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Active vs. Passive Network Monitoring: Which Method is Right for You

Whether it's a small business network or a complex enterprise infrastructure, maintaining optimal network performance and security is paramount. This is where network monitoring comes into play. Active vs. Passive Network Monitoring: Which Method is Right for You? In this comprehensive guide, we delve into the world of network monitoring and explore two fundamental approaches: active and passive monitoring.

June Product Updates for Sentry

Get ready for another round of new releases that will help take your performance and error troubleshooting to the next level. Over the past month of June, we’ve launched a variety of new features that give you more flexibility in managing code coverage, help get to root cause faster, and streamline your everyday usage of Sentry. Here’s the list.

What's New with WhatsUp Gold 2023.0

This newly released WhatsUp Gold 2023.0 provides your organization with wider access to network data. With its new NOC viewer, scheduled report improvements, and easy-of-use enhancements, 2023.0 will increase the engagement level of all users, from network administrators to executives to non-technical staff. WhatsUp Gold provides better data accessibility to all, helping NetOps establish clearer, faster communications and reinforcing the value of IT.

Custom Metadata Reports & Filters in Request Metrics

We just released support for custom metadata in Request Metrics! Metadata allows you to describe your user, session, application, environment, account, A/B Test, or whatever else is meaningful for you. You can add metadata through the browser agent API, and report & filter on it in the Reporting UI.

IT in Motion Podcast: Protecting your Data from the Dark Side

Longtime ScienceLogician Tim May joins the podcast for an entertaining discussion surrounding the number of different roles he's held within the organization in his 17 years with ScienceLogic, and a glimpse into his admiration of Star Wars! https://sciencelogic.com/product/resources/protecting-your-data-from-the-dark-side

How to combine OpenTelemetry instrumentation with Elastic APM Agent features

Elastic APM supports OpenTelemetry on multiple levels. One easy-to understand scenario, which we previously blogged about, is the direct OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) support in APM Server. This means that you can connect any OpenTelemetry agent to an Elastic APM Server and the APM Server will happily take that data, ingest it into Elasticsearch®, and you can view that OpenTelemetry data in the APM app in Kibana®.