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OpsRamp Featured in Six Gartner Hype Cycles

As another autumn fast approaches, any look back at the summer would be incomplete without a review of the latest round of Gartner Hype Cycle reports. The Gartner Hype Cycles are an annual summer ritual, a series of reports published every July (and sometimes August) that track the maturity, adoption and business impact of technology innovations.

Beat the holiday rush with Elastic Observability

September is here, and that means many retailers have already begun preparing for the upcoming holiday season. One weekend in particular tends to be the real-life stress test that companies have come to develop a love-hate relationship with: Cyber Weekend. Or more specifically, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and the weekend in between.

StackState 5.0 UI; Gain a Rapid Understanding and a Speed up Discovery

Do you experience this: Your brain seems to explode because there is so much you try to fit into ”working” memory? It can happen on a Friday afternoon, after a busy work week. Or on a Monday, looking at your calendar while figuring out how to fit in all those meetings and still get real work done.

The future of OpenTelemetry | Q&A

OpenTelemetry is an open-source project under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation(CNCF) that aims to standardize the generation and collection of telemetry data. The telemetry data helps developer, DevOps and IT teams to keep a check on their application health. The telemetry data collected by OpenTelemetry consist of logs, metrics, and traces. Together, they are used for performance monitoring and observability in distributed systems. At SigNoz, we are building an OpenTelemetry native APM.

Quick tip: How to create Icinga reports with custom branding

With Icinga Reporting you can create custom SLA reports for hosts and services that are monitored with Icinga. The module for Icinga Web fetches existing data and takes planned downtimes into account. You can filter for certain hosts and services as well as set custom thresholds to highlight unmet SLAs visually. You decide if you want to create the reports either manually or automatically, for example every week or month. The report then is sent to you as a PDF via email.

The Leading Dynatrace Alternatives & Competitors

The Dynatrace platform is a software-driven monitoring platform that simplifies enterprise cloud complexity and accelerates the pace of digital transformation for enterprises. There are many top solutions on the market, but Dynatrace is one of the most popular for its ability to monitor both mobile apps and real users simultaneously. By offering a shared platform for understanding metrics, Dynatrace also helps developers, operations, and business teams improve performance.

2022 IT Pro Day survey examines state of the tech job market amid labour shortages and hiring challenges

SolarWinds survey: Two-thirds of IT pros say they're confident in their tech career despite a potential economic slowdown, but only half say their company has been adequately staffed amid the "great resignation".

Modernising applications? Integration with APIs is the way to go

Today’s enterprises can relate to this logic, especially concerning digital transformation projects. They have broken systems that need fixing, but they also spend a lot of effort fixing systems that don’t necessarily need those levels of intervention. Specifically, companies often face a dilemma: digital modernisation requires apps and systems to be upgraded and operate in the new technology norms. Yet those same systems often exist for good reasons.