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ManageEngine recognized as a Product Challenger in ISG Provider Lens for Multi-Public Cloud Solutions 2024

ISG sweet spot report 2024 Recognizing the growing importance of cloud management solutions, Information Services Group (ISG) has released its ISG Provider Lens for Multi-Public Cloud Solutions 2024 report, which highlighted key players in the industry. Among the notable recognitions, ManageEngine CloudSpend was named a Product Challenger, a testament to its innovative approach and robust capabilities in cloud cost management and optimization.

Datadog On-Call, Code Analysis & More - This Month's Updates! #Observability #opentelemetry

On This Month in Datadog, we’re bringing you a bonus episode to spotlight Datadog On-Call, which is now generally available, and covering other updates, including the general availability of Code Analysis and our expanded integration with Pinecone.

Introducing the Sentry Trace Explorer

The Trace Explorer is a new way to query and visualize the application metrics from the traces and spans within your applications. In this video, Cody from the Sentry Developer Experience team shows you how you can get started using it. Want to dive in and find your slow database queries, or what pages or components are loading the slowest? Trace Explorer is the best way to do it - and gives you an easy path to jumping into the spans that make up all actions within your application.

Reveal Hidden Network Issues with Network Traffic Analysis Plus

Your IT team can minimize network errors, outages, configuration issues and performance degradation with the newest Progress WhatsUp Gold feature, Network Traffic Analysis Plus (NTA+). This new solution helps reduce troubleshooting times and quickly determine the root-cause analysis of network and application performance issues.

Rails Logger: How to Customize, Configure, and Optimize Your Logs

When it comes to Rails development, logging isn’t just about tracking what’s happening in your app. It’s a lifeline for developers, helping you catch bugs, monitor performance, and keep your code running smoothly in production. In this guide, we’ll cover everything from the basics to some cool tips that are often overlooked.

JMX Monitoring: Your Go-To Guide for Java Application Management

When it comes to monitoring Java applications, JMX (Java Management Extensions) plays a pivotal role. If you're looking to optimize your app’s performance, understand its behavior, and troubleshoot issues in real-time, JMX monitoring is a tool you'll want to understand inside and out.

Kubernetes cluster metrics 101

Kubernetes clusters facilitate the management of containerized applications. Imagine coordinating a seamless flow of workloads across servers, ensuring they operate in harmony, regardless of scale. This is exactly what Kubernetes clusters can do for the smooth deployment of your applications. Read on to learn more about Kubernetes clusters, including how to manage them using our list of critical metrics.

All you need to know about Horizontal Pod Autoscaling in Kubernetes

For most organizations, Kubernetes is the preferred containerization platform thanks to its scaling capabilities. Scaling is more than a mere technical endeavor—it helps maintain reliability, efficiency, and smooth user experiences while handling huge data without any business disruptions. It also aids in reducing business expenditures by cutting down on manual labor and avoiding deployment failures.

Monitor dbt Cloud with Datadog

Data build tool (dbt) is an open source service that cleans, aggregates, and models raw data into organized, analytics-ready formats within a data warehouse. dbt Cloud, a fully managed platform by dbt Labs, extends dbt’s capabilities with advanced features such as scheduling, testing, and monitoring, accessible directly from your browser.

MySQL Monitoring: Open-Source vs. Commercial Tools

MySQL is the backbone of many applications, and keeping it running smoothly is essential. But monitoring MySQL isn’t just about tracking CPU usage or checking if the database is up. It’s about understanding queries, indexing, slow queries, and resource utilization to ensure performance never takes a hit. This guide walks through everything you need to know to monitor MySQL effectively.

A Deep Dive into Blackbox Monitoring - Tech Talk #1

Do you have any blackboxes that do not provide any monitoring data except for letting you know things are broken? Do you wish you had a way to know your systems were healthy without the constant vigilance? In our January tech talk, on Blackbox, we will explore how to gain valuable insights into your application's health and performance from an external perspective.

Monitoring database exposure on Kubernetes and VMs

This week, security researchers at Wiz published a report about an internal database at DeepSeek being exposed to the internet. This kind of security risk is surprisingly common and can affect any company. The only way to prevent it is through continuous monitoring. But in modern infrastructures, services can be exposed in many different ways, making detection tricky. At Coroot, we realized that the telemetry data we already collect can help identify these risks — without requiring any extra setup.

Migrate to SCOM 2025: A Seamless Transition for Enhanced Monitoring

Are you ready for the next evolution of System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)? Microsoft launched SCOM 2025 in November last year, bringing new enhancements and improved capabilities. To help you navigate the transition smoothly, we’re hosting an exclusive webinar where our experts will walk you through the migration process, best practices, and new feature highlights. Why Attend?
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DeepSeek: Revolutionizing AI Development Through Cost-Effective Innovation

In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, DeepSeek has emerged as a potentially transformative player, challenging conventional approaches to AI development with its innovative open-source model. This breakthrough raises important questions about the future of Agentic AI and AGI development, particularly in terms of accessibility and cost-effectiveness.

How a Global Banking Leader Tackled Memory Overload with HEAL Software

In the financial sector, where system reliability directly impacts customer trust and revenue, even minor IT inefficiencies can spiral into costly crises. For one of the world’s largest banks—supporting 25 million customers, 2,000 branches, and 3,000 ATMs—a hidden challenge threatened its reputation: unpredictable memory consumption in critical applications.

Simplify DevOps tasks with this go-to cheat sheet: From Go programming to automation

DevOps is a dynamic field that bridges development and operations, ensuring seamless collaboration and faster software delivery. Whether you're just starting or looking to sharpen your skills, having quick access to essential concepts is invaluable. That’s why we’ve created a DevOps cheat sheet that covers everything from programming fundamentals to scripting and website building. This cheat sheet is your go-to resource for mastering DevOps tools, languages, and workflows.

Pod Exec in K8s: Advanced Exec Scenarios and Best Practices

Remember using SSH to access servers? It was the go-to method for troubleshooting or making changes to a system. But in the world of containers, SSH doesn't quite fit. Kubernetes and containers work differently; they're dynamic and spun up and down frequently. That’s where kubectl exec comes in. It lets you run commands inside a pod directly, without needing to rely on SSH or worry about the pod being ephemeral. It’s simple and fits the nature of modern, containerized environments.

7 Best DNS Monitoring Tools + How to Monitor DNS Server

DNS is one of the most crucial internet services. It’s the communicator and concierge of online experiences. Everything, from the web content you browse and the email and chat services you use to social platforms like Facebook and Instagram, depends on DNS functioning on a round-the-clock basis. Given its importance, it’s no surprise this fundamental service is targeted by hackers and cyber criminals.

What Are Network Monitoring Agents & How to Deploy & Configure Them

In this article, we’ll dive into the video where we discuss Network Monitoring Agents in Obkio’s Network Performance Monitoring App. Monitoring Agents (software, hardware, virtual appliances) are deployed in key network locations to monitor performance between all network sites. This video will also teach you how to create new Monitoring Agents or to modify or delete Agents you already have in your account. .

Finding Your Way: Using Metrics to Explore Organizational Architecture

Imagine being the new developer in a bustling tech company. Everyone is rushing to meet deadlines, and no one has time to explain the tangled web of services, databases, and messaging systems that make up the organization’s architecture. You search high and low for documentation, but the few diagrams you find are outdated or incomplete. Feeling lost? This is where metrics can come to the rescue.

The importance of error budgets for SREs and how to monitor them

Digital-first customers who are always on the go expect a seamless experience. But let’s face it—100% uptime is a myth. Trying to achieve it can drain resources and stifle innovation. This is where error budgets come in. They help site reliability engineers (SREs) find the sweet spot between delivering reliability and development velocity. With error budgets, teams can focus on building a robust system without burning out over perfection.

How a Global Banking Leader Tackled Memory Overload with HEAL Software

In the financial sector, where system reliability directly impacts customer trust and revenue, even minor IT inefficiencies can spiral into costly crises. For one of the world’s largest banks—supporting 25 million customers, 2,000 branches, and 3,000 ATMs—a hidden challenge threatened its reputation: unpredictable memory consumption in critical applications.

What is synthetic monitoring?

Synthetic monitoring proactively assesses application performance, allowing us to detect potential issues before they impact users. When combined with tracing, it becomes more effective by linking synthetic tests to actual system traces. This integration offers deeper visibility and granular insights into application behavior, enabling more effective, data-driven decisions to optimize performance.

Realizing the business value of OpenTelemetry-native observability

Transform your organization's observability strategy with open standards and simplified data collection Modern organizations face an unprecedented observability challenge. As systems grow more complex and distributed, traditional monitoring approaches are struggling to keep pace. With data volumes doubling every two years and systems spanning multiple clouds and technologies, organizations need a new approach to maintain visibility into their operations.

Catching Up With Fender: How Frontend Observability Powers Better User Experiences

For years, Fender Musical Instruments has been synonymous with iconic guitars and amplifiers. But in recent years, the company has expanded its legacy into the digital realm, offering tools like Fender Play, an innovative learning platform for aspiring musicians. Behind this digital evolution lies a focus on delivering exceptional user experiences for its consumer-facing applications—a mission supported by Honeycomb for Frontend Observability.

How To Monitor Status Pages of Popular Apps With Cloud Status

Remember the last time you noticed your app was acting weird, only to discover — after 30 minutes of debugging — that a critical service was down? We’ve all been there, frantically clicking through various status pages trying to figure out what’s broken, wishing you knew how to monitor status pages of your third party dependencies.

Create a Splunk pipeline to filter, mask, and route logs - without SPL2

In this video, we will take a look at how you can create a Splunk Data Management pipeline to filter, mask and route your logs with using any SPL2 code. For this demo we have used Ingest Processor to build our pipeline but the same concept can be used for Edge Processor as well.

Kubernetes Pods vs Nodes: What Sets Them Apart

Kubernetes has revolutionized how we manage containerized applications, bringing scalability, reliability, and flexibility to the forefront. Two fundamental components of Kubernetes are Pods and Nodes, and understanding their differences is crucial for anyone working with Kubernetes clusters. While most people are familiar with these terms, a deeper dive into the specifics can help you optimize your Kubernetes setup and avoid common pitfalls.

This Month in Datadog - January 2025

On the January episode of This Month in Datadog, join Jeremy Garcia (VP of Technical Community and Open Source) and Daljeet Sandu (Product Manager) for a bonus video that spotlights Datadog On-Call, which is now generally available. Also featured is a roundup of new features that Datadog recently announced. This Month in Datadog is a monthly update of the company’s latest features, product announcements, and more. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get notifications about future episodes.

Integrating Google SecOps with Bindplane January 2025

Google SecOps (formerly Chronicle) is Google Cloud's security operations platform (SIEM) that helps you detect, investigate, and respond to cybersecurity threats. Integrating Bindplane enables an easy way of standardizing how you efficiently collect, process, and forward security-relevant data to Google SecOps. In this webinar you’ll get a hands-on demo of how to configure log collection with the BindPlane Agent, and best practices for data standardization using open standards and OpenTelemetry. This will let you focus on the important task of investigating threats with Google SecOps instead of configuring telemetry pipelines.

OpenMetrics vs OpenTelemetry: A Detailed Comparison

When it comes to monitoring and observability, two of the most discussed standards are OpenMetrics and OpenTelemetry. While both are designed to collect and transmit metrics, they have distinct goals, use cases, and communities driving their development. In this guide, we'll break down what each of these projects is, how they compare, and how they fit into your monitoring stack.

Why Monitoring as Code Is the Future of Application Reliability for Modern Teams... and how it can save you $1 million!

I recently talked to a customer of Checkly and he shared some thoughts about Monitoring as Code. Let’s call him Karl in this article. Karl and I talked about why Monitoring as Code (MaC) is becoming essential for teams operating at scale. As the Head of Platform Engineering at a major e-commerce company processing millions of transactions daily, his experience shows how MaC solves a lot of the messy challenges that come with traditional synthetic monitoring setups.

How to integrate performance testing and continuous profiling for deeper application insights

A key goal of performance testing is to ensure your applications perform well under various levels of load. While critical, these tests are often conducted with minimal insight into why a system performs a certain way during testing. Metrics, logs, and traces may tell part of the story, but can miss the deeper details. This is where continuous profiling comes in.

Access Applications Manager right from your Control Center! [Update for iOS users]

We have exciting news for our iOS application users!* You can now access your critical app performance data right from the Control Center of your iPhone! We know how hard it is to keep up with a dynamic IT infrastructure in real time. It gets even harder when you have to fire up your PC every time you want to take a look at the performance of your business-critical applications.

From writing code to running a company of 300+ employees

Today we break down another exciting edition of Founders and Friends, the podcast we’ve created to hold conversations with visionary leaders shaping the tech industry. Today’s conversation features Paul Stovell, co-founder and CEO of Octopus Deploy, and of course, JD Trask, co-founder and CEO of Raygun. Together, they explore the realities of running software businesses, from the evolving nature of agile practices to scaling software teams efficiently. What’s in this article.

Sustainability and website monitoring: Reducing your digital carbon footprint

Every business today understands the imperative to operate sustainably. We’re seeing green initiatives in offices, supply chains, and manufacturing processes. But what about the digital realm? The internet, and by extension your website, has a surprisingly significant carbon footprint—powered by energy-hungry data centers around the globe. This presents both a challenge and a remarkable opportunity for businesses relying on their online presence.

Reimagining Log Management Tools and Software: The Impact of AI and GenAI

Today’s distributed, cloud-native systems generate logs at a high rate, making it increasingly difficult to derive actionable insights. AI and Generative AI (GenAI) technologies—particularly large language models (LLMs)— are transforming log management tools by enabling teams to sift through this data, identify anomalies, and deliver real-time, context-rich intelligence to streamline troubleshooting.

The problem with traditional log management

Logs are everywhere and contain valuable information that can make or break everything from security investigations to avoiding an outage, but legacy log management systems are inefficient for modern organizations generating more data than ever before. Sr. Director of Technical Marketing Adam White offers guidance on the pitfalls of traditional log management and what your organization can do today to jumpstart your digital transformation journey!

The power of cloud native observability

Unstructured data clouding your observability goals? Learn why monitoring alone cannot solve business-critical performance issues as Sr. Director of Technical Marketing Adam White explains how combining structured and unstructured data with real-time analytics unlocks dynamic insights into root cause analysis and performance management in the cloud.

Micro Lesson: Introduction to Sumo Logic Mo Copilot

The video introduces Sumo Logic's Mo Copilot, an AI-powered assistant that simplifies complex query creation using natural language, making it accessible for users of all skill levels. Mo Copilot enhances productivity by providing AI-driven insights and recommendations, allowing teams to detect and resolve incidents more efficiently. It consolidates logs into a unified view, improving collaboration and decision-making. Overall, Mo Copilot transforms the way security and development teams work with data.

Status page update: Easier outage reporting

We’ve added a “Report Outage” button at the top of the StatusGator status page to make reporting issues even easier. Your outage reports play a key role in keeping our status page accurate and are a valuable part of the data we use for features like Early Warning Signals, which help spot potential disruptions before they’re officially acknowledged.

Why Data Tiering is Critical for Modern Security and Observability Teams

In today's digital landscape, security and observability teams face an unprecedented challenge: managing massive volumes of data while maintaining both performance and cost-effectiveness. As organizations generate more data than ever before, the traditional approach of storing everything in high-performance, expensive systems is becoming unsustainable. How will your team evolve how it manages and uses telemetry data across the enterprise?

Learn How Network Observability Can Help Your Organization to Be DORA Compliant

We recently worked on an RFP for a customer whose primary driver was compliance with the new Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) regulations. The project aimed to make financial services more reliable and secure, protecting both consumers and the technology provider. Helping with this RFP was a rewarding learning experience due to this effort’s high priority and the key challenges faced by this organization.

Booting explained: Types, instructions, and problems

Even though IT infrastructure is more sophisticated than ever, the basics still remain the same—and one such basic concept is booting. Although it may seem straightforward, understanding booting is vital for anyone involved in server monitoring, management, and maintenance. In this blog, you'll learn the types of booting, their importance, and how booting can be used to help you manage and optimize your IT infrastructure. What is booting?

How to use the command line interface effectively

Organizations and homelabbers are always on the look out for improving efficiency. Remember back in 2023, when Mark Zuckerberg pivoted all decisions in support of Meta's Year of Efficiency? When you are working with IT infrastructure, efficiency must be a primary factor in all your decisions. This is where the command line interface (CLI) comes in.

Transform your workflow with comprehensive Toolset

Managing websites, handling development tasks, and ensuring data accuracy can often feel like juggling multiple responsibilities at once. What if there was a way to bring all these tasks under one roof? With the launch of our all-in-one toolset, you no longer need to rely on fragmented solutions. Designed for professionals who value simplicity and efficiency, Toolset offers everything you need to enhance productivity—all with a single sign-in.

Understanding PromQL Facets: Unlocking Advanced Metrics Analysis

PromQL (Prometheus Query Language) is a powerful and flexible query language used to retrieve and manipulate time-series data stored in Prometheus. One of its lesser explored but immensely valuable features is its ability to handle facets, a concept that can simplify complex metrics analysis and enhance observability. In this blog, we will dive deep into PromQL facets, exploring what they are, why they matter, and how you can use them to gain better insights into your systems.

This Month in Datadog: Datadog On-Call is now generally available

Datadog is constantly elevating the approach to cloud monitoring and security. This Month in Datadog updates you on our newest product features, announcements, resources, and events. To learn more about Datadog and start a free 14-day trial, visit Cloud Monitoring as a Service | Datadog. This month, we put the Spotlight on Datadog On-Call.

What is Grafana?

