Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Your cloud application or service can look pristine from an IT perspective, while the end-user identifies it as “glitchy” and “unreliable”. Though the technical issues may not be your fault, it still impacts the user’s perception of your company and brand. Issues could spawn from the user’s device limitations, the browser version, or a regional public cloud outage that is causing the poor user experience.

The new quality release offers many bug fixes for increased stability, as well as Mattermost Omnibus — a new method for installing and maintaining Mattermost, and a one-click experience in Team Edition to access Mattermost Enterprise features.

APM tools have been formerly and primarily siloed in the application development arena, with only the most important and mission-critical applications having their APM instrumentation extended into production use due to complexity and cost. In the modern world of application monitoring, the requirements for Dev and Ops need to be tightly integrated.

Today is a momentous day for JFrog, as we’re excited and proud to join the Nasdaq family of listings. While COVID-19 challenges every company and prevents us from being together in many ways, we’re humbled that Times Square was turned green today! This is obviously an important milestone, and it couldn’t have happened without over a decade of hard work and millions of hours that have gone into this amazing company.

Whether military, a civilian agency, or even a public education institution, organizations across the public sector have witnessed a substantial increase in cyberattacks. There were a number of hits on education around this time last year, and then on health-related agencies as the COVID-19 pandemic struck. So, how do government agencies ensure their security posture is up to the task of defending against increasingly opportunistic forces of evil?

I’m incredibly excited about the future of Webpagetest and web performance testing in general with today’s announcement that Webpagetest and Catchpoint will be joining forces and I hope you’re as excited as I am for the possibilities it will bring.

This is the second in a two-part blog series about AIOps where I sit down with Julian Dunn, Director of Product Marketing at PagerDuty, to level-set on the hot DevOps topic. The first post discussed whether AIOps was just marketing fluff and whether ITOps actually has an AIOps problem. Let’s continue…

Pandora FMS is a proactive, advanced, flexible and easy-to-configure monitoring tool tailored to business itself. It adapts to all needs both in servers, network computers, devices and whatever is necessary. In this article, we will focus on Windows Server monitoring, using the software agent installed on our server.

In this two-part blog post, we’ll use Elastic Observability to monitor a sample Java application. In the first blog post, we started by looking at how Elastic Observability monitors Java applications. We built and instrumented a sample Java Spring application composed of a data-access microservice supported by a MySQL backend. In this part, we’ll use Java ECS logging and APM log correlation to link transactions with their logs.

Email communication has been around for almost as long as the Internet. But although it continues to be of the best ways to provide a personal and direct conversation, it’s also a source of pain for many. Our inboxes have become an untidy clutter of messages, where most emails either are irrelevant or spam. Prominent email service providers such as Google have done a lot to improve the experience over time.