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Achieving Faster Mean Time to Resolution MTTR with AIOps

In today’s fast-paced digital world, customer satisfaction is the top priority of every other business. To ensure that customer stays satisfied with your service and application at all times, businesses must work on reducing their downtime and guarantee quick resolutions. Excessive downtime can be expensive for any business and its brand reputation. Hence, adapting practices that eliminate issues responsible for downtime is crucial for maintaining seamless IT operations.

StatusIQ's Blue plan

StatusIQ simplifies status page management for businesses, ensuring transparent communication during downtime and incidents. Now, introducing StatusIQ's Blue Plan! This video highlights the key features designed to elevate your status page experience, making it more secure, personalized, and insightful. This is ideal for businesses looking to enhance their user engagement and transparency.

We Believe that Nexthink is the #1 Vendor in DEX. Whichever Way You Look at It.

This headline is maybe a little surprising, even for Nexthinkers. We’re known for being conservative and letting our work do the talking. At Nexthink, we first created the DEX category, then rolled out the world’s most capable and holistic DEX platform, and then delivered year on year as the most successful DEX vendor in the market. Something to do with our Swiss heritage perhaps – an emphasis on diligence and execution, rather than on singing our own praises.

Zero-instrumentation observability based on eBPF

Zero-Instrumentation Observability with eBPF Are you struggling to achieve comprehensive system observability without the burden of instrumentation? Join Peter Zaitsev for a webinar that will revolutionize your approach. Discover how eBPF, a powerful technology, can provide zero-instrumentation observability, allowing you to: Coroot is an open source observability platform that helps engineers fix service outages and even prevent them. It continuously audits telemetry data to highlight issues and weak spots in your services. Quick setup, no code required.

MSP Networking: Definitions, Insights and Strategies

Staying on top of client networks is no walk in the park for MSPs these days. With the growing reliance on cloud apps, distributed workforces, and constant technology changes, network environments have become exponentially more complex. Without rock-solid network management practices, disruptions and plummeting productivity become inevitable for clients. This makes it more crucial than ever for MSPs to level up their networking game.

What is an MSP? A Beginner's Guide to Outsourced IT

Picture a calm Tuesday morning at the office. You login to your desktop, ready to tackle the week, when suddenly the screen goes blank. The IT systems are down—your heartbeat just skipped a beat. Now picture an alternate scenario where before you even realize there’s a problem, it’s already being solved. This isn’t just wishful thinking—it’s the reality for businesses that partner with a Managed Service Provider (MSP).

Key learnings from the State of Cloud Costs study

We recently released our initial State of Cloud Costs report, which identified factors shaping the costs of hundreds of organizations that use Datadog Cloud Cost Management to monitor their AWS spend. The report reveals several widely applicable themes, including the ways in which resource utilization, adoption of emerging technologies, and participation in commitment-based discount programs all shape cloud environments and costs.

Attach Screenshots to Your Playwright Test Reports

Today I want to show you how you can attach your screenshots directly to Playwright's test reports. Imagine you have a simple Playwright test that navigates to Checkly. You take a screenshot and store it in screenshots/home.png. Then, you click a link in the main navigation, expect a specific heading to be visible, and take another screenshot. When you run this test using npx playwright test, the test passes, and you find the screenshots in the /screenshots directory.