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Podman is a modern, open-source container engine developed by Red Hat that serves as a powerful alternative to Docker. It's designed with security, composability, and simplicity in mind. Here’s why it stands out.

I have a personal vendetta against “dashboards.” Not because they’re not useful—I actually think they’re extremely useful—but rather because they’re generally built with the wrong user in mind, then used by a completely different user, and for a different use case.

Are you looking for a Nagios alternative? Then you have come to the right place. In this blog, we will go through the top Nagios alternatives available today. But before that, let’s briefly look at what Nagios offers and why some teams might consider switching to another monitoring solution.

At SquaredUp, we’re obsessed with making monitoring not just powerful, but a genuinely delightful experience for engineers and teams. When we first built our Pingdom plugin, the goal was simple: make website uptime and performance data easy to visualize alongside everything else you care about. But as our users pushed the boundaries—connecting more endpoints, demanding richer insights, and needing faster troubleshooting—we realized our plugin needed to keep up.

Chat widgets are great for customer support, but they can wreak havoc on your automated tests. These floating elements often interfere with Playwright tests by covering clickable buttons, triggering unexpected popups, or causing element selection issues. If you've ever had a test fail because a chat widget appeared at the wrong moment, you're not alone. This guide shows you exactly how to block popular chat widgets like Drift, Intercom, Zendesk, and others during your Playwright test runs.

The demonstration of sustained excellence is ultimately more impressive and important than any individual breakthrough, though the former often go less celebrated. This week, however, Nexthink is extremely proud to celebrate that we’ve once again been named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Employee Experience (DEX) Tools. It’s a distinction we don’t take for granted—and one we’re honored to have maintained.

Syslog is a fundamental protocol for collecting messages and event data from various devices and applications across a network. Think of it as a universal language that allows your servers, routers, firewalls, and software to send their operational insights to a central logging point. Born from Unix systems, Syslog has evolved to become the industry standard, forming the backbone of effective log management and providing a unified view of your infrastructure's activity.

InfluxDB 3.1 is now available for both Core and Enterprise editions, bringing significant improvements that make managing high-volume, high-velocity time series data even easier, faster, and more secure. InfluxDB 3 Core is the free, open source edition of InfluxDB 3—a high-speed, recent-data engine licensed under MIT and Apache 2. InfluxDB 3 Enterprise is the commercial version of Core, adding support for longer-term historical queries, high availability, enhanced security, and more.

If you manage a Linux server and notice something unusual, auditd logs can help you track exactly what’s happening. This built-in audit system records who accessed the system and what actions they performed. In this guide, we’ll cover setting up auditd, reading the logs, and using them to detect potential security issues early.

When an application functions flawlessly in your environment but crashes unpredictably on a client’s Windows server, the root cause is often buried in system logs—logs many developers overlook. Windows maintains comprehensive error records that document crashes, failures, and system events with precise detail. These Windows error logs serve as an invaluable resource for diagnosing issues in production environments.