Grafana is an open source platform for real-time data display and monitoring. One of its functions is the creation of interactive and customizable dashboards that make metric analysis from several sources, such as databases, monitoring systems and cloud platforms. Its flexibility and compatibility with multiple data providers make it an essential tool for observability and decision making in IT environments.

Common cloud monitoring challenges we can overcome!

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, businesses are moving their operations to the cloud more than ever before. This shift brings incredible benefits like scalability, flexibility, and cost-efficiency. While it does introduce various common cloud monitoring challenges, there are effective solutions that organizations can implement to ensure optimal performance, security, and cost control.

Using AI for Troubleshooting: OpenAI vs DeepSeek

AI is now a go-to tool for everything from writing to coding. Modern LLMs are so powerful that, with the right prompt and a few adjustments, they can handle tasks almost effortlessly. At Coroot, we’ve been experimenting with AI for observability. Our goal is to make it useful in the final stage of troubleshooting—when we’ve already identified which service is causing issues, like Postgres, but finding the exact root cause is still tricky due to the many possible scenarios.

Top Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Services Explained with Use Cases

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a suite of cloud computing services that runs on the same infrastructure Google uses internally for its products, such as Google Search and YouTube. With a global network of data centers, GCP offers over 200 fully managed services spanning compute, storage, databases, AI/ML, analytics, networking, and more, enabling businesses to innovate and scale without heavy upfront infrastructure costs.

What is Network Performance Monitoring (NPM): How It Works & How to Deploy It

In this article, we’ll walk you through Obkio’s powerful Network Performance Monitoring features by exploring the “Network Performance” tab in Obkio’s Network Performance Monitoring App. We’ll guide you through the video demonstration and take a closer look at the “Network Performance” tab, which provides a comprehensive overview of your network’s health.

Getting the Most Out of Java With SolarWinds Loggly

Logs are a developer’s first line of defense when monitoring and troubleshooting distributed applications. They provide insights into performance, user behavior, and application stability, whether your application is written in Java or another language. However, when your applications scale up, and you have fragmented log data scattered across different systems, this will complicate your troubleshooting effort. This is what makes a centralized logging tool like SolarWinds Loggly essential.

Grafana 11.5 release: easily share Grafana dashboards and panels, secure frontend code for plugins, and more

New year, new Grafana release! Grafana 11.5 is here with new features to enhance how you can share, migrate, and alert on all your data in Grafana. Grafana 11.5: Download now Below are just some of the highlights from the latest Grafana release. If you are looking for more details about all the changes in this release, refer to the changelog or the What’s New documentation.

January 2025 Product Update - Easier Onboarding, Better User Experience, and Reliability Improvements

For the last two months, we have focused on improving the onboarding experience for users so that they can get started with monitoring with minimal effort. We have also added several improvements in the backend to make the service more robust and reliable. Some of the usability improvements are driven by user feedback. Others incorporate what we would personally like to see in such a monitoring service. We have also improved the dashboard user experience.

What Are Syslog Levels and Why Should You Care?

Syslog is a foundational part of logging in Linux and Unix-based systems, helping engineers efficiently capture and analyze system events. Among its core components, syslog levels play a crucial role in categorizing logs based on their severity. Understanding these levels can significantly improve troubleshooting, monitoring, and alerting strategies.

Redesigned Dashboarding Sharing Experience in Grafana 11.5 | Grafana Labs

In Grafana version 11.5, we've completely redesigned the dashboard sharing experience to make it more intuitive, user-friendly, and efficient! This update is available in all editions of Grafana. Join Natacha (Product Designer) and Juani (Senior Software Engineer) from the Grafana Labs Sharing Squad as they walk you through these updates and demonstrate how to streamline your sharing workflow in Grafana 11.5.

Grafana 11.5: Faster and Easier Migration to Grafana Cloud | Support for Plugins and Alerts

Updates to the Grafana Cloud Migration Assistant: Plugins and Alerts! Thinking about moving to Grafana Cloud? Whether you're an OSS user exploring cloud benefits or an enterprise customer transitioning a large deployment, the Grafana Cloud Migration Assistant makes it simpler and faster than ever.

Grafana 11.5 Now GA! Here's the TL;DR | Grafana Labs

Grafana 11.5 is here, packed with exciting updates to enhance your workflow! This release focuses on three main areas: Sharing visualizations with streamlined workflows for exporting dashboards and panels, enhanced PDF reporting options, and the ability to share links with sample images. Managing data with upgraded ad-hoc filters and powerful transformations for extracting and organizing messy data. Migrating to the cloud with the new Grafana Cloud migration tool that supports all plugins and Grafana alerting (now in public preview).

Introducing the Time Series Buying Guide for IIoT

All machinery and equipment, including their controls and sensors, tell a story through the data they collect. This data, or Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) data, provides a detailed narrative about the machines, offering actionable insights to improve operations. IIoT data empowers businesses to optimize and enhance industrial processes by detailing operational status, performance metrics, usage patterns, health diagnostics, and environmental conditions.

RUM: Key Metrics and How to Measure Them

User experience (UX) is key to success. To ensure your web or mobile app performs well, RUM (Real User Monitoring) helps you track real-time interactions with actual users. It gives you valuable insights into how your audience experiences your product. In this guide, we’ll explore what RUM monitoring is, why it matters, and how it can help boost performance and user satisfaction.

Monitor the Performance of Your Python Flask Application with AppSignal

When a system runs slowly, our first thought might be that it’s failing. This common reaction underscores a key point: In the world of web applications, even milliseconds matter. Performance impacts user satisfaction and operational efficiency, making it a critical factor. In this article, we'll show you how to use AppSignal to monitor and improve the performance of your Flask applications.

The hidden costs of not tracking network configurations

Has this ever happened in your workplace? A key application goes offline during peak working hours, or worse, when a client is evaluating your business, leaving network administrators scrambling to identify the cause. Could it be a misconfigured switch, an unauthorized change to a router, or undocumented configuration drift? Without proper network configuration management, your organization is losing more than just uptime—it’s losing money, reputation, and agility.

Grafana 11.5 New Filters UI for Grafana Dashboards (Public Preview) | Grafana Labs

Introducing the new Filters UI in Grafana, now available in public preview! This update makes interacting with ad-hoc filters faster, more intuitive, and keyboard-friendly, giving you a streamlined experience when managing filters in your dashboards. What’s New? Unified filter input – Manage all filters in a single combo-box-like UI Faster interactions – Requires fewer clicks and takes up less space Keyboard-friendly navigation – Easily create, edit, and delete filters with shortcuts Multi-value support – Select multiple values with the new one-of/not-one-of operators.

10 must-have IPAM features that ensure seamless network operations

Let’s start with the basics: What is IPAM? IP address management (IPAM) refers to the process of monitoring, organizing, and optimizing the allocation of IP addresses within a network. Proper IP management prevents issues like address conflicts or duplication, ensuring optimal utilization of this essential networking resource. Modern IPAM solutions go far beyond traditional methods, providing features such as real-time IP tracking, automated allocation, and detailed usage analytics.

Gain complete visibility into Windows Server 2025 with Applications Manager

As IT environments evolve, staying aligned with the latest technologies is essential for uninterrupted performance and efficiency. With the release of Windows Server 2025, ManageEngine Applications Manager is fully equipped to monitor this next-generation OS, enabling businesses to harness its advanced features while maintaining optimal performance levels.

What is cloud cost management?

What is cloud cost management? Cloud cost management (CCM) is essential for organizations looking to harness the power of the cloud without succumbing to its potential financial pitfalls. With the shift towards cloud-based operations accelerating, the need to manage the associated costs has never been more critical. The scope of CCM is broad, covering several key areas such as cost visibility, budgeting, forecasting, cost optimization, and governance.
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Why automate SAP client copy with Avantra?

Whether you're making a local client copy in the same system to create multiple test or training clients, copying a client from a remote system, exporting a client from one system to another or exporting it in order to later import that client post a system refresh, SAP's client copy tools have been a mainstay of SAP BASIS operational and project teams since the 1990s. Avantra now provides the ability to fully automate these scenarios, with additional functionality to create the new target client and also delete any old clients. With Avantra 24.3 we now deliver two automation Add ins that support all these client copy scenarios.

"Assurance" in IT Management, and How to Achieve It

In today’s modern era of fast-changing business and operational conditions, organizations need IT management resources that are resilient and can adapt to constant change. This objective is often summed up in one word: assurance. But the exact methodologies and IT investments to get there can vary. Regardless of how it’s approached, IT platform assurance is critical to navigating and managing the dynamic environments of modern enterprises operating at scale.

The Importance of Data Normalization for Log Files

Imagine sitting in an airport’s international terminal. All around you, people are talking to friends and family, many using different languages. The din of noise becomes a constant thrum, and you can’t make sense of anything – not even conversations in your native language. Log data is similar to this scenario. Every technology in your environment generates log data, and information about the activities happening from logins to processing.

The NuGet packages we use to build elmah.io revisited

Four years ago, I wrote the blog post The NuGet packages we use to build elmah.io. Since then, we have made several changes to our tech stack as well as upgraded to recent versions of.NET. For this post, I'll update you on the packages we use as of writing this post. I hope you will find some inspiration in seeing how a system like elmah.io is built.

Global website monitoring: Best practices for international businesses

With a sluggish page a smooth global performance would be a far fletched dream. A tainted brand reputation, irritated customers abandoning your’s for a better site, lost businesses are all that a slow or poorly localized webpage can bring. To establish your digital presence across the globe, you’ll have to equip yourselves with some effective tools and best practices. Once done, it’ll be easier for you to traverse boundaries.

Learnings from eight major outages of 2024 and best practices to stay prepared

While we cannot eliminate internet outages, lag, or security breaches, reflecting on the lessons learned from these events helps us cope, innovate, and implement measures to reduce how often they occur. In 2024, website and application outages had a significantly greater impact on the world than in previous years, leaving the IT community with valuable insights to consider.

IoT Monitoring: Why It Matters and How to Do It Right?

The Internet of Things (IoT) is no longer a futuristic concept—it’s a reality that’s transforming industries, businesses, and everyday life. With billions of connected devices generating vast amounts of data, managing and monitoring these devices effectively has become a critical task for businesses seeking to optimize operations, enhance security, and ensure seamless performance.

Top 10 Modern Observability Best Practices

In the realm of modern software development practices, observability is no longer an optional add-on. It is a mission-critical capability. Like how control theory revolutionized industrial systems, and quality assurance redefined manufacturing processes, observability transforms the software systems and their development processes in many ways inspired by the brick-and-mortar industries. This post explores the best practices in modern observability to help you leverage its full potential.

FinOps for Engineers

FinOps for engineers is gaining more and more ground in the cloud computing sphere. As organizations move toward cloud models, managing the costs associated with them becomes an increasingly important factor, if not the most important. FinOps focuses on optimizing the use of cloud resources. Therefore, FinOps for engineers means that they not only design necessary solutions but also warn about the economic impact.

Restructuring How We Think About Alerts

Back in Alerts Are Fundamentally Messy, I made the point that the events we monitor are often fuzzy and uncertain. To make a distinction between what is valid or invalid as an event, context is needed, and since context doesn’t tend to exist within a metric, humans go around and validate alerts to add it. As such, humans are part of the alerting loop, and alerts can be framed as devices used to redirect our attention. In this post, I want to drive this concept a bit further.

The Power of Structured Logging: Why It Matters in Modern Development

Structured logging has emerged as a crucial aspect of modern application development and monitoring. Unlike traditional logging, structured logging organizes log data into a defined format, often in JSON or XML, making it easier to parse, search, and analyse. This practice simplifies troubleshooting, enhances observability, and supports seamless integration with monitoring tools.

Challenges of Monitoring Network Quality in VCF Environments

As organizations modernize their IT infrastructure with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), ensuring seamless workload and application mobility becomes critical. One often overlooked yet critical factor in this transformation is the quality of the networks connecting data centers and cloud environments. This is especially challenging in environments dependent on internet service providers (ISPs) and other external networks, where internal network operations teams have limited control over network behavior.

Intro to Synthetic Monitoring

Welcome to the second video of our new series, Frontend Observability & Monitoring! Datadog Synthetic Monitoring is a proactive monitoring solution that enables you to create code-free API, browser, and mobile tests to automatically simulate end-user workflows and requests on your front-end applications. This video will walk you through setting up browser and api testing capabilities so you can keep tabs on your application uptime and ensure a reliable user experience.

How to Troubleshoot ISP & Internet Issues with Obkio

In this article, we’ll break down our video, brought to you by Obkio's network pros, where we show you how to use Obkio’s Network Performance Monitoring tool to troubleshoot an Internet issue on the Internet Service Provider’s end. Internet issues can be frustrating, especially when they disrupt your business operations or daily activities. Often, these problems originate from your Internet Service Provider (ISP), making it crucial to identify and resolve them quickly.

TCP Monitoring Made Simple: Keep Your Network in Check

TCP monitoring works behind the scenes, ensuring smooth data transfers and reliable communication between devices. Without it, troubleshooting slow connections or dropped packets becomes a guessing game. In this blog, we’ll break down why TCP monitoring is crucial, how it works, and some key insights to help optimize your network performance and speed up troubleshooting.

Error Logs: What They Are, Why They Matter, and How to Use Them

Whether managing a web application, monitoring an API, or tracking system performance, error logs are your first defense in troubleshooting and improving your systems. However, understanding them beyond the basics can make all the difference in diagnosing complex issues and enhancing the overall user experience. In this in-depth guide, we’ll explore everything you need to know about error logs, including how to read them, why they matter, and some tricks to make them work for you.

Generative AI QE: Insights from testing Sumo Logic Mo Copilot

Generative AI is transforming industries by automating tasks and delivering AI tools, such as AI assistant Sumo Logic Mo Copilot, to enhance operational efficiency. But, these advancements also challenge traditional quality engineering (QE) methodologies. Unlike conventional software testing, AI models produce dynamic, context-sensitive outputs, requiring a new approach to validation and testing. At Sumo Logic, we faced similar challenges while testing Mo Copilot.

How to migrate to Grafana IRM: find the right path for your organization

Hundreds of organizations have migrated from legacy incident response tools to Grafana IRM in recent years as they look to improve production reliability, reduce costs, and consolidate their tooling. Grafana IRM, our incident response and management product, has helped organizations such as LATAM Airlines simplify stressful incidents with observability-native workflows, but every organization has its reservations about the actual migration process.

Monitoring Citrix On-Premises and Cloud Deployments on Microsoft SCOM

Managing Citrix environments just got easier! Join our exclusive webinar to explore Teqwave’s Citrix VAD and Citrix Cloud DaaS Management Pack for Microsoft SCOM. Learn how this innovative tool enhances your monitoring capabilities for both on-premises and Citrix Cloud deployments.

FinOps IT Asset Management: A Strategic Approach

FinOps IT Asset Management(ITAM) is one of the modern trends in the IT field, which is gaining increasing popularity among organizations in order to manage their financial processes and technological tools. When the FinOps term appeared simultaneously with the ITAM term, it became clear that their integration would offer the following advantages: better control of costs, optimized resource management, and legal compliance.

Getting it right with GenAI in financial services: Where to focus in 2025

I attended ElasticON recently where we spent the day with our NYC Elastic community, talking about the combined value of vector databases using retrieval augmented generation (RAG) to feed large language models (LLMs) for next-level generative AI (GenAI) results. Elastic’s CTO and Founder Shay Banon kicked off his keynote with an important message: GenAI is not magic.

An Easy Guide to OpenTelemetry Environment Variables

When working with OpenTelemetry, environment variables play a crucial role in configuring and customizing your setup. These variables provide a flexible and convenient way to adjust settings without needing to change code, allowing you to fine-tune your OpenTelemetry installation across different environments.

Comparing Azure NSG and VNet Flow Logs

Phil Gervasi compares Azure NSG Flow Logs and VNet Flow Logs, explaining the benefits VNet Flow Logs bring to network observability in Azure environments. Learn how VNet Flow Logs simplify network monitoring, improve traffic visibility, and address the limitations of NSG Flow Logs by capturing traffic at the virtual network level. Learn about VNet Flow Log applications—including traffic analysis, network optimization, and security enhancement—and how Kentik integrates with these logs for deeper insights and advanced analytics.

GLPI: IT service management and its integration with Pandora FMS

GLPI is a free IT Service Management (ITSM) solution that allows you to manage assets, incidents and requests within an organization. It works as an incident tracking and service desk system, optimizing technical support and technological resources. It also includes hardware and software inventory, contracts and licenses, offering a centralized view of the whole infrastructure. Its intuitive web interface and customization options ensure flexibility and scalability for businesses of any size.

5 Most Common MPLS Issues & How to Fix Them

From 2010 to 2017, MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching) was the go-to solution for enterprise networks. It offered reliability, security, and performance that businesses relied on for their critical operations. Since then, many organizations have moved to SD-WAN, attracted by its flexibility and cost-effectiveness. However, MPLS is far from obsolete.

The Future and The Floor: Framing Investments for Growth

There are a limited number of investments that a team can make in any given year and it can be daunting to choose the “right” ones. In R&D, there is always more to do. There is always more to research, design, build, fix, maintain, and improve. Spread across multiple domains, the possibilities multiply: we’re spoiled for choice—and, while inspiring, the breadth of possible investment areas can be overwhelming.

Threat Detection and Response: How Flowmon Detected an Attack in Real Time

According to a study by IBM, organizations, on average, take more than 190 days to identify a data breach and an additional 60 or more days to remediate the issue. The financial implications of such an event, including mitigation and remediation, run into millions and can pose a serious risk to business continuity. However, organizations can effectively handle these scenarios with the help of robust security solutions and well-defined processes.

