the Google Cloud network, allowing you to avoid public data transfer and save on egress costs. With PSC, producers can host services in their own VPCs and offer a private connection to their customers.
Sumo Logic Flex Pricing: Is usage pricing a good idea?
When discussing observability pricing models, there are three dimensions that must be considered The first, Cost per Unit, is an easy-to-understand metric, but in practice it is often overshadowed by a lack of transparency and predictability for other costs. The question is simple: how does a usage based pricing model impact these variables?
TV integration - introducing the Light mode
We just launched a new feature requested by a new users: a light mode for our TV integration. As a reminder, the TV integration is a specially-formatted version of your status page designed to display on a TV. The new light mode is a useful addition that can enhance the readability of your status page on large screens in certain lighting conditions. Or, if you rotate your display with several other screens which have similar light styles, you can now enjoy a better level of consistency across screens.
Iframe integration - meet Dark mode
Meet another update for our Iframe integration! What’s changed? This update brings a dark-mode option for users whose websites or portals are designed with a dark theme in mind. With dark mode for Iframe integration, you now have the flexibility to ensure that your embedded status pages align perfectly with the aesthetic of your website or portal and that your text is readable.
C# logging: Best practices in 2023 with examples and tools
Monitoring applications that you’ve deployed to production is non-negotiable if you want to be confident in your code quality. One of the best ways to monitor application behavior is by emitting, saving, and indexing log data. Logs can be sent to a variety of applications for indexing, and you can then refer to them when problems arise.
Postgres performance monitoring: Best practices and key metrics
Before diving into how to ensure the reliability, availability, and optimal performance of your PostgreSQL database, it’s essential to understand the necessity of constant vigilance for its maintenance. This vigilance forms the backbone of a healthy PostgreSQL database. So, how exactly can you achieve this? The answer lies in comprehensive Postgres monitoring.
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Navigating Industry-Specific Challenges in IT Infrastructure Monitoring and Automation
In navigating the intricate landscape of IT infrastructure, NiCE IT Management Solutions' whitepaper delves deep, unraveling the historical tapestry shaping the contemporary technological terrain. It dissects industry-specific challenges, offers tailored insights into crafting monitoring and automation solutions, and spotlights key players' pivotal roles. Real-world applications showcase how these technologies drive operational excellence, emphasizing the necessity of skillful guidance through monitoring and automation in today's business environments.
How To Harness the Full Potential of ELK Clusters
The ELK Stack is a collection of three open-source projects, Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. They operate together to centralize and examine logs and other types of machine-generated data in real time. With the ELK stack, you can utilize clusters for effective log and event data analysis and other uses. ELK clusters can provide significant benefits to your organization, but the configuration of these clusters can be particularly challenging, as there are a lot of aspects to consider.
Integration management improvements
We’re continuously enhancing your experience with StatusGator, and we’re thrilled to introduce our latest update to the Integrations page. You may have already noticed a couple of valuable additions we recently made.
Now in the API: Website monitor configurations
As you may know, StatusGator has two monitor types at present: Cloud service monitors and website monitors. Our website monitor feature allows a myriad of sophisticated configuration options including interval config, HTTP methods, and content or status checks. We’ve just launched some important improvements to our API for those of you using website monitors. Our Service show endpoint will now include configuration details for those monitors that are website monitors under a new key called config.
Achieving Zero Unexpected Downtime with AIOps: Is It Still a Myth?
In an era where digital presence is synonymous with business continuity, unexpected downtime haunts every IT department across industry domains. The quest for operational perfection pivots around not just maintaining uptime but proactively ensuring it. Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations – a ray of hope in this persistent pursuit. Still, the question remains: Is achieving zero unexpected downtime with AIOps a tangible reality?
Structure of Logs (Part 2) | Zero to Hero: Loki | Grafana
Have you just discovered Grafana Loki? Zero to Hero: Loki is a series of videos that aims to take you through the basics of ingesting, your logs into Grafana Loki an open-source log aggregation solution. In this episode, it's all about the structure of logs. In part 2 we cover the different ways a log can be formatted. ☁️ Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more. We also have plans for every use case.
ScienceLogic in Action: The Business Outcomes of Investing in IT Operations Optimization
Many of the benefits from ScienceLogic’s SL1 platform for IT operations monitoring and management are readily apparent. Our clients routinely cite dramatic improvements achieved by leveraging SL1 in their hybrid cloud environments, including stronger visibility, more comprehensive monitoring, intelligent automation, and more proactive analytics for decision support.
Why Storage Monitoring and Management is More Important Than Ever
In today's data-driven world, the importance of storage monitoring and management cannot be overstated. With the explosive growth of digital information, effective storage solutions and vigilant monitoring have become imperative for businesses to maintain agility, efficiency, security, and scalability. In this blog post, we’ll delve into why storage monitoring and management are crucial and explore practical methods for effective implementation.
Grafana OnCall mobile app notifications: The new and improved experience for Android users
The Grafana OnCall mobile app is an essential tool for on-call engineers to monitor and respond to critical system events. Available for both iOS and Android, the app offers a range of features and notification settings that make the on-call experience easier and more intuitive — all in the palm of your hand.
What is Network Infrastructure Monitoring & How it Works
Is your network letting you down? Slowdowns, outages, and constant troubleshooting eating into your workday? You're not alone. In today's digital world, a reliable network is crucial for any business to succeed. This article introduces you to Network Infrastructure Monitoring (NIM). It's like having a checkup for your network (hardware components in particular), helping you identify problems before they cause major headaches.
What's New in Cribl Stream 4.6?
Join us on Friday at 2:00 PM EST to learn about all the exciting new features in Cribl Stream 4.6! Cribl’s Ed Bailey and Desi Gavis-Hughson will be discussing how Stream's newest features help customers and partners gain choice, control, and flexibility over their data.
The Cloudification of the Telecom Industry
Join Phil Gervasi and Nina Bargisen from Kentik as they delve into the transformation of the telecom industry through cloudification. This LinkedIn Live replay explores the significant shifts in both the technical and business landscapes of telecommunications, highlighting the movement of network functions to the cloud. Discover how these changes are reshaping the industry and what it means for the future of telcos.
Troubleshoot WiFi and Wireless Networking Issues Everywhere
In today’s varied workspace dynamics, wireless networking issues can greatly impact user experience and productivity. Whether it’s slow download speeds, poor wireless coverage, connectivity, or collaboration problems during virtual meetings, wireless troubleshooting is crucial to ensuring remote and office productivity.
SolarWinds launches consultative sales model to help customers maximise value of ITSM solutions
New evaluation and assessment tool offers enterprises high-value, low-overhead support tailored to their specific IT challenges.
Why Organizations are Using Grafana + Loki to Replace Datadog for Log Analytics
Datadog is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) cloud monitoring solution that enables multiple observability use cases by making it easy for customers to collect, monitor, and analyze telemetry data (logs, metrics and traces), user behavior data, and metadata from hundreds of sources in a single unified platform.
Optimizing IT Operations: Health System Drives Efficiency and Cost Savings
In the critical world of healthcare services, efficiency and accuracy are indispensable. For a leading American health services company catering to the healthcare needs of over 100 million individuals and managing a workforce of more than 100,000 associates, a strategic approach to optimizing IT operations is necessary.
What Is Website Response Time? How To Reduce It?
Website response time is a critical factor that impacts user experience and search engine rankings. This article explores the importance of website response time, its components, and how it differs from page load time. We'll also discuss the impact of slow response times and provide standards for good performance.
What is an API Request?
API requests are an essential part of modern software development, allowing applications to communicate and exchange data with each other. In this article, we'll explore what API requests are, how they work, and the various components that make up a successful API call.
How To Prevent Website Downtime - Guide To Website Availability
Website downtime can be a frustrating and costly experience for both website owners and visitors. This article will explore the common causes of website downtime and provide practical tips on how to prevent and minimize its impact on your website's availability and performance.
How To Check If A Website Is Down?
Website downtime can have severe consequences for businesses, leading to lost revenue, decreased user trust, and lower search engine rankings. This article explores the concept of website downtime, its causes, and how to prevent it, as well as providing a list of online tools and methods for checking website availability.
Beginners Guide - How to Configure a Heatmap Visualization | Grafana
💡 How is a heatmap different from a histogram visualization, and how do you configure one? Join Senior Developer Advocate Marie Cruz in this beginner-friendly tutorial to learn what heatmaps are and how to configure a heatmap visualization in Grafana.
Top 10 Change Management Tools
Changes to software are inevitable and fundamental part of growth for any organization, however, change is often not straightforward. It can affect numerous aspects of a company and requires collaboration among all stakeholders. This is where change management tools come in to assist you with this. There’s currently a wide range of change management tools available, each providing benefits to specific scenarios and weaknesses to others.
Product updates sidebar is here!
We’re excited to share a handy new update that’s all about keeping you informed: the Product Updates Sidebar. StatusGator is moving fast and investing heavily in our product. Staying informed about the latest tweaks and improvements just got a whole lot easier. Our new sidebar feature puts all the updates right at your fingertips, so you can stay in the know without breaking a sweat. Curious about what’s been changed or fixed? Our detailed changelog has you covered.
Flowmon Network Performance Monitoring
Flowmon is like having an AI-powered network security analyst joining your team, tirelessly monitoring your network 24/7, analysing traffic patterns and identifying potential threats in real time to help alert you in early attack stages. The solution distils thousands of alerts into a few security incidents intelligently prioritises critical events, providing real-time insights and actionable intelligence for shortening the time to investigate attacks and automate response.
Flowmon Network Detection and Response
Imagine having an AI-powered network security analyst at your fingertips, tirelessly monitoring your network 24/7, analysing traffic patterns and identifying potential threats in real-time. That's what Flowmon delivers. Explore it yourself with our online demo!
Flowmon Introduction
Introducing Flowmon, a cutting-edge solution that revolutionises network security with the power of artificial intelligence.
Mastering Incident Response: A Guide to Becoming a Proficient Security Analyst
Watch the webinar and learn how to: Refine your workflows based on different perspectives Simplify your incident responses by creating more thorough drilldowns of your infrastructure Inform your team of threats based on robust insights and information.
Go Beyond AIOps with Self-Driving IT
ScienceLogic’s SL1 platform goes beyond traditional IT infrastructure monitoring to unlock the full power of AIOps– taming hybrid cloud complexity and achieving better business outcomes.
SQUPCAST Ep. 2: Let's talk Engineering dashboards
We're diving into a really popular SquaredUp use case in this episode... engineering dashboards. We're going to talk about a few of the challenges faced by engineering teams, data sources like Azure DevOps, Jira, and GitHub, and some of the neat ways that SquaredUp can save your stand-ups.
Introducing Support for Apollo Gateway
AppSignal now offers Apollo Gateway support, giving you span-level gateway performance insights to enhance Apollo Gateway performance in your Node.js applications. In this blog post, we'll give you a whistle-stop tour of how to instrument and monitor Apollo Gateway requests in your Node.js application.
A guide to scaling OpenTelemetry Collectors across multiple hosts via Ansible
OpenTelemetry has emerged as a key open source tool in the observability space. And as organizations use it to manage more of their telemetry data, they also need to understand how to make it work across their various environments. This guide is focused on scaling the OpenTelemetry Collector deployment across various Linux hosts to function as both gateways and agents within your observability architecture.
Control your log volumes with Datadog Observability Pipelines
Modern organizations face a challenge in handling the massive volumes of log data—often scaling to terabytes—that they generate across their environments every day. Teams rely on this data to help them identify, diagnose, and resolve issues more quickly, but how and where should they store logs to best suit this purpose? For many organizations, the immediate answer is to consolidate all logs remotely in higher-cost indexed storage to ready them for searching and analysis.
