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SD-WAN (software-defined wide area network) has grown over the last four years: from a concept spoken about only in forums and dimly lit DevOps departments to software that is littered across every IT company's flyer as their new cutting edge product. In 2017, NetworkWorld estimated that SD-WAN held less than 5% of the WAN market share but with the 59% annual growth in revenue for SD-WAN vendors, predictions for 2020 look to a $1.2 billion market.

Earlier this year we announced the official LogicMonitor - ServiceNow CMDB App, and it’s been exciting to see how quickly our customers are adopting the feature-rich integration. As with most workflow integrations across the LogicMonitor ecosystem, the CMDB App was built with customization in mind.

Companies around the world are going through digital transformation in some way or another. They are breaking monolithic applications into microservices for more natural development and deployment. Hashicorp Consul is one of the tools helping companies with this transformation. Consul helps with the shift of static infrastructure to dynamic infrastructure through service-based networking instead of host-based.

Hashicorp Vault is an open-source secret management tool that allows organizations to easily "secure, store and tightly control access to tokens, passwords, certificates, encryption keys for protecting secrets and other sensitive data using a UI, CLI, or HTTP API." This solution prevents sensitive information from being stored in unsecured places, and at times stored in plaintext, throughout the organization’s infrastructure.

If you’re a LogicMonitor customer, the platform’s Audit Logs may seem like a rudimentary means to track user actions, but they can actually be a powerful tool for troubleshooting and getting historical data within your portal. For instance, let’s say you notice that the alerting for a particular device group has been unexpectedly disabled.

Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK) is an AWS service that helps build and run applications built on Apache Kafka. Kafka is a platform designed to handle continuous streams of small records or events generated from a large number of devices and applications.

Hey folks, it’s that time of year again. I’m not talking about the end of summer; I’m talking about VMworld, of course! VMworld has been my jam for the last few years here at LogicMonitor, but this year I’m focused on some other cool projects hitting the market soon, including LM Exchange (you may have seen a sneak preview if you attended our inaugural user conference, Level Up).

I recently shared a train journey with a gentleman who demonstrated the importance of an automated monitoring tool, by missing breakfast. No, really...

LogicMonitor’s current monitoring coverage for VMware’s vCenter is best-in-class: from a single device in your portal, you can see every component of your virtual environment and their respective performance metrics: hosts, clusters, virtual machines, resource pools, datastores, virtual switches, networks, snapshots, and more.

Sometimes it’s fun to just nerd out for a moment. Python is one of the most popular scripting languages today and we love it too. That’s one reason why LogicMonitor can execute any script or programming language supported by your environment. That means can enjoy the latest features of your favorite languages in your favorite monitoring tool (right?). If Python is your vice, give Python 3.7’s Data Classes a try!