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Today’s complex, dynamic applications demand rigorous resilience testing. A common hurdle is accurately mimicking real user behavior. This post discusses a possible solution: production traffic replication (PTR), a technique that captures actual user interactions to enhance chaos testing, and the principle of intentionally introducing failures to evaluate application recovery.

Your status page is an important tool for communicating incidents and building trust with your customers. It's also an opportunity to reinforce your brand's identity. That’s why we’re excited to introduce new customization options for your status pages at Oh Dear!

vmstorage is the component in VictoriaMetrics that handles long-term storage of monitoring data. It receives data from vminsert, organizes the data into efficient storage structures, and manages how long data is kept. Before vminsert even sees the data, agents are out there collecting it, these agents gather metrics from different sources, hold onto the data briefly, and then send it over to vminsert in batches.

The stakes are high in Aerospace manufacturing and operations. Aerospace systems are highly complex and require extremely precise engineering—every part of an aircraft or spacecraft must work together flawlessly, and error tolerance is minuscule. Ensuring that all components work perfectly under various conditions (pressure, temperature, vibration) is vital. The cost of building and operating aerospace systems is enormous.

An often-overlooked, powerful feature of DX UIM (Unified Infrastructure Management) is the Alarm Enrichment probe. Deployed on the Primary Hub as part of the standard installation, this feature has significant, often untapped potential to enhance the effectiveness of alarms generated by DX UIM.

You might be familiar with the following scenario: You have a monitor displaying 20 open applications to oversee multiple networks or various aspects of your network infrastructure. Your inbox is steadily filling up with emails—many of which you can't seem to open and respond to in a timely manner. Outstanding tasks are accumulating, all due to an unexpected outage in a data center. If this resonates with you, it's likely that you are a network administrator or someone who works closely with them.

AWS powers countless businesses with its vast services and unmatched scalability, but managing such a dynamic environment comes with challenges. Effective monitoring isn’t an option—it’s essential for ensuring performance, controlling costs, and maintaining compliance. Without a strategic approach, issues can escalate quickly, impacting customer experiences and business outcomes.

When things go wrong with your software systems, you need a reliable way to alert the right people and manage incidents. To help you make the best decision, we have summarized the G2 reviews of some of the most popular on-call management tools.

In today’s data-driven world, ensuring the security and compliance of your data pipelines is paramount. Cribl Stream and Cribl Edge offer powerful telemetry data management and enrichment solutions. However, deploying these tools within your environment often requires careful consideration of security and compliance standards.

For accurate and effective performance testing, synthetic monitoring has become a staple and this is only going to continue in the coming years. This is mainly due to the fact that this process is beneficial and offers numerous advantages to organizations. With synthetic monitoring, your organization can identify performance issues before they affect real users. By continuously simulating user interactions, your team can highlight and rectify performance bottlenecks and infrastructure issues in real time.