Aggregate, process, and route logs easily with Datadog Observability Pipelines
The volume of logs generated from modern environments can overwhelm teams, making it difficult to manage, process, and derive measurable value from them. As organizations seek to manage this influx of data with log management systems, SIEM providers, or storage solutions, they can inadvertently become locked into vendor ecosystems, face substantial network costs and processing fees, and run the risk of sensitive data leakage.
Dual ship logs with Datadog Observability Pipelines
Organizations often adjust their logging strategy to meet their changing observability needs for use cases such as security, auditing, log management, and long-term storage. This process involves trialing and eventually migrating to new solutions without disrupting existing workflows. However, configuring and maintaining multiple log pipelines can be complex. Enabling new solutions across your infrastructure and migrating everyone to a shared platform requires significant time and engineering effort.
Detect and score application vulnerabilities
With AppDynamics and Cisco Secure Application, you can quickly identify where application vulnerabilities exist and gain insights as to how best to remediate them based on business risk observability. Let technology work for you by keeping up with the most recent vulnerabilities and help you prioritize what to remediate based on business risk.
Top 10 Ways to Reduce IT Cost Through Observability
Today, almost every other business is using cloud-native technologies and practices to grow business and increase revenue. No doubt, the modern cloud computing approach offers several opportunities for businesses to grow but it is also creating a new set of challenges. As per a report, SaaS companies spend almost 19% of their total revenue on IT. If not handled these challenges properly, it will erode the anticipated advantages. In fact, many businesses are under high pressure to reduce their IT costs.
7 Strategies to Reduce Website Downtime
Website administrators and business owners know the frustration and potential revenue loss that can come with website downtime. It’s like throwing a party and locking the front door—your guests (or, in this case, customers) cannot get in. To help you keep those digital doors open and the party going, here are some practical strategies you can use to minimize website downtime.
Protecting Public Health: Strategies for Handling Legionella Outbreaks
Legionella bacteria pose an immediate and serious threat to public health when present in water systems, potentially leading to Legionnaires' disease - an extreme form of pneumonia caused by being exposed to Legionella bacteria. Therefore, effective outbreak management must take place. One key preventive measure used by officials to safeguard their citizens includes legionella water sampling which allows early detection of potential outbreaks within water networks.
How to monitor Apache web server performance metrics
Apache, the world’s most popular web server software, powers an estimated 30.2% of all active websites. Known for its reliability, flexibility, and robust features, Apache has been the backbone of the internet for decades. From small personal blogs to large-scale e-commerce platforms, Apache’s versatility allows it to handle a wide range of web applications with ease.
ScienceLogic Slashes Incident Response Times and Simplifies IT Operations with Updates to the SL1 AIOps Platform
Notable new features for user interface (UI), innovative workflows, and accelerated delivery cadence will significantly improve user experience for customers.
How to Resolve Network Failures: It's Not Down But It's Slow
Patience is a virtue," they say. But when it comes to our beloved Internet, our patience wears thin faster than a cheetah on roller skates. We've all experienced it: that frustrating moment when our network connection decides to hit the snooze button and crawl along at a snail's pace. It's not a complete blackout, but it might as well be. We find ourselves stuck in a digital twilight zone, desperately longing for the days when dial-up was just a distant memory.
Migrating from Elastic's Go APM agent to OpenTelemetry Go SDK
As we’ve already shared, Elastic is committed to helping OpenTelemetry (OTel) succeed, which means, in some cases, building distributions of language SDKs. Elastic is strategically standardizing on OTel for observability and security data collection. Additionally, Elastic is committed to working with the OTel community to become the best data collection infrastructure for the observability ecosystem.
Optimizing cloud resource costs with Elastic Observability and Tines
In today's cloud-centric landscape, managing and optimizing cloud resources efficiently is paramount for cloud engineers striving to balance performance and cost-effectiveness. By leveraging solutions like Tines and Elastic, cloud engineering teams can streamline operations and drive significant cost savings while maintaining optimal performance.
Measuring Node.js Performance in Production with Performance Hooks
In the first part of this series, we toured performance APIs in Node.js. We discussed the capabilities of APIs and how they can diagnose slowdowns or network issues in your Node application. Now, in this concluding segment, we will embark on a practical journey, applying these performance hooks in a real-world scenario. You will understand how to effectively use these tools to monitor and enhance your application's performance. Let's dive in and see these concepts in action!
Checkly adds deep synthetic monitoring to Coralogix with new integration
Starting today, Checkly users can send their traces from synthetics checks to Coralogix to view in-depth synthetic user data along with back-end APM based tracing. This gives SRE’s and Operations engineers a new insight into how the system is responding to automated synthetic tests of your service. For Checkly users, integrating with Coralogix data means it’s easy to correlate end-to-end user experience with backend performance, and track poor performance to its root cause.
Charting New Waters with Cribl Lake: Storage that Doesn't Lock Data In
There is an immense amount of IT and security data out there and there’s no sign of slowing down. Our customers have told us they feel like they’re drowning in data. They know some data have value, some don’t. Some might have value in the future. They need some place cost-effective to store it all. Some for just a short while, some for the long haul. But they’re not data engineers. They don’t have the expertise to set up and maintain a traditional data lake.
Driving SaaS Excellence Through Observability
For SaaS platforms, utilizing observability is crucial, as it’s vital for these companies to deeply understand their users' experience and the root cause of any issues. Observability involves leveraging the appropriate tools and processes in place to effectively track, examine, and troubleshoot the performance and behavior of a system, even if you can't directly see what's happening inside it.
NMS Migration Made Easy: Gathering Information
Network monitoring tools have a lot of moving parts. Those parts end up getting stored in a wide range of locations, formats, and even the ways various capabilities are conceptualized. With that in mind, we’re going to list out the information you should gather, the format(s) you should try to get it into, and why.
Real User Monitoring With a Splash of OpenTelemetry
You're probably familiar with the concept of real user monitoring (RUM) and how it's used to monitor websites or mobile applications. If not, here's the short version: RUM requires telemetry data, which is generated by an SDK that you import into your web or mobile application. These SDKs then hook into the JS runtime, the browser itself, or various system APIs in order to measure performance.
Managing users and Permissions in Grafana | Grafana for Beginners Ep 12
When using Grafana in a shared environment, managing users and permissions becomes necessary. Join Senior Developer Advocate, Lisa Jung to learn how! The following are covered in this episode: ☁️ Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more.
Getting Started with Splunk : The Importance of Machine Data
Join us for part 1 of the Getting Started with Splunk Coffee Break This short webinar covers the Importance of Machine Data. It is part 1 in a series of 5 coffee breaks.
How to test and monitor your APIs with Playwright
In today's video, we explore a lesser-known feature of Microsoft's Playwright - API Testing. We'll illustrate how to use Playwright for testing GraphQL as an example of an HTTP-based API; RESTful APIs can be tested too. We'll explain the usage of the 'request' fixture with Playwright, parse responses and validate their correctness. Moreover, we'll delve into executing multiple API requests in a single Playwright test case while testing their responses.
Intro to Group Checks
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Preventing Costly Network Outages: Why Network Configuration Management is Essential
As organizations continue to operate in an increasingly digitized fashion, ensuring network uptime and performance only keeps getting more critical. Network performance issues and downtime aren’t just a concern for network teams, they’re critical to the entire business. Network downtime is costly.
Kubernetes - From chaos to insights with AI-driven correlation of Logs and Metrics
Written by John Stimmel, Principal Cloud Specialist Account Executive, LogicMonitor It’s common knowledge that Kubernetes (commonly referred to as “K8”s) container management and orchestration provide business value by enabling cloud-native agility and superior customer experiences. By their nature, the speed and agility of Kubernetes platforms come with complexity.
CloudSpend's Zia framework: Top 5 ways to detect cloud cost anomalies
Cloud cost management- Anomaly detection CloudSpend’s Zia framework, powered by AI, is designed to detect any unexpected spikes or irregularities in your cloud expenses. The Zia Anomaly Report aids in optimizing your cloud bills and protecting your cloud infrastructure from unforeseen issues. You have the option to share anomalies with your team through CSV, PDF, or email formats.
OpUtils' IP scanner for visibility: See everything, manage effortlessly
Organizational networks, especially the larger ones, expand beyond the physical infrastructures into cloud platforms, making the network more intricate. This makes gaining real-time visibility difficult for administrators. However, network management tools with IP scanners will help resolve this complexity by shedding light into every nook and cranny of the network.
What is Network Observability (vs. Network Monitoring)?
Today, we embark on an exciting journey into the realm of network observability, where the world of network monitoring gets a vibrant makeover. While network monitoring has long been the stalwart guardian of network operations, network observability swoops in like a caped hero, adding a whole new level of awesomeness to the game.
Observable systems with wide events
Oh, I didn't see you there. Hi, I'm Kevin, a developer here at Honeybadger. I've worked for the last year or so developing Honeybadger Insights, our new logging and observability platform. Let's peek into some of the design decisions and philosophy behind the product. In modern software development, the hunt for observable systems has traditionally revolved around the holy trinity of logs, metrics, and traces.
Introducing Explore, the New Path for Log Management from Logz.io
Despite advances in the world of observability, log management hasn’t evolved much in recent years. Users are familiar with the experience of Kibana or OpenSearch Dashboards (OSD), but those don’t always meet modern use cases. Logz.io is ready to change the conversation with the introduction of Explore, the new path forward for Log Management for users of the Logz.io Open 360™ observability platform.
Delivering Value in IT and Security with Stagnant Budgets
In a recent live stream, Jackie McGuire and I looked into a crucial topic that many IT and security teams face: delivering value in your organization without budget increases. In this age where technology underpins every facet of business, how can teams maximize their impact with finite resources?
Beginners guide to - Visualizing Geomaps | Grafana
In this video, Grafana Developer Advocate Leandro Melendez describes the Geomaps panel visualization, they allow you to view and customize the world map using geospatial data. You can configure various overlay styles and map view settings to easily focus on the important location-based characteristics of the data.
Open source observability explained - the Grafana Labs stack
Wish you could have open source observability explained to you? Senior Developer Advocate Nicole van der Hoeven explains how all the OSS projects from the Grafana Labs stack work together and how the picture they're all building towards is continuous reliability. TIMESTAMPS: ☁️ Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more. We also have plans for every use case.
How NetOps by Broadcom Delivers Real-World Benefits at FIS
When it comes to gauging the success of our solutions, there’s one critical yardstick: the value that customers realize in their implementations. While we can tout all our solution’s leading innovations and features, the reality is that they don’t mean much if they don’t actually help our customers in the real world.
Navigating Azure Data Transfer Costs: A Comprehensive Guide
As businesses increasingly migrate to the cloud, understanding the intersections of data transfer expenses is very important. In this article, we’ll break down what Azure Data Transfer Costs entail, explore various types of data transfers, explore Azure Bandwidth pricing, identify the possible factors influencing data transfer costs, and some strategies for optimizing expenses.
5 Tips To Make Your Mobile Site SEO Friendly
Optimizing your site for mobile devices is crucial for improving search engine rankings and providing a good user experience. This article will explore five key strategies and best practices to help your mobile SEO efforts.
BMC to Acquire Netreo
We are delighted to announce that we are in the process of joining forces with BMC Software, a company trusted by 86% of the Forbes Global 50, delivering AI-powered software solutions that enable customers to connect their entire technology landscape. The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2024, subject to customary closing conditions. BMC shares Netreo’s core value of customer-centricity and vision to connect observability silos and accelerate innovation across the enterprise.
