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SolarWinds Observability: Helping to Accelerate Application Development

Observability is the practice of equipping software and infrastructure with tools capable of gathering actionable data showing not only when an application error or issue occurs but why it occurred. Most traditional monitoring tools gather information passively; observability practices are different. They focus on actively gathering relevant data, especially factors driving operational decisions and actions.

How 1Password Relies on Checkly for Secure System Health Monitoring for Thousands of Business Customers

1Password uses Checkly to provide transparent, advanced synthetic monitoring to 1Password SCIM bridge customers 1Password is a leader in human-centric security and privacy, with a solution that’s built from the ground up to enable anyone—no matter the level of technical proficiency—to navigate the digital world without fear or friction when logging in.

'Preventing Outages in 2023: What We Can Learn from Recent Failures' Provides Analysis of Internet Failures and Key Learnings

New white paper from Catchpoint provides in-depth analysis of key Internet outages across the past 18 months, from AWS to Facebook; includes six critical lessons for IT teams to improve Internet Resilience.

3 Key Questions to Ask Before Getting Started with Kubernetes

If you need to deploy a lot of microservices at once and manage them at scale, Kubernetes is hard to beat. But Kubernetes also brings additional complexity that you just might not need. You would be smart to ask yourself these three questions before getting started with Kubernetes.

Test Observability with Sumo Logic

The software industry has seen many evolutions. There is a new disruption in the market every five years or so. Software testing cannot remain isolated from all the latest trends and technologies. Testing strategies need to keep up with agile development, faster deployments and increasing customer demand for reliability and user-friendly interfacing. They need to be able to grow just as quickly and just as reliably as the business logic.

Datadog's commitment to OpenTelemetry and the open source community

The OpenTelemetry (OTel) project is an open source initiative with the goal of providing vendor-neutral standards and tools that enable users to collect telemetry from any source in their environment and send it to any backend. A core tenet of Datadog is to provide a single, unified platform for customers to easily collect and monitor all of their observability data, regardless of where it comes from.

Sumo Logic platform video

Sumo Logic SaaS analytics platform makes the world's applications reliable and secure 24x7x365. Learn how Sumo Logic ingests data at scale, helps find and troubleshoot issues fast, and secures user experiences. We integrate with hundreds of out-of-the-box apps, making it easy and seamless to get more from your data quickly. Whether your data resides in multiple clouds or on-premises, now you can monitor, troubleshoot and secure your apps from ONE platform powered by logs.

Webinar Recap: How Observability Impacts SRE, Development, and Security Teams

In today’s fast paced and constantly evolving digital landscape, observability has become a critical component of effective software development. Companies are relying more on and using machine and telemetry data to fix customer problems, refine software and applications, and enhance security. However, while more data has empowered teams with more insights, the value derived from that data isn’t keeping pace with this growth. So how can these teams derive more value from telemetry data?

Outages Happen. Now What?

Network outages happen more often than you think. We may not experience them directly or even know they're occurring at all. When outages affect household names like Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, and others, however, we're sure to find out after the fact that there was an issue. Depending on the user's activities and the duration of the issue, stress and frustration levels can vary. When a marketer can’t get that ground-breaking advertisement up on Facebook, they can get antsy.