Here at Grafana Labs, we have a long-standing commitment to helping our users understand how their applications and services behave from an external point of view. This critical practice — known as synthetic monitoring — has been a key focus of ours for nearly a decade. Back in 2015, we released worldPing, our first product to help measure the user experience and improve website performance.

Your organization, irrespective of its size, is likely creating a substantial amount of data, and deriving value and insights from this data is vital. This is where dashboards can assist you. With reporting dashboards, you can cut through the noise, and select the metrics that are pivotal to your team to begin visualizing them and the trend of these metrics through continuous monitoring, enabling your team to acquire actionable insights.

Flawless software performance and reliability are paramount for organizations to achieve success in the form of business value. To ensure this, real-time, continuous monitoring of development and operations (DevOps) pipelines has become more than just a formality for DevOps teams. In this blog, we’ll look at why DevOps monitoring has become a prominent part of IT engineering, exploring its benefits for DevOps practices and outlining practical strategies for successful implementation.

On April 24, 2024, Francis Odum, released his research report titled, “The Evolution of the Modern Security Data Platform” in The Software Analyst Newsletter. This report examines the evolution of modern security operations, tracing its evolution from a reactive approach to a proactive approach. It highlights the shift towards automation, threat intelligence integration, and controlling the costs of ingesting and storing data as crucial elements in enhancing cyber defense strategies.

It’s one thing to conceptualize a solution to streamline and automate IT operations in modern hybrid cloud environments, but it’s another entirely to build a platform that stands up to the genuine rigors of real-world large enterprise use cases. With the ScienceLogic SL1 platform for IT operations monitoring and management, we deliver the right combination of capabilities and features designed to work together seamlessly at scale, not in abstract, in real time.

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) conducts long-duration missions of fundamental physics research on board the International Space Station (ISS). Its research includes searching for antimatter, investigating dark matter, and analyzing cosmic rays. The AMS collected over 200 billion cosmic ray events since its installation in 2011. Scientists at CERN Payload Operations and Control Center (POCC) in Geneva and the AMS Asia POCC study data from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer around the clock.

“Internet Performance Monitoring solutions close the observability gap…” states Enterprise Management Associates in its new White Paper, Modern Enterprises Must Boost Observability with Internet Performance Monitoring. How? “…By providing visibility into global Internet performance and reporting on how that performance impacts application performance and end-user experience.”

Analyzing network traffic data can quickly descend into chaos due to the increasing number of devices and applications in organizations, making it difficult to untangle the complexity manually. Many organizations now use network traffic analyzers to streamline this process. But what exactly is a network traffic analyzer, and how can it help with effective network management? Let's explore this in detail.