A Gulf Tale: Navigating the Potholes of Customer Experience in the Digital Era
How should we define technological progress in the digital era? Is it merely the proliferation of gadgets and gizmos, or does it lie in the seamlessness of our digital encounters? Recently, I moved to Dubai, the Gulf Cooperation Council’s (GCC) major trading hub and a city celebrated as the “City of the Future.” But does Dubai’s technological innovation extend to the resilience of its digital service vendors?
The Future of Cloud is AI: Google Cloud Next 2024
From infrastructure and chipsets to data solutions and development tools, it’s clear that artificial intelligence will play a massive role in the future of the cloud. Read Justin Ryburn’s latest recap to learn about many of the exciting unveilings at Google Cloud Next 2024.
A closer look at our navigation redesign
Helping our users gain end-to-end visibility into their systems is key to the Datadog platform— to achieve this, we offer over 20 products and more than 700 integrations. However, with an ever-expanding, increasingly diverse catalog, it’s more important than ever that users have clear paths for quickly finding what they need.
Top 3 reasons why you need to use Site24x7's thread dump analyzer tool
Imagine having x-ray vision for your application and seeing exactly what's happening under the hood in real time. That's what thread dumps do for your application—they are a vital component of application performance monitoring (APM) and give you a super-powered peek into its inner workings, helping you spot issues and fix them faster than you can imagine.
Working with SNMP Credentials in WhatsUp Gold
Watch this video to learn how SNMP credentials are used in WhatsUp Gold, and how you can recognize and fix common issues caused by invalid or missing credentials.
EU Data Residency Design Goals
EU Data Residency is here. Available to all customers— no matter the pricing tier.
Grafana Cloud updates: explore metrics without PromQL, native OpenTelemetry log support, cool panels, and more
We are consistently releasing helpful updates and fun features in Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform powered by the open source Grafana LGTM Stack (Loki for logs, Grafana for visualization, Tempo for traces, and Mimir for metrics). This month is no exception.
DX UIM 23.4: Improved Zero-Touch Monitoring, Updated MCS Architecture
The Monitoring Configuration Service (MCS), under continued innovation since 2017, is a feature for DX UIM that helps solution administrators expedite device configuration and alarm policy deployment for the most popular monitoring technologies. The release of DX UIM 23.4 offers enhanced workflows for using MCS to do both local and remote monitoring.
Cisco Full-Stack Observability named a Leader in GigaOm Radar for Cloud Observability
The results are in! Learn why Cisco Full-Stack Observability was recognized as a Leader in GigaOm Radar for Cloud Observability in 2024. I’m pleased to announce that Cisco Full-Stack Observability was recently recognized as a Leader in the 2024 GigaOm Radar for Cloud Observability.
Mastering OpenTelemetry - Part 1
In the complex world of modern distributed systems, observability is vital. Observability allows engineers to understand what's happening within their systems, debug issues rapidly, and proactively ensure optimal application performance. OpenTelemetry has emerged as a powerful, vendor-neutral solution to address the challenges of observability across different technologies and environments.
Deliver efficient communication through incident templates
Imagine this scenario: Imagine this scenario: You are a user of an online service, and suddenly you encounter a technical glitch. You head to the status page for updates, expecting clear information about the issue. However, you are met with vague or unstructured updates, leaving you uncertain about the severity and resolution timeline of the problem.
Building trust in the digital realm: Safeguarding user experience amid website threats
With an increasing number of organisations moving to online platforms and adding to the huge network of existing online sites, building and maintaining a trustworthy platform is of paramount importance for business. A secure platform not only safeguards sensitive information but also fosters confidence among users, paving the way for meaningful connections and lasting customer relationships.
What is System Monitoring?
In this article we will help you understand system monitoring, what you should look for in your system monitoring tool, and give you our top 7 best APM tools. As service providers, we understand that 100% uptime for our service isn't an achievable goal, but we do everything in our power to provide our customers with the best possible service and highest availability possible. We implement tools and processes to allow ourselves the ability to respond to issues before they affect our customers.
Lumigo Launches Log Management
Lumigo has announced the addition of full log management capabilities into its microservices observability and troubleshooting platform, promising customers enormous savings while enabling automatic correlation between log data and distributed traces.
The Role of Automation in Incident Management: Improving Response Time and Accuracy
Organizations in the 21st century are growing at a staggering rate, expanding their operations over a global network and dealing with more data than ever before. These widespread operations and processes also mean that there are infinitely more possibilities for businesses to run into problems, have an incident occur, and have to deal with the resulting consequences.
Mastering Hyper-V monitoring: Overcome virtualization challenges with OpManager
The before and after of virtualization in network monitoring is stark. Before virtualization, IT admins battled resource constraints, scalability limitations, security and isolation concerns, maintenance overheads, high costs, inflexible disaster recovery, and so on. Virtualization revolutionized IT by addressing these issues.
End-to-End Monitoring for NetApp Data Protection Lifecycle
Securing your company's vital information assets is very important since data losses can have serious consequences, including business interruptions, loss of reputation, penalties for noncompliance, and, ultimately, revenue loss. That is why having a strong data protection strategy is essential, with NetApp providing a complete suite of solutions to protect your data across its full lifecycle.
Decoding Database Deadlocks: Five-Stage Strategy for Industry Resilience
In database management, a seemingly silent adversary – database deadlocks – casts a shadow over the operational efficiency of industries. Picture a scenario where critical processes come to a sudden standstill, entangled in a web of deadlocks. This challenge transcends mere technical complexities; it has the potential to disrupt entire operations.
How to Build an Effective Network Monitoring Dashboard
Whether you're a small startup or a large enterprise, the health and performance of your network infrastructure are critical to your success. This is where network monitoring comes into play. Network monitoring involves the continuous observation and analysis of network traffic, devices, and performance metrics to ensure smooth operations, detect anomalies, and troubleshoot issues promptly.
Mastering Live Debugging Techniques: A Must-Have Guide for Developers
Software debugging has undergone many transcendental shifts. These shifts are as fascinating as the transition from the biological origins of the term ‘debugging’ to its computer science incarnation. The moth that caused the first computer bug has led to a metamorphosis of the debugging scope to cover a much broader role in software development over the years. Live debugging is the latest manifestation of this evolution.
What's New in Kubernetes 1.30?
Kubernetes 1.30 brings a plethora of enhancements, including a blend of 58 new and improved features. From these, several are graduating to stable, including the highly anticipated Container Resource Based Pod Autoscaling, which refines the capabilities of the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler by focusing on individual container metrics. New alpha features are also making their debut, promising to revolutionize how resources are managed and allocated within clusters.
The Leading Data Dashboard Examples
As organizations produce a significant amount of data from varying sources, simple analytics tools can make it challenging and time-consuming to derive insights from this data. Data dashboards can assist with this. A data dashboard is a visual representation of data that offers an at-a-glance view of key performance indicators (KPIs), metrics, and other important information relevant to a particular business, organization, or process.
Simplified onboarding using configuration rules
If your business is growing, then so too must your IT infrastructure. Servers, VMs, databases, nodes, pods, containers, and all of your digital resources spawn up and down—all in accordance to your business' needs. The catch is all of these infrastructure elements have to be monitored without it being a herculean task to your team to do so. Here are some pain points that arise every time a server or VM is added: Configuration rules will help you solve all these problems and more.
A New Approach to the Service Model in the Data Industry
In this livestream, I had a great discussion with Paul Stout and Scott Gray from nth degree about how the service model has evolved from a focus on time and materials to outcome-based services. Watch the full conversation here and leave with a roadmap for improving your next service engagement. Security teams often have a love-hate relationship with onboarding new tools.
Transforming to an Engineering Culture of Curiosity With a Modern Observability 2.0 Solution
Relying on their traditional observability 1.0 tool, Pax8 faced hurdles in fostering a culture of ownership and curiosity due to user-based pricing limitations and an impending steep price increase. Pax8’s platform engineering team was keen on modernizing the company’s cloud commerce platform, but they were hitting obstacles with their traditional observability 1.0 tool, which relied on the three pillars of logs, metrics, and traces.
Elastic Universal Profiling agent, a continuous profiling solution, is now open source
Elastic Universal Profiling™ agent is now open source! The industry’s most advanced fleetwide continuous profiling solution empowers users to identify performance bottlenecks, reduce cloud spend, and minimize their carbon footprint. This post explores the history of the agent, its move to open source, and its future integration with OpenTelemetry.
A guide to scaling Grafana Alloy deployments across multiple hosts
Last week we introduced Grafana Alloy, our distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector with built-in Prometheus pipelines and support for metrics, logs, traces, and profiles. We’re excited to see the community embrace Alloy, and we want to help them use and scale it as easily as possible. Many developers that need to deploy and manage software across several hosts turn to Ansible for its ease of use and versatility.
Structure of Logs (Part 1) | Zero to Hero: Loki | Grafana
Have you just discovered Grafana Loki? Zero to Hero: Loki is a series of videos that aims to take you through the basics of ingesting, your logs into Grafana Loki an open-source log aggregation solution. In this episode, it's all about the structure of logs. In part 1 we cover what components make up a log entry. ☁️ Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more. We also have plans for every use case.
GrafanaCON 2024 Keynote: Grafana 11, Loki 3.0, Alloy, Golden Grot Awards, and more | Grafana
During GrafanaCON 2024, we came back together in person for the first time since 2019. Grafana Labs CEO and Co-founder Raj Dutt announced the winners of the Golden Grot community dashboard awards, and members of our engineering team made some exciting announcements around our open source observability projects including Loki 3.0 and Alloy. And Torkel Ödegaard, the creator of Grafana, unveiled what’s new in Grafana 11, with some demos.
How to Configure Kentik NMS to Collect Custom SNMP Metrics
Join Kentik's Leon Adato as he explains how to customize Kentik's NMS (Network Monitoring System) to collect specific SNMP metrics not covered by default settings. Learn how to add custom SNMP elements, navigate YAML configurations, and organize your data for clarity. With practical steps and a linked blog for detailed guidance, this video empowers you to enhance your network observability in Kentik NMS. Ideal for those looking to tailor their monitoring setup without getting lost in complexity.
Discover Splunk - the unparalleled, most comprehensive full-stack observability solution
How do you become digitally resilient as an organisation? Hear from Maria Nyström, Regional Sales Manager at Splunk Sweden, about how Splunk is helping enterprises get full traceability in their environment. Splunk customers can trace any issue for any user and follow that to the application backend, the specific microservice and the infrastructure it runs on.
The Best Story in Software: Celebrating 25 Years of SolarWinds
"Our software is being used by the military, by hospitals - we don't really see what's being done outside the office, but knowing the problems that we're solving is so great to see." Cal Smith, SolarWinds Academy Team.
Cloud NGFW Enterprise demo
Cloud NGFW Enterprise empowers organizations to safeguard their cloud environments with advanced security features. In this demo, learn how Google Cloud NGFW's advanced threat protection capabilities can bolster your cloud security posture.
Network Speed Uncovered: What Is It Really & How to Measure It
When we talk about network performance, one metric that comes up constantly is "network speed." It's the measure of how fast your applications run, how swiftly you can transfer data, and, essentially, how responsive your digital world is. Speed in networking is like the speedometer in a car—it tells you how quickly things are moving. However, network speed isn't just about raw velocity.
