Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Learn about what makes a great incident management tool and about 5 alternatives to the market leader, PagerDuty.

In today’s dynamic digital landscape, where security breaches pose great financial threats, adopting the best monitoring practices becomes a strategic necessity for your business. By safeguarding your business from security vulnerabilities, software bugs, and potential risks, continuous monitoring for cybersecurity lays a strong foundation for the sustained growth and success of your organization’s security.

I can’t believe it’s been a year already since I last wrote a blog covering all the N-central releases in the previous 12 months. Part of what inspired me to write the blog last year was the volume of partners that I would speak to that were not running the latest version of N-central. So, I thought maybe if I highlighted some of the great new features added over the previous 12 months that it might inspire them to upgrade.

“Half the time the toilet’s out of reach – the other half it’s out of order”. –Arthur C. Clarke, Report on Planet Three and Other Speculations.

OpenTelemetry is starting to gain critical mass due to its vendor neutrality and having worked in the APM space for the last five years. I can see the appeal. Using OpenTelemetry libraries to instrument your code frees you from putting vendor libraries in your codebase. The other challenge most customers face is balancing cost versus visibility. While effective, most APM solutions are costly.

It’s safe to say that Generative AI and the launch of GPT4 caused the most excitement – and fear – in technology in 2023. It’s not surprising with its possible areas of application and ease of use. Even schoolchildren are using it!

If you’re from the world of automation, you must have heard the two buzzwords – Hyper Automation and Intelligent Automation. As per the research reports, the industrial automation market will likely surpass around $459.51 Billion by 2032 and will grow at a CAGR of 9% during the tenure from 2023 to 2032.

Serverless platforms like AWS Fargate enable teams to focus on delivering value to customers by freeing up time otherwise spent managing infrastructure and operations. However, maintaining a deep level of observability into applications running on these fully managed platforms remains challenging.

In the battleground of modern business, your enterprise network is the backbone, and trust me, keeping it in top-notch shape is non-negotiable. Your network is like a Spartan soldier, charging into the chaos of the IT battlefield. But even Spartans need their shields, right? That's where Enterprise Network Monitoring comes in – it's your shield against network slowdowns & bottlenecks, security breaches, and those random performance hiccups.