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Icinga Camp Berlin 2022: Current State of Icinga DB by Eric Lippmann

In recent years, the number of servers, virtual machines, services, applications, etc. that our customers and users monitor with Icinga has increased significantly. For very large environments, the IDO can be a performance bottleneck. With Icinga DB we’ve rethought everything to allow users to monitor massive amounts of data and bring exclusive features that weren’t possible before.

Icinga Camp Berlin 2022: Meerkat - a new Icinga Dashboarding tool by Dave Kempe

Meerkat is an Open Source dashboarding tool, written in Go and javascript. It allow users to drag and drop Icinga API objects onto a background, plays sounds and even embed videos. Dave will give a tour of its features and a guide on setup and usage, with real-world examples.

Networking 101: What is a VLAN?

The idea of a VLAN, or Virtual Local Area Network, is simple enough, right? It’s hard to imagine any work in a modern networking/IT space without having encountered, set up, or managed a VLAN. Well if that’s all you needed to know about VLANs, we’d be done here, but there’s a bit more to it. To cover our bases: In most modern networks the primary purpose of the LAN is to provide connectivity to a wider network, most notably the internet.

Expedite infrastructure investigations with Kubernetes Anomalies

Modern Kubernetes environments are becoming increasingly complex. In 2021, Datadog analyzed real-world usage data from more than 1.5 billion containers and found that the average number of pods per organization had doubled over the course of two years. Organizations running containers also tend to deploy more monitors than companies that don’t leverage containers, pointing to the increased need for monitoring in these environments.

How a global leader in car audio technology reduced its downtime by 40% in 8 months with Applications Manager

As a pioneer of audio electronics solutions for all in-vehicle communication demands, this organization has delivered an enhanced driving experience to more than 50 million vehicles across the globe. With over 60 years of experience, this organization has been a trailblazer in the audio electronics industry. It has been recognized by Guinness World Records, NASSCOM, and many more for its contributions to the world of audio technology.

Monitorama 2022: the good, the bad and the beautiful (Part 2)

ICYMI, this year’s Monitorama marks a return to the in-person event following a pandemic hiatus. In Part 1 of this series, I shared what it was like to navigate a tech conference in the post-pandemic world and the most engaging themes of the conference including tracing, SLIs, OpenTelemetry, and more. Now for Part 2, let’s dive into the talks. As usual the Monitorama talk selection team did a bang-up job. Every talk was interesting, but a few jumped out at me for some very specific reasons.

Splunk Snags Six 'Best of' Awards From Customer Reviews on TrustRadius

Splunk is honored to be the recipient of a series of six new awards from TrustRadius—all based on customer reviews. In this round, TrustRadius grants its “Best of” Awards to the top three products per Best Feature Set, Best Value for Price and Best Relationship in each respective category.

Synthetic web tests - Moving up the stack

In this short explainer and demo, Kentik's Phil Gervasi shows how Kentik is moving up the stack to monitor application activity on the network. Phil explains the differences between proactive and passive network monitoring and demonstrates three new synthetic tests that relate to app performance monitoring. Kentik's suite of application-focused synthetic tests give you proactive visibility into application activity on your network. Using the HTTP test, Page Load test, and Synthetic Transaction Monitoring, you can monitor a user's digital experience and troubleshoot problems as they happen.

Founder & Friends: How to get the most out of Raygun (Live Demo)

In our first-ever episode of Founder & Friends, we go straight to our VP of Product, Zheng Li, for best-practice tips and advice for getting the most out of Raygun.‍ Raygun is known for its quick and easy setup, but there are some simple and lesser-known ways to set you and your team up for success. In this live demo, we make sure your account is optimized for your workflow, captures quality diagnostics (without the noise), and quickly alerts you to problematic code.