Announcing InfluxDB 3 Enterprise free for at-home use and an update on InfluxDB 3 Core's 72-hour limitation

Two weeks into the alpha release of InfluxDB 3 Core (our new open source offering) and InfluxDB 3 Enterprise (our newest commercial offering), we’ve received a good amount of feedback that the 72 hour limitation in Core is too limiting. This fell into three categories: For the users in category 1, we’re announcing a free tier of InfluxDB 3 Enterprise for at-home, non-commercial use.

Fast and furious: The importance of performance in the digital age

As someone who's been in the tech space for years, I've seen the evolution of user expectations and the way businesses have adapted to the digital world. What strikes me most today is how fast things have to move. I remember a time when uptime alone was the key to a successful service. Today, it’s no longer enough for a service to just be “up”—it needs to be fast, seamless, and reliable at all times.

Top 5 Database Monitoring Software: Optimize Performance and Prevent Downtime

Databases are the foundation of modern applications, right from e-commerce platforms to social media networks. As the need for real-time data increases, businesses require tools that ensure their databases function efficiently. These database monitoring tools play a crucial role in preventing downtime, improving the speed of data retrieval, and scaling operations as business demands grow.

Mastercard's DNS Misconfiguration: Lessons Learned and How DNS Spy Can Help

In January 2025, security researchers uncovered a critical DNS misconfiguration involving Mastercard. For nearly five years, one of Mastercard’s DNS records pointed to the incorrect domain "akam.ne" instead of the intended "akam.net." This error, caused by a simple typographical mistake, created a vulnerability that could have allowed malicious actors to intercept or redirect traffic.

What is Integrative Medicine? A Comprehensive Guide to Holistic Healthcare

Modern call centers face unprecedented challenges in meeting customer expectations while maintaining operational efficiency. The evolution of customer service demands has made traditional call center approaches obsolete, pushing organizations to embrace innovative solutions. This comprehensive blog explores how artificial intelligence revolutionizes call center operations, enhances customer experiences, and drives business growth in today's competitive landscape.
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What to look for in an Azure monitoring solution: A checklist

Microsoft Azure is a cloud platform known for its ability to build and deliver flexible and scalable cloud services efficiently. However, the complexity within the Azure cloud network increases with the size and functions of cloud services deployed. To untangle the complexities and understand the Azure cloud, you need to have clear visibility into your Azure services and applications at any given moment. This can only be achieved by monitoring Azure cloud in real time.

Recap: Site24x7's takeaways from AWS re:Invent 2024

AWS re:Invent 2024 brought together cloud innovators, developers, and business leaders to explore the future of technology and cloud computing. This year’s event focused on three major themes that resonated throughout the sessions and announcements: AI, observability, and cloud optimization. These themes underline the evolution of cloud ecosystems and the growing need for smarter, more proactive tools to manage and optimize them.
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How to avoid overconfidence in AI-readiness

We've seen this story play out before: a shiny new tech trend pops up, and suddenly, everyone's clamoring to jump on the bandwagon. It happens to consumers, and it happens in business. AI is no different. Snyk's Secure Adoption in the GenAI Era report surveyed tech professionals across roles-from executives to developers-and found that while many feel their companies are ready for AI coding tools, they're also worried about the security risks these tools might bring.

Grafana Campfire - 2024 Wrap-up and What's coming in 2025 (Grafana Community Call - January 2025)

Happy New Year Everyone. We are kicking off Grafana Campfire Grafana Community Calls for 2025. David Kaltschmidt, Carl Bergquist, Mat Ryer, and Syed Usman Ahmad will talk about the year 2024 as what we have accomplished in such a short time and what is exciting to come in the year 2025. Today, Mich Seaman who is the Product Director will be joining us and will share some insights as well.

Switch to Network Configuration Manager, the best Cisco DNA Center (DNAC) alternative

Find out why ManageEngine Network Configuration Manager is the smarter choice over Cisco DNA Center. From intuitive configuration comparison and multi-vendor support to transparent pricing and built-in workflows, this page highlights why IT admins worldwide prefer ManageEngine NCM for efficient and cost-effective network management.

2024 in review: Analyst recognitions for Endpoint Central

In 2024, organizations continued to embrace remote and hybrid work cultures, and the demand for UEM solutions surged. Businesses sought tools capable of navigating the growing complexity of managing diverse endpoints, securing business-critical data, and providing seamless support for distributed work environments—all while providing the intelligence and efficiency needed to adapt to their ever-evolving technological demands.

Discover how a leading contract pharma manufacturer achieved $1 million in savings with ManageEngine OpManager in our latest blog

The role of IT infrastructure is crucial in sectors like pharmaceutical manufacturing. Discover how this contract pharma manufacturer leveraged OpManager to reduce troubleshooting costs and prevent costly batch failures.

AI-Powered Log Management: Faster Troubleshooting with Logz.io

Managing logs in a fast-paced cloud-native world can be tough. Log data is growing, and traditional tools just can’t keep up. That’s where Logz.io comes in—a log management and analytics platform powered by AI to make troubleshooting, performance monitoring, and collaboration faster and easier than ever.

Get Started with the TIG Stack and InfluxDB Core

Time series data is everywhere—from IoT sensors and server metrics to financial transactions and user behavior. To collect, store, and analyze this data efficiently, you need tools purpose-built for the job. That’s where the TIG Stack comes in: Telegraf for data collection, InfluxDB for storage and analytics, and Grafana for visualization. Together, these tools offer a powerful solution for real-time analytics, observability, and monitoring.

How to run Loki at scale on Kubernetes (Loki Community Call January 2025)

Happy New Year from the Loki Engineering team. To kick off 2025, Nicole and Jay will be joined by Poyzan Taneli from the Loki Engineering team to discuss how to run Loki at scale on Kubernetes. If you are currently running Loki in microservices mode or preparing to do so, we will be discussing best practices for scaling its components to meet the demands of production use cases.

A Guide to Logging and Debugging in Java

During the development of your program, you might rely on simple println() statements to trace program execution flows and identify issues in your code. But as projects grow in size and complexity, print statements quickly become messy. A better approach to tracing program execution is logging, an approach that provides a consistent and organized way to track your application’s behavior, allowing you to systematically identify and resolve issues.

Uptime now displayed in percentage!

We’ve made a small update to our status page to help you better track your monitor’s performance. You can now see the uptime percentage for each monitor under the History tab, covering the last days. This gives you an easy way to understand how reliable your monitor has been over the past month, so you can quickly spot any trends or potential issues!

DX Operational Observability: Onboarding OpenTelemetry in Minutes

In our era of cloud-native applications, robust observability is critical to maintain performance, identify issues, and enhance user experiences. With its advanced capabilities, DX Operational Observability (DX O2) integrates seamlessly with OpenTelemetry, a leading open-source observability framework. In this blog, we explore how to onboard the OpenTelemetry Demo Application to DX O2. The demo application provides a hands-on introduction to combining these powerful tools.

AI in Observability: Mapping Root Causes with Precision

Explore how AI is transforming observability by mapping system connections and uncovering root causes with precision. The Logz.io AI Agent analyzes logs, metrics, and service dependencies to provide actionable insights without the need to sift through overwhelming amounts of data.

The January 2025 ChatGPT Outage: StatusGator's Early Warning in Action

If you’re running critical services or simply relying on ChatGPT for your daily tasks, any downtime can be disruptive. On January 23, 2025, ChatGPT once again experienced an outage, prompting a surge of error reports from around the globe. From “503 Service Temporarily Unavailable” to “Bad Gateway” errors, it quickly became clear that something was off with OpenAI’s popular AI service.

OpenTelemetry Collector with Docker: A Detailed Guide

Monitoring and observability have become the backbone of reliable software systems. OpenTelemetry, a CNCF project, has gained immense traction as the go-to framework for collecting and exporting telemetry data. But what makes it even more powerful is its Collector—a vendor-agnostic tool that simplifies data processing. Combine that with Docker, and you’ve got a robust, portable, and scalable observability solution.

7 Leading Network Monitoring Tools for Enterprises

Ensuring your enterprise network runs smoothly is key to both productivity and security. As businesses rely more on connected devices, applications, and cloud services, network monitoring has become a vital part of IT infrastructure. Enterprise network monitoring tools offer valuable insights into the health, performance, and security of your network. In this blog, we'll explore enterprise network monitoring tools, their benefits, how to choose the right one and highlight 7 popular options.

Monitor unit economics with Datadog Cloud Cost Management

Cloud unit economics measures the amount an organization spends on cloud services to achieve a discrete business outcome such as a conversion, sign-up, or checkout. Your cloud spending may increase as your applications get more usage and the complexity of your cloud environment grows.

Databases and SLOs: How to apply service level objectives to your databases with synthetic monitoring

Wilfried Roset is an engineering manager who leads an SRE team and he is a Grafana Champion. Wilfried focuses on prioritizing sustainability, resilience, and industrialization to guarantee customers satisfaction. Nowadays databases are commonly used to build information systems. Relational or NoSQL, self-managed or as-a-service, those databases often play a critical role in the overall health of your applications.

The Truth About Leadership: From Writing Code to Running a Company

In this episode of Founder & Friends, Raygun co-founder and CEO John-Daniel Trask sits down with Paul Stovell, founder and CEO of Octopus Deploy, to explore the fascinating journey of turning a side project into a category-defining company in deployment and operations automation. As a co-founder, JD is well aware of the journey from ideation to execution...so join these two seasoned experts as they get specific on what brought them from side hustle to CEO!

Can nuclear energy solve AI's growing energy crisis?

Big tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to keep their data centers running. With AI driving up energy use worldwide, it makes you wonder—could nuclear energy be the key to tackling the climate crisis caused by AI? Companies like Google and Microsoft have set ambitious sustainability goals by promising to move to 100% renewable energy before 2030. However, generative AI has made their goals difficult by increasing their electricity consumption multifold.

Coroot v1.7: Monitoring ClickHouse and Zookeeper with eBPF

At Coroot, we started using eBPF to give users insights into their system performance without needing them to change code or redeploy services. This approach not only makes setup easier but also ensures full visibility, even for third-party and legacy services. To truly achieve this, though, the tool needs to support a wide range of application protocols. Coroot has long supported popular ones like HTTP, gRPC, Postgres, MySQL, Redis, Memcached, MongoDB, Kafka, and Cassandra.

Designing for Scale: How eG Enterprise Manages Millions of Metrics with AIOps-driven Self-Monitoring

Customers evaluate a modern observability and monitoring solution by the ROI they get, self-monitoring capabilities ultimately improve scalability and quality. The value of any observability solution lies in its ability to proactively detect and alert customers to issues before they cause a business-impacting outage. IT infrastructures and applications can fail in many different ways.

What Is Cloud Monitoring? A Guide Through the Best Tools

As more businesses embrace digital transformation, cloud computing is becoming more relevant each day. Cloud technology provides the flexibility, scalability, and agility modern organizations need to stay competitive, transforming everything from daily operations to customer experiences. However, as companies expand their use of the cloud, managing these complex environments is proving to be a real challenge. What is cloud monitoring?

KubeCon 2024 | Interviews with Observability Experts | Observability Insights with Josh Lee

Join me at KubeCon 2024 as I sit down with Josh Lee, Developer Advocate at Altinity, to discuss the latest trends, challenges, and insights in observability. In this interview, we cover key topics such as OpenTelemetry adoption (including the Open Agent Management Protocol), data sovereignty, standardization through semantic conventions, and the need to unify observability tooling across organizations.

OpenTelemetry Profiling: A Look into Performance Insights

In software development, making sure your apps perform well is key. Performance issues, hidden delays, and wasted resources can quickly hurt user experience and increase costs. That’s where OpenTelemetry profiling steps in to help. In this blog, we’ll break down what OpenTelemetry profiling is, why it’s important, and how you can use it to optimize your applications.

Configuring a React Application with Honeycomb For Frontend Observability

Are you trying to wire your React application to Honeycomb, but running into some challenges understanding how our instrumentation works with React? In this article, I’ll lay out approaches for wiring Honeycomb to client-side only React so you can ingest your telemetry into Honeycomb and take advantage of the Web Launchpad. This telemetry sends semantically-named attributes, and can be used with any OTLP destination. These examples use a React application created with Vite.

What is Data Cleansing and Why Does it Matter for Vulnerability Monitoring?

If your business relies on data for decision-making, you'll know how important data cleansing is. But it's not just a key part of gaining accurate and reliable insights — it's also important for security. We'll look at what data cleansing is, how it relates to vulnerability monitoring, and how to get started.

No More Blind Spots: Nexthink Revolutionizes VDI Management

One of the core convictions of the entire DEX movement is that if IT is responsible for the technological experiences of all employees, all the time, it must also have the means to measure and manage those experiences. Without this, it isn’t just an unreasonable expectation—it’s also ineffective for organizations and employees alike. This insight has driven Nexthink to empower IT teams with the tools they need to see, diagnose, and fix every issue.

Optimizing long-term data retention with Elastic Cloud Hosted: Ensuring compliance and efficiency for government

In the digital era, state and local governments are increasingly tasked with managing vast volumes of data while ensuring compliance with stringent regulatory requirements. These regulations, which can vary significantly depending on jurisdiction, often require the retention of data for extended periods — sometimes ranging from one to seven years.

Unify visibility into changes to your services and dependencies with Datadog Change Tracking

In modern application development, changes happen constantly: Deployments are pushed, feature flags are toggled, and Kubernetes events reshape infrastructure, to name just a few. While these practices drive innovation and scalability, they also introduce complexity—especially during incidents. Fragmented tools and workflows across teams and organizations make it difficult to pinpoint the root causes of issues, leading to longer resolution times.

FinOps Data Ingestion

FinOps, has become a critical element within companies that want to improve their financial aspect related with cloud. One of the key points in this practice is data ingestion that helps companies gather critical information about their cloud spending. In this guide, we will discuss what data ingestion is in FinOps, its need, recommendations, problems, and how we can contribute at Turbo360.

Quickwit vs. Elasticsearch: Which Tool To Choose? [2025 Guide]

Data indexing and search are essential for quickly retrieving relevant information from large datasets. They help improve efficiency, save time, and support better decision-making by making data easily accessible. Elasticsearch has been a popular choice for data indexing and search, but newer tools like Quickwit now offer alternatives for specific needs. The right choice depends on performance, scalability, cost, and how well it fits your use case.

What to Consider When Choosing A Network Device Monitoring Solution

A comprehensive understanding of the computers, servers, routers, switches, and other devices that form the foundation of your IT environment is critical to mitigate the risk of downtime and security vulnerabilities. Let’s explore some key factors to remember when choosing the right solution to monitor your network devices.

Kubernetes Monitoring Helm chart 2.0: a simpler, more predictable experience

The Kubernetes Monitoring Helm chart 2.0 is here, and it comes with some exciting changes to improve your experience collecting observability data. The Kubernetes Monitoring Helm chart makes it easy to start gathering telemetry data from your Kubernetes clusters. With one deployment, you can capture all of the metrics, logs, traces, and profiles from your cluster and the applications running on it!

Four tips for configuring alerts in Site24x7 network monitoring

Configuring alerts effectively can be the difference between a frictionless IT environment and hours of downtime. Many enterprises struggle with alert fatigue, missed critical incidents, or poorly defined thresholds that leave them scrambling to identify root causes. How can you make sure your team gets the right information at the right time without being overwhelmed?

Netdata vs Prometheus: A 2025 Performance Analysis

When it comes to infrastructure monitoring, performance, scalability, and efficiency are critical considerations. In this blog post, we revisit two widely adopted open-source monitoring solutions: Netdata and Prometheus. Both tools have introduced notable improvements in their latest versions, emphasizing scalability and enhanced efficiency.

How API Monitoring relates to tracking your health & stocks #APIMonitoring #Observability #ipm

In our everyday lives, people monitor various aspects like heart rate, step count, and stock performance to detect any unusual changes. The same concept applies to API monitoring. By continuously tracking and collecting measurements, teams can establish benchmarks and quickly identify deviations from the norm. This proactive approach helps detect and resolve issues, ensuring services perform at their expected level.
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Optimizing Microsoft Teams Monitoring Insights

This whitepaper explores how proactive monitoring Microsoft Teams using the NiCE Active 365 Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager enhances collaboration and communication in IT environments. The whitepaper highlights the importance of monitoring critical metrics, such as call quality, user activity, and service performance, to ensure seamless operations. By leveraging advanced monitoring tools, organizations can detect issues in real-time, optimize Teams usage, and improve overall productivity.

Grafana Cloud updates: tools to streamline performance testing, a new Adaptive Logs feature, and more

We consistently roll out helpful updates and fun features in Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform powered by the open source Grafana LGTM Stack (Loki for logs, Grafana for visualization, Tempo for traces, and Mimir for metrics). In case you missed them, here’s our monthly round-up (the first of 2025!) of the latest and greatest Grafana Cloud updates. You can also read about all the features we add to Grafana Cloud in our What’s New in Grafana Cloud documentation.

Top AWS monitoring trends in 2025

As cloud technologies continue to evolve, so does the way we monitor and manage AWS environments. In 2025, AWS monitoring is shifting to accommodate the increasing complexity and scale of cloud infrastructures. From AI-driven tools that predict issues before they occur to enhanced observability features that improve performance, these trends are revolutionizing how organizations keep their AWS resources in check.

Top Dynatrace Competitors and Alternatives for Modern Observability in 2025

Observability tools are crucial for maintaining the seamless performance and reliability of systems. Dynatrace has been one of the leading solutions for monitoring and observability over the past few years. However, there are many alternatives that provide similar features, often at more accessible price points and with unique capabilities. In this article, we will explore the best Dynatrace alternatives for 2025 to help you find the right fit for your organization.

