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Network Testing: How to Test Network Performance

Our networks are always changing and evolving. Network Testing for higher speeds, better application and network device performance, and after a new service deployment or migration, helps us understand the impact of changes on our network. In this article, we’re running you through how to test network performance using Network Testing and Monitoring tools.

An advanced guide to network monitoring with Grafana and Prometheus

In your career, if your role has ever included the monitoring or managing of any network infrastructure devices such as switches, routers, firewalls, etc., you’ve very likely heard of SNMP. In case you haven’t, SNMP stands for Simple Network Management Protocol, and, unlike its name suggests, it is anything but simple. It is a standard protocol for collecting information from network devices and organizing it in a way that humans can (sort of) understand.

Tutorial: Auto-instrumentation of a Java app by OpenTelemetry for K8s Environment

This tutorial demonstrates how to auto-instrument a Java app by OpenTelemetry for Kuberenetes easily with the help of a sample Java app. It also shows how to connect it to the hosted collector, and trace the transactions in Sumo Logic. Learn the prerequisites and the detailed step-by-step auto-instrumentation process in this tutorial. Reference Links: Links to refer to or download useful material to try the steps independently.

Containerization and Kubernetes Monitoring

As cloud-native solutions are gaining recognition and becoming a common approach to developing applications, more attention has been directed towards container orchestration and Kubernetes. Both concepts within the realm of IT have been around for a while. Thanks to the technologies' maturing and cloud adoption, they've recently gained significant attention. We all know that software containers are far from traditional shipping containers, yet they function similarly: they standardize and combine.

The whats, whys, and hows of Windows network monitoring

Microsoft Windows is one of the most widely used operating systems and is preferred by users all around the world. A Windows device is associated with a lot of processes, services, and events that often need to be tracked from a single console. This is where a Windows network monitoring tool comes in handy. A Windows network monitoring tool is used to monitor the availability and performance of Windows devices in a network.

Logit.io Featured On eChannelNews For New Partner Program Launch

We are excited to announce that Logit.io has recently been featured on e-ChannelNews where our founder Lee Smith was interviewed by the President of TechnoPlant, Julian Lee about our partner program. In this interview, Lee explains more about how the Logit.io platform can assist channel partners to grow their ability to offer enterprise-ready logging and metrics analysis.

How to Simplify Your Out-of-the-Box Alerting with NEW! AutoDetect

Over 85% of global organizations will be running containerized applications in production by 2025 say Gartner, with 4 in 5 enterprises expected to move their workloads from on-premises infrastructure to the cloud. Migration to the cloud has IT admins and/or SREs managing an increasingly complex, hybrid IT environment, with an uphill battle of trying to monitor and troubleshoot their infrastructure components and services in real time.

From Kálmán to Kubernetes: A History of Observability in IT

You know that observability plays a crucial role in helping to manage today’s distributed, cloud-native, microservices-based applications. But you may be surprised to learn that – despite its close association with modern applications – observability as a concept was born more than a half-century ago. Its origins stretch all the way back to the late 1950s, long before anyone was talking about microservices and the cloud.

[Infographic] AWS Elastic Load Balancing from a Serverless perspective

Load balancing is a significant part of every internet-facing software, and with Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), AWS offers a set of load balancers for every use case. Since our latest update, Dashbird also gives you insights into these ELB services; let’s look at them and see how they can be used in a serverless environment.