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The 12 Cats of Observability

On the surface, business-critical IT infrastructure and cats may not seem like they have a lot in common. But they’re way more alike than you might think. Our feline friends contain multitudes, as any cat parent will tell you. They’re complex and can sometimes drive you up a wall. But once they warm up to you—and you warm up to them—the joys and benefits of having them in your life outweigh just about everything. Sounds a lot like technology, right?

Mastering Network Monitoring: Your Guide to Uninterrupted Excellence

In the age of digital dominance, where every click and connection propels businesses forward, the lifeline of success lies in the seamless operation of computer networks. Imagine this: your website’s pulse is in perfect sync, applications running smoothly, and customers navigating without a second’s delay. This is where the art of network monitoring steps in, weaving the invisible threads that ensure unparalleled performance and uninterrupted excellence.

Your Self-Managed Journey to Digital Resilience

If you were one of the thousands of Splunk customers who joined us this year at.conf23, you heard our CEO Gary Steele say that Splunk's mission is to help you be digitally resilient. (And don't worry if you couldn't join us, because you can catch the keynote replays.) But what is digital resilience and how do you attain it?

Failure Metrics & KPIs for IT Systems

The game in enterprise IT is this: delivering amazing services to your customers while also reducing costs. That means the time it takes to respond to an incident is critical. Incidents can ruin service delivery and destroy your budget. Certain incidents almost surely deliver a poor customer experience. Response times, you hear? Yep, we’re talking about MTTR, but that’s not all.

End-user experience monitoring: Its meaning, importance, and best practices

Approximately 70% of users abandon their shopping carts solely due to a poor end-user experience. Creating a seamless experience for end users is crucial for enhancing customer loyalty and establishing a positive brand reputation. The user-friendliness of a product plays a pivotal role in its success and recognition within the mass market. If a product’s usability is lacking, customers may choose to opt for the services of a competitor instead.

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More about SigNoz: SigNoz - Monitor your applications and troubleshoot problems in your deployed applications, an open-source alternative to DataDog, New Relic, etc. Backed by Y Combinator. SigNoz helps developers monitor applications and troubleshoot problems in their deployed applications. SigNoz uses distributed tracing to gain visibility into your software stack. If you need any clarification or find something missing, feel free to raise a GitHub issue with the label documentation or reach out to us at the community slack channel.

Tutorial: Collecting Logs From Azure Block Blob Storage Account

Sumo Logic’s Azure Block Blob Storage solution provides an event-based pipeline for shipping monitoring data to Sumo Logic. This tutorial describes the Azure-Sumo event-based pipeline along with its components, and elaborates the data flow in the pipeline. The video also explains the Azure Resource Management (ARM) template that is used to build most of the components in the pipeline.