New, Powerful Infrastructure Monitoring Capabilities Delivered in DX UIM 23.4 Cumulative Update 3

DX Unified Infrastructure Management (DX UIM) from Broadcom is a cornerstone enterprise solution that can be employed for precise and powerful infrastructure monitoring. For many enterprises, DX UIM is central to their overall observability strategy. Over the years, ongoing enhancements to DX UIM have supported continual changes in modern enterprise environments and cemented the solution’s strong position as the single source of truth for all aspects of infrastructure monitoring.

How to monitor your Rust applications with OpenTelemetry

Rust’s strong memory safety and efficient code execution make it a top choice for building robust, high-performance systems. But even with its powerful guarantees around memory management and thread safety, Rust applications in production environments can still face challenges such as latency spikes, resource contention, and unexpected bottlenecks. For this reason, monitoring Rust applications is essential to ensure they meet performance expectations and remain reliable under load.

How to Use the Laravel Scheduler for Task Management

We all know time is precious, especially when your application relies on tasks that need to be done repeatedly. The Laravel Scheduler is the tool that helps you automate and manage those tasks effortlessly. But how does it work, and what makes it so powerful? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered! In this guide, we’ll walk you through everything you need to know to get started.

Selector's Digital Twin: The DVR of Networking

Network operations have become increasingly complex due to the distributed nature of modern applications which use data from private data centers, public clouds and the internet to provide end user services. With the adoption of these multi-cloud, multi-tier application architectures, network engineers must integrate new services (e.g AWS Direct Connect and Kubernetes clusters) from cloud providers into their existing services.

A Complete Guide to Threat Hunting: Tools and Techniques

Today, threat hunting has emerged as a proactive defense strategy. No longer is it sufficient to rely solely on reactive measures; identifying and mitigating potential threats before they cause damage is now the name of the game. And the key to effective threat hunting? The right tools. This blog takes you through all about threat-hunting, the right tools, their capabilities, and why they’re indispensable in cybersecurity.

Cribl Surpasses $200M ARR!

I’m so excited to share that Cribl recently surpassed $200 million in annual recurring revenue! This milestone and our rapid growth comes down to one thing: Solving real problems for our customers. The more our customers partner with us and use Cribl products to simplify their telemetry data management, the more our business grows and the more milestones we’ll hit together. Thank you to our fantastic customers and partners who have helped us reach this point in our journey!

Getting Started with the OpenTelemetry Helm Chart in K8s

Managing observability in cloud-native environments can feel like juggling a thousand things at once. OpenTelemetry makes this easier by becoming a favorite among developers for collecting, processing, and exporting telemetry data without breaking a sweat. Now, let’s talk about the OpenTelemetry Helm Chart. It’s like having a shortcut button for deploying OpenTelemetry in Kubernetes.

Monitoring your web application as a small team

When you're part of a small team running a system with thousands of users or more, it can be pretty daunting to think about going on holiday, or even relaxing for a weekend. "What if it goes down, and I'm not there to fix it?!" you ask yourself. While you can never really guarantee that nothing will go wrong, you can take some steps to minimise your risk of things going wrong.

Developers are Troubleshooting Directly in Slack and Teams with AI

“I asked Lumigo Copilot to provide context about issues from my phone. It saved me triaging time and also helped me understand who the relevant developer is to handle the alert, which keeps me from wasting someone else’s time” – Lior Mechlovich, CTO & Co-Founder, Salespeak. This quote from one of our beta users captures the power of Lumigo Copilot in Slack. Troubleshooting doesn’t have to be tedious.

Introducing the help page for your status page users

We’re thrilled to introduce a new feature to your status page: a dedicated help page! This resource is designed to make it simple for your users to understand and interact with the status page effectively. From checking ongoing incidents to subscribing to updates, your users now have clear guidance on how to get the most from your status page.

Fast-Track Kubernetes Observability with Logz.io and OpenTelemetry: A quick getting started guide

In formal terms, OpenTelemetry is an open source framework used for instrumenting, generating, collecting, and exporting telemetry data for applications, services, and infrastructure. It provides vendor-neutral tools, SDKs and APIs for generating, collecting, and exporting telemetry data such as traces, metrics, and logs to any observability backend, including both open source and commercial tools.

How Does InfluxDB 3 Query Data in Real-Time?

InfluxDB 3 builds on open-source technologies—Flight, DataFusion, Arrow, and Parquet—but even if a developer made their own time series database using the same technologies, they would not be able to replicate InfluxDB 3. The FDAP stack provides many of the building blocks required for a high-performance database, such as the fast, multi-threaded, streaming, columnar execution engine that defines InfluxDB 3.

How To Monitor Website Performance: A Complete Guide for 2025

Picture this: Your marketing team just launched a major campaign, driving thousands of visitors to your website. The CEO is eagerly watching sales metrics, and your IT team has spent weeks optimizing the infrastructure. Then it happens — your website slows to a crawl. Cart abandonment spikes. Social media lights up with frustrated customers. And just like that, your big moment transforms into a costly nightmare. Sound familiar? You’re not alone.

The shift to digital: How businesses are reshaping their priorities for 2025

Do you remember Back to the Future Day? The day in 2015 when the world celebrated Marty McFly’s trip to a futuristic 2015 in the iconic movie? We laughed at the idea of hoverboards and self-tying shoes while marveling at how much of what was once science fiction was becoming real. Here’s the thing, though: the future never announces its arrival with a neon sign or a ringing bell. It just happens.

Free Enterprise-Grade Telemetry Data Management and Observability is Here: Introducing Apica Freemium

Navigating the complex world of digital infrastructure takes more than just tools. It requires a powerful, intuitive companion. Today, we’re giving teams access to enterprise-grade telemetry data management and observability with 1TB monthly data ingestion, unlimited users, and zero storage costs.

Everything You Should Know About OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib

Observability isn’t just a nice-to-have—it’s essential. OpenTelemetry steps in as a unified framework that helps you collect, process, and export telemetry data across distributed systems. The OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib extends this framework, offering extra components that make it even more powerful and flexible, helping developers and operators monitor and optimize systems with ease.

Failover cluster storage: A comprehensive guide

Availability is the most important driving factor that shapes every decision an organization makes. To ensure high availability, failover clustering is one of the most commonly used solutions in modern IT infrastructure. In this article, we'll learn what failover cluster storage, cluster shared storage, and cluster shared volumes are. Then, we will guide you on how to manage and monitor these crucial resources.

SolarWinds Network and Infrastructure Observability

SolarWinds observability helps IT teams gain complete visibility across on-prem and cloud environments. Monitor everything from physical servers to AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes with real-time insights and traffic flow analysis. Quickly identify and resolve issues to optimize performance, simplify workflows, and reduce downtime. Get the unified visibility you need with SolarWinds—wherever you need IT.

Optimizing Contract Management at Icertis with Datadog

Icertis is a leading contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform that empowers organizations to manage their contracts effectively from initiation to renewal. By leveraging advanced AI and analytics, Icertis helps businesses ensure compliance, mitigate risks, and drive better decision-making. The integration of Datadog has tripled the speed of incident detection and resolution, achieving a 20-30% reduction in overall MTTR and saving approximately $500,000 USD through optimized infrastructure scaling at Icertis.

A Short 2024 Recap

With almost all of 2025 out in front of us, we wanted to make sure that you saw all of the great progress and useful features that got pushed live in 2024! Last year was a year of big strides forward, meaningful conversations with our community, and exciting updates to our product. Before we dive into all the exciting things ahead in 2025, let’s take a moment to celebrate the progress we made this past year.

TikTok Emerges from Shutdown Without Bytedance's US CDN

Kentik’s Doug Madory looks into this weekend’s 14-hour outage of popular video sharing service TikTok, which was slated to be banned from the US per recent legislation. While TikTok came back, it is notably no longer being served by parent company Bytedance’s US CDN. We delve into the traffic statistics in this blog post.

Optimizing RabbitMQ Performance: The Metrics That Matter

RabbitMQ is a powerful, reliable, and widely used message broker that forms the backbone of modern microservices architectures. However, ensuring its performance and reliability requires proactive monitoring of key metrics. In this blog, we will explore the essential RabbitMQ metrics, their units, possible issues, solutions, and how tools like Atatus can simplify monitoring and troubleshooting.

Sentry's Pinia Integration for Vue and Nuxt Error Tracking

When debugging issues in production, context is everything. While Sentry already provides rich error data like stack traces, breadcrumbs, and user information, understanding the application state at the time of an error can still help reproduce, fix and ship quickly. Sentry’s Pinia integration solves this by automatically capturing Pinia state wherever errors occur. Now you get the complete picture of your Vue or Nuxt application's state at the moment things went wrong.

Demystifying the OpenTelemetry Operator: Observing Kubernetes applications without writing code

The promise of observing your application without writing code (i.e., auto-instrumentation) is not new, and it’s extremely compelling: run a single command in your cluster and suddenly application telemetry starts arriving at your observability backend. What else could you ask for? The OpenTelemetry Operator aims to fulfill such a dream for Kubernetes environments by using a set of well known patterns such as operators and custom resources.

eG Innovations' AIOps-Powered Approach for Optimizing Digital Workspaces and ITOM

eG Innovations brings a unique AIOps-powered approach to IT Service Management (ITSM) and IT Operations Management (ITOM) cycles for managing digital workspaces. The eG Enterprise platform is equipped with capabilities for automated corrective actions, event-based triggers, and remote-control functionalities.

New Relic Cost Optimization: 9 Surefire Ways To Cut Your Observability Costs

New Relic has established itself as a top observability platform with full-stack monitoring. Unifying all telemetry data — metrics, events, logs, and traces — into one platform delivers deep performance insights and enables faster troubleshooting without juggling multiple tools. Also, New Relic prioritizes developers with tools like CodeStream, integrating error details and telemetry directly into the IDE.

Serilog: Configuration, Error Handling & Best Practices

When building modern.NET applications, logging is one of those things you don’t want to get wrong. Serilog steps in as a popular logging framework that has earned its spot as a go-to tool for developers. Why? Because it’s flexible, versatile, and does an awesome job of giving you clear insights into your app's behavior. But what exactly is Serilog?

How to Build a Cloud Strategy That Works for Your Business

As technology advances at lightning speed, more and more businesses are turning to the cloud to boost growth, improve efficiency, and stay ahead of the competition. However creating a cloud strategy that matches your business goals, budget, and security needs can be tricky. It’s not just about switching to the cloud—it’s about using it wisely to get the most out of it.

SLF4J vs Log4j: Key Differences and Choosing the Right One

When building robust, maintainable, and scalable Java applications, logging plays an essential role in debugging, monitoring, and ensuring smooth performance. Two of the most widely used logging frameworks in the Java ecosystem are SLF4J and Log4j. While both serve similar purposes, they offer different approaches and features, making it important to understand their differences before making a choice.

Lumigo Upgrades Kubernetes Operator for More Insights, Exponential Savings, and Simplicity

We’re excited to introduce the enhanced Lumigo Kubernetes Operator, now more powerful than ever. With just a quick installation, you gain comprehensive observability—bringing together logs, metrics, and traces in a single platform to provide deeper insights and faster troubleshooting. The improved Lumigo Kubernetes Operator unlocks cluster-wide visibility by collecting key infrastructure metrics and logs—allowing you to monitor, analyze, and optimize with minimal effort.

AIOps: Prove It!

I’ve read a steadily increasing stream of articles about using AI in SRE, and I have yet to find one that inspires my trust. Each article makes impressive claims about the capabilities of AI and the way it can be applied to SRE tasks, but the vast majority are light on details. AI tools, and especially LLMs, are growing incredibly quickly, and I feel that these tools have a ton of potential.

Custom database query monitoring: Use cases to unlock business-critical insights

Custom database queries are invaluable for businesses seeking actionable insights from their data. Unlike general monitoring tools, these queries deliver a deeper, more tailored view of critical metrics, help identify patterns, detect anomalies, and address specific operational requirements.

IT Inventory Management

You can’t monitor, protect, or fix what you don’t know. That simple concept helps explain why IT inventory management is the cornerstone of effective IT and security ops. However, given the highly distributed and dynamic nature of modern networks, maintaining an up-to-date inventory can be challenging. Modern IT assets are everywhere, from corporate data centers to third-party clouds to coffee shops where remote workers stop for a snack.

What is DDI? Meaning, Features & Benefits

As a network administrator, having full visibility and control over your network infrastructure is critical. However, managing core network services like DNS, DHCP, and IP addresses can become complex, especially as your network grows. This is where DDI comes in. DDI (DNS, DHCP, IP Address Management) solutions integrate these essential networking functions into a single, centralized management platform.

Long-Term Data Storage and Retention in Netdata

Netdata’s database engine (dbengine) provides a sophisticated multi-tiered storage system designed for efficient long-term data retention while maintaining high granularity. This article explores the technical details of how Netdata handles metric storage, the advantages of its distributed architecture, and how to configure it for your specific needs.

Keys to Success: Three AIOps Best Practices

When IT operations run smoothly, it’s more likely everything else in the organization will as well. Unfortunately, tech sprawl can make IT environments more prone to issues that hinder end users or, worse, customers. Recent research shows that up to 50% of organizations juggle multiple tools for observability. Too many disparate tools to monitor too many systems and applications create siloes, slowing incident response and resolution times.

Managing code quality at scale with NDepend

Ensuring code quality at scale is one of the biggest challenges in software development. As applications grow in size and complexity, producing high-quality, maintainable code becomes increasingly vital. In a recent conversation on the Founder & Friends podcast, Raygun CEO John-Daniel Trask (JD) sat down with Patrick Smacchia, founder of NDepend, to discuss how this tool is revolutionizing.NET development.

Five AWS cloud financial management best practices that can increase cost efficiency

AWS cloud financial management Enterprises increasingly rely on the cloud to fuel innovation, optimize operations, and scale effortlessly; cloud cost management has become both a strategic imperative and a competitive advantage. Yet, the journey to achieving cost efficiency can be riddled with pitfalls, especially for organizations that lack robust financial management practices.

Securing Your IT Network Against Cyber Attacks: A Three-Step Approach

Cybersecurity threats continue to grow in sophistication and frequency, making robust network security an essential priority for organizations of all sizes. By adopting a structured three-step approach – Identifying who is entering your network, Protecting key assets, and Maintaining good cyber hygiene – businesses can build a resilient defense strategy.

Understanding Observability, Monitoring, and Telemetry Differences

In the area of IT infrastructure management, three terms often surface: observability, monitoring, and telemetry. These concepts, while interconnected, each play a unique role in maintaining system health and performance. Observability, monitoring, and telemetry form the backbone of any robust IT environment. Yet, their differences and interrelations can sometimes blur, leading to confusion. This article aims to demystify these terms, providing clarity on their distinct roles and how they work together.

26 Azure Cost Optimization Best Practices to Reduce Azure Cost

Microsoft Azure is one of the diverse cloud platforms available today. It gives many helpful services for businesses of all sizes. But, when an organization grows its cloud usage, then managing costs becomes an issue. Microsoft Azure cost optimization is not just about reducing costs. It is about getting better performance & efficiency while staying under budget. Right here, this blog is your go-to guide in Azure cost optimization strategies and ways to save your money.

Open source log management tools in 2025

Log management tools provide visibility into the performance and behavior of systems, applications, networks, and infrastructure components. By collecting and analyzing logs, you can monitor for anomalies, track trends, and identify potential issues before they escalate. Choosing the right log management solution requires careful consideration of several factors to ensure that it meets your specific needs and goals. Here are the most popular open source log management tools to help you choose.

Must-Have Features for Your Log Management Software

With so many choices available to us today, choosing log management software that’s just right for us has never been simpler. That is, if you know exactly what it is you are looking for. But for many users, the sheer amount of computer programs that perform the same tasks, and seem so similar(sometimes almost identical) to each other, can quickly become off-putting and confusing.

What Is API Monitoring?

Application programming interfaces (APIs) are the James Bonds of software, silently keeping everything running smoothly while sipping martinis (shaken, not stirred). They’re the vital communication channels that enable different software systems to interact seamlessly, making sure your online shopping carts don’t mysteriously empty and your social media feeds keep you endlessly entertained with cat videos.

Log Levels: Different Types and How to Use Them

When you're working with logs in software development, one key thing to understand is log levels. They help us organize log messages, making it easier to find and analyze the most important ones. In this guide, we'll walk through what log levels are, why they matter, and how to use them effectively. Let’s get started!

What is Single Pane of Glass Monitoring and How It Works

Monitoring your systems can feel like keeping track of a million moving parts. Logs, metrics, traces—the constant flow of data can quickly turn into a whirlwind. Making sense of it all can be overwhelming, but that's where a single pane of glass monitoring helps. In this post, we're going to break down what a single pane of glass monitoring means, why it's so important, and how it can make your life easier by giving you a clearer view of your systems.

Comprehensive Guide to Kafka Monitoring: Metrics, Problems, and Solutions

Apache Kafka has become the backbone of modern data pipelines, enabling real-time data streaming and processing for a wide range of applications. However, maintaining a Kafka cluster's reliability, performance, and scalability requires continuous monitoring of its critical metrics. This blog provides a comprehensive guide to Kafka monitoring, including key metrics, their units, potential issues, and actionable solutions.

How Overlooked Anomalies Can Lead to Enterprise Losses

Organizations invest heavily in robust systems, talented personnel, and sophisticated tools to ensure smooth operations. Yet, small anomalies often escape attention—minor glitches in applications, occasional lags in processes, or subtle irregularities in performance metrics. These may appear insignificant, but when left unaddressed, they can cascade into significant disruptions, leading to operational inefficiencies, financial losses, and reputational damage.

Taming alert chaos: How alarm overload leads to IT fatigue and how AIOps can fix

Data complexity increases every year. The three Vs of data—volume (the amount of data streaming in and out), velocity (the speed of generation, processing, and streaming), and variety (different forms ranging from structured databases and semi-structured XMLs to completely unstructured data as media files)—are also increasing in complexity.

