Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

On a recent thread on the CNCF Slack’s OTel Collector channel, a user asked a question that shone a light on a topic I don't think has been effectively discussed elsewhere.

Digital Employee Experience is vital to attract and keep the best employees. A solid DEX strategy also increases employee productivity and motivation, a selling point for business leadership across the board. Yet, IT teams have less and less ability to control the factors that make up the digital employee experience. Although IT still own the devices, most of the network and applications are managed by third-party vendors.

Pandora FMS is an excellent monitoring system that helps collect data, detect anomalies, and monitor devices, infrastructures, applications, and business processes. However, more than monitoring alone is needed to manage the entire incident lifecycle. ilert complements Pandora FMS by adding alerting and incident management capabilities. While Pandora FMS detects anomalies, ilert ensures that the right people are notified and can take action quickly.

As software engineers, we all know that troubleshooting often involves sifting through heaps of data points — scanning metrics, reading logs, checking resource status and analyzing events. We manually connect the dots, and if we're experienced enough, we might spot an issue that's about to become a problem. At StackState, we've faced these same challenges.

While Grafana is one of the better known names in the industry, Coralogix offers a full-stack observability platform. Despite the popularity of the Grafana brand, the cloud based solution lacks in some key areas. This article will go over the differences between Coralogix and Grafana Cloud, from features, customer support, pricing and more.

For Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) sessions, Microsoft exposes a set of user experience and graphics performance counters that eG Enterprise monitors out-of-the-box. These performance counters for Azure Virtual Desktop and Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) / RemoteFX sessions can be used to troubleshoot AVD problems.

Kubernetes integrations are now available for AutoSys, dSeries, and Automic Automation. It wasn’t that long ago that teams in many organizations started dipping their toes into the world of containers and microservices. It didn’t take long for this approach to application development and orchestration to take hold, and for Kubernetes to emerge as a dominant, broadly used technology.

OpenTelemetry can be used for generating and collecting telemetry signals like logs, metrics, and traces. The advantage of using OpenTelemetry for observability is that it is open-source and frees you from vendor lock-in. You can use OpenTelemetry for multiple use cases OpenTelemetry is an open-source project which has emerged as the standard for achieving comprehensive observability in modern applications.