Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Scalability Worst Practices - How Not to Design Applications

Scalability is a core requirement of modern applications. Applications need to be able to handle sudden changes in demand without losing resilience or performance. With the popularity of cloud computing and microservices, DevOps teams have a countless number of platforms and tools for deploying scalable applications. However, true scalability involves much more than just migrating an application to the cloud.

Case Study: How One of the Largest Medical Care Providers in North America Made 200k+ Patients' Happier

This leading medical care provider manages thousands of facilities and dozens of various patient portals. They needed to find an efficient way to analyze and monitor different services, to obtain maximum availability of their systems – so that patients/doctors get the information they need without interruptions. By implementing XpoLog: Their environment consists of multiple applications, centralized in a main data center, which interacts with all their facilities.

Why Should You Bother With Information Technology Operations Analytics?

Your organization’s IT system is a complex network of intercommunicating devices that can provide you with an abundance of useful data - if you apply the right practices to gather and filter it. However, to realize how each of these sources interacts and interconnects with one another, you need will to master the art of Information Technology Operations Analytics.

timeShift(GrafanaBuzz, 1w) Issue 74

Happy New Year! We hope you had a relaxing and safe holiday season, but now it’s time to get back to work! This week we share articles on the UX of Loki, visualizing pull request data from BitBucket, monitoring and observability predictions for 2019 and more! Also, we’ll be making some exciting announcements for GrafanaCon in the coming days, so stay tuned and get your ticket now!

How to Stay Ahead of Data Retention Requirements - Part 1

Record keeping tasks such as data retention and disposal are an essential part of business management and regulatory compliance. At its core, data retention is about data control—meaning that an organization has taken steps to identify data throughout its organization, and then assess its importance, determine how long it will keep it, and then dispose of it.

We're Rebranding Anodot - Here's Why

A little more than four years ago, Anodot started applying advanced AI/ML and unsupervised learning technologies to simplify monitoring challenges for DevOps teams. Today our company has customers from a variety of verticals and departments harnessing our unique platform to monitor business health, user behavior, product usage, IT ops, machine learning processes and even IoT.

What is Multi-Cloud?

Multi-cloud is a cloud computing strategy that uses two or more different cloud services. This can be a combination of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), or Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solutions running in a public or private cloud environment. Multi-cloud offers a number of benefits including greater reliability and availability, less vendor lock-in, and potentially lower costs.