Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

It's a story as old as the web itself: someone on your team gets excited to install a new tool. The tool promises to finally give you a clear view into the problems your users have with your product. Your team agrees to give it a go. The errors start coming... ...and they don't stop coming... Soon enough, most of your team has either created an email filter to manage all the alerts, or has unsubscribed themselves entirely. Just like all the other tools. Welcome to alert fatigue.

For software development teams to make meaningful progress, they must invest in efficient monitoring, reporting practices, and tooling. This is because only by keeping track of select metrics, such as those pertaining to application performance, will you know whether you are on the right track. Without knowledge of whether the software is functioning and performing as it is supposed to, there is no way of knowing what, if any, changes need to be made.

Native MQTT eliminates the need to write custom code, orchestrate additional technology layers or incorporate additional hosting services. MQTT is a powerhouse within the Internet of Things (IoT) space. Its pub/sub model and lack of defined payload structure make it infinitely adaptable to the needs of modern sensors, devices and systems. IoT data is also time-series data.

Ah SpiceWorld. One of NinjaOne’s favorite conferences – and a personal favorite of mine. So after two years of the show being virtual, we were thrilled to learn that SpiceWorld would be back in-person this year (with a virtual element too). We couldn’t wait to see everyone in person again! Conversations with customers in the NinjaOne booth Now that the show is over, I didn’t want to miss the opportunity to showcase what Ninja was up to and highlight the great work of our team.

Most software companies rely on DevOps at some scale to aid their software development and deployment processes. DevOps has recently seen a major increase in popularity due to the advent of cloud-based tools and automation possibilities. DevOps can help you completely forget the woes of deploying software and focus better on building better apps and providing a holistic experience for your end user. However, just like other things in tech, DevOps is not perfect.

Cloud-native applications offer a lot of flexibility and scalability, but to leverage these advantages, we must create and deploy a suitable environment that will enable cloud-native applications to work their magic. Managed services, self-managed services, and bare metal are three primary categories of Kubernetes deployment in a cloud environment.

Grafana Labs CEO and Co-founder Raj Dutt sat down with “NYSE Floor Talk” ahead of ObservabilityCON to discuss why companies are increasingly focused on observability as a means to improve customer satisfaction. In his conversation with Judy Khan Shaw, host of “NYSE Floor Talk,” Dutt also talked about Grafana Labs’ big tent philosophy and the growth of Grafana Labs and the Grafana open source community.

Monitoring KSM (Kernel Same-page Merging) performance at deduping memory shared across VMs.

Countless times in the MSP world I’ve had to ask myself, “why can’t the end users handle this?” Typically, the answer boils down to the fact that they are paying the MSP to take that stress and labor off their hands. However, there are occasions when end users, providing they’re properly trained, can legitimately take some of the workload off the MSP’s hands.

The events over the past two and a half years have radically changed the world. Digital transformation initiatives went from being a priority to an urgent imperative. Enterprises that had not already migrated data to the cloud rushed to do so during the pandemic, and others accelerated their on-premise-to-cloud shifts. Hybrid and multi-cloud environments become the new reality for many organizations who want to get the most out of their on-premises and cloud investments.