Introduction to Observability
These days, systems and applications evolve at a rapid pace. This makes analyzing the internal performance of applications complex. Observability emerges as a path to efficient and effective operational insights. Imagine a team of doctors monitoring a patient’s vitals—heart rate, temperature, blood pressure. These readings, combined with observation of symptoms, paint a picture of the patient’s health. This allows doctors to diagnose issues and provide care.
How to Calculate Log Analytics ROI
Calculating log analytics ROI is often complicated. For many teams, this technology can be a cost center. Depending on your platform, the cost of a log management solution can quickly add up. For example, many organizations use solutions like the ELK stack because the initial startup costs are low. Yet, over time, costs can creep up for many reasons, including the volume of data collected and ingested per day, required retention periods, and the associated personnel needed to manage the deployment.
How to Fight Alert Fatigue with Synthetic Monitoring: 7 Best Practices
It’s 1am, and something has gone very wrong. The head of sales is in the incident response channel because our top customer is reporting a system-wide outage. Everyone’s running around trying to figure it out. As you look at service maps and traces, you get a sinking feeling. Earlier the previous evening, you got an alert that user-access-service was running out of memory.
Your background images might be causing CLS
Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) is where the layout of a web page unexpectedly shifts after the initial content loads and new content pops in. At its best, it’s a little inconvenient. At its worst, it’s an accidental click of a “BUY NOW” button that suddenly appeared under your mouse cursor after an ad loaded, resulting in an unwanted purchase.
Mastering CloudTrail Logs, Part 1
CloudTrail logs are a type of log generated by Amazon Web Services (AWS) as part of its CloudTrail service. AWS CloudTrail records API calls made within an AWS account, providing a history of activity including actions taken through the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), and AWS SDKs. For example, CloudTrail events are generated for actions such as EC2 instances start/stop, S3 bucket read/write and IAM user creation/deletion.
Recapping Datadog Summit London 2024
In the last week of March 2024, Datadog hosted its latest Datadog Summit in London to celebrate our community. As Jeremy Garcia, Datadog’s VP of Technical Community and Open Source, mentioned during his welcome remarks, London is the first city that has seen two Datadog Summits, with the first one in 2018. It was great to be able to see how our community there has grown over the past six years.
Google Cloud Welcomes Full-Stack Observability with StackState
When Google Cloud welcomed StackState to offer our full-stack observability solution to their network of customers, we were thrilled. Our excitement only grew when Google invited us to join other partners this week at Google Cloud Next ’24 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas.
Taming the Kraken: Managing a Python Monolith with Sentry
In this customer workshop, David Winterbottom, principal software engineer at Kraken Technologies, shared an inside look into how he and his team develop, deploy, and maintain a rapidly evolving Python monorepo with over 4 million lines of code that powers the Kraken utility platform.
How to Introduce a SaaS Management Solution to Your MSP Stack
The average 100-person company has 126 SaaS applications and 40% of the apps in an MSP client’s environment are likely shadow IT (Gartner). That creates an interesting challenge for MSPs and their clients. SaaS platforms are a key enabler for modern businesses, and frankly, we’re better off as a result. SaaS solutions enable businesses to focus less on infrastructure and more on outcomes. However, they also create new security, governance, and cost management challenges.
Comparing Network Monitoring and Management: Which Do You Actually Need?
Have you ever wondered what exactly "network monitoring" and "network management" mean? Many people mix up these terms, thinking they're the same thing. But they're not! You might think you need a big, complicated network management system to keep your network in check. But that's not always the case! Sometimes, all you need is good network monitoring. This article will help you understand the differences between monitoring and management and figure out what's best for your network.
Status Page Snapshot
Get a quick tour of the Uptime.com Status Page solution. Uptime.com has you covered regardless of your needs from SLA accountability, to Public Status updates, to Internal communications.
Startup vs. running configuration conflict: Its impact, and how to avoid it
This tech topic delves into the challenges posed by conflicts between startup and running configurations, and provides insights on proactive measures to effectively manage them.
Firewall segmentation
This page explores firewall segmentation, its advantages in ensuring the security of a growing network and how Firewall Analyzer simplifies the whole process.
Releasing Icinga DB 1.2.0 and Icinga DB Web 1.1.2
We are excited to release two new versions today: Icinga DB v1.2.0 and Icinga DB Web v1.1.2.
Alberto Gomez joins as CPO of Checkly and Tim Nolet will become Chief Evangelist
Today, I’m thrilled to announce two changes to our leadership team. We at Checkly aim to deliver the best synthetic monitoring platform that allows you to identify and resolve issues 10x faster. I’m proud to have crossed that 1,000-customer mark and aim to enhance your experience even further as we are just getting started and are excited about what technologies like Open Telemetry, Clickhouse and others will enable us to do in the future.
Decentralized Monitoring Explained
Users often find themselves puzzled by the concepts of decentralized or distributed monitoring. This confusion is likely due to many monitoring systems claiming distributed capabilities, making it challenging to discern how Netdata stands out. To grasp the distinction, we must delve into the evolution of monitoring systems. When the first monitoring systems were created, about 20-25 years ago, they were built as SNMP collectors.
Empowering Communities for 25 Years and Counting
We’re celebrating 25 years of excellence in IT management 🌟 Let’s take a look at our journey from humble beginnings in 1999 to global operations today. SolarWinds is proud of our legacy and excited for the future. 🚀 Here’s to the next 25 years.
Ask Me Anything: Solving the Top 10 WhatsUp Gold Support Issues
IT Infrastructure (ITIM) tools can take time to learn. That’s even true for WhatsUp Gold, which receives excellent reviews on third party sites for its ease of customization, ease of implementation and vendor support. Thankfully, with WhatsUp Gold, you have many resources at your disposal, including the knowledge base, online documentation, YouTube Channel and community forums.
Transitioning to OpenTelemetry
This article touches on how we at Birdie handled our transition from logs towards using OpenTelemetry as the primary mechanism for achieving world-class observability of our systems.
Enhancing Data Ingestion: OpenTelemetry & Linux CLI Tools Mastery
While OpenTelemetry (OTel) supports a wide variety of data sources and is constantly evolving to add more, there are still many data sources for which no receiver exists. Thankfully, OTel contains receivers that accept raw data over a TCP or UDP connection. This blog unveils how to leverage Linux Command Line Interface (CLI) tools, creating efficient data pipelines for ingestion through OTel's TCP receiver.
Why companies choose Grafana Cloud for their hosted observability platform
Three different businesses, one shared problem: SailPoint, Kushki, and Flexcity were all looking for a hosted solution to help them optimize their telemetry storage, gain more insights from their observability strategy, and keep costs manageable. But what they gained from migrating to Grafana Cloud and working with Grafana Labs was much more. “The engineering team is super sharp. They’re experts. This is the best of the best," said Omar Lopez, head of the observability team from SailPoint.
And What About my User Experience?
Monitoring backend signals has been standard practice for years, and tech companies have been alerting their SRE and software engineers when API endpoints are failing. But when you’re alerted about a backend issue, it’s often your end users who are directly affected. Shouldn’t we observe and alert on this user experience issues early on? As frontend monitoring is a newer practice, companies often struggle to identify signals that can help them pinpoint user frustrations or performance problems.
What is an Anomaly? Avoiding False Positives in Watchdog Detected Anomalies
In 2018 Datadog released Watchdog to proactively detect anomalies on your observability data. But what defines an anomaly? How do you avoid false positives? At Datadog Summit London 2024, Nils Bunge, product manager at Datadog, shared the story of the creation of the first Datadog AI feature (Watchdog Alert), what we learned from it and how we applied those lessons to all the added AI functionalities across the years.
Proactive vs. Reactive Website Monitoring
In today’s digital age, the reliability and performance of your website are more critical than ever. Understanding the nuances of website monitoring is key whether you’re part of a bustling DevOps team or a Site Reliability Engineer working to ensure seamless user experiences. This blog post dives into the two primary monitoring strategies: proactive and reactive. We’ll compare these approaches, discussing how each can influence your site’s uptime and user satisfaction.
An IT leader's enterprise guide to drive more with less
IT strategies and cloud efficiency best practices to adapt your digital delivery to a dynamic economy.
A comprehensive guide to enhance performance and reliability in your storage systems
A comprehensive guide to enhance performance and reliability in your storage systems.
SolarWinds announces winners of 2024 Transform Partner Awards
Transform Partner Summits highlight excellence in SolarWinds channel partner performance globally.
AI realism (part two)
Emotions are running high about AI technologies. In this 2-parter, I do my best to make a rational case for the state of AI, and how we can respond to it. This is the second part; catch up with part one here. Today, we’ll talk about developing a company culture that thrives on experimentation and unpredictability. I’ll describe the conditions that can keep a product company nimble and healthy during a period of rapid change, enabling it to take advantage of emerging technologies.
Observability Vs. Monitoring: The Complete Comparison
Many often wonder, “Is there a difference between observability and monitoring?” The thing is as IT environments have become more complex, monitoring alone has become increasingly less effective. That’s because while monitoring is crucial, it isn’t particularly suited to tracking unforeseen or unexpected turns of events. That’s what observability is meant for. This guide will clarify what observability and monitoring are – and how they differ.
Future-Proof Your IT Ecosystem: The Road to IT Optimization
Learn more about how IT optimization reduces operating costs, improves efficiency and increases application performance for your business. By working out an optimization initiative, businesses can refine the functionality of their enterprise architectures, ensuring that they’re using resources to their utmost potential. This not only streamlines your automating processes but also bolsters overall performance and business efficiency, allowing you to stay competitive.
OpsRamp Cloud-Native Observability Demo
OpsRamp solves complex IT problems using its advanced cloud-native observability technology. In this demonstration, you'll see how easy it really is to answer performance and availability questions using metrics, events, logs, and distributed tracing data.
Monitoring the Unknown in the Service Manager
Nearly every operating system comes with at least one kind of service management. On a Unix-based operating system, this is historically part of the init system. While the specific tools have matured over time and there are changes between operating systems, they are essentially used to orchestrate both operating system services and user services. Specifically, a service manager ensures that, e.g., a web server is started once the network is configured and available.
Monitor Complex User Flows With Checkly's Multistep Checks
With an ever-growing market of digital products, it is becoming increasingly important for every business to ensure a high level of customer satisfaction. In the past, companies might have been able to get away with slow or messy websites. Today, if a customer gets frustrated even once, they will likely abandon your product in search of a better replacement.
5 key metrics for identifying and troubleshooting deployment errors in Azure App Service
In this blog, we will discuss the five important metrics that'll help you fine-tune your Azure App Service environment effectively.
Detecting, Investigating, and Responding to Threats: Best Practices
In this webinar, we will explore tips, trends and best practices for quickly and accurately detecting and responding to an always-evolving array of bad actors. Don't miss the chance to explain why your solution can help strengthen defences and give IT managers some peace of mind in an increasingly scary threat landscape.
A dive into health roll-up
SquaredUp's awesome dashboards sit on top of some very powerful technology. In this post, I'll explain just what that means and how it can benefit you.
Solution Priorities - AIOps and Observability from Broadcom
Andreas Reiss, Head of Product Management, discusses product priorities for DX Operational Intelligence from Broadcom.
Azure network diagram generator with automation
Today many of your cloud solutions will be connected to a private network within Microsoft Azure for purposes like: An Azure virtual network can support a number of different IaaS, PaaS or SaaS resources being connected to it to support your growing cloud network estate.
How To Calculate Uptime And Downtime?
Uptime and downtime are critical metrics for businesses that rely on digital systems. This article explores what these terms mean, how they impact user experience, and the factors that can affect a system's availability.