Common issues with wireless LAN controllers and how to troubleshoot them with effective monitoring

To keep up with competition, enterprises must embrace next-level capabilities like artificial intelligence, machine learning, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Market leaders know this depends on having fast, resilient, reliable, and secure connectivity that can adapt to the business's needs. Organizations have to ensure their: This is where Site24x7's network monitoring tool comes in. It offers actionable insights and advanced features to keep your network running smoothly.

Top 6 Open-Source Jaeger Alternatives [comparison 2025]

Jaeger, a renowned distributed tracing system, has been a trusted companion for developers and operations teams seeking to unravel the complexities of microservices architectures. However, as the landscape continues to evolve, the time has come to explore Jaeger alternatives that offer distinct features and advantages.

The Evolution of Observability: From StatsD to OpenTelemetry and Beyond

Observability has evolved from simple system monitoring to a comprehensive discipline, blending metrics, logs, and traces into unified insights. Today, it is the backbone of modern infrastructure management and application performance optimization. As we move forward, the integration of AI and security into observability platforms is shaping the future, making them more proactive, intelligent, and robust.

Golang Monitoring using OpenTelemetry

When it comes to monitoring Golang applications, there are various tools and practices you can use to gain insights into your application's performance, resource usage, and potential issues. By using OpenTelemetry for monitoring in your Go applications, you can gain valuable insights into the behavior, performance, and resource utilization of your distributed systems, allowing you to troubleshoot issues, optimize performance, and improve the overall reliability of your software.

What is a load balancer? And how does it help handle network traffic?

A load balancer, also known as Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB), is the method of splitting and distributing the incoming network traffic to multiple hosts—which can be located at different geo locations—within the organization network. This helps the network effectively manage network traffic and prevent any delays in network services. With load balancing enabled in the hosts, the organization’s network services are faster and provide more reliable responses to clients.

Azure Cost Per Resource Group to monitor and optimize costs

Understanding the cost of Azure resources at a granular level is critical for managing budgets effectively. With resources deployed across different resource groups-be it by teams, departments, or projects-tracking expenses can become complex. By analyzing costs per resource group, organizations can allocate ownership, identify cost spikes, and ensure accountability.

Monitoring the Monitoring: Demystifying the Icinga DB Health Check

In this post we will take a look at the icingadb check command built into Icinga 2 for monitoring the health of Icinga DB. If you have already configured it, this blog post will give you some insights on what it actually checks, otherwise, it showcases what useful health checks you are missing out on and should serve as a motivation to enable the check.

Why Move from AWS S3 to Cloudflare R2? Advantages, Pricing Comparison, and Migration Guide

Amazon S3 is a leading object storage service, but its pricing model, particularly for data egress, often becomes a significant burden for businesses with high outbound data needs. Cloudflare R2, a relatively new option, offers an attractive alternative with its simplified pricing and performance benefits. In this blog, we will explore why you should consider moving from AWS S3 to Cloudflare R2, compare their pricing with real-world examples, and provide a step-by-step migration guide with Node.js code.

Benefits of combining the trifecta of APM, RUM, and synthetic monitoring in IT operations

APM is foundational in assessing an application's internal health. It employs a variety of tools and techniques to monitor crucial metrics such as response times, error rates, and resource utilization. This comprehensive analysis enables teams to identify bottlenecks, slow database queries, and other potential performance-related issues that could diminish the user experience.

Understanding API Keys and Tokens: Secure Management and Best Practices

APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) are the foundation of applications, facilitating communication between different services. To authenticate and secure these interactions, API keys and tokens play a vital role. However, improperly managing these sensitive credentials can lead to security vulnerabilities. In this blog, we will explore what API keys and tokens are, how to securely manage them, and best practices to use them across services while avoiding exposure.

Importance of Remote IT Support in Dispersed Teams

Despite the headlines return to office (RTO) has been making, remote work and distributed workforces are here to stay. Case in point: a Robert Half report found that almost 9/10 workers considering a job change were interested in remote or hybrid roles1. For IT, that means solving the challenges of providing remote IT support for dispersed teams is a crucial part of the job. Getting remote IT support right takes a combination of strategy, tactics, and tools that can vary significantly from team to team.

Node.js Worker Threads Explained (Without the Headache)

Node.js has gained popularity for its event-driven, non-blocking I/O model, which excels at handling multiple tasks simultaneously. However, despite its single-threaded nature, Node.js faces limitations when it comes to CPU-intensive tasks. Worker threads provide a solution to this challenge. In this guide, we’ll explore what worker threads are, how they work, and how to use them effectively in your Node.js applications.

How AIOps are shaping the future of IT operations for CIOs

Having on hand actionable insights is crucial in today’s fast-changing world of technology; with digital changes and more businesses using cloud computing, companies must make sure their IT operations run smoothly. As IT systems grow more complex, old ways of managing them can’t keep up. This is where a smart AIOps solution can really make a difference.

IT Metrics & KPIs to Track Success

Imagine running an IT department without a compass—no clear way to gauge performance, spot problems, or demonstrate value to the rest of the organization. Issues are escalating unnoticed, improvements are relying on guesswork, and when someone asks, “How is IT helping the business?”—it’s tough to give a confident answer. Without IT metrics, this chaos becomes a reality. Tracking the right IT key performance indicators (IT KPIs) transforms chaos into clarity.

Best Wi-Fi Analyzer Tools - Free and Paid

As the number of wireless networks explodes, detecting, managing, and maintaining your Wi-Fi can become problematic. When everyone around you is blasting their own Wi-Fi signals—particularly in large business complexes with lots of other large companies—you’re more likely to experience problems with Wi-Fi signals dropping out, poor connectivity, and slow performance.

SSL Certificate-How to Monitor and Manage Certificates

Maintaining data security is a top priority for any organization. Secure Sockets Layer certificates—usually called SSL certificates—are an important part of this effort. SSL certificates are small data files designed to prevent hackers from getting access to private business data as it passes between a website and a visitor’s browser.

Stay ahead of service disruptions with Watchdog Cloud & API Outage Detection

Even with the best monitoring in place, outages are unavoidable. Complex, modern IT environments rely on multiple third-party services, including critical cloud and API providers, and when any one of those goes down, it can trigger a domino effect of increased error rates and latency spikes across your system. And, because you don’t have as much visibility into external services, it can be difficult to identify that the problem is due to an outside outage or disrupted service.

Top tips: 3 ways to protect your business from disinformation campaigns

Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world and list ways to explore these trends. This week, we’ll look at three steps a business can take to protect themselves from disinformation. Over the past three years, your two-person startup has gained enough traction to turn into a 500-employee business. Your life’s work is materializing in front of your eyes, and it’s only uphill from here.

CloudWatch Metrics: Key Features, Working & Cost Management

When it comes to monitoring and managing applications and infrastructure on AWS, CloudWatch Metrics is your best friend. CloudWatch helps you track key metrics in real time, providing the data you need to maintain system performance, troubleshoot issues, and gain deeper insights into your environment. But like most things in AWS, it can take some getting used to. To help you make the most of CloudWatch Metrics, we've put together this comprehensive guide.

Cloudcraft: A Simple Tool for Cloud Architecture Design

Cloudcraft is a tool that lets cloud architects design and visualize cloud infrastructure. It acts as a digital canvas, helping you map out everything from simple diagrams to complex systems. If you’re working on a project plan or brainstorming ideas, Cloudcraft makes it easier to see how all the pieces come together. In this post, we’ll talk about what makes Cloudcraft useful for cloud professionals and how to get the most out of it.

Implementing High-Cardinality Instrumentation in Frontend Apps

As the Product Manager for Honeycomb’s new frontend product, Honeycomb for Frontend Observability, I’ve had the joy this past year of speaking to dozens of frontend engineering teams about observability. Many frontend teams come from worlds where they either rely on QA and customer reports to identify issues in production, or they use real use monitoring (RUM) and error monitoring tools to catch the most egregious issues.

Chaos testing a Postgres cluster managed by CloudNativePG

As more organizations move their databases to cloud-native environments, effectively managing and monitoring these systems becomes crucial. According to Coroot’s anonymous usage statistics, 64% of projects use PostgreSQL, making it the most popular RDBMS among our users, compared to 14% using MySQL. This is not surprising since it is also the most widely used open-source database worldwide.

Democratizing Access to Network Telemetry with Kentik Journeys

In this post, discover how Kentik Journeys integrates large language models to revolutionize network observability. By enabling anyone in IT to query and analyze network telemetry in plain language, regardless of technical expertise, Kentik breaks down silos and democratizes access to critical insights simplifying complex workflows, enhancing collaboration, and ensuring secure, real-time access to your network data.

How Telemetry Pipelines Save Your Budget

This is an updated version of an earlier blog post to reflect current definitions of a telemetry pipeline and additional capabilities available in Mezmo Our recent blog post about observability pipelines highlighted how they centralize and enable telemetry data actionability. A key benefit of telemetry pipelines is users don't have to compare data sets manually or rely on batch processing to derive insights, which can be done directly while the data is in motion.

The importance of understanding and observing an application's middle-tier components

Just like how the filling makes a sandwich, an application's performance is closely tied to how effectively its middle-tier components function. While the front-end is what users see and interact with (UI), and the back-end deals with data storage, the middle tier forms the vital core where the real magic happens—processing, logic implementation, and enforcement of business rules.

How to Use Static Thresholds for Effective Alerts in Splunk Observability Cloud

In this video, we explore the concept of static thresholds, which are a foundational tool in your observability alerting solution. You’ll learn: Additionally, we will demonstrate static thresholds in Splunk Observability Cloud. We’ll configure a static threshold for AWS EC2 memory utilization. We’ll also look at additional threshold settings like trigger sensitivity and duration. By the end of this video, you'll have the knowledge to effectively incorporate static thresholds into your observability strategy.

DataDog vs Prometheus [2025 comparison]

DataDog and Prometheus are both popular monitoring solutions used to collect and analyze metrics and monitor the performance of systems, but Prometheus is open source and Datadog is proprietary. Datadog provides a unified platform for monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimizing modern cloud-native applications and infrastructure. Prometheus is the most popular tool for monitoring time series metrics. So, how to choose between Datadog and Prometheus?

Emerging Trends In Cloud-Based Monitoring Solutions for 2025

Cloud-based monitoring evolves constantly. Systems must adapt to complex environments, stay secure, and deliver fast insights. The year 2025 holds promise for tools that go beyond standard data tracking. Organizations demand seamless integration and actionable information in real-time. These emerging trends are set to revolutionize how companies monitor performance and ensure stability. Ready to explore these innovations shaping the future of monitoring? Stay ahead with solutions designed for tomorrow's challenges.

Top cloud cost management tools in 2025 that will transform your cloud journey

Top cloud cost management tools in 2025 The cloud has revolutionized the way businesses operate, enabling scalability, flexibility, and efficiency. However, the growing complexity of cloud environments often leads to unexpected costs, making cloud cost management (CCM) essential for organizations striving to optimize their budgets. In 2025, organizations are turning to advanced CCM tools to keep their budgets in check and optimize resource utilization.

How to Set Up and Manage Cron Jobs in Node.js: Step-by-Step Guide

Cron jobs are an essential tool for automating repetitive tasks in backend development. Whether you're running scheduled tasks like sending out emails, cleaning up databases, or performing regular backups, a cron job in Node.js can handle the heavy lifting. In this guide, we’ll walk through everything you need to know about cron jobs in Node.js, from setup to execution.

Grafana Play updates: recent growth, new privacy policies, and more

It’s hard to believe Grafana Play has been around for almost a decade. The platform continues to be a great way to demo Grafana, play around with new features, learn what’s possible, and simply have fun with data. Grafana Play provides a publicly available version of Grafana Cloud, and requires no login for access. It’s preloaded with a wide range of sample dashboards that teach users how to work with data sources, create visualizations, and explore advanced Grafana features.

Enrich your on-call experience with observability data at your fingertips by using Datadog On-Call

The stress, sudden disruptions, and high stakes of resolving issues while on call is one of the most challenging aspects of an engineer’s job. Many organizations, from startups to large enterprises, still struggle with their on-call experience, which leads to longer resolution times and lower employee retention rates. Constant context switching, managing multiple tools, and racing against time to resolve issues can cause frustration, burnout, and inefficiency.

gRPC vs HTTP vs REST: Which is Right for Your Application?

When building modern applications, choosing the right communication protocol is crucial for performance, scalability, and ease of integration. Among the most common options, gRPC, HTTP, and REST often come up in discussions, each with its strengths and weaknesses. But how do you know which one to use? Let’s break it down in this comprehensive comparison.

Best server monitoring tools in 2025 [47 analyzed, top 5 picks]

Let's be honest – managing servers isn't getting any easier. With distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and complex applications, there's more to monitor than ever before. You could try keeping track of everything manually. There's nothing inherently wrong with checking your server metrics yourself and responding to issues as they come up. But here's the reality: if you want to run a reliable, high-performing system, you need proper monitoring tools.

Improve database host and query performance with Database Monitoring Recommendations

Modern applications rely on databases, making database performance and reliability essential. As systems grow in scale and complexity, identifying the impact and addressing the root causes of database performance issues—such as long query durations or missing indexes—becomes increasingly challenging. Datadog Database Monitoring (DBM) Recommendations address these challenges by providing a clear, prioritized view of performance bottlenecks.

Introducing Logsene CLI

In vino veritas, right? During a recent team gathering in Kraków, Poland, and after several yummy bottles of țuică, vișinată, żubrówka, diluted with some beer, the truth came out – even though we run Logsene, a log management service that you can think of as hosted ELK Stack, some of us still ssh into machines and grep logs! Whaaaaat!? What happened to eating our own dog food!?

Using the Python Client Library with InfluxDB v3 Core

The long-awaited InfluxDB 3 Core is finally here, introducing a powerful new way to manage your time series data. InfluxDB 3 Core is an open source recent-data engine for time series and event data. It’s currently in public Alpha under MIT/ Apache 2 license. In this post, we’ll dive into how to query and write data using the Python client library, unlocking the full potential of InfluxDB v3 Core with clear, hands-on examples.

Smarter Tools and Best Practices for Mobile Debugging: A Hands-On Workshop

You get a crash report: “App crashed on checkout page.” But you can’t reproduce it on your Pixel. Maybe it’s only happening on a Samsung device? Maybe it’s a memory issue? Or maybe the user was on a bad network? Now you’re stuck digging through logs, guessing at settings, and running the same scenario over and over in your emulator.

Unlock better Flutter error insights with native symbols support

We’re excited to announce that native symbols support for Flutter is now live in Raygun Crash Reporting! If you’ve ever struggled with obfuscated stack traces in your Flutter apps, this update will simplify your debugging workflow and give you more actionable insights into app crashes.

What's your DEM missing when all you have are native Microsoft tools?

If you want performance snapshots for the endpoints that access your organization’s Microsoft 365 and Teams solutions, Microsoft provides a good array of tools to do the job, including Call Quality Dashboard, Teams Admin, Teams Room Pro Dashboard and Service Health. But what happens at those endpoints is only a small part of your users’ digital experience. And managing that digital experience is an increasingly big accountability for most IT departments. So what are the gaps?

What is the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA)? Everything you need to know about DORA compliance.

The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is a European Union legislation designed to enhance the digital operational resilience of financial institutions and their critical third-party ICT (Information and Communication Technology) service providers. DORA has two primary objectives.

The Most Important Developer Productivity Metric

We love to talk about the value of observability in accelerating feedback loops by enabling teams to understand what changes they need to make to software. But a barrier that often holds teams back from completing the feedback loop is how long it takes to actually get feedback on code under development, or push code into production.

What Is a Network Baseline & Why You Need One

Imagine driving to work every day on the same route. You know how long it typically takes, where traffic tends to slow down, and which shortcuts can save you time. But one day, your commute takes twice as long, and you’re left wondering – was it an accident, construction, or just bad luck? Knowing what’s “normal” for your commute helps you immediately recognize when something’s off and figure out why. The same principle applies to your network.

Master Telemetry Replay with Cribl Stream and Cribl Lake

What do you do when an incident occurs, and you need to investigate and troubleshoot? Replay data. What about performing audit trails for compliance and reporting? Replay data. Need to do system testing and validation? Replay data. There are countless reasons to replay telemetry, but the ease of doing so largely depends on the tools and infrastructure you have in place. Manual replay is often cumbersome and time-consuming, requiring access to stored raw data in logs or files.

Optimize Observability and Cut Costs Without Losing Insights | What is Adaptive Telemetry? | Grafana

Managing telemetry can quickly spiral out of control, leading to ballooning costs and overwhelming data volumes. But what if you could save time, reduce costs, and maintain the critical insights your team relies on? In this video, learn how Adaptive Telemetry helps you: Sign up for a free Grafana Cloud account today and unlock the potential of distributed tracing in your performance testing workflow.

What is Adaptive Telemetry, and how can it reduce MTTR, noise, and cost?

As your applications scale, so too does the flood of logs, metrics, profiles, and traces—along with the costs to store and manage them. Collecting everything might feel like the safest bet, but it often leaves you buried in noise and struggling to find the signals that matter, all while costs spiral out of control.

Grafana SLO: Easily predict the likelihood that you'll hit your target

Service-level objectives (SLOs) can be a great way to ensure you’re hitting your goals, but many software teams struggle to set realistic targets when they first set up the service-level indicators (SLIs) that underpin those efforts. Sometimes management has a decree that all services will operate with “three 9s” of availability; other times engineers pick a number out of thin air.

