The latest News and Information on Monitoring for Websites, Applications, APIs, Infrastructure, and other technologies.
Let’s face it, in today’s always-on digital world, a minute without access to a website or service can feel like a lifetime. You’ve probably heard the term “99.99% uptime” before. It’s an important factor for providers (such as hosting or app providers) and key to improving a website’s reliability and a company’s customer satisfaction. But when your service provider promises an amazing 99.99% uptime, have you ever paused to ask what it really means?
Snowflake is a cloud-based data warehousing platform that allows organizations to store, manage, and analyze large amounts of data. It offers a scalable, secure, and highly available solution that separates storage and computing resources. We already offer the Snowflake datasource plugin, which allows you to query and visualize data from your Snowflake Data Cloud on your Grafana dashboards.
It is an old cliche adage, but there is no better statement than “a picture is worth a thousand words” that explains the effectiveness of visuals to deliver a message. Especially, in the data domain where a raw message often exists in numbers, visualizing graphs and charts is the best way to share information. When it comes to visualizing metrics from Graphite, there is no solution that can beat Grafana.
DevOps teams and security engineers use monitoring tools like Prometheus and Datadog to search for bugs and find any issues that might put an app or the entire IT infrastructure at risk. Better monitoring capabilities and aspects like event monitoring mean users can log data more effectively and engage in data collection leading to data visualization. These actions lead to infrastructure metrics, which allow experts to conduct timely analysis and prevent an app from crashing.
Several years ago, there was little choice among performance monitoring tools. You had to deal with what the market offers. Datadog is one of the oldest solutions available and, thus, well-known. Yet, it is not without flaws, which might make people look for alternative solutions since the market is booming and new tools emerge regularly.
Event management is a critical process within IT service management, offering a structured method to detect, assess, and respond to events that could disrupt business services. Essentially, event management is a systematic approach to tracking all detectable occurrences within IT infrastructure, applications, systems, and services.
Citrix virtualization technology has become a crucial aspect of many businesses. It enables organizations to provide remote access to their applications and desktops, improving productivity and efficiency. However, managing Citrix environments can be challenging, especially regarding performance and availability. That's why proactive monitoring is essential to ensure Citrix systems run efficiently. The Teqwave Citrix VAD Management Pack for Microsoft SCOM is a powerful solution that provides numerous valuable features and benefits for IT experts.
As a solution architect, you know that your expertise in envisioning and constructing robust systems is vital, especially as navigating third-party frameworks and platforms becomes increasingly integral in today's complex technological landscape. Risk management, therefore, plays a crucial role in safeguarding your organisation's digital assets and ensuring optimal performance. But how do you ensure you effectively mitigate the risks associated with these third-party frameworks and platforms? Read on to learn key tips and strategies for mitigating and managing framework risks.
How does Netdata's machine learning (ML) based anomaly detection actually work? Read on to find out!