The (Mostly) Complete Guide to Installing Kentik NMS
NMS can do so much that one blog topic triggered an idea for another, and another, and here we are, six posts later and I haven’t explained how to install NMS yet. The time for that post has come.
Gaining full-stack visibility into Node.js applications
Node.js was introduced over 20 years ago and remains a popular choice for web application teams with over 30 million users. Sites such as Netflix, PayPal, and Uber continue to rely on Node.js to build and maintain their applications.
How to Achieve Agility With Stability
In the fast-paced world of modern software development, the demand for innovation is relentless. CI/CD promises many benefits, including agility, team productivity and satisfaction. Doing CI/CD “the right way” though, can feel overwhelming. If your team is pushing code through the CI/CD pipeline more and more often, how do you know that it works? In other words, how do you balance innovation with reliability?
Grafana Cloud security: Three common cloud security myths debunked
Grafana Cloud offers organizations an end-to-end observability platform, without the overhead of building and maintaining their own observability stack. We’re constantly shipping new Grafana Cloud features to ensure users get the most out of the fully managed platform, which is powered by our open source Grafana LGTM Stack (Loki for logs, Grafana for visualization, Tempo for traces, and Mimir for metrics).
Honeycomb + Google Gemini
Today at Google Next, Charity Majors demonstrated how to use Honeycomb to find unexpected problems in our generative AI integration. Software components that integrate with AI products like Google’s Gemini are powerful in their ability to surprise us. Nondeterministic behavior means there is no such thing as “fully tested.” Never has there been more of a need for testing in production!
Setting Up the Latest AWS Observability Solution
The tutorial demonstrates how easy it is to deploy the AWS Observability Solution using the CloudFormation template using the quick and new method. The CloudFormation template being used in this method sets up an automated collection of logs and metrics from AWS to the Sumo Logic service.
Monitor Complex User Flows with Checkly's Multistep Checks
Learn how Checkly's new multistep checks help you to decrease incident response times with synthetic monitoring. Use multistep checks to chain and manage multiple API requests, run custom code for response validation, and get accurate alerts when incidents occur. This video explains how to create a multistep check to monitor a RESTful API from scratch. Do you have questions? Join our vibrant Checkly community on Slack and explore further!
Stay up to date on the latest incidents with Bits AI
Since the release of ChatGPT, there’s been growing excitement about the potential of generative AI—a class of artificial intelligence trained on pre-existing datasets to generate text, images, videos, and other media—to transform global businesses. Last year, we released our own generative AI-powered DevOps copilot called Bits AI in private beta. Bits AI provides a conversational UI to explore observability data using natural language.
Observability Onboarding Video Series Part 1 (of 3): Setting up your product(s)!
This video walks you through the highlights of phase 1, including deploying the OpenTelemetry Collector, viewing default dashboards, and managing built-in detectors. Enjoy!".
Maximizing Cloud SQL database availability
How does Cloud SQL achieve near-zero downtime? Join Debi Cabrera as she interviews Product Manager, Rahul Deshmukh. Rahul discusses the various capabilities of Cloud SQL and the best practices to maximize business continuity for applications. Watch along and hear firsthand from the session speaker about configuring and monitoring Cloud SQL for maximum availability.
Step-by-Step Guide to Monitoring Your SNMP Devices With Telegraf
Monitoring SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) devices is crucial for maintaining network health and security, enabling early detection of issues and proactive troubleshooting. Continuous monitoring ensures efficient resource utilization, minimizes downtime, and enhances overall network performance. In this article, we'll detail how to use the Telegraf agent to collect SNMP (MIB) performance statistics that you can forward to a data source.
The Complete Guide to Capacity Management in Kubernetes
In the dynamic world of container orchestration, Kubernetes stands out as the undisputed champion, empowering organizations to scale and deploy applications seamlessly. Yet, as the deployment scope increases, so do the associated Kubernetes workload costs, and the need for effective resource capacity planning becomes more critical than ever. When dealing with containers and Kubernetes you can find yourself facing multiple challenges that can affect your cluster stability and your business performance.
Netdata is the only real-time monitoring solution: Justified
In the digital era, where data flows like a ceaseless river, real-time monitoring stands as a pivotal technology, allowing organizations to not only keep pace but also to deeply understand the intricate dance of their operational ecosystems. This technology is not just about keeping tabs; it’s about gaining a profound, almost intuitive sense of the micro-worlds within which systems, containers, services, and applications pulse and thrive.
Understanding Monitoring Tools
If you care about operational excellence when it comes to your IT infrastructure, the role of monitoring systems is pivotal. As we navigate through the myriad of available monitoring tools, it becomes essential to understand the distinct architectures, styles, and focal points of various monitoring solutions, as well as the time-to-value they offer.
The Power of Synthetic Data to Drive Accurate AI and Data Models
We live in a data-rich world - every click, swipe, like, share, and purchase online generates data points companies use to optimize offerings. However, even vast real-world data has limitations in developing robust artificial intelligence (AI) and data models, particularly with regard to AIOps (Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations). Enter synthetic data.
What Is Website Downtime?
Website downtime can have a significant impact on businesses, from lost sales and damaged reputation to poor user experience and search engine rankings. In this article, we'll explore what website downtime is, common causes, its impact, and best practices for maintaining website uptime.
Azure Cost Analysis at the Service Name and Meter level
Azure provides a wide array of services, each with its own pricing model. Conducting detailed cost analysis helps organizations understand where their money is being spent within Azure. It allows them to identify areas of overspending or underutilization and optimize their resources accordingly. By analysing costs, organizations can identify unused or underutilized resources and either scale them down or decommission them altogether.
Simplified device health monitoring and mapping for software-defined networks
Are you juggling too many different types of network monitoring dashboards at once? If you're using software-defined networks (SDNs) and also managing traditional networks, it can be quite challenging to monitor them both at the same time since you need to remember which tool is responsible for monitoring which network and keep switching between them. Doing this can be a real hassle, but worry not!
How can multi-step synthetic transaction monitoring help your online business?
Multi-step synthetic transactions, also known as multi-step transactions or multi-step scripts, are automated tests that simulate complex user interactions with a website or web application. Unlike a single-step transaction (like page load), multi-step transactions involve a series of sequential steps or workflows that mimic real-world user journeys.
Sentry Error Monitoring vs Logging
Learn the difference between Sentry Error Monitoring and traditional logging. TL;DR - Sentry surfaces the most important information related to debugging errors in your project, while logging includes everything, not just information related to errors.
"Secret" elmah.io features #3 - Automate tasks with elmah.io CLI
In this third post in the series of "secret" elmah.io features, I want to introduce you to the elmah.io Command Line Interface (CLI). While you probably spend most of your elmah.io-related time inside the UI, the CLI offers some interesting possibilities not available through the web app. In this post, I'll show what I believe are the two most usable and helpful features of the elmah.io CLI. There are a lot of sub-commands so feel free to play around with it.
Grafana 11 release: The latest in visualizations, Scenes-powered dashboards, simple access controls, and more
At the opening keynote of GrafanaCON 2024, attendees in Amsterdam got a sneak peek at some of the latest features in Grafana 11, which is now available in preview. Grafana: download now! For those of you who couldn’t score a ticket to the sold-out event, don’t worry — we have a roundup of all the latest updates to visualizations that make it easier than ever to create beautiful dashboards in Grafana.
GrafanaCON 2024: A guide to all the announcements from Grafana Labs
Tulips in bloom. Sunny bike rides. The latest observability trends. All signs point to springtime in Amsterdam, where Grafana Labs is thrilled to host GrafanaCON 2024 in person for the first time in five years.
Loki 3.0 release: Bloom filters, native OpenTelemetry support, and more!
Welcome to the next chapter of Grafana Loki! After five years of dedicated development, countless hours of refining, and the support of an incredible community, we are thrilled to announce that Grafana Loki 3.0 is now generally available. The journey from 2.0 to 3.0 saw a lot of impressive changes to Loki. Loki is now more performant, and it’s capable of handling larger scales — all while remaining true to its roots of efficiency and simplicity.
Find your logs data with Explore Logs: No LogQL required!
We are thrilled to announce the preview of Explore Logs, a new way to browse your logs without writing LogQL. In this post, we’ll cover why we built Explore Logs and we’ll dive deeper into some of its features, including at-a-glance breakdowns by label, detected fields, and our new pattern detection. At the end, we’ll tell you how you can try Explore Logs for yourself today. But let’s start from the beginning — with good old LogQL.
Introducing an OpenTelemetry Collector distribution with built-in Prometheus pipelines: Grafana Alloy
In the opening keynote of GrafanaCON 2024, we announced our newest OSS project: Grafana Alloy, our open source distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector. Alloy is a telemetry collector that is 100% OTLP compatible and offers native pipelines for OpenTelemetry and Prometheus telemetry formats, supporting metrics, logs, traces, and profiles. Some of you may be thinking: Wait, another collector?
Monitoring the Health Status of Progress Flowmon Appliances with IT Infrastructure Monitoring Tools
Progress Flowmon is a core network monitoring and security tool. Confirming if it is up and running can mean the difference between responding to a data breach or overlooking such a critical event. Like any other critical system, it is a good practice to include the monitoring of Flowmon uptime, resource consumption and health in an IT infrastructure monitoring (ITIM) dashboard, such as Progress WhatsUp Gold.
Better, Faster, Stronger Network Monitoring: Cribl and Model Driven Telemetry
New in Cribl 4.5, the Model Driven Telemetry Source enables you to collect, transform, and route Model Driven Telemetry (MDT) data. In this blog, you’ll learn how to explore the YANG Suite to understand the wide variety of datasets available to transmit as well as how to configure the tools to get data flowing from Cisco IOS XE network devices to Cribl Stream.
How IT administrators can streamline operations using the LogicMonitor API
In today’s fast-paced IT ecosystem, agility and efficiency are not just goals but necessities. So why waste an hour (or more) manually onboarding individual devices when you can leverage the LogicMonitor API to automate the onboarding process for an entire site in just minutes from a simple CSV file? In this article, we’re going to review how LogicMonitor administrators can maximize efficiency and transform their IT operations using LogicMonitor’s REST API and Powershell.
AIOps and Observability from Broadcom
Overview of AIOps and Observability from Broadcom: Connecting monitoring, analytics and actions along each IT domain of the full IT estate to digital services and end user experience. Manage the health, performance and availability of applications, infrastructure and networks.
Crossing the machine learning pilot to product chasm through MLOps
Numerous companies keep launching AI/ML features, specifically “ChatGPT for XYZ” type productization. Given the buzz around Large Language Models (LLMs), consumers and executives alike are growing to assume that building AI/ML-based products and features is easy. LLMs can appear to be magical as users experiment with them.
What Is an HTTP Request
HTTP requests are at the heart of communication on the World Wide Web. This article will provide an in-depth look at what HTTP requests are, how they work, and their role in enabling the web experiences we rely on every day.
What is SLA (Service-Level Agreement)?
Service level agreements (SLAs) are essential for defining and managing the performance of services provided by internal or external providers. This article explores the different types of service agreements, their key components, and best practices for creating and enforcing effective agreements.
Time Series Databases (TSDBs) Explained
Time series data is becoming more prevalent across many industries. Indeed, it is no longer limited to financial data. As the need to handle time-stamped data increases, the demand for specialized databases to handle this type of data has also grown. The solution: Time series databases. In this introduction guide, we'll explain all the basics you need to know about time series databases, including what they are, how they work and are applied, and some of their benefits.
