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Observing your application through the eyes of a user: A brand new synthetic monitoring experience is coming

Understanding if your applications are not just available but also functioning as expected is critical for any organization. Third-party dependencies and different end-user device types means that infrastructure monitoring and application observability alone are not enough to spot and minimize the impact of application anomalies.

Import CSV Data into InfluxDB Using the Influx CLI and Python and Java Client Libraries

With billions of devices and applications producing time series data every nanosecond, InfluxDB is the leading way to store and analyze this data. With the enormous variety of data sources, InfluxDB provides multiple ways for users to get data into InfluxDB. One of the most common data formats of this data is CSV, comma-separated values. This blog post demonstrates how to take CSV data, translate it into line protocol, and send it to InfluxDB using the InfluxDB CLI and InfluxDB Client libraries.

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Network Performance Monitoring Is Only Step One

Incident response aims to identify, limit, and mitigate an incident. Whether such an occurrence is a security breach or a hardware failure, formulating and continuously strengthening an incident response strategy has become vital for all businesses in the digital age. Your incident response strategy consists of the processes your organization takes to handle incidents-such as network outages and service-impacting bugs-and the steps taken to mitigate incidents.

adidas tracks sports activities with help from RabbitMQ

You go for a run, and when you’re done, your buddy, adidas Running, will tell you how you did. Maybe you hit a new goal this run or need encouragement to work harder next time. No matter what, behind the scenes there is a dedicated team of engineers relying on the stable foundation of RabbitMQ. Ever since sports tracking apps saw the light of day, it’s almost like a workout without tracking, somehow is less valuable to us. Imagine a run streak on day 1,000 without functioning measurements!

Best practices for network perimeter security in cloud-native environments

Cloud-native infrastructure has become the standard for deploying applications that are performant and readily available to a globally distributed user base. While this has enabled organizations to quickly adapt to the demands of modern app users, the rapid nature of this migration has also made cloud resources a primary target for security threats.

Condé Nast Uses Proactive Monitoring Solution to Better Serve its Media Empire

Global Media Company Resolves Nearly 50% of Network Detection Problems Before Readers Log On. Condé Nast, the international print and digital media company who publishes Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Wired and more, was eager to find an automated solution for its network monitoring issues. Condé Nast wanted to provide those logging onto the digital versions of their numerous magazines with reading experiences uninterrupted by network or server hold ups. The IT team required a swift and efficient way to create error reports, as opposed to their old way of using pencils and paper.

How We Built It: Getting Spooky with Splunk Dashboards

Dashboards are not just tools for businesses and other organizations to monitor and respond to their data, but can be a method of storytelling. All of our data has the potential to be crafted into compelling narratives, which can easily be accomplished with the help of Dashboard Studio’s customizable formats and advanced visualization tools. We can take a series of disparate datasets and bring them together in one place if they share a common theme — in this case, Halloween.

How Cribl's Suite of Solutions Help Prevent Zombie Data

In part 1 of this series, we talked about zombie data and what it means for your observability architecture. In this post, we’ll talk more about how to handle all of it. How well can your organization handle the firehose of data it’s collecting? Yes, you have the ability to collect it, but chances are you don’t have the financial or human resources available to analyze all of it effectively.

Bring Efficiency to Log Management in DigitalOcean

The ongoing partnership between Papertrail and DigitalOcean led to the development of the Papertrail software as a service (SaaS) add-on in the DigitalOcean Marketplace. With the add-on, developers can add powerful, simple, and scalable Papertrail log management to their DigitalOcean infrastructure in seconds. In two earlier posts, we reviewed how the add-on helps teams simplify and centralize log management.