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Taking an application-centric approach to monitoring EUC technologies is essential to ensuring success and optimal DEX (Digital Employee Experience) when delivering desktops and apps via VDI / DaaS or from the Cloud. The EUC (End User Computing) community in recent years has increasingly focused on user experience and DEX (Digital Employee Experience) as key measures of success. Any EUC service ultimately needs to ensure users are satisfied and can work productively.

Welcome, IT pros and network admins! Get ready to unravel the mysteries of packet duplication and equip yourself with the knowledge to identify and conquer it like a true tech-savvy champion. In the fast-paced digital landscape of modern businesses, every second counts. Imagine sending vital information across the vast network of the online world, only to discover that it's been duplicated along the way. It's like having two identical envelopes delivered to your doorstep when you were expecting just one!

Arguably, OpenTelemetry exists to (greatly) increase usage of tracing and metrics among developers. That said, logging will continue to play a critical role in providing flexible, application-specific, event-driven data. Further, OpenTelemetry has the potential to bring added value to existing application logging flows.

Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. (FIS) is an American multinational corporation which offers a wide range of financial products and services. FIS is most known for its development of Financial Technology, or FinTech. FIS has a portfolio of products for the financial services sector, including both retail and investment banking. FIS global customers connect to services from FIS’s Little Rock, AR datacenter.

Calling all Splunk Cloud Platform admins! At Splunk, we're dedicated to making your lives easier when it comes to managing various aspects of your Splunk Cloud Platform. One critical aspect that requires your attention is maintenance, which directly impacts the operational efficiency of your deployments. As the capabilities of the Splunk Cloud Platform grow, so do the Splunk-initiated updates like upgrades to keep your deployments up-to-date with the latest features and functionality.

As our customers share their frustrations with the volume and growth of their observability data, we’ve got our eyes set on making it easier to manage. Our Spring 4.1 Launch involved enhancements to the Cribl suite of products — Cribl Stream, Cribl Edge, and Cribl Search — that give users more choice and control over their end-to-end observability architecture.

Software does not expire, but it “rots”. Its quality degrades over time. As you build your project and add features, you probably won’t always build it in a clean, orderly and mindful way. Especially if you have a tight deadline. So aside from features, you also produce bugs, code smells, and technical debt. That “rots” your software, but your job as a software engineer is to maintain its “freshness” while building on top of it.

In this article, we provide a concise guide to help you get started with Graphite quickly and efficiently. We cover the basic concepts, architectural considerations, and metrics aggregation of Graphite. We also explain the data feeding methods, metrics format, and storage using Graphite's file-based database. Additionally, we discuss visualization options, including Graphite-Web and Grafana.

Looking to get started with log aggregation? Or perhaps take your logging game to a whole new, more advanced level? You’ve come to the right place. Grafana Loki is a key component of Grafana Labs’ open and composable Grafana LGTM stack (Loki for logs, Grafana for visualization, Tempo for traces, Mimir for metrics).

Grafana k6 v0.45.0 has been released, featuring a new experimental module for gRPC streaming support, a new browser recorder extension for Firefox and Chrome, and tons of improvements for Grafana k6 OSS and Grafana Cloud k6. Here’s a quick overview of the latest k6 release and all the news from the community.