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StackState’s new 4T Monitors introduce the ability to monitor IT topology as it changes over time. Now your observability processes can trigger alerts on changes in topology that don’t match an ideal state, on deviations in metrics and events and on complex combinations of parameters. Monitoring topology as part of your observability efforts enriches the concept of environment health by adding the dimension of topology.

Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes famously said, "You see, but you do not observe." Collecting application logs exhaustively and interpreting them to support business objectives are two different things. Application logs, also called app logs, event logs, and audit trails, are automatically generated records of computational events in IT environments.

For over 40 years the vast majority of UK organisations have chosen to get their IT advice and solutions from specialist IT selling organisations, collectively called resellers. The principal functions resellers provide is advice, products, and services. Today resellers are categorised into sub-groups which better define their type or focus, such as, Managed Service Providers (MSP), Value Added Reseller (VAR), Enterprise, Systems Integrator (SI) etc.

With the increasing use of cloud-based applications, businesses are more reliant than ever on the Internet to deliver WAN traffic. As a result, they’re migrating from MPLS networks to hybrid WAN architectures and SD-WAN technology. Keep reading to learn how to monitor SD-WAN networks with Network Monitoring to identify issues that native SD-WAN monitoring features often miss.

OpenTelemetry is an open source set of tools and standards that provide visibility into cloud-native applications. OpenTelemetry allows you to collect metrics, traces, and logs from applications written in many languages and export them to a backend of your choice.

File Integrity Monitoring, aka as FIM, is a must-have feature for anyone in charge of security. With FIM, one can detect when a critical file, such as a file that belongs to the Operating System, or a key configuration file, is changed. In most cases, configuring FIM is straightforward: If the file changes then generate an alert.

OpenTelemetry is an open source, vendor-neutral observability framework that provides tools, APIs, and SDKs to collect and standardize telemetry data from cloud-native applications and services. One of OpenTelemetry’s key components is the OpenTelemetry Collector, which receives and processes data before using exporters to route it to the destinations of your choice.

We live in an era where people would rather take the crowded rush-hour subway than drive through slow moving traffic. Website visitors are likely to bounce if a page takes more than four seconds to load. Once gone, there’s a high probability they’ll never be back. Keeping a close watch on your website performance is the only solution for maintaining a high traffic website.