Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

There are many ways to interact with the data that Icinga 2 collects, processes, and produces. The most common is probably Icinga Web, which displays checks in all the colors of a traffic light. Icinga 2 also comes with several metrics or performance data writers. But that is not all. Icinga 2 has open interfaces to integrate all kinds of third-party tools if one is not afraid to write a little glue code.

With the increasing complexity of modern applications and cloud infrastructures, monitoring and observability have become essential for maintaining performance, reliability, and security. Organizations need tools that provide actionable insights into their systems, enabling them to detect issues early and optimize resource usage. Two leading monitoring solutions in the market today are Datadog and Amazon CloudWatch.

AWS is one of the most popular public cloud platforms, offering over 240 cloud services. Despite the cloud provider’s efforts to make its tools easy to use, managing the vast array of AWS resources and services can be challenging. For example, AWS environments require continuous monitoring to determine what changes need to be made to reduce costs, improve performance, and secure your systems. This is where AWS monitoring tools, services, and best practices can help.

First and foremost, we are human. We can’t get around it, and some things will make us anxious, frustrated, and mad. As much as we like to think we are optimists, we frequently don’t notice something until it disappoints us in some way. In this article, we will take a look at how web performance and psychology impact user satisfaction.

We talk a lot about how website availability affects your business in revenue and brand perception. We throw out statistics, and we give dire warnings, but until you’ve taken the time to do the research, you don’t really know how the numbers affect your business. In this article, we step through the issues associated with downtime, and we show you how to quantify the impact of website downtime on your business’s revenue.

Real problems need real solutions. We’ve all heard the same lofty claims about AI in IT operations: “Reduce alert noise” and “Detect anomalies.” While these sound great on paper, they often fall flat when critical systems fail during peak buying seasons or a major security threat goes undetected.

On the March episode of This Month in Datadog, Jeremy Garcia (VP of Technical Community and Open Source) covers Attacker Clustering, Auto Test Retries, and new Observability Pipelines features, including keyword dictionaries and several integrations. Later in the episode, Jinwu Liu (Product Manager) spotlights Reference Tables, which is now generally available, and Yash Kumar (Product Lead, Cloud SIEM) shows how these tables can be used to add context to detection rules in Cloud SIEM.

InfluxDB is a powerful open-source time-series database widely used for monitoring system performance, IoT metrics, and application telemetry. With SquaredUp's InfluxDB plugin, you can effortlessly visualize and monitor your InfluxDB data, gaining real-time insights into your metrics alongside your other tools and services. This guide will walk you through connecting InfluxDB with SquaredUp, creating dashboards, setting up monitoring, and sharing your visualizations.