13 SaaS Optimization Tips for IT Leaders
Your business could be spending tens of thousands on SaaS applications—but are you really using them to your full advantage? Research says probably not. Today, the average business uses 130 SaaS apps for day-to-day operations, a number that has steadily climbed over the past decade. Of those, 65% fall under the veil of shadow IT, meaning the IT team is unaware they were ever adopted.
How to Master Reporting on Microsoft SCOM
System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) reporting offers organizations a powerful toolset for monitoring and managing their IT infrastructure. The benefits of SCOM reporting include real-time performance monitoring, historical analysis for trend identification, customizable dashboards, and the ability to conduct compliance audits. These features empower administrators to proactively address issues, optimize resource allocation, and maintain compliance with industry regulations.
GripMatix Launches Advanced Citrix Logon Simulator SCOM MP
MetrixInsight for Citrix Logon Simulator is a comprehensive solution, centered around the advanced capabilities of the GripMatix Citrix Logon Simulator which conducts and monitors synthetic logon transactions continuously, ensuring round-the-clock operation. Adding to the capabilities of real user logon monitoring, synthetic user logon monitoring introduces a proactive approach to Citrix environment assessments.
Why You Need Observability With the Splunk Platform
Splunk’s extensible and scalable data platform has been instrumental in helping ITOps teams fully understand their tech environments and tackle any IT use case with data streaming, dashboarding, federated search, AI/ML, and more. But, with the explosion of telemetry and the growing complexity of digital systems, ITOps practitioners who rely solely on a logging solution are missing out on critical insights from their digital systems.
Sync Data from InfluxDB v2 to v3 With the Quix Template
If you’re an InfluxDB v2 user looking to use InfluxDB v3, you might be wondering how you can migrate data. We are still developing migration tooling. In the meantime, you can use the Quix Template to sync data from InfluxDB v2 to InfluxDB v3. Quix is a complete solution for building, deploying, and monitoring real-time applications and streaming data pipelines using Python abstracted over Kafka with DataFrames.
5 reasons why observability and security work well together
Site reliability engineers (SREs) and security analysts — despite having very different roles — share a lot of the same goals. They both employ proactive monitoring and incident response strategies to identify and address potential issues before they become service impacting. They also both prioritize organizational stability and resilience, aiming to minimize downtime and disruptions.
The UK Telecommunication Security Act (TSA): When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Lemonade
On October 1, 2022, the UK Telecommunications Security Act (TSA) went into effect, imposing new security requirements for public telecom companies. The purpose of the act is noble, as it wants to ensure the reliability and resilience of the UK telecommunications network that underpins virtually every aspect of the economy and modern society.
Instrumenting a Demo App With OpenTelemetry and Honeycomb
A few days ago, I was in a meeting with a prospect who was just starting to try out OpenTelemetry. One of the things that they did was to create an observability demo project which contained an HTTP reverse proxy, a web frontend, three microservices, a database, and a message queue. Here’s a rough diagram: Their motivation was to try out OpenTelemetry and see how much effort it took for them to instrument their system.
Observability benefits of Cisco Catalyst Center integration
LogicMonitor’s agentless collection has long provided customers with many benefits for collecting telemetry data directly from network devices. Recently, LogicMonitor added another feature, enabling the discovery of devices/sites and the collection of telemetry data from the Cisco Catalyst Center. Retaining options is essential due to the pros and cons associated with each approach.
Why Sysdig has been recognized as the Google Cloud Technology Partner of the Year 2024
Sysdig has been awarded Google Cloud’s 2024 Technology Partner of the Year for Security, excelling in the “Configuration, Vulnerability Management, and GRC (Governance, Risk and Compliance)” segment. This award acknowledges Sysdig’s innovation and commitment to customer success.
What's New at Kentik, Episode 5
Leon Adato highlights the latest additions to the Kentik network observability platform, including Kentik Journeys for iterative troubleshooting, PeeringDB integration for enhanced network insights, and the utility of Kentik's API for custom data interactions. Discover how these features enable deeper network analysis and streamline operational workflows.
Tracking Scheduled Jobs with Sentry Cron Monitoring
Don’t let your scheduled jobs miss a beat. If you regularly run jobs like data backups, system updates or invoice processing, Sentry Cron Monitoring will tell you when and why a scheduled job fails and trace it back to related errors in your project. Visit the link below to learn more.
360° Observability: Enhancing Reliability Across the Board
As a manager, figuring out how to talk to your engineering teams about building a strong observability strategy can feel overwhelming. But don't worry! This post will help you navigate the challenges to unlock the full power of observability in your IT environment. Drawing on insights from over 40 discussions with larger enterprises, we've put together a strategy assessment that examines three key focus areas — what we’re calling aspects — each encompassing three actionable steps.
What Is Website Uptime Monitoring?
Website uptime monitoring is the process of regularly checking if a website or application is available and working correctly. The main goal is to make sure that the website or app is always accessible to users and functioning as it should.
Optimize your network inventory with OpManager's powerful grouping capabilities
Monitoring network components efficiently is crucial for troubleshooting potential issues and ensuring optimal network performance. With the ever-growing complexity of networks, having a solution that streamlines the process of organizing network elements becomes indispensable.
The role of DDI solutions in optimizing network performance in banking, financial services, and insurance companies
In the high-stakes world of banking, financial services, and insurance (BFSI), collectively known as the finance sector, where transactions occur in milliseconds and financial destinies are determined in the blink of an eye, the need for uninterrupted connectivity, secure transactions, and access to accurate, real-time information is critical. It constitutes the foundation for the very integrity and success of financial operations.
Implementing observability - Things to consider!
What is important when implementing observability? Hear all about it in this video.
Infrastructure Monitoring Basics: Getting Started with Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana
Ensuring the reliability and performance of applications and systems is vital to a healthy infrastructure. With the exponential growth of data, traditional monitoring approaches fall short of providing real-time insights and proactive problem-solving. That’s where InfluxDB comes into play, offering a robust and scalable solution for all your monitoring needs.
What Is Website Monitoring?
Website monitoring is the process of tracking a website's key performance indicators using a set of tools and best practices. The goal is to maintain consistent availability and a good user experience, even during unexpected traffic spikes. A slow or poorly performing website can frustrate users, disrupt their online journey, and negatively impact the bottom line. Website monitoring helps organizations avoid downtime and proactively respond to potential errors before they affect the end-user experience.
Guide To Product Experience (PX)
Product experience (PX) is a critical aspect of the user journey that focuses on the interactions and experiences within a product. This article explores the importance of product experience, key elements of product experience management, the role of different teams in shaping PX, best practices for improvement, and challenges to consider.
The Leading Stackify Alternatives
Stackify Retrace is an application performance management (APM) and log management platform designed to assist developers and DevOps teams in tracking, troubleshooting, and enhancing the performance of their applications and infrastructure. Stackify Retrace effectively combines APM with log management, enabling users to view detailed transaction traces for applications directly from the log statement to provide greater context and visibility for more effective analysis.
Validating Cloud Connections for Enhanced Connected Experiences
The world relies on the cloud which means that organizations are fundamentally reliant on third-party networks to access these critical cloud resources. While cloud adoption decisions are largely made by executive teams, the responsibility of performance and availability falls squarely on the shoulders of network operations teams.
Implementing Jaeger for Distributed Tracing in Microservices
Earlier, applications were mostly monolithic, meaning that several programs were written in the same language and placed in the same web stack. However, it is no longer the case today. Today, every software is comprised of several small application programs coming together each providing a service of its own. These applications are what we call microservices.
5 Best Cloud-Based Monitoring Tools
Rapid advancements in technology have welcomed the rise of cloud computing. This has changed how we access and manage IT resources, shifting the paradigm to more cloud-based management and monitoring. However, with so many moving parts, maintaining complete visibility and control can be a challenge. This is the hurdle that cloud-based monitoring tools are trying to overcome.
SRECon Recap: Product Reliability, Burn Out, and more
I recently attended SRECon in San Francisco on March 18 - 20, a show dedicated to a gathering of engineers who care deeply about site reliability, systems engineering, and working with complex distributed systems at scale. While there were a lot of talks, I’ll focus on a few areas that gave me the most insight into how having the right data impacts an SREs and an organization’s success.
How to detect new errors in production
How to improve your release quality by using Rollbar to detect new and reactivated errors from production, staging or qa environments. Go beyond crash reporting, error tracking, logging and error monitoring. Get instant and accurate alerts — plus a real-time feed — of all errors, including unhandled exceptions. Our automation-grade grouping uses machine learning to reduce noise and gives you error signals you can trust.
A Guide to Zoom Assessments: Unlocking Optimal Zoom Performance & Understanding Zoom Network Requirements
Zoom has become a go-to platform for businesses hosting virtual meetings and collaborations. However, ensuring smooth and efficient Zoom sessions requires more than just joining a meeting close to a Wi-Fi router. While Zoom provides a built-in monitoring tool for real-time quality checks during meetings, it lacks historical data and baseline analysis, limiting its utility.
VictoriaMetrics Meetup April 2024
Watch the replay of our live Q1 2024 Virtual Meet Up with the following agenda.
SQUPCAST Ep. 1: Welcome, what's new, what's coming
We're kicking off SQUPCAST with some introductions, and a wholesome chat with our product managers who'll show off all the new features and plugins we've added to SquaredUp in the last month.
How is IPAM simplifying modern networking needs?
Today, manual IP address management is no longer sustainable. With changing technology requirements and business goals, modern IT infrastructures face various complexities, including network sprawl, inefficiencies, security vulnerabilities, and reduced visibility. In this white paper, we explore the solution to these challenges: adopting an automated IP address management (IPAM) approach. Automation streamlines operations, enhances security, and provides real-time visibility.
ScienceLogic Launches Nexus Online Community, Delivers a Destination for Customers to Collaborate, Solve Problems, and Rapidly Learn
Nexus will serve as a central hub for information and collaboration across the ScienceLogic community.
Understanding service level agreements (SLAs): The basics
Service Level Agreements, or SLAs, are like business handshakes. They are the promises that companies and service providers make to each other about service quality, like how quickly a website loads or how fast customer service responds. SLAs set clear expectations right from the start, ensuring no surprises along the way and keeping both sides happy.
Getting started with the Elastic AI Assistant for Observability and Microsoft Azure OpenAI
Recently, Elastic announced the AI Assistant for Observability is now generally available for all Elastic users. The AI Assistant enables a new tool for Elastic Observability providing large language model (LLM) connected chat and contextual insights to explain errors and suggest remediation.
Monitor SQS with Data Streams Monitoring
Datadog Data Streams Monitoring (DSM) provides detailed visibility into your event-driven applications and streaming data pipelines, letting you easily track and improve performance. We’ve covered DSM for Kafka and RabbitMQ users previously on our blog. In this post, we’ll guide you through using DSM to monitor applications built with Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS).
Integrations for new Data Sources, Upgrades to Alerts & Kubecon Paris - SigNal 35
Welcome to the 35th edition of our monthly product newsletter - SigNal 35! We have made significant advancements in enhancing our product. The integration feature we shipped will enable quick-start monitoring for popular technologies in SigNoz. Let’s see what humans of SigNoz were up to in the month of March 2024.
Observing Core Web Vitals with OpenTelemetry: Part Two
Core Web Vitals (CWV) are Google's preferred metrics for measuring the quality of the user experience for browser web apps. Currently, Core Web Vitals measure loading performance, interactivity, and visual stability. These are the main indicators of what a user’s experience will be while using a web page: Note: As of March 12th, INP has become a stable Core Web Vital, replacing First Input Delay (FID).
