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7 Network Visibility Best Practices for Better Performance and Data Control

We rely heavily on our networks for business continuity. As technology evolves, we can do so much more. At the same time, increased complexity makes it challenging to keep track of everything. Reaching and maintaining network visibility sometimes feels like chasing the carrot at the end of the stick.

What is Single Pane of Glass? A Complete Guide to Unified IT Management

Ever felt overwhelmed juggling multiple monitoring tools and dashboards? You're not alone. Today's IT environments are more complex than ever, and keeping track of everything can feel like watching a dozen TV screens simultaneously. That's where Single Pane of Glass comes in – it's like having a universal remote for your entire IT infrastructure.

5 tips to write better browser tests for performance testing and synthetic monitoring

Given the complexity of modern websites, browser testing is essential to ensure a positive user experience. With the Grafana k6 browser module, you can interact with real web browsers and simulate user interactions — like clicking, typing, or navigating pages — to collect frontend metrics, increase site reliability, and fix performance issues before they ever impact your users.

Leveling up your observability practice - Part 2

Lessons from the front lines: Challenges in your observability maturity journey In our previous blog, we explored the observability maturity spectrum — revealing that while only 7% of organizations consider themselves experts, the majority (43%) are actively working to improve their practices. We saw how mature organizations achieve better outcomes, from faster root cause analysis to reduced user-reported incidents.

Agentic RAG on Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA and Elasticsearch Vector Database

We are excited to collaborate with Dell on the white paper,Agentic RAG on Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA. The white paper is a design reference document for developers outlining strategies and solution components to implement agentic retrieval augmented generation (RAG) applications. It’s a design point for organizations across industries, specifically healthcare, for the agentic RAG framework decision-making with AI-driven data retrieval.

Supply Chain and Warehouse Trends in 2024 and Beyond

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the supply chain industry and exposed its vulnerabilities. Adding to the pressure, even more complicated challenges have emerged, including extreme weather events, complicated geopolitical climates and the complex evolution of AI. A survey by Ivanti reveals the state of the industry, key insights from insiders and trends to watch. The survey collected insights from management and employees across a range of supply chain roles.

Adding AI to Observability 2.0 for Dynamic Observability

The original premise of observability was to ensure system health, identify issues, and resolve those issues efficiently. As I recently outlined, the legacy approach (sometimes called Observability 1.0 now) relied heavily on metrics and tracing because logs were seen as too noisy or challenging. But, as most forward thinkers have identified now, logs are exactly the telemetry type that we need the most.

Are you ready for the next outage? How a to prepare for any crisis

We live in an “always on” world, so unplanned outages are more than just inconvenient. They can result in lost revenue, damaged reputations, and, more importantly, frustrated customers. While preventing outages is impossible, the most resilient teams must be prepared with a solid plan, a “technical go bag,” so to speak: a collection of tools, plans, and resources ready to activate at the first sign of trouble.