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How to Monitor Network Devices: From Routers to Switches

Welcome to the world of networking, where routers, switches, firewalls and other network devices reign supreme. From the backbone routers that facilitate data flow to the intricate web of switches managing local connections, maintaining a vigilant eye on your network devices is at the core of ensuring a high functioning network infrastructure.

The 25 Most Crucial Software Engineering Tools In 2024

As a modern software engineer or CTO, you’re responsible for building, delivering, and maintaining high-quality software solutions at scale. Yet, software programs have grown increasingly complex over time, requiring meticulous work. The competition threatens to take your subscribers every billing cycle if you don’t constantly innovate, too. Customers want more, bigger, and better upgrades and updates.

The Ultimate Guide to Windows Event Logging

In a perfect world, there would be no issues with the operating system and no problems with the applications. Unfortunately, this isn’t a perfect world. System failures can and will occur, and when they do, it is the responsibility of system administrators to diagnose and resolve the issues. But where can system administrators begin the search for solutions when problems arise? The answer is Windows event logs.

Simplifying Service Dependency With Squadcast's Service Graph

Microservices are fantastic for agility and innovation, but the trade-off is complex service management and ownership. With hundreds of interconnected services, troubleshooting and Incident Response can become a potential blocker. The traditional siloed approach to service ownership and the increasing deployment makes service management more complex.

How to successfully implement an inventory management software?

For inventory management software to reach its full potential and meet the specific needs of your business, a well-designed and well-executed implementation is essential. This article will provide a step-by-step guide to the successful implementation of inventory management software while emphasizing the importance of customer onboarding.

APAC Retrospective: Learnings from a Year of Tech Outages, Restore: Repair vs Root Cause

As our exploration of 2023 continues from the third-part of our blog series, Dismantling Knowledge Silos, one undeniable fact persists: Incidents are an unavoidable reality for organisations, irrespective of their industry or size. Recent APAC trends show that regulatory bodies are cracking down harder on large corporations for poor service delivery, imposing harsh penalties as a result of the negative consequences.

Cybersecurity 101: Everything You Need to Know

Did you know? According to cybersecurity statistics, a cyber threat occurs every 39 seconds. So, are you looking for ways to improve the security of your digital ecosystem? Boost your enterprise immunity against dreadful cybersecurity attacks to mitigate security risks and prevent financial losses. Read through this blog to understand the significance and different types of cybersecurity and the steps you can take to secure your organization from cyberattacks.

Azure VM Autoscaling to enhance performance and cost efficiency

Azure VM Autoscaling is a feature provided by Microsoft Azure that allows to automatically adjust the number of Virtual Machines (VMs) in a specific scale set based on predefined criteria such as load, performance metrics, or a schedule. This post delves into the significance of autoscaling within Azure VMs, spotlighting its role in cost optimization, performance enhancement, and improved availability.

Monitor Oracle managed databases with Datadog DBM

Datadog Database Monitoring (DBM), which provides host-level and query performance metrics and insights for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQL Server, is now available for Oracle. Oracle is one of the most common database types, and now teams that operate Oracle databases can use Datadog to monitor these resources alongside telemetry from across their environments.