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Network Performance Monitoring FAQs

There is an abundance of resources, tips, and tools available to network administrators and business owners to help improve their network performance. However, the wealth of information can be overwhelming, often leaving you more confused than enlightened. Whether you're a seasoned network administrator or a business owner navigating the intricacies of digital infrastructure, we've meticulously compiled essential information.

Kubernetes 2024: Challenges and solutions

Kubernetes has become the world's leading container orchestration platform, aiding small-scale to large-scale businesses in automating, autoscaling, and managing application deployments. Before delving deeper, let's understand why cloud-native solutions like Kubernetes have become the world's—especially organizations'—favorite technology. Creating highly scalable, resilient applications requires flexible infrastructure management.

What is the Benefit of Including Security with Your Observability Strategy?

Observability strategies are needed to ensure stable and performant applications, especially when complex distributed environments back them. Large volumes of observability data are collected to support automatic insights into these areas of applications. Logs, metrics, and traces are the three pillars of observability that feed these insights. Security data is often isolated instead of combined with data collected by existing observability tools.

How Autodesk engineers better service and own their infrastructure.

Morgan Goose, Autodesk, shares how he and his team have democratized observability and made it a default offering for all their engineers. Autodesk is a global leader in software for people who design and make the world. That includes software for architects, builders, engineers, 3D artists, and production teams. To ensure the best customer experience, Autodesk has partnered with Datadog and is taking advantage of products like DBM to quickly identify and maintain the systems they instrument.

Universal Profiling: Detecting CO2 and energy efficiency

A while ago, we posted a blog that detailed how we imported over 4 billion chess games with speed using Python and optimized the code leveraging our Universal ProfilingTM. This was based on Elastic Stack running on version 8.9. We are now on 8.12, and it is time to do a second part that shows how easy it is to observe compiled languages and how Elastic®’s Universal Profiling can help you determine the benefit of a rewrite, both from a cost and environmental friendliness angle.

Resources for Tasks in InfluxDB 3.0

If you’re an InfluxDB v2 user, you might be wondering what happened to the task engine in InfluxDB 3.0. The answer is that we removed it in order to support broader interoperability with other task tools. V3 enables users to leverage any existing ETL tool rather than being locked into the limited capabilities of the Flux task engine.

Addressing the Visibility Gaps Posed by Wi-Fi Networks

In recent years, Wi-Fi has emerged as the de facto architecture for local area networks (LANs) and campus networks. Wi-Fi is also gaining more widespread usage in factories and operational technology environments. Despite its ubiquity, Wi-Fi presents some persistent challenges for network operations center (NOC) teams.

Monitoring Cribl Stream with Elasticsearch

Are you managing a Cribl environment? We love that for you; you’re at the forefront of complex data orchestration. As the steward of this dynamic data ecosystem, you have to manage and optimize the flow of information from diverse sources. As data volumes grow, the struggle gets even more real. No worries, though. You’ve got Cribl Stream. Monitoring Stream is critical.