Legacy alerting removal: What you need to know about upgrading to Grafana Alerting
Two years ago, when we launched Grafana 9, we announced the deprecation of legacy alerting and introduced Grafana Alerting, the new default alerting system in all editions of Grafana. Since then we have invested in Grafana Alerting, making it easier to create and manage your alerts. Along the way we have also worked to make the transition from legacy alerting to Grafana Alerting as seamless as possible in preparation for the time when we remove legacy alerting altogether from Grafana.
This Month in Datadog Ep. 30 out now! #DASH2024 #technology #NVIDIA
On This Month in Datadog, we’re covering Datadog Security for Google Cloud, our integration with NVIDIA Triton Inference Server, and Sankey visualizations, which offer overviews of common paths users take across your app.
What is OpenTelemetry? The Definitive Guide to Modern Observability
Imagine having total awareness of your apps: observing the effects of code on efficiency, identifying bottlenecks, and predicting crashes. The open-source observability platform OpenTelemetry makes this possible. OpenTelemetry, designed to collect telemetry data, provides you with the knowledge necessary to enhance your systems and provide a flawless user experience.
Open Source vs. Closed Source Software
In software development, two primary models of software exist: open source and closed source. Both types have their benefits and drawbacks, and understanding the differences between them can help you make informed decisions when choosing software for your projects. To simplify the concepts of open source and closed source software, let’s use the analogy of community cookbooks — open source — and a secret family recipe: the closed source.
Cribl Search Now Supports Email Alerts For Your Critical Notifications!
Cribl Search helps find and access data regardless of the format it’s in or where it lives. Search provides a federated solution that reaches into existing object stores and explores data without moving it or having to index it first. This same interface can also connect to APIs, databases, or existing tooling, and can even join results from all these disparate datasets and display them in comprehensive dashboards.
Mastering Microsoft Teams Network Assessments: How to Audit Microsoft Teams Performance
Microsoft Teams has become a cornerstone of collaboration and communication for countless enterprises worldwide. However, as reliance on Unified Communications (UC) grows, so do the chances of encountering performance issues. While Microsoft Teams offers some native tools for network assessments, they often prove limited and fail to address underlying issues effectively.
Announcing the Elastic OpenTelemetry SDK Distributions
Adopting OpenTelemetry native standards for instrumenting and observing applications If you develop applications, you may have heard about OpenTelemetry. At Elastic®, we are enthusiastic about OpenTelemetry as the future of standardized application instrumentation and observability.
Active Directory Monitoring: Why You Need it and How to Do it Right
Active Directory (AD) is in many ways the lifeblood of your network, especially in terms of user and identity management. AD has become the core directory service for most enterprises, keeping track of users and IT assets, allowing all these to be identified and manipulated. Because Active Directory houses all these identities and logs the enterprise’s IT assets, IT can spot breaches and abnormal behavior through this directory data.
How to setup ACH payment in Rollbar
Discover, predict, and resolve errors in real-time. Go beyond crash reporting, error tracking, logging and error monitoring. Get instant and accurate alerts — plus a real-time feed — of all errors, including unhandled exceptions. Our automation-grade grouping uses machine learning to reduce noise and gives you error signals you can trust.
Small improvements add up to big updates at Sentry
It’s the little things that can make a big difference. While we announced significant product updates like Autofix and Metrics (to name a few) during Launch Week, we couldn’t cover everything. Over the past few months, we shipped updates to the core platform, improvements to the developer workflow, and a series of quality-of-life features. The sum of these small improvements add up to big updates across Sentry that help make your production issues even more debuggable.
Elevating Azure Management Solutions Together - Turbo360 Joins Forces with TwoConnect
We are delighted to share with you an exciting development that underscores our ongoing commitment to providing exceptional Azure management solutions. Turbo360 and TwoConnect, trusted partners in the Microsoft Azure ecosystem, are joining forces to elevate your cloud journey to new heights. Our partnership with TwoConnect isn’t merely a recent collaboration; it’s a testament to the enduring bond forged over time.
How an APM Alternative Helps You Do Observability Right
Every software-driven business strives for optimum performance and user experience. Observability—which allows engineering and IT Ops teams to understand the internal state of their cloud applications and infrastructure based on available telemetry data —has emerged as a crucial practice to help engage this process. For years, application performance monitoring (APM) was the de facto practice and tooling that organizations have used to keep tabs on their critical systems.
What If You Could Pull Metrics Out of Your Events?
As data keeps growing at incredible rates, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to store and monitor at a reasonable cost leaving you to cherry-pick which data to store. As developers are accustomed to integrating metrics within their logs and spans, this can result in poor monitoring & analysis, alert fatigue, and longer MTTR. Teams are left having to dig out the most relevant data, which results in missed trends and analysis.
How to use AIOps to Modernize Without Compromise
While the Biden administration aggressively pushes federal agencies to modernize their IT infrastructures, ITOps managers are left wondering how to do so without making network management more complex than it already is. Modernization necessitates the addition of more tools, which can easily lead to tool sprawl and increase technical debt. Managers are already using multitudes of vendor-specific tools to monitor different devices and applications. The last thing they want is to add more.
Our Check Overview Page Has a Fresh New Look
We are very excited to announce that we redesigned our monitoring results chart to make it easier for you to understand check performance over time and easily investigate any past anomaly. The redesign is a result of our UX research that showed that the old check overview chart made it challenging for users to find check results from the past. While we were redesigning our monitoring results charts, we wanted to achieve two things: And, we achieved this in three attempts. Let’s dive in.
Which is Better for Monitoring: Datadog or AWS CloudWatch?
Observability is the process of understanding complex systems by analyzing their outcomes and enhancing those outcomes by monitoring events within the system. Today, observability is essential for IT services to achieve a better user experience and optimize software performance. With cloud platforms dominating the IT services landscape, organizations are inclined to deploy their software and hardware systems in the cloud to reduce operational costs and enhance flexibility.
How the Prometheus community is investing in OpenTelemetry
Goutham Veeramachaneni, a product manager at Grafana Labs, and Carrie Edwards, a senior software engineer at Grafana Labs, are both contributors to the Prometheus open source project. This post, which they wrote together, was originally published on the Prometheus.io blog in March 2024. The OpenTelemetry project is an observability framework and toolkit designed to create and manage telemetry data such as traces, metrics, and logs.
The Data Lake Dilemma: Why Businesses Need a New Approach
In today’s data-driven landscape, every organization knows the immense value their data holds, but with the explosion of data from diverse sources, traditional data storage and management solutions are proving inadequate. Organizations are urgently seeking new ways to handle their data effectively.
Datadog on Site Reliability Engineering #shorts #datadog #observability
There are many different ways to implement Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). From team structures to roles and responsibilities to planning and prioritization flows, there’s no golden path for how to organize things. As Datadog has shifted from a startup to a quickly-growing public company, we’ve seen our own SRE practice evolve. With over 22,000 customers sending trillions of data points each day, keeping Datadog reliable is critical to our business.
Creating alerts with Grafana | Grafana for Beginners Ep 11
When observing your data with Grafana, you don't need to be glued to your dashboard 24/7. Join Senior Developer Advocate, Lisa Jung to learn how to set up Grafana to keep an eye on your data and alert you if something needs your attention! The following are covered in this episode: ☁️ Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more. We also have plans for every use case.
Using Telegraf to Feed API JSON Data into Kentik NMS
Discover how to harness API JSON data for Kentik NMS using Telegraf in this insightful video by Justin Ryburn. Learn to containerize with Docker Compose, configure Telegraf to collect and transform metrics, and seamlessly integrate them into Kentik's network monitoring system. A step-by-step guide for enhancing your NMS capabilities with API data.
Synthetic monitoring for TFA-backed applications
Two-factor authentication (TFA, sometimes 2FA) is a crucial security measure that adds an extra layer of protection to your online account. It goes beyond the traditional password-based authentication by requiring a second form of verification. In TFA-backed applications, users are supposed to provide two forms of verification before gaining access to their accounts.
An SRE's Most Important Skill? Communication
I wish someone had told me that I shouldn’t hop between frameworks. Just like learning four programming languages in your first year, in my experience spending time content switching as a beginner is wasted effort. If I’d spent a solid year learning how to deploy services on AWS, then when it was time to learn Azure, I’d see more similarities than differences and find it a lot easier to pick up a second public cloud.
How to combine POMs (Page Object Models) with Playwright Fixtures for better developer experience
Page object models (POM) are common to encapsulate test automation logic and improve code readability. Learn in this video how to combine POMs and Playwright fixtures for effective end-to-end testing and synthetic monitoring with an excellent developer experience. Got questions? Join the Checkly community Slack. And tune in next week for more on Playwright, Synthetic Monitoring, and API Monitoring. Happy testing!
A Beginner's Guide to Setting Up Status Pages with Uptime.com
Imagine your website or service suddenly goes offline, and, somehow, you’re the last one in the loop. Not the best start to your day, wouldn’t you say? This is where the hero of our narrative steps into the spotlight: status pages. These powerful tools are more than just digital canaries in the coal mine; they are the beacon of transparency and trust for your users, signaling that you’re on top of things—even when things go topsy-turvy.
SolarWinds Celebrates Twenty-Five Years of Excellence in IT Management and Innovation
New SolarWinds survey provides insight from IT pros on the most transformative technologies and the biggest challenges that lie ahead.
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How CloudFabrix Telco Service Assurance Uses Multi-Protocol and Multi-Layer Correlation to Improve Service Delivery
Telco service providers face a unique set of challenges when it comes to service delivery. Their networks are complex and heterogeneous, and they need to be able to correlate events from multiple protocols and layers in order to quickly identify and resolve problems.
Client Testimonial - MEDHOST
In the fast-paced world of healthcare, efficiency and reliability are paramount. For forty years, MEDHOST has been a trusted provider of Electronic Health Record (EHR) solutions, serving hospitals with cutting-edge software for clinical, Emergency Department Information Systems (EDIS), and emergency services. However, as the demands on their infrastructure grew, they faced the challenge of ensuring seamless performance monitoring across their vast network of clients.
Beginners guide - Visualizing Logs | Grafana
In this video, Grafana Developer Advocate Leandro Melendez describes the logs visualization panel, which shows log lines from data sources that support logs, such as Elastic, Influx, and Loki. Typically you would use this visualization next to a graph visualization to display the log output of a related process.
How to Add a Cloud Account | SolarWinds Observability Tutorial
For the latest live and on-demand product training, visit the Customer Portal: https://customerportal.solarwinds.com/login
Overcoming Azure Service Bus Monitoring Challenges
Monitoring Azure Service Bus (SB) comes with its own set of challenges, primarily due to the distributed nature of the service and the complexities involved in message processing and delivery. Some of the most common challenges associated with monitoring Azure SB include: Message Flow Monitoring: Tracking the flow of messages through various queues or topics, including understanding where bottlenecks might occur or where messages might be delayed.
Adjusting Data Before Sending it to Kentik NMS
Leon takes a look at how to further modify SNMP metrics in Kentik NMS. Because sometimes, you want to modify data before displaying it in your network monitoring system. Ready? Let’s get mathy with it!
Tailored Azure cost savings notification and alerts
When an organization attempts to reduce costs immediately, one of its go-to options is to look into the Azure advisor recommendations and take action on them. However, the biggest challenge for many customers is that they often do not know there are saving insights available to take advantage of and reduce thousands of dollars per year in Azure bills. This is because of a few reasons, as defined below;
The Challenges of Rising MTTR - And What to Do
Data volumes are soaring. Environments are increasingly intricate. The risk of applications and systems encountering breakdowns is sky-high, and the mean time to recovery (MTTR) for production incidents is moving in the wrong direction. Disruptions not only jeopardize critical infrastructure but also have a direct impact on the bottom line of organizations. Swift recovery of affected services becomes paramount, as it directly correlates with business continuity and resilience.
