Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

The late 1990s were a crazy time in the technology industry. Apple converted a blueberry into a computer, Google still had a “new search engine” smell, and while Y2K loomed over our heads Napster was showing everyone how bad Metallica’s music sounded. Meanwhile, in a garage in Tulsa, Oklahoma, brothers Donald and David Yonce launched a network monitoring software company and named it SolarWinds.

The same concept holds true for AIOps, which needs a steady diet of data to feed the analytics that drive key functions like diagnostics and automation that can turn your IT operations team into AIOps champions.

By now it’s no secret that system outages and website downtime are more widespread and frequent than ever. In fact, the frequency of outages jumped 9% in just the first week of 2022. This can be attributed to a rapid increase in traffic and reliance on tech infrastructures – resulting in connectivity, server, and other technical issues that are alternately unforeseen and unavoidable.

In 2019, Alexander Mann was working in the microchip industry, putting in 12-hour shifts that left no time for him to tend to his large vegetable garden. “I started looking for ways that I could remotely water or check on my plants,” he says. Products that could help him were either too costly for a hobby gardener or required special internet connections, so Mann decided to learn about IoT and create his own setup.

You’ve likely heard the term Observability lately. There’s a fundamental change taking place in the Monitoring space, and Observability is behind it. Observability itself is a broad topic, so in this post we’ll talk about what it means to move from Application Performance Monitoring to Application Performance Observability.

The cloud is growing more and more popular each day. We are in an era where there is a prominent trend of companies migrating from traditional on-premise systems to more reliable and fast cloud-based systems. However, the conversion is still not rampant on a large scale, primarily due to the lack of awareness in the up-and-coming businesses about the cloud’s fundamentals. However, the cloud has proven to be a sound and worthy option time and time again.

Greetings Criblers! We’re introducing a new series by the Criblers, for the Criblers called How I Stream! Each month (maybe more frequently–you, too can be featured, share your insights here), we’ll share a quick profile from one of our community GOATS (Greatest of All Time Streamers) sharing use cases and lessons learned. Our first guest goes by Hobbit in the community.

We released Flowmon 12 at the end of February. The new and updated functionality in the latest version has been well received by existing users, and has prompted many new organizations to consider the product. The headline changes in Flowmon 12 are in the blog post Progress Flowmon 12 – Ultimate Enabler of Your Multi-cloud Strategy.

Kubernetes pod pending is ubiquitous in every cluster, even in different levels of maturity. If you ask any random DevOps engineer using Kubernetes to identify the most common error that torments their nightmares, a deployment with pending pods is near the top of their list (maybe only second to CrashLoopBackOff). Trying to push an update and seeing it stuck can make DevOps nervous.