Session Replay for Mobile is now Generally Available: See What Your Users See

Session Replay for Mobile is now generally available. I could bombard you with hyperbolic statements about why Session Replay is worth using, but instead, A…I… wrote you a haiku: Screen freeze, devs all sigh. Replay uncovers the crime: Forgot.addListener.

Take control of your OpenTelemetry Collectors with Otel Remote Management

Managing OpenTelemetry (OTel) collectors across diverse, cloud-native environments is key to streamlining monitoring and gathering valuable insights. But, managing them effectively, especially across multiple servers, has been a manual and time-consuming process. That changes today. Sumo Logic’s Otel Remote Management is designed to simplify OpenTelemetry Collector management, all from a single unified user interface.

How KPIs Help Us Monitor and Optimize Business Performance

Any IT strategist must keep in mind the business goal, so that their technology initiatives are aimed at delivering, rather than services and infrastructure, the added value of reliability and optimal performance that makes them achieve business goals and be more competitive. Read on to understand what KPIs are and how they help us with proper business management.

How to Monitor Website Uptime in 2025

Building trust with your users is a cornerstone of business success, and a reliable, high-performing website is a big part of that trust. When your site is accessible whenever users need it, you’re sending a message of reliability and professionalism. With a website uptime monitoring tool, you can ensure your site remains dependable and user-friendly which builds the confidence your users need.

Enhancing Your Uptime.com Experience: New UI Updates and Functionality for 2025

At Uptime.com, we’re committed to delivering a seamless and efficient experience for our users. We’ve been listening to your feedback and are excited to share some significant updates to our platform. These improvements are designed to enhance usability, streamline workflows, and provide you with the tools you need to monitor and maintain your site’s reliability effectively. Let’s dive into the details!

Logz.io Earns Special Mention for Best Use of AI from the 2024 O11ys Awards

We’re thrilled to announce that Logz.io received a Special Mention for Best Use of AI from the 2024 O11ys Awards, a celebration of innovation and excellence in observability. The 2024 O11ys Awards recognized our AI Agent, calling it: This recognition validates our mission to simplify observability with AI, empowering teams to troubleshoot faster, optimize costs, and focus on innovation.

Why pharmaceutical manufacturing can't afford IT failures: A real-world CDMO case study

The margin for error is extremely low in a critical sector like manufacturing, where accuracy, efficiency, and time to delivery are indispensable. These aspects become even more crucial in pharmaceutical manufacturing, a critical sector that is always in high demand, especially following the COVID-19 pandemic. The responsibility now falls on contract development and manufacturing organizations (CDMOs) that partner with pharmaceutical and biotech companies.

The SRE Report 2025: Highlighting Critical Trends in Site Reliability Engineering

Catchpoint's annual report reveals the rise of operational toil, the growing importance of user experience as a reliability metric, and the challenges of balancing speed and stability in a rapidly developing AI-driven landscape.

Detecting and Resolving Broken Links Using Website Monitoring Software

Broken links are more than minor annoyances—they can significantly harm your website’s user experience, SEO rankings, and overall credibility. Whether managing a small blog or a complex e-commerce platform, ensuring that your site functions flawlessly is essential to keeping visitors engaged and search engines satisfied. However, identifying and fixing broken links manually can be time-consuming and error-prone. That’s where website monitoring software comes into play.

Unified Web Performance: Real User Monitoring and Automatic Lighthouse Testing

At Request Metrics, we’re always looking for ways to help you make your websites faster and your users happier. Today, we’re excited to announce a major new capability: Unified Performance Monitoring. Request Metrics now combines the power of real-user monitoring with automated lab performance testing to get a complete picture of your website’s performance.

Your First Year with DEX: A Strong Approach

When it comes to Digital Employee Experience (DEX), the key to success is treating it as a journey, not a destination. Organizations need to deliver outcomes and value quickly, while simultaneously building the maturity of their DEX initiatives over time. The journey involves deliberate planning, with clearly defined milestones and goals along the way.

Key metrics for Kubernetes performance monitoring: A practical guide

Kubernetes is known to be the best container orchestration tool, but it can also add complexity to resource management, particularly as your clusters expand. Without proper monitoring, problems can rapidly worsen, resulting in subpar application performance, service interruptions, and higher expenses. In this blog, you will learn the key metrics for monitoring Kubernetes performance and how monitoring these can assist you in maintaining optimal performance in your environment.

Monitor Cloud Run with Datadog

In part 1 of this series, we introduced the key Cloud Run metrics you should be monitoring to ensure that your serverless containerized applications are reliable and can maintain optimal performance. In part 2, we walked through a couple of Google Cloud’s built-in monitoring tools that you can use to view those key metrics and check on the health, status, and performance of your serverless containers.

Real-Time IT Insights: How Commvault Fined-Tuned Microsoft-Centric Monitoring with VirtualMetric

Managing a complex IT environment with both on-premises data centers and multiple cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud) brings a unique set of challenges. Commvault’s cloud operations team, led by Ernie Costa, was well aware of the high-performance systems running on technologies like Hyper-V and NVMe storage. In these systems, even a second’s delay could mean missed opportunities to prevent incidents or optimize performance.

Optimizing High Cardinality Data in ClickHouse

ClickHouse is known for its fast performance and ability to handle large amounts of data, making it a popular choice for running analytical queries. However, it can face challenges when dealing with high cardinality data, which refers to columns with a large number of unique values. This can affect query performance and storage efficiency if not managed properly. In this blog, we will explain what high cardinality means in simple terms and share practical ways to handle it in ClickHouse.

Metric Watch - a real-time view of past, present, and future of metrics

Enterprise operations monitor various metrics associated with the stability, performance, availability, and other such aspects of business, application, and IT infrastructure. These could be business KPIs such as footfall, checkout time, and sales of the flagship stores. These could be performance metrics such as the response time of business-critical applications. These could be the queue length or enqueue rate of the backbone message queues.

Docker vs Docker Swarm: Key Differences Explained

Docker has transformed how we deploy, manage, and scale applications. As applications grow in complexity, the need for effective orchestration increases. This is where Docker Swarm comes into play. Docker’s native clustering and orchestration tool simplifies the management of multi-container applications. Together, Docker and Docker Swarm form a powerful combination for building and scaling modern, distributed systems.

Key metrics for monitoring Google Cloud Run

Google Cloud Run is a fully managed platform that enables you to deploy and scale container-based serverless workloads. Cloud Run is built on top of Knative, an open source platform that extends Kubernetes with serverless capabilities like dynamic auto-scaling, routing, and event-driven functions. By using Cloud Run, developers can simply write and package their code as container images and deploy to Cloud Run—all without worrying about managing or maintaining any underlying infrastructure.

Choosing the Right Monitoring Solution for Your Microsoft IT Stack

For IT teams seeking speed and agility, agentless monitoring offers a lightweight approach. This is particularly useful for Microsoft servers like Windows Nano Server, where resources may be constrained, or in environments where gaining approval for agent installations could be a hurdle. An agentless Microsoft monitoring tool is ideal if: However, there are limitations.

How to collect Google Cloud Run metrics

In Part 1 of this series, we looked at key Cloud Run metrics you can monitor to ensure the reliability and performance of your serverless containerized workloads. We’ll now explore how you can access those metrics within Cloud Run and Google’s dedicated observability tool, Cloud Monitoring. We’ll also look at several ways you can view and explore logs and traces in the Cloud Run UI and Google Cloud CLI.

The SRE Report 2025's Call to Action

The SRE Report is now seven years old. I’ve had the honor and privilege of authoring it for the last five years. This 2025 version included working with some amazing individuals like Kurt Andersen and Denton Chikura. My heartfelt thanks go to them for shouldering the weight of what is both a labor of love and an often daunting, procrastination-inducing marathon of analysis.

Essential Observability with Coroot

There is a phenomenal amount of Observability tools on the market, coming in all shapes and sizes, offering many tools and approaches to solve what seems to be an endless number of problems. It also can be overwhelming to use, hard to set up and expensive to run, especially if you are going with SaaS based market leaders like DataDog.

How to Use Service Level Objectives (SLOs) in Your IT Monitoring

With countless companies delivering their services digitally, reliability and performance are more important than ever. Whether you want to keep your website running 24/7 or ensure your application is responsive to user actions, you need a dependable way to measure your services’ performance and ensure they meet your requirements and those of your customers. Central to this is SLO (Service Level Objective). SLOs are targets that outline the expected performance of a particular service.

Top 13 Splunk Alternatives in 2025: From Open Source to Enterprise Solutions

Splunk is a powerful tool for data analysis and monitoring, but its high costs and complex implementation can be challenging for many organizations. Here are 13 proven Splunk alternatives that provide robust monitoring capabilities, comprehensive data analysis, and more cost-effective solutions for organizations of all sizes.

Trusting Cribl: Strengthening Your Software Supply Chain with Transparency and Security

Let’s face it—the term "software supply chain" can feel like navigating a maze of tech jargon. Commit signing, Software Composition Analysis (SCA), eBPF monitoring, SBOM generation, provenance attestations… the list goes on. But at its core, the software supply chain is the backbone of modern development, and its security is non-negotiable. A single vulnerability in this chain can ripple through entire systems, leading to breaches, downtime, and reputational damage.

Optimizing CDN Performance with Synthetic Monitoring: Warming Up and Maintaining Cache

Synthetic monitoring involves simulating real-world user interactions with your website or application to test performance, availability, and functionality. Dotcom-Monitor’s synthetic monitoring solution takes this concept further by enabling businesses to prepopulate and maintain their CDN caches effectively.

Accelerate root cause analysis with Watchdog and Faulty Kubernetes Deployment

Understanding and managing the impact of Kubernetes changes is one of the biggest challenges for modern DevOps teams. Every modification to a manifest, whether it’s adjusting memory limits, tweaking CPU allocations, or updating container images, has the potential to destabilize services or degrade performance.

WhiteScreen.VIP: The Perfect Companion for Monitor Testing and Maintenance

Feeling overwhelmed when it comes to finding a dead pixel or uneven brightness on the monitor? Not everybody is here! Many users encounter this issue, which is somewhat common, and may prove to be a troublesome problem, causing reduced productivity and creativity. There’s a very effective remedy: A clean white backdrop.

7 Best Network Management Software Tools

Managing a network can be daunting, especially as your infrastructure grows in size and complexity. Fortunately, network management software can help you monitor, manage, and optimize your network, ensuring everything runs smoothly. This post will explore the seven best network management software tools available today. After, we’ll dive into a comprehensive guide on network management to help you understand its importance and how to choose the right tool for your needs.

InfluxDB 3 Open Source Now in Public Alpha Under MIT/Apache 2 License

New InfluxDB 3 Core and InfluxDB 3 Enterprise products now available for alpha testing. Today we’re excited to announce the alpha release of InfluxDB 3 Core (download), the new open source product in the InfluxDB 3 product line along with InfluxDB 3 Enterprise (download), a commercial version that builds on Core’s foundation. InfluxDB 3 Core is a recent-data engine for time series and event data.

InfluxDB 3: Fully Available for the Future of Time Series

Today, we are announcing the public alpha of the newest additions to the InfluxDB 3 time series database product line: InfluxDB 3 Core, our latest open source product, and InfluxDB 3 Enterprise, a commercial version built on Core that provides enhanced functionality for enterprise-scale applications.

Faster Fixes, Happier Customers: Gearset Leverages Honeycomb for Success

Gearset has been revolutionizing Salesforce DevOps since its founding in 2015. The Cambridge-based team set out with a clear mission: to make Salesforce deployments simpler, faster, and more reliable for every team. Today, Gearset’s powerful product suite is trusted by over 2,500 companies worldwide to deploy metadata, automate CI/CD pipelines, seed sandboxes, and secure critical customer data.

Docker Networking 101

This series will guide you through the most crucial container networking concepts. You don't need to be a Docker expert to apprehend the different concepts introduced here, though a basic understanding of networking, Docker, and Kubernetes is required. You can fast-track to the second part by going to Docker Networking Part II. Docker is a tool designed to create, build, and run isolated environments inside containers. It's widely used to containerize applications to run inside lightweight containers.

Why UX Friction is Killing Your Growth (...and How to Fix It)

Ever clicked around a website, got frustrated, and just left? Yeah, so have 88% of users. Once they have a bad experience, they don’t come back. (Google) Friction is the thing that ruins smooth experiences. It makes people abandon carts, close apps, and shake their heads at slow-loading pages. And the worst part? Most businesses don’t even realize it’s happening. Let’s talk about what UX friction really is, how to spot it, and—most importantly—how to fix it.

When and How to Use Log-Based Metrics in DX Operational Observability

DX Operational Observability (DX O2), a next-generation AIOps and Observability solution from Broadcom, offers two powerful capabilities that generate valuable insights from complex log data. Since DX O2 supports ingestion of logs from a wide variety of sources, the solution offers an enormous opportunity to improve observability and power AIOps.

Our "Wrapped-Up" 2024: Pandora FMS advances and accomplishments that marked the year

If Spotify can do its annual wrap-up, so can we! It is true that you will not discover your musical evolution this 2024, but you will be able to check all the advantages that one more year are added to the Pandora FMS portfolio and thereby improve your business operations. 2024 has been a transformational year for Pandora FMS, marked by significant advances and a clear focus on our customers’ global needs.

Revolutionizing Root Cause Analysis with Generative AI: The RAG Approach and Multi-Agent Models

Explore how cutting-edge Generative AI techniques are transforming root cause analysis and troubleshooting. This video dives into the innovative use of the RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) approach to combine past data with real-time information and multi-agent models for dynamic problem-solving. Learn how AI agents ask follow-up questions, analyze data, and deliver highly accurate results like never before.

The Future of Observability: Embracing Change with AI-Driven Insights

Discover how AI is revolutionizing observability and transforming the way we work. In this insightful talk, we explore the parallels between the adoption of Google search and the shift toward natural language-driven observability. Learn why outdated methods like manual graphs, alerts, and extensive data storage are becoming obsolete. It’s time to embrace change, ask questions naturally, and get the answers you need—effortlessly.

Introducing GenAI for Observability: Root Cause Analysis Made Easy

Discover how Logz.io is transforming observability with GenAI, enabling you to troubleshoot complex problems and optimize cloud configurations effortlessly. In this video, we showcase how GenAI leverages your data to perform advanced root cause analysis, automating the process of identifying and resolving exceptions in modern, complex environments. Learn how GenAI analyzes deployment changes, workload patterns, and configuration updates to provide a detailed report in under a minute. Say goodbye to manual troubleshooting and hello to smarter, AI-powered insights.

Why Observability Needs AI: Revolutionizing Monitoring for Modern Complex Systems

In this insightful talk, Asaf Yigal, Co-founder and VP of Product at Logz.io, shares the turning point in observability: addressing the growing complexity of modern environments with AI-driven solutions. From Kubernetes to multi-cloud infrastructures, traditional observability tools fall short in solving complex problems. Discover how Logz.io leverages artificial intelligence to simplify monitoring, enhance troubleshooting, and revolutionize how companies tackle observability challenges. Learn why smarter, AI-powered tools are the future of observability.

Unlock advanced query functionality with distribution metrics

As organizations break down monolithic applications in favor of a more distributed, microservices-based architecture, they need to collect increasing amounts of metric data. But how do you summarize this data to provide insights at scale? Averages are simple to calculate but can be misleading, especially for increasingly complex and distributed environments that contain outlier values that skew the average.

Investigate memory leaks and OOMs with Datadog's guided workflow

Containerized application crashes due to exceeding memory limits are often tricky to investigate as they can be caused by different underlying issues. A program might not be freeing memory properly, or it might just not be configured with appropriate memory limits. Investigation methods also differ based on the language and runtime your program uses.

Enhance microservices observability and performance with Site24x7's log management tool

Microservices are a way of designing applications as a set of small, independent services. Each service handles a specific task and interacts with others through APIs. This architecture makes it easier to develop, deploy, and scale services individually, offering greater flexibility compared to traditional monolithic systems.

How HTTP/2 Works and How to Enable It in Go

Once you’re comfortable with net/rpc from previous article (From net/rpc to gRPC in Go Applications), it’s probably a good idea to start exploring HTTP/2, which is the foundation of the gRPC protocol. How HTTP/2 Works and How to Enable It in Go This piece leans a bit more on the theory side, so heads-up, it’s text-heavy. We’ll focus on understanding HTTP/2 and then briefly touch on enabling it in Go. So, grab a coffee, settle in, and let’s break it down.

Exploring Mobile Session Replay in Expo and React Native

In this video Cody with Sentry's Developer Experience team explores using Mobile Session Replay in a React Native application built using Expo. Mobile Session Replay lets developers see the way that users are experiencing applications on their devices, right along side errors, traces, and other performance information.

Guide to Data Observability

The way we manage, qualify, and utilize our data is constantly tested. With the amount of information we have at our disposal, managing and ensuring data quality has become a strategic lever for companies striving for excellence. How can we ensure our data management is flawless and the data quality on which we base our decisions is optimal? This is where data observability becomes an essential component.

12 Ways IT Operations Can Improve Email Monitoring

If you want to make communication across your organization more reliable,protect sensitive data, and maintain compliance with industry standards, it's essential to monitor your email activity. But you already know this; the question is, how do you do it in the most effective way?

Is Datadog Worth the Price? An In-Depth Cost Analysis

Datadog has established itself as one of the leading solutions for monitoring, logging, and analytics. But with the increasing number of alternatives available, many businesses are asking, "Is Datadog worth the price?" This article breaks down Datadog's pricing structure, the value of its features, and compares it to competitive alternatives. By the end, you'll have a clear understanding of whether Datadog is the right fit for your business.

