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The whats, whys, and hows of Windows network monitoring

Microsoft Windows is one of the most widely used operating systems and is preferred by users all around the world. A Windows device is associated with a lot of processes, services, and events that often need to be tracked from a single console. This is where a Windows network monitoring tool comes in handy. A Windows network monitoring tool is used to monitor the availability and performance of Windows devices in a network.

Logit.io Featured On eChannelNews For New Partner Program Launch

We are excited to announce that Logit.io has recently been featured on e-ChannelNews where our founder Lee Smith was interviewed by the President of TechnoPlant, Julian Lee about our partner program. In this interview, Lee explains more about how the Logit.io platform can assist channel partners to grow their ability to offer enterprise-ready logging and metrics analysis.

How to Simplify Your Out-of-the-Box Alerting with NEW! AutoDetect

Over 85% of global organizations will be running containerized applications in production by 2025 say Gartner, with 4 in 5 enterprises expected to move their workloads from on-premises infrastructure to the cloud. Migration to the cloud has IT admins and/or SREs managing an increasingly complex, hybrid IT environment, with an uphill battle of trying to monitor and troubleshoot their infrastructure components and services in real time.

From Kálmán to Kubernetes: A History of Observability in IT

You know that observability plays a crucial role in helping to manage today’s distributed, cloud-native, microservices-based applications. But you may be surprised to learn that – despite its close association with modern applications – observability as a concept was born more than a half-century ago. Its origins stretch all the way back to the late 1950s, long before anyone was talking about microservices and the cloud.

[Infographic] AWS Elastic Load Balancing from a Serverless perspective

Load balancing is a significant part of every internet-facing software, and with Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), AWS offers a set of load balancers for every use case. Since our latest update, Dashbird also gives you insights into these ELB services; let’s look at them and see how they can be used in a serverless environment.

What is Network Observability and Why Should You Care

If you haven’t heard of network observability yet, you will very soon. And you’ll be hearing it a lot. Some say it is just marketing hype. Some say networks have always been observable. But network observability is the most important new concept to hit the network performance monitoring space in years. Join Kevin Woods, Kentik director of product marketing, to learn.

What Are the Main Points of Failure in the PSTN Supply Chain?

In this series of articles, we are reviewing in detail the PSTN routing for Microsoft Teams voice. In the previous article, we reviewed the challenges IT teams can face when mixing Microsoft Teams, PBXs and PSTNs. Now, let’s take a deeper look at the complexity and potential points of failure in the PSTN supply chain.

How traceroute in the Synthetic Monitoring plugin for Grafana Cloud helps network troubleshooting

One of the powerful tools available in Grafana Cloud is Synthetic Monitoring, a black box monitoring solution that can provide insights that are hard to get in other ways. It provides a different view of your application by observing performance and uptime externally and from all over the world. As a result, you can build an understanding of what your end users are actually experiencing. However, as great as it is, synthetic monitoring does have limitations.

Best Practices in Java Logging for Better Application Logging

Examining Java logs is usually the quickest way to figure out why your application is experiencing trouble, so it's critical to have it in place. Best practices for Java logging can help you troubleshoot and address issues before they affect your users or business. In many circumstances, this entails utilizing a Java logging tool capable of automating your processes and delivering faster and more accurate results than manual logging.