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Mastering Predictive Analytics: Powering Engines for Continual Insight

Predictive analytics are a powerful tool, enabling organizations to make informed data-driven decisions. These tools are far-reaching and can deliver impactful results, either in the long term, like supply chain management and overall equipment effectiveness, or in the short term, like anomaly detection. Let’s take a look at what predictive analytics are and how to power predictive analytics engines for continued, meaningful insight into your data and operations.

Troubleshoot anomalies in workload performance with Watchdog Insights and Alerts for Live Processes

Processes—the service workloads that run on your infrastructure—are the building blocks of your application, and it’s critical to know how well they operate at every level of the stack. Degraded process performance can lead to downtime for your mission-critical services, resulting in loss of customer trust and potentially impacting revenue for the business.

A Comprehensive Guide to Status Pages in 2024

Status pages are one of the best additions to your monitoring that can significantly reduce the number of support tickets or improve the efficiency of your teams and processes. There are multiple benefits hidden in creating a custom status page, so let’s take a look at all of them and how you can implement them immediately.

Build better Service Level Objectives (SLOs) from logs and metrics

In today's digital landscape, applications are at the heart of both our personal and professional lives. We've grown accustomed to these applications being perpetually available and responsive. This expectation places a significant burden on the shoulders of developers and operations teams.

Gartner Lays out Three Use Cases of Network Detection and Response (NDR) Adoption

The Gartner recent report, “Emerging Tech: Top Use Cases for Network Detection and Response”, lays out three primary use case drives, which include: Before we dive deeper into Gartner findings, let’s talk about NDR from a high level.

APM From a Developer's Perspective

In twenty years of software development, I did not have the privilege of being on call, of tending to my software in production. I’ve never understood what “APM” means. Anybody can tell me what it stands for—Application Performance Monitoring (or sometimes, the M means Management)—but what does it mean? What do people use APM for?

What is the OpenTelemetry Transform Language (OTTL)?

The OpenTelemetry Transformation Language, or OTTL for short, offers a powerful way to manipulate telemetry data within the OpenTelemetry Collector. It can be leveraged in conjunction with OpenTelemetry processors (such as filter, routing, and transform), core components of the OpenTelemetry Collector. It caters to a range of tasks from simple alterations to complex changes.

Comparing OpenTelemetry and Jaeger | Key Features

Jaeger and OpenTelemetry are essential technologies that greatly improve the observability of software applications. OpenTelemetry is a vendor-neutral platform that makes it easier to create and collect telemetry data, including logs, traces, and metrics. Its extensive backend integration adaptabilities allow it to fit into a wide range of infrastructures. However, Jaeger is an expert in distributed tracing within microservice environments.

Website tracking and all you need to know

All you need to know about website tracking Website tracking refers to the practice of monitoring and collecting data on users' activities and behaviors when they visit a website. Various tools and technologies are employed to track and analyze this information. The primary goal of website tracking is to gain insights into user interactions, preferences, and overall engagement with a website and then fine-tune the page based on it.