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Practical IT Service Management (ITSM) can be challenging when considering the growth of users and services to support. Additionally, ongoing trends in distributed enterprises with remote workforces, hybrid cloud, and cost-based pressures force companies to do more with less. Atop the usual demands, ITSM teams increasingly expect integrations with observability and security, giving IT support teams a single pane of glass across their roles and responsibilities.

Monitoring your machine's internal temperatures is important for maintaining system health, optimizing performance, and ensuring the longevity of your computer hardware. It allows you to take proactive measures to prevent potential damage caused by overheating and helps in diagnosing and addressing cooling-related issues effectively. In this article we'll detail how to use the Telegraf agent to collect temperature readings from a Mac computer, that you can forward to a datasource.

Backstage by Spotify is an open-source platform for building IDPs (internal developer portals). IDPs provide standardization and visibility for engineering teams and managers, as the single source of truth for status, ownership, and metrics on software projects. Teams often try Backstage when they have aspirations of “building anything and everything,” but run into problems when supporting “anything and everything” becomes a full-time job for multiple front and back-end engineers.

Tucker Callaway (CEO, Mezmo) and Kevin Petrie (Vice President of Research, Eckerson Group) had a conversation centered around enterprises taking control of their data and the growing need for consolidated collection and management of telemetry data. They discuss how enterprises can optimize telemetry pipelines, take charge of their data, and enhance their observability and security game.

Serverless architectures such as AWS Lambda have created new challenges in debugging code. Without a solid logging framework in place, you could waste precious hours tracking down simple defects in your functions. A strategic logging framework can be a powerful way to track down and resolve bugs. Let’s walk through how to get the most out of logging Lambda functions.

Are you looking for Kubernetes monitoring tools? Then you have come to the right place. Kubernetes has grown to become the container orchestration platform of choice. It simplifies managing your containerized workloads. You get the power of automating deployments, scaling resources, and keeping your applications running smoothly. But with great power comes added responsibility. And like any complex system, Kubernetes needs monitoring.

Netdata introduces its latest feature, the Alerts Configuration Manager, transforming the way users configure and manage alerts in their Netdata environment. This powerful tool integrates directly into the Netdata Dashboard, offering a streamlined and intuitive interface for both novice and experienced users.

While Sentry can automatically detect unhandled exceptions, poor performance, and even signals of user frustration such as rage clicks, there are some problems that only a human can identify. This is where Sentry’s new User Feedback widget can help.

Kubernetes stands out as a powerful orchestrator, managing the deployment, scaling, and operation of containerized workloads. A key component of Kubernetes observability and troubleshooting capabilities is the generation of events. These events serve as vital records, documenting incidents and changes within the cluster, offering real-time insights into the health and dynamics of the system.

As the holiday season rolls in, it’s not just about festive cheer and resolutions; it’s also time for industry leaders to cast their predictions for the new year. This year, Catchpoint’s thought leaders have stepped up with their hottest takes for 2024. Catchpoint experts are envisioning a transformative shift in the monitoring technologies, a heightened focus on performance as a key metric, and an integrated strategy for managing digital performance management.