Bringing Monitoring and Alerting to the Next Level with Compound Conditions

In this article, you will discover how NinjaOne elevates its monitoring capabilities by introducing compound conditions to its robust policy management framework. Effective IT management hinges on efficient infrastructure monitoring. However, overly complex or excessive monitoring can be counterproductive, as it increases the risk of technicians missing critical alerts.

Turning Metrics into Insights: How to Build a Modern, Intelligent DevOps Monitoring Pipeline

When Netflix buffers or AWS goes down, teams spring into action. But how do they identify and fix issues so quickly? The secret lies in intelligent DevOps monitoring, a system that not only watches but understands your infrastructure’s behavior. In this hands-on guide, we’ll build a modern monitoring pipeline that helps you catch and resolve issues before your users notice them. We have prepared a sample Python application that we encourage you to play with to understand the system in action.

Datadog acquires Quickwit

Organizations in financial services, insurance, healthcare, and other regulated industries must meet stringent data residency, privacy, and regulatory requirements while maintaining full visibility into their systems. This becomes challenging when logs need to remain at rest in customers’ environments or specific regions, hindering teams’ ability to attain seamless observability and insight.

10 Benefits of Dedicated Servers for Uninterrupted Business Operations

If you operate digitally, whether hosting an e-commerce site or handling large quantities of data, then getting the right server hosting should be high on your list of priorities. But with a multitude of options out there, it can be hard to know which will be the best fit for you. If you're looking to crunch the numbers, you might be tempted to go for shared hosting as a cost-effective option. If scalability is important to you, then the flexibility of cloud hosting might appeal.

Datadog on LLMs: From Chatbots to Autonomous Agents

As companies rapidly adopt Large Language Models (LLMs), understanding their unique challenges becomes crucial. Join us for a special episode of "Datadog On LLMs: From Chatbots to Autonomous Agents," streaming directly from DASH 2024 on Wednesday, June 26th, to discuss this important topic. In this live session, host Jason Hand will be joined by Othmane Abou-Amal from Datadog’s Data Science team and Conor Branagan from the Bits AI team. Together, they will explore the fascinating world of LLMs and their applications at Datadog.

How to monitor IPFS assets with StatusCake

IPFS stands for “InterPlanetary File System,” and it’s built on the founding principle that the web should be decentralised, resilient, and content-addressable, allowing data to be stored and shared in a way that is not reliant on centralised servers. IPFS is considered a part of “Web3”. Use cases are varied, and some examples include: Decentralised Content Hosting: Hosting websites, blogs, or documents without relying on traditional web servers.

Using GitHub Copilot to Speed Up Your Development Workflow

As a software engineer, I’m always evaluating tools and technologies that can optimize my workflow. Developer productivity isn’t just about writing more code—it’s about reducing friction, whether that’s context-switching, making repetitive edits, or understanding unfamiliar parts of a codebase. That’s where GitHub Copilot comes in: making tasks that once felt monotonous or time-consuming into faster, more intuitive processes.

How to Run Playwright Test in "Parallel," "Serial," or "Default" Mode

Join Stefan Judis, Playwright Ambassador, as he looks into different Playwright test order execution modes. Learn how to effectively use the "fullyParallel" option and understand the differences between "parallel", "serial" and "default" test case execution. If you have questions or feedback, drop a comment below! And don't forget to subscribe for more Playwright tips!

What are Kubernetes events? How can you use Kubernetes events for effective monitoring?

Kubernetes events play a predominant role in helping ensure the peak performance of your Kubernetes clusters. These occurrences reflect important changes in states and offer immediate insights into the activities within your clusters. Whether a pod fails to initialize, a node becomes unreachable, or an application deployment encounters problems, Kubernetes events help you comprehend the root causes of these occurrences.

5 proven strategies IT leaders use to drive business value amid complexity

With the rapid growth of data, sprawling hybrid cloud environments, and ongoing business demands, today’s IT landscape demands more than troubleshooting. Successful IT leaders are proactive, aligning technology with business objectives to transform their IT departments into growth engines. At our recent LogicMonitor Analyst Council in Austin, TX, Chief Customer Officer Julie Solliday led a fireside chat with IT leaders across healthcare, finance, and entertainment.

10 Application Security Vulnerabilities and Defensive Strategies

Application security is a critical aspect of maintaining trust and integrity in your software. With an increasing number of cyberattacks targeting vulnerabilities in applications, it is essential to understand the common risks and take defensive measures to safeguard systems. Below are 10 prevalent application security vulnerabilities, along with real-world examples and effective defensive strategies.

An Uptime.com Year in Review

2024: The year of customer-driven innovation. At Uptime.com, 2024 marked a pivotal year of growth and transformation, driven by our unwavering commitment to customer feedback. With over 70 documented releases, we dedicated ourselves to delivering impactful features that enhance every aspect of our platform. From strengthening our infrastructure to refining the look and feel of our Status Pages, we’ve worked tirelessly to ensure our platform evolves alongside the needs of our users.

Getting started with Coroot: Concepts and Terminology

When you build software, its terminology, concepts and relationship between them is quite obvious to you, when you’re starting to use software built by someone else – might not be so much so. In this blog post I tried to cover most important Coroot concepts and terminology – reading it will hopefully help you to understand Coroot much better if you’re just starting up with it.

Beyond the hype: Is a 10x leap in efficiency possible with AIOps in IT observability?

Now that AI has revolutionized IT forever, what are its implication on IT observability? Typically, IT operations, SREs, and DevOps professionals use IT observability to gain a holistic view of their IT infrastructure. In that pursuit, they used AIOps in several ways. Now, AI has helped IT observability with better anomaly detection, faster root cause analysis, and proactively identifying opportunities to dynamically scale IT to ensure uptime, performance, and security.

Raygun's 2024 in review: New features that empower developers

As 2024 wraps up, we’re taking a moment to look back at the updates and tools we launched to make your life as a developer and Raygun user easier. This year, we focused on enhancing how you monitor errors, track performance, and optimize user experiences. Here’s a breakdown of the key features we shipped in 2024.

Introducing CloudWatch Metric Stream Support in Lumigo

At Lumigo, we are constantly working to help you gain full visibility into your AWS environments with minimal friction. That’s why we’re excited to announce our support for CloudWatch Metric Stream. Now, AWS users can easily send their CloudWatch metrics to Lumigo to create dashboards, set alerts, and unify all their observability data—traces, logs, and metrics—into one powerful, centralized view.

Using SolarWinds Loggly to Get the Most Out of MongoDB Structured Logging

Logs are essential for understanding and optimizing performance, and MongoDB structured logging makes them more powerful. By organizing logs into a consistent format, we can query and analyze them more efficiently. However, dealing with logs locally has its limits. That’s where a centralized log management tool like SolarWinds Loggly comes in. Shipping MongoDB logs to SolarWinds Loggly gives you a unified view of your data, advanced analytics, and proactive monitoring.

Kickstart your investigations and reduce alert noise with Doctor Droid's offering in the Datadog Marketplace

Being an on-call engineer is often overwhelming, requiring you to pivot between tickets, dashboards, runbooks, and different data sources as you try to separate legitimate incidents from unnecessary noise. Not only does the process of investigating irrelevant alerts take time away from remediating important issues, but it also compounds alert fatigue.

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Guide for DevOps Teams in 2025

In today's rapidly evolving technology landscape, Application Performance Monitoring (APM) has become a critical component for DevOps teams striving to maintain high-performing, reliable applications. This comprehensive guide explores everything modern DevOps teams need to know about implementing and optimizing their APM strategy.

Learn how to use the enhanced related items tab in Rollbar to speed up debugging.

The Related Tab is a helpful tool that shows you other items related to the one you’re looking at. This makes it easier to see if the same issue is happening in different parts of your code base or if there are similar items that might be connected. Knowing this can help you understand if a problem is widespread or if there are other occurrences that could help you debug it quicker.

Structured Logging Best Practices: Implementation Guide with Examples

In structured logging, log messages are broken down into key-value pairs, making it easier to search, filter, and analyze logs. This is in contrast to traditional logging, which usually consists of unstructured text that is difficult to parse and analyze.

Learn SPL Command Types: Efficient Search Execution Order and How to Investigate Them

When performing searches, Splunk uses its own language, SPL (Search Processing Language). SPL commands can be categorized into several types depending on the processing they perform. Especially in a distributed environment where the Splunk system is made up of multiple servers, if you do not understand which components perform heavy processing depending on the SPL type, you may create inefficient searches.

Network Observability: Boosting NOC Performance in an AI-Driven World

In today’s digital battleground, a business’ survival depends on the robustness and reliability of its network infrastructure. Network connectivity represents the backbone of critical operations and services. Optimized network performance and experience is the lifeblood of corporate success. With the surge in cloud computing and cutting-edge technologies, networks are becoming intricate and multi-layered beasts.

Anatomy of an OTT Traffic Surge: Netflix Rumbles Into Wrestling

On Monday, Netflix debuted professional wrestling as its latest foray into live event streaming. The airing of WWE’s Monday Night Raw followed Netflix’s broadcasts of a heavily-promoted boxing match featuring a 58-year-old Mike Tyson and two NFL games on Christmas Day. In this post, we look into the traffic statistics of how these programs were delivered.

What's That Collector Doing?

The Collector is one of many tools that the OpenTelemetry project provides end users to use in their observability journey. It is a powerful mechanism that can help you collect telemetry in your infrastructure and it is a key component of a telemetry pipeline. The Collector helps you better understand what your systems are doing—but who watches the Collector? Let’s look at how we can understand the Collector by looking at all the signals it’s emitting.

Don't let flaky tests disrupt continuous integration

Testing is supposed to help you ship better code, faster. But unreliable tests can leave you rerunning CI, wading through flakes, and questioning your life choices every time a failure blocks your merge. Join the product team that built Test Analytics for a no-fluff session on how they tackle CI-clogging frustrations and what you can do to keep failed and flaky tests from slowing you down—so you can finally merge the d*$@# code.

What Is Real User Monitoring (RUM)?

Even if your website is perfectly designed on paper, users don’t always follow the script. They often behave in ways you might never predict. Real user monitoring (RUM), also known as end-user experience monitoring or digital experience monitoring, closes that gap by providing a moment-to-moment view of user interactions. It allows you to spot where visitors encounter friction, confusion, or slowdowns that could impact conversions. These insights benefit your entire team.

2025: The Year of 1,000 DataFusion-Based Systems

Apache DataFusion has reached an inflection point. It has matured beyond early adopters and is now a viable choice for anyone building highly performant analytic systems. I predict 2025 will bring a significant acceleration in the number of systems built on DataFusion, and my focus this year is to help drive that growth.

APAC in 2025: A Harder Look at AI, Data and Cybersecurity Standards

This year has been transformative for technology, reshaping the business landscape with groundbreaking advancements and unprecedented challenges. Generative AI continues to unlock new possibilities, while cybersecurity threats have escalated to new heights. Across APAC — a fast-emerging global innovation hub — businesses have grappled with the twin forces of regulatory evolution and technological breakthroughs.

Observability Insights From KubeCon 2024 - Summary

In this video, I’m breaking down the biggest themes and key takeaways from KubeCon 2024’s observability sessions. From OpenTelemetry’s growing role as the standard for telemetry data to how AI and continuous profiling are shaping the future of proactive, scalable and cost-effective observability. If you missed KubeCon 2024 or want to stay on top of observability trends, this recap will get you up to speed in just a few minutes.

LogicMonitor is recognized as a 2024 Customers' Choice for Observability Platforms on Gartner Peer Insights

LogicMonitor is pleased to have been recognized as a Customers’ Choice vendor for 2024 in the Observability Platforms category on Gartner Peer Insights. This distinction is based on feedback and ratings as of December 30, 2024. LogicMonitor reviewers gave us a 4.7 (out of 5) overall rating in the report, with 94% saying they would recommend the LogicMonitor platform and 83% coming from companies with over $50 million in revenue based on 49 reviews submitted as of October 2024.

What is the curl command?

curl is one of those programs that feels like its always been there for you in a pinch, like when you're trying to debug what your API is doing, and yet we never take the time to actually learn how to use it (I only ever used it via "copy as curl" from my browser's devtools). It's insanely powerful too, run curl --help all to see what I mean. In this article, we're going to take the time to learn what we can do with a tiny subset of curl's options, so we don't have to look them up every time.

Best Monitoring Solutions for Nonprofits in 2025

In 2025, nonprofits will rely heavily on technology to achieve their missions. They need reliable infrastructure to manage databases, run online campaigns, deliver critical services, and more. Limited resources make it difficult to maintain their systems efficiently. Monitoring solutions provide visibility into system uptime, performance, security, etc. With monitoring, nonprofits can focus on their missions without worrying about infrastructure failures or other errors.

Monitoring in the Age of the Internet: DEM, IPM, and APM-What You Need to Know

Gartner recently published the first ever Magic Quadrant for Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM). This landmark report raises important questions about what DEM is and why we need a new category now. It also prompts discussions about how DEM, Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM), and Application Performance Monitoring (APM) relate to each other and what roles they play in modern monitoring strategies.

NinjaOne01 Monitoring Active Directory User Changes

In the world of technology, there are a near infinite number of moving parts, network configurations, Active Directory, users getting added to and removed from groups, data, security and so much more. Trying to keep an eye on all of this can be a genuine headache, so let’s take a look at some ways we can log Active Directory changes with NinjaOne to give you a little bit more breathing room!
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Engineering AI systems with Model Context Protocol

On November 26, 2024, Anthropic released the Model Context Protocol (MCP)-an open standard for data exchange between applications and data sources. MCP simplifies how Large Language Models (LLMs) interact with external tools and data, addressing the challenges developers face when integrating AI into their systems. At Raygun, we've been exploring agentic workflows to improve productivity and saw real potential in MCP. This post will explain how MCP works, what we've implemented, and where we think the standard is headed.

AWS cloud monitoring: How Applications Manager can help

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a popular cloud platform known for its scalability, flexibility, and cost-efficiency. However, its dynamic nature and its complex architecture make real-time monitoring a challenge without a dedicated AWS monitoring tool. IT teams that operate in the AWS cloud need to keep an eye on every corner of the cloud infrastructure to ensure smooth IT operations.

Innovation, impact, and inspiration: Reflecting on 2024

2024 was a year where technology truly made a difference. For businesses, it wasn’t just about new systems; it was about using technology to make operations smoother, improve security, and drive growth. Many organizations turned to ManageEngine to solve challenges, improve efficiency, and achieve meaningful results. Communities also saw the benefits. From connecting urban and rural areas to supporting sustainability efforts, technology helped create impact.

IT Monitoring News | January '25 Edition

Welcome to our January edition of the NiCE bi-monthly newsletter! We’re thrilled to share the latest updates, insights, and events to keep you ahead in the ever-evolving IT monitoring landscape, primarily revolving around Microsoft System Center. Whether you’re looking to stay current with new features, understand best practices, or network with fellow professionals, our newsletter has you covered.

Evaluating Enterprise Readiness for the Shift to Autonomous IT Operations

Autonomous IT operations play a crucial role in enhancing the effectiveness and resilience of IT teams. Automating routine tasks and monitoring systems in real-time enables teams to respond swiftly to operational disturbances, minimizing downtime and disruptions. This proactive approach helps address issues before they escalate, fosters a more agile IT environment, and facilitates the journey to Autonomic IT.

New Year, New Strategies: Website Monitoring Trends for 2025

As we start the new year and the world of websites and web applications continues to grow, it’s important to understand how you want to connect to your customers and achieve growth. To stay competitive in the world of websites, it’s important to embrace all the latest website monitoring trends and strategies.

Anodot vs. Cast AI: Which FinOps Platform Delivers All-Inclusive Value?

There’s no doubt about Kubernetes’ importance for success in the cloud. It offers a cost-efficient, scalable, and automated platform for managing containerized applications while simplifying operations. Cast AI is a well-established platform specializing in Kubernetes optimization, including workload rightsizing and cluster autoscaling. But is that enough for MSPs and enterprises prioritizing cloud costs?

Navigating 2025: Turning Uncertainty into Opportunity

The end of the year for technology companies always brings with it a raft of new predictions for the coming twelve months. Many predictions, breathlessly delivered, suggest a tenuous future can be conveniently avoided with the appropriate application of vendors’ products. Using predictions as a way to shill products is boring, and it misses an opportunity to help enterprises plan for the coming year. After all, predictions don’t have to be correct to be useful.

Proactive Patch Management with Infrastructure Automation

Modern enterprises face many challenges, hampering efficiency and innovation amidst tight budgets and safeguarding your brand against escalating cyber threats. Unpatched systems are also prime targets for cybercriminals who aim to access an organization’s sensitive information, intellectual property, and confidential business data. Traditionally, addressing these challenges required many point solutions, creating disjointed management.

OpenTelemetry and Grafana Labs: what's new and what's next in 2025

As the new year rolls in, it’s a great time to reflect and think big. What were some of your notable achievements in 2024, and what are your goals for 2025? We often do this in our personal lives — but why not apply this same line of thinking to observability, as well?

Azure Budget Monitoring Tools to Empower Cost Efficiency

Cloud adoption brings agility and scalability, but without effective cost monitoring, cloud expenses can spiral out of control. Microsoft Azure offers robust budget monitoring tools to help businesses manage and optimize cloud spending. These tools enable real-time tracking, forecasting, and alerting for Azure budgets, ensuring efficient cost management and avoiding unexpected expenses.

How Profiling helped fix slowness in Sentry's AI Autofix

There’s a common misunderstanding that profiling is only useful for tiny savings that impact infra costs at scale - the so-called “milliseconds matter” approach. But by dogfooding our own profiling tools, we fixed a problem that saved tens of seconds off each user interaction with our AI agent (and for those of you who like math, that’s four orders of magnitude bigger than those milliseconds that matter).

