The latest News and Information on Monitoring for Websites, Applications, APIs, Infrastructure, and other technologies.
IT departments have experienced numerous changes in the way they manage and control user devices. Starting with the traditional CRT monitor-based computers, to modern smartphones, technological developments have been remarkable. Additionally, with the COVID-19 pandemic, employees are restricted to work from home, making the IT administration routines challenging for system administrators.
Among the updates that we ignore most are driver updates, and sometimes for good reason. There have been plenty of cases wherein a driver update caused more harm than good. This could be due to two reasons. One, the user blindly clicked the update without taking a minute to read what the update actually achieves, or two, the user was not equipped to understand what the update achieves. Whatever the reason, one thing is clear: we cannot leave the cybersecurity of an organization up to chance.
If you hadn't heard the term “this is the new normal” yet today, then you haven't been listening. While right now is not normal, current events have us all wondering how the work environment is going to change once we get there. There are a few things that we can expect: Having pipelines and applications that are observable is key to all of this.
This week, we announced the availability of our Spring 2020 release. The highlight of the release is our Kubernetes monitoring solution, which provides health-based alerting and horizontal pod auto-scaling. Additional enhancements include cloud monitoring, GCP Marketplace availability, performance improvements, and a more comprehensive Terraform integration. Here’s some background on these latest capabilities.
If you missed the recent webcast on SQL performance tuning presented by Janis Griffin, you are definitely going to want to watch it on-demand. She packed so much information into 60 minutes, it’s a wonder there weren’t thousands of heads exploding across WebEx – and every nugget of advice was pure gold. Let’s start with Janis’ 30+ year career as a DBA across multiple platforms, especially Oracle and SQL Server. She knows her stuff and knows how to talk about it.
Gartner’s 2020 Magic Quadrant for APM highlights the proven capabilities we’re uniquely positioned to deliver in a tech landscape that’s constantly in flux.
