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Monitoring Disks: Understanding Workload, Performance, Utilization, Saturation, and Latency

Netdata provides a comprehensive set of charts that can help you understand the workload, performance, utilization, saturation, latency, responsiveness, and maintenance activities of your disks. In this blog we will focus on monitoring disks as block devices, not as filesystems or mount points. The Disks section in the Overview tab contains all the charts that are mentioned in this blog post.

Monitoring to Infinity and Beyond - How Netdata Scales Without Limits

Scalability is crucial for monitoring systems as it ensures that they can accommodate growth, maintain performance, provide flexibility, optimize costs, enhance fault tolerance, and support informed decision-making, all of which are critical for effective infrastructure management.

Feature Spotlight: Kubernetes Remediation Guides Make Everyone Effective in Troubleshooting

If you're accustomed to running software in production, you know that every minute counts when there's a disruption. However, not every issue is obvious enough to immediately find and remediate. That can be a big obstacle to overcome, which is where StackState's Kubernetes remediation guides come into play. They contain expert knowledge that guides you step by step to understand the issue, enabling swift remediation.

Monitoring Kubernetes clusters activity with Azure Managed Grafana and Calico

Cloud computing revolutionized how a business can establish its digital presence. Nowadays, by leveraging cloud features such as scalability, elasticity, and convenience, businesses can deploy, grow, or test an environment in every corner of the world without worrying about building the required infrastructure.

Streamlining Troubleshooting for Work-from-Home Users: Tips for Effective Active Monitoring

It may feel like ancient history, but it was only a few years ago that, in response to the pandemic, organizations made a wholesale shift to support hybrid work models—and did so literally overnight, in many cases. While some time has passed, this is a shift to which many IT organizations are still struggling to fully adapt.

Support for Multi-buildpacks released

There are numerous instances where a single buildpack falls short in app building, for instance when working on a NodeJS app with a PHP backend. We are thrilled to announce the global and immediate availability of Multi-Buildpacks for all app sizes, including our Free tier. The Multi-Buildpack feature allows you to: Alongside the introduction of multi-buildpacks, we're expanding support for Add-on buildpacks (such as APT, Static, or the newly introduced FFmpeg buildpacks).

IT Asset Lifecycle Management: The 9 Stages to Manage Your IT Assets

As assets are the main object of the IT Asset Management practice, in order to take full advantage of it, it's essential to go deeper and implement a complete IT Asset Lifecycle Management. This is a complex process that goes from the request of the asset to its disposal, so it's important to design and apply a plan to ensure that every single step and requirement is addressed.

Monitor OTel-instrumented apps with support for W3C Trace Context

To get visibility into highly distributed applications, organizations often use various tracing tools that are best suited to each individual service owner’s specifications. However, when a request travels between services that have been instrumented with different tools, the trace data may be formatted differently, resulting in broken traces.

Deciphering Complex Logs With Regex Using BindPlane OP and OpenTelemetry

Parsing logs with regex is a valuable technique for extracting essential information from large volumes of log data. By employing this method, one can effectively identify patterns, errors, and other key insights, ultimately streamlining log analysis and enhancing system performance.