How to monitor Snowflake performance and data quality with Datadog

In Part 2 of this series, we looked at Snowflake’s built-in monitoring services for compute, query, and storage. In this post, we’ll demonstrate how Datadog complements and extends Snowflake’s existing monitoring and data visualization capabilities, enabling teams to get deeper visibility and extract more valuable insights from their Snowflake data.

Tools for collecting and monitoring key Snowflake metrics

In Part 1 of this series, we looked at how Snowflake enables users to easily store, process, analyze, and share high volumes of structured and semi-structured data, as well as key metrics for monitoring compute costs, storage, and datasets. In this post, we’ll walk through how to collect and analyze these metrics using Snowsight, Snowflake’s built-in web interface.

Key metrics for monitoring Snowflake cost and data quality

Snowflake is a self-managed data platform that enables users to easily store, process, analyze, and share high volumes of structured and semi-structured data. One of the most popular data platforms on the market, Snowflake has gained widespread adoption because it addresses a range of data challenges with a unified, scalable, and high-performance platform. Snowflake’s flexibility enables users to handle diverse workloads, such as data lake and data warehouse integration.

Latest Product Updates and Features in Logz.io | January 2025

We’re thrilled to launch our brand-new and improved Support Help Center, designed to streamline how you interact with our support team and access the resources you need. This enhanced platform empowers users to: This is more than just a support portal—it’s a centralized hub to enhance your experience, provide solutions faster, and keep your feedback front and center in our development process. Explore our new Support Help Center for answers and assistance!

Unlock Enhanced Item Management with Our Revamped Related Tab

We’re excited to share some great news about our Related Tab feature! We’ve listened to your feedback and made big improvements to help you manage and investigate your items more easily. The Related Tab is a helpful tool that shows you other items related to the one you’re looking at. This makes it easier to see if the same issue is happening in different parts of your code base or if there are similar items that might be connected.

What is High Cardinality Data and Why Does It Matter?

High cardinality data refers to datasets containing a large number of unique values, such as user names, email addresses, or product codes. Managing this type of data can be challenging due to its rapid growth and complexity, making analysis more difficult. However, high cardinality data is highly valuable as it can show significant patterns and insights.

Centralized Log Management for the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA)

The financial services industry has been a threat actor target since before digital transformation was even a term. Further, the financial services organizations find themselves continuously under scrutiny. As members of a highly regulated industry, these companies need to comply with various laws to ensure that they effectively protect sensitive data.

Understanding Docker Networking Part II

Docker is a helpful tool for application management. You can use Docker in various ways: in the standalone mode, using Docker Compose on a single host, or by deploying containers and connecting Docker engines across multiple hosts. The user can use Docker containers with the default network, the host network, or other more advanced networks like overlays. This depends on the use case and/or the adopted technologies.

Starting 2025 on a High Note: Coralogix Bags 126 G2 Winter Badges

As the holiday season comes to an end and we step into 2025 with renewed energy and excitement, Coralogix kicks off the year with a remarkable gift of achievements! In the G2 Winter 2025 Reports, we are thrilled to announce that we’ve been recognized with a phenomenal 126 badges across multiple categories and market segments. This remarkable feat is a testament to the trust and love of our customers and the dedication of our team.

Top 5 outages detected by StatusGator in December 2024

As we step into the new year, we’re excited to continue providing early detection and updates for the services you rely on. But before we dive into 2025, let’s take a moment to recap some of the most notable outages from December 2024. From login issues to platform-wide disruptions, December was eventful, and StatusGator was there to keep users informed ahead of time. Here’s a look back at the top outages we detected.

Enterprise guide to streamlined log collection using Site24x7

Handling logs in a large-scale server infrastructure is no small task. It’s a critical component of maintaining smooth operations, especially for industries like healthcare, where over 1,000 servers might be managing everything from patient records to billing systems. When these logs are scattered and disconnected, this disarray slows troubleshooting, fragments operational insights, and ultimately undermines system reliability.

Monitor your multi-cloud costs with Cloud Cost Management and FOCUS

Monitoring cloud costs can be complex. When those costs span more than one cloud service provider (CSP) or SaaS provider, that complexity can make it difficult to understand your overall spending. Datadog Cloud Cost Management (CCM) enables teams to understand cloud costs, but each provider tags its cost data differently. Teams need to understand each provider’s unique cost data model before they can make sense of their costs in each cloud.

Monitor your Google Gemini apps with Datadog LLM Observability

Google’s comprehensive AI offering includes Vertex AI, a cloud-based platform for building and deploying AI applications, AI Studio, a web platform for quickly prototyping and testing AI applications, and Gemini, their multimodal model. Gemini offers advanced capabilities in image, code, and text generation and can be used to implement chatbot assistants, perform complex data analysis, generate design assets, and more.

Uptime.com's Real-Time Analysis Gets a Major Upgrade

At Uptime.com, we’re always looking for ways to empower our users with tools that enhance their ability to monitor website performance and ensure site reliability. That’s why we’re excited to announce a significant update to our Real-Time Analysis page. With this release, we’ve not only transitioned this critical feature to our cutting-edge NextGen infrastructure but also introduced several improvements to boost usability and performance. Here’s what’s new.

Monitoring Windows Servers With the OpenTelemetry Collector

This post was written by Martin Thwaites and Vivian Lobo. The OpenTelemetry Collector is an exceptional solution for proxying and enhancing telemetry, but it’s also great for generating telemetry from machines too. In this post, we’ll go through a basic, opinionated setup of using the OpenTelemetry Collector to extract metrics and logs from a Windows server.

Coralogix at AWS re:Invent 2024 Highlights

We had a blast at AWS re:Invent 2024 and our team was invigorated by the incredible response and feedback we received from the thousands of participants who visited our booth. It was clear that a recurring theme among companies is the need for an observability solution that not only scales affordably with increasing data volumes but is also at the forefront of innovation. Coralogix stands out as the ideal match for these requirements.

7 Incident Communication Templates (+ Best Practices)

In today's tech world, clear communication during incidents is crucial. Whether it's a small issue or a major outage, how you communicate with stakeholders can build trust and speed up resolution. This post explores the essential elements of incident communication templates, providing a straightforward guide to crafting clear and concise messages. From planned maintenance to critical system failures, we'll cover a range of templates for different situations, so you're prepared for anything.

Migrating from DIY ELK to a Full SaaS platform

Managing modern systems requires a constant balance between operational efficiency and innovation; going a little further, maintaining seamless operations and delivering exceptional customer experiences increasingly depend on ensuring robust observability. For years, the ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) has been the go-to solution for many organizations for log management and observability, offering flexibility control and an open source approach.
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How MSPs Provide SaaS, UCaaS, and Network Monitoring

With the reliance on cloud computing continuously surging, Managed Service Providers (MSPs) are required to deliver a wider range of support services. Efficiently managing Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) has become increasingly difficult but more important. To meet and exceed their clients' demands, who depend heavily on these cloud solutions, MSPs need robust Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) tools. These tools are essential for identifying application performance issues, maintaining service quality, and ensuring an optimized end-user experience.

Prometheus Metrics Types: Understanding Gauges and Counters

In system monitoring and observability, understanding the differences between metric types is critical for building robust and insightful monitoring solutions. Prometheus, a powerful open-source monitoring system, offers several metric types, with Gauges and Counters being two of the most fundamental and frequently used.

How to send OTLP or Prometheus metrics and logs to Grafana Cloud with Grafana Alloy

We introduced Grafana Alloy last year in an effort to create the best possible open source “big tent” telemetry collector. A continuation of our work on Grafana Agent Flow, we designed Alloy to simplify observability at scale and to easily integrate with the OpenTelemetry and Prometheus ecosystems. We’ve seen lots of interest since Alloy was announced at GrafanaCON 2024, and industry observers are taking notice, too.

Kafka Scaling Trends for 2025: Optimizations and Strategies

Scaling Kafka isn’t just about adding nodes or increasing partition counts; it’s about creating an ecosystem that grows with your business demands. As we move into 2025, the focus is shifting from brute force scaling to more nuanced, efficient strategies. Organizations are discovering that throwing resources at Kafka bottlenecks won’t solve long-term scalability issues—instead, optimization is king.

ChatGPT Outage: How StatusGator notified before OpenAI and Microsoft

On December 26, 2024, A ChatGPT outage disrupted access for countless users worldwide. This was a major outage affecting not just the ChatGPT web interface but the entire OpenAI platform including their APIs. The incident was traced back to a power issue in Microsoft Azure’s South Central US data center which took down many other Azure customers. StatusGator customers received Early Warning Signal notifications before either provider updated their public status pages.

Guide: Why You Should Replace FTP and Five Top FTP Alternatives

From financial records and client contracts to internal communications, organizations transfer files and sensitive data daily. A secure file transfer solution has always been non-negotiable, but it’s more critical than ever amidst the rise of data breaches and cyberattacks. For many years, File Transfer Protocol (FTP) was the standard. However, its outdated security measures and lack of encryption make it vulnerable to cyber threats, leaving shared data at risk of interception and misuse.

The Best Real-Time Data Streaming Tools

For organizations, it is crucial to swiftly respond to evolving market dynamics, shifting customer preferences, and emerging operational challenges. This responsiveness is made possible through the use of real-time data streaming technologies, which provide a dynamic and profound understanding of the environment. In this article, we will outline why real-time data streaming is beneficial before listing the leading real-time data streaming tools currently available.

InfluxQL vs SQL for InfluxDB

InfluxDB is a purpose-built time series database designed to handle high-write throughput and large volumes of time-stamped data. From monitoring system metrics to tracking IoT device readings and analyzing financial trends, it excels in scenarios where time is a fundamental factor. With the release of InfluxDB v3, users now benefit from dual query language support: SQL and InfluxQL.

Top 14 ELK alternatives [open source included] in 2025

ELK is the acronym Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana, and combined together, it is one of the most popular log analytics tools. Elastic changed the license of Elasticsearch and Kibana from the fully open Apache 2 license to a proprietary dual license. The ELK stack is also hard to manage at scale. In this article, we will discuss 14 ELK alternatives that you can consider using.

Kibana vs. Grafana - A Scenario-Based Decision Guide [2025]

Both Kibana and Grafana are data visualization tools providing users capabilities to explore, analyze and visualize data with dashboards. The difference between Kibana and Grafana lies in their genesis. Kibana was built on top of the Elasticsearch stack, famous for log analysis and management. In comparison, Grafana was created mainly for metrics monitoring supporting visualization for time-series databases.

DataDog vs Prometheus - Comprehensive Comparison Guide [2025]

Both DataDog and Prometheus are application monitoring tools aimed to improve application performance. While Datadog is a cloud-based SaaS solution, meaning there's no need to install or maintain any infrastructure, Prometheus is an open-source tool that requires manual download and installation on your infrastructure. Let us compare DataDog and Prometheus to see which tool suits The biggest difference between Datadog and Prometheus is that while Prometheus is open-source, Datadog is proprietary.

7 Best Azure Service Bus Monitoring Tools in 2025

Azure Service Bus is a cloud messaging service that transfers information between services running in both the cloud and on-premises. So, it becomes essential to ensure the performance and availability of Service Bus as it might be used in applications and integrations for transferring business-critical messages. To help you with that, we have listed and compared the top Azure Service Bus monitoring tools with their features.

A step by step guide to AI maturity in IT operations

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has lots to offer to IT operations. AI capabilities vary from detecting anomalies to suppressing alert noise to predicting future incidents to even planning for growth and change. However, enterprises struggle in making the best use of AI. In this blog we present our views on how to go about systematic adoption of AI to accelerate and optimize AIOps.

6 Best Azure FinOps Tools for Cost Optimization (2025)

FinOps is an evolving concept increasingly practiced in cloud computing organizations to manage and optimize their infrastructure cost. It requires team collaboration among Finance, Engineering and IT Operations to gain a deep understanding of the expenditure, take financial accountability, and make informed decisions to maximize the business performance.

Top 11 Grafana Alternatives & Competitors [2025]

Are you looking for Grafana alternatives? Then you have come to the right place. Grafana started as a data visualization tool. It slowly evolved into a tool that can take data from multiple data sources for visualization. For observability, Grafana offers the LGTM stack (Loki for logs, Grafana for visualization, Tempo for traces, and Mimir for metrics). You need to configure and maintain multiple configurations for a full-stack observability setup.

The Ultimate Guide to API Monitoring in 2025 - Metrics, Tools, and Proven Practices

According to Akamai, 83% of web traffic is through APIs. Microservices, servers, and clients constantly communicate to exchange information. Even the Google search you made to reach this article involved your browser client calling Google APIs. Given APIs govern the internet, businesses rely on them heavily. API health is directly proportional to business prosperity. This article covers everything about API monitoring, so your API infrastructure’s health is always in check .

Magecart Attack: 'Temporarily Out Of Orbit'

In December 2024, it was reported that the European Space Agency’s (ESA) official online store suffered a Magecart attack aimed at compromising customers’ payment information. The breach involved the injection of malicious JavaScript code into the store’s checkout process, leading to the display of a counterfeit Stripe payment page designed to harvest sensitive data. Image Source: ESA Website.

The Ultimate Guide to the Best SFTP Servers in 2025

Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), also known as SSH File Transfer Protocol, is a robust, encrypted method for transferring files across networks, designed as a more secure alternative to traditional File Transfer Protocol (FTP). Essential for industries handling sensitive data—like finance and healthcare—SFTP protects against unauthorized access and enables efficient file management, making it a critical tool for remote access and data protection.

Managing Large Values in Redis Without Consuming Excessive Memory

Redis is a high performance in-memory data store that excels in speed and simplicity. However, when dealing with large values especially in scenarios where memory is limited it is important to implement strategies to effectively manage memory usage while maintaining performance. This blog explores practical methods to handle large values in Redis without exhausting your memory resources.

Visual Studio App Center Retirement: Why Sentry is Your Next Step

We knew Visual Studio App Center was retiring, but with an official retirement date of March 31, 2025 and today being *checks calendar* 2025 already, it’s time we choose from our App Center alternatives and start migrating over to other tools. Here’s a quick guide with links to other resources that will make the migration a little less painful.

Simplifying Java One Liners (Lambda Expressions) Debugging with Lightrun

In Java programming, lambda expressions or Java one-liners have become widely adopted practices for writing concise and expressive code. These compact, anonymous functions introduce functional programming concepts to Java, streamlining operations on collections, simplifying data manipulation, and enhancing code readability. Introduced in Java 8, lambda expressions are designed to represent blocks of executable code.

VictoriaMetrics Cloud: What's New in Q4 2024?

It’s been an exciting journey since we launched VictoriaMetrics Cloud, empowering many with a managed, simple, reliable, and efficient monitoring solution to reduce monitoring costs by up to 5x. Designed to eliminate the overhead of running infrastructure, VictoriaMetrics Cloud has proven to be a game-changer, offering the scalability and power of the popular VictoriaMetrics open-source time-series database but, this time, fully managed.

How CERN uses Grafana and Mimir to monitor the world's largest computer grid

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is famous for operating the world’s largest particle accelerator, but did you know that CERN is also at the heart of the world’s largest computing grid? And with such unprecedented computing demands comes some serious observability needs.

A unified journey through HEAL Software's innovation in IT operations management

Every year brings its own unique challenges and opportunities, and we’ve consistently embraced both resilience and innovation. Through our comprehensive platform, we’ve redefined how businesses approach root cause analysis, anomaly detection, automation, solution recommendations, and log monitoring, while also achieving significant improvements in Mean Time to Investigate (MTTI) and Mean Time to Repair (MTTR).

What is Event Correlation? And Why Does Event Correlation Matter when Monitoring?

Event correlation in the context of an AIOps (Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations) monitoring tool, such as eG Enterprise, is the automated process of analyzing and linking related IT events to identify patterns, root causes, and significant incidents within complex IT environments. By correlating events from various sources (like servers, applications, networks, and databases), AIOps tools help IT teams manage alerts more efficiently, reduce noise, and address issues faster and more effectively.
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Capturing Network Traffic anytime

Capturing network traffic is usually done either for security reasons or to troubleshoot networking issues. But by the time you initiate a network capture (either manually or automatically) it’s often too late already – the train has already left the station. Point in case: Say your SIEM (obviously EventSentry) detects abnormal or suspicious behavior in a log and a network capture is initiated.

Tips on troubleshooting your network like a pro

Sometimes life can be pointless, and other times, it might just be that your network has stopped working, and now you have too much time to ponder the true purpose of life. If you are in that second situation, let’s get that network fixed before you start regretting your life choices. Troubleshooting is a repetitive yet rigorous process where you analyze and test individual network components like a chef checking every ingredient before cooking up a delicious dish.

Top 6 Distributed Tracing Tools in 2025

Distributed tracing is the functionality to trace requests or messages flowing through different systems or environments like frontend, Backend, middleware. Distributed tracing brings connectivity or visibility of various services using a unique identifier. This identifier is passed to different services to correlate them as a single flow. We track data from different services with distributed tracing, but how do we visualize them? Visualization is a tedious task.

Best uptime monitoring tools in 2025 (28 analyzed, 5 top picks)

Getting that message from a customer — "Your site is down!" — feels like a punch to the gut. Manual checks and basic scripts leave too much to chance. When every minute offline costs you money and frustrated customers, you need reliable uptime monitoring tools. But the market offers dozens of options, which can make choosing the right one challenging. This guide cuts straight to what works.

Top 10 DigitalOcean Alternatives to Consider in 2025

The 2025 cloud computing landscape presents a diverse array of options beyond DigitalOcean's familiar waters. As businesses outgrow basic cloud solutions, they're discovering platforms that better match their evolving needs. From startups seeking cost-effective scaling to enterprises demanding robust security features, today's cloud providers offer specialized solutions for every use case.