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When you're building a serverless web app, it can be pretty easy to forget about the database. You build a backend, send some data to a frontend, write some tests, and it'll scale to infinity with no effort, right? Not quite. Especially not with a tiny Postgres server. As the number of users of your frontend increases, your app will open more and more database connections until the database is unable to accept any more. That's just the frontend - it gets worse on the backend.

New Relic is a huge name in the website observability and analytics industry. They’ve carved out a space for themselves in a highly competitive monitoring space, and have garnered thousands of users and hundreds of millions in revenue. New Relic is known for its Infrastructure Monitoring capabilities, but it also has a number of other tools that are just as popular. But, New Relic is not so popular with everyone.

If you’re thinking of running OpenSearch on Kubernetes, you have to check out the OpenSearch Kubernetes Operator. It’s by far the easiest way to get going, you can configure pretty much everything and it has nice functionality, such as rolling upgrades and draining nodes before shutting them down. Let’s get going 🙂

Automation is at the heart of modern IT operations, and Microsoft System Center Orchestrator (SCO) has long been a vital tool in the arsenal of IT professionals. With each new release, Microsoft takes a step forward in refining and expanding the capabilities of SCO. This blog post will explore the exciting features and enhancements introduced in Microsoft System Center Orchestrator 2022 Update Rollup 1 (UR1).

As networks become more highly dynamic, managing an entire network efficiently is not an easy task. When it comes to network monitoring, all you need to figure out is the type of network devices and the specific metrics you need to monitor. But when it comes to network management, there’s more to be taken into account, from network security, bandwidth hogs, change management, and policy management to performance optimization.

Brocade network switches encompass a variety of switch models that cater to diverse networking needs. In today’s intricate networking landscape, manually handling these switches with varying configurations and commands within a large network infrastructure can be a daunting task. This complexity often leads to human errors such as misconfigurations. How can you optimize your network environment effectively when utilizing a variety of Brocade switches and eliminate the need for manual management?

Wondering why you’re hearing about SaaS spend management more and more lately? These days, SaaS apps are everywhere, and adoption is still growing at an impressive rate. Gartner projects that SaaS spending will grow over 17% in 2024, with the market exceeding $232 billion. Unfortunately, much of that spend is wasted on zombie apps, overlapping software offerings, as well as under-utilized and over-provisioned licenses.

Alexander is Senior SRE at Prezi, a video and visual communications software company. As a team, the Prezi SREs provide multiple services within the company. One of those is the observability stack where Prezi heavily relies on Grafana. Companies are always evolving to run more smoothly, serve their customers better, and operate in a way that is cost-effective.

Before we jump into the specifics of Grafana and Datadog, let's look at the main comparison points. Grafana is a great dashboard that allows you to plug in essentially any data source in the world. Grafana is most commonly paired with Prometheus, Graphite, and Elasticsearch to provide a full APM, time-series, and logs monitoring stack.