Ensure continuous delivery by monitoring Jenkins pipeline performance
Jenkins pipelines play a pivotal role in achieving continuous delivery in software development processes. Continuous delivery (CD) is a software delivery approach aimed at ensuring that code changes are systematically and automatically prepared for release to production. In modern software development practices, CD pipelines streamline the process of building, testing, and deploying software, enabling organizations to accelerate software delivery and provide value to its customers.
2024 SRE Report Insights: The Critical Role of Third-Party Monitoring in SRE
The 2024 SRE Report highlights a pivotal shift in how organizations approach the reliability and monitoring of their services, especially those that extend beyond their direct control. According to the report, 64% of organizations now recognize the importance of monitoring productivity or experience-disrupting endpoints, even beyond their physical control.
Optimizing Operations: A Look At Observability For Manufacturers
As the automation of processes and deployment becomes more prevalent in the manufacturing industry, the need for IT services grows further. The use of complex systems and technologies, such as AI and robotics has become the new normal for manufacturing organizations.
OnlineOrNot updates from March 2024
March was a fun month for OnlineOrNot. I spoke to more customers than ever before, developed a long roadmap for OnlineOrNot's status page functionality (it's going to be an even better stand-alone product), heartbeat checks are going to support cron expressions, and more.
Choosing the Right Opentelemetry Backend: Key Considerations
With applications becoming increasingly distributed and complex, gaining insights into their behavior and performance is essential for maintaining reliability and delivering exceptional user experiences. OpenTelemetry has emerged as a powerful framework for instrumenting applications to collect, process, and export telemetry data.
Six Tips to Reduce Noise in IT Operations
“We are drowning in noise all day long! Please help us!” -Every IT operations team Rich monitoring data is more important than ever for IT operations to manage the range of technology platforms and inter-connected systems the business runs on. One natural result of this is there are more signals and more noise that vie for operator attention.
How to Gain Visibility into Internet Performance
Continued cloud adoption is leading to an increasing reliance on internet services, and on a complex mix of external service providers and technologies to deliver those services. For network operations teams, these moves significantly reduce visibility into the performance of the underlying infrastructure that business services depend upon. In spite of this diminishing visibility and control, these teams remain responsible for network performance.
New: Real-Time Remediation with Nexthink Flow's Event Trigger
Some issues can’t wait. When it comes to compliance or employee experience issues, time matters. Now with Nexthink Flow’s real-time event trigger, you can instantly trigger an automated workflow based off an event like an alert, employee login or application crash. When setting up a new workflow, you can select “Events” in the “Trigger” section and use a NQL query to identify the event to track.
SolarWinds | Empowering Communities Since 1999
It started with a single spark. In 1999, a network engineer came up with an idea for a simple tool to make his team's daily routine a little easier. That initial spark of an idea would soon ignite an iconic flame, lighting the way for IT professionals all over the world. SolarWinds has always been guided by a simple yet profound vision. To make IT management software easier to use, more effective and more affordable.
Simplified routing in Grafana Alerting: Easy, secure, and powerful
With great power comes great… complexity? When we introduced Grafana Alerting a few years ago, it included a powerful routing feature that teams could use to send alerts to various contact points. Unfortunately, this functionality also came with a fair bit of complexity and an unfamiliar UX. This prevented many users from adopting it, but we’re still big believers in how it can help users.
Empower engineers to take ownership of Google Cloud costs with Datadog
Google Cloud provides a wide range of services and tools to help engineering teams reduce the complexity of migrating and deploying applications in the cloud. As engineering teams work to improve the performance, reliability, and security of their applications, they also need to be conscious of cloud costs. But engineers often don’t have access to cost data, or they only see cost data in monthly reports.
Beyond the trace: Pinpointing performance culprits with continuous profiling and distributed tracing correlation
Observability goes beyond monitoring; it's about truly understanding your system. To achieve this comprehensive view, practitioners need a unified observability solution that natively combines insights from metrics, logs, traces, and crucially, continuous profiling. While metrics, logs, and traces offer valuable insights, they can't answer the all-important "why." Continuous profiling signals act as a magnifying glass, providing granular code visibility into the system's hidden complexities.
Get the data and cloud native security needed to protect digital users at scale
Cisco is now providing data security and cloud security capabilities on Cisco Secure Application as a standalone Cisco Observability Platform application.
March product updates
The moment has arrived! Our first spring update is here, highlighting our recent progress. Let’s delve into what we shipped over the last month.
Troubleshooting Missing Alert Center Notifications in WhatsUp Gold
WhatsUp Gold Alert Center detects and notifies you of critical messages, failures, and other key events based on thresholds you have configured on your monitored devices. This video explains possible reasons and troubleshooting steps you can take if you feel you are missing alert notifications.
Updated TV Integration
Enhance your TV integration experience with customizable layouts. Choose from 2, 3, or 4 column options, giving you full control over how your monitors are displayed on the big screen. For those that haven’t seen it, the TV Integration is a simplified version of your status page formatted for display on a TV screen. Perfect for your IT office or NOC, the URL can simply be Chromecasted up to any screen.
More Historical Data
Our plans now include a specific timeframe of historical data that varies depending on the tier you choose. This change ensures that customers on our higher tier plans get even great visibility into the past performance of their vendors. Previously, historical data access was limited to your date of sign up. Existing customers automatically receive either their existing historical data limit OR the new limit, whichever is greater.
Monitoring diverse IT endpoints with custom SNMP monitoring
As our world becomes more connected, the number of network devices is growing at an unprecedented rate. This poses a challenge for network administrators who need to keep track of all the devices that are added to their network every day. Relying only on monitoring tools with a standard device repository may no longer be sufficient, leading to monitoring gaps and leaving the network vulnerable to potential security risks. Imagine that you have a device that appears as "unknown" in your monitoring tool.
Falling Into the Stargate of Hidden Microservices Costs
Proponents of microservices claim more development velocity and reliability; more comprehensive test and vertical or horizontal scale with a container orchestrator; tons of flexibility around tool choice. They’re not wrong: When you build with a microservices architecture, you’re likely going to see cost improvements early in your software development life cycle (SDLC), driven mostly by the decoupling of services.
OpManager MSP: Your all-in-one solution for multiclient network management
The landscape of network management is undeniably growing in complexity, driven by several factors like: Businesses encountering challenges in managing their networks often turn to managed service providers (MSPs) to alleviate these burdens. MSPs face the pressure of managing these challenges within tight time frames. Additionally, they are tasked with ensuring equal attention to all the networks under their management. Failing to do so could result in a network slipping through the cracks.
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Maximizing ROI with Synthetic and Real-User Monitoring
Today's dynamic business landscape challenges organizations to find ways to optimize their investment and streamline their budgets. With the increasing prominence of remote work and user experience playing a pivotal role in productivity, obtaining a high return on investment (ROI) has become more critical than ever. This article explores how Exoprise's synthetic sensors (Cloudready) and Real User Monitoring (RUM via Service Watch) offer valuable insights that can help drive ROI and enhance digital experience monitoring for businesses.
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JS Toolbox 2024: Runtime environments & package management
JavaScript remains the world's leading programming language, and with TypeScript now ascending to third most popular, JavaScript is bigger than ever! As a result, there's a bewildering range of tools on offer for JavaScript developers. And just as any durable structure needs a solid foundation, successful JavaScript projects rely heavily on starting with the right tools. This post, the first in our JS Toolbox 2024 series, explores the core pillars of the JavaScript & TypeScript ecosystem: Runtime environments, package management, and development servers.
Request Metrics Evergreen
🚀 Today, the team at Request Metrics is changing the game in #webperformance with the introduction of Evergreen! Say goodbye to slow website performance and hello to your perfect green performance reports. 😫 Tired of your boss nagging you about improving your #CoreWebVitals? Say no more! Request Metrics Evergreen has got you covered and will have your boss off your back in no time.
Monitoring Next.js with Opentelemetry
NestJS is a popular and powerful open-source framework for building scalable and maintainable server-side applications with Node.js. It was developed by Kamil Myśliwiec and first released in 2017. NestJS is inspired by Angular, which brings familiarity and a structured approach to building back-end applications.
Filter and correlate logs dynamically using Subqueries
Logs provide valuable information that can help you troubleshoot performance issues, track usage patterns, and conduct security audits. To derive actionable insights from log sources and facilitate thorough investigations, Datadog Log Management provides an easy-to-use query editor that enables you to group logs into patterns with a single click or perform reference table lookups on-the-fly for in-depth analysis.
ScienceLogic's CEO Discusses AIOps Evolution with Techstrong TV
In early 2024, ScienceLogic published a new book chronicling the company’s pioneering AIOps Journey. Authored by CEO Dave Link, the book, “Innovation: Journey and Outcomes for the AIOps Revolution,” delves into the narrative of how the ScienceLogic’s SL1 platform has grown to empower organizations to navigate the intricate challenges of managing complex, distributed IT services with unparalleled speed, scale, and real-time precision.
Welcoming Henry the Honey Badger: The New Face of Cribl
At Cribl, we’ve always prided ourselves on solving complex data challenges for our customers, but doing so with a bold spirit and a can-do attitude. Our journey with Ian the Goat as our mascot has been nothing short of incredible. Ian represented our agile and adaptable approach to solving complex data challenges. However, as we pivot towards tackling even bigger data puzzles for our customers, we believe it’s time for our mascot to reflect this evolution.
Optimizing the performance of Flutter apps with Site24x7 mobile APM
F lutter, a powerful and versatile open-source framework developed by Google, can be used to develop a wide range of applications across multiple platforms. Th is framework comes with pre-built widgets that developers can use to build an application's UI layouts, making it incredibly easy to use.
SafetyDetectives: An Interview-With-Costa-Tsaousis
In a recent conversation with SafetyDetectives, Costa Tsaousis, CEO and founder of Netdata, shares insights into the inception and evolution of Netdata, a game-changing monitoring solution. With a background in fintech and a passion for real-time data processing, Tsaousis was driven to create Netdata in response to the significant gaps he identified in traditional monitoring tools.
Unlock the Power of Observability with OpenTelemetry Logs Data Model
Your log records may be missing a key ingredient that unlocks the world of observability for your applications, infrastructure and services. If you're building a new application or enhancing an existing one, consider adopting the OpenTelemetry Logs Data Model's Log and Event Record Definition. Adopting this definition enriches your logs by adding additional data, making it easier to use them to correlate them with metrics and traces, in addition to XYZ.
Webinar Recap: How to Manage Telemetry Data with Confidence
In our recent webinar hosted by Bill Balnave, VP of Technical Services, and Brandon Shelton, our Solution Architect, we discussed how data's continuous growth and dynamic nature cause DevOps and security teams to lose confidence in their data. The uncertainty about the content of telemetry data, concerns about its completeness, and worries about sending sensitive PII information in data streams reduce trust in the collected and distributed data.
Load Balancing Graylog with NGINX: Ultimate Guide
In cybersecurity, “Load Balancing Graylog with Nginx: The Ultimate Guide” is your reference guide. This guide helps to install Nginx. Imagine your Graylog, already proficient at managing vast log data, now enhanced with the Nginx load balancing capability to ensure peak performance. NGINX ensures your Graylog cluster isn’t over-taxed, similar to a well-organized team where work is evenly distributed.