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Track Digital Transformation Progress with Real-Time Data

According to a McKinsey study, 70 percent of digital transformation projects fail. It’s quite a paradox because the transformation is happening for growth and success. If this stat alone is anything to go by, it indicates that enterprises need to rethink their strategy and management of such transformations. So how are those other 30 percent of enterprises succeeding with their digital overhauls? Well, data and analytics play a vital role in helping track the progress of the process.

Why Are SaaS Observability Tools So Far Behind?

Salesforce was the first of many SaaS-based companies to succeed and see massive growth. Since they first started out in 1999, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) tools have taken the IT sector and, well the world, by storm. For one, they mitigate bloatware by moving applications from the client’s computer to the cloud. Plus, the sheer ease of use brought by cloud-based, plug-and-play software solutions has transformed all sorts of sectors.

Dotcom-Monitor Device Manager

Learn more about managing your monitoring devices with the Device Manager within the Dotcom-Monitor platform. View specific devices details, like the number and current status of each device, monitoring frequency, and the timestamp the device was last monitored. You can also carry out several actions, such as enabling, postponing, and silencing a device, as well as cloning a device or task, deleting a device or task, and running a status report or an SLA report.

Planning Center: Simplifying observability and reducing MTTR in a serverless world, with Datadog

Justin Bodeutsch, Systems Administrator at Planning Center discusses how Datadog’s alerting, log management, serverless, and infrastructure monitoring tools have simplified internal processes and been instrumental in minimizing MTTR across the business.

Monitor and alert on essential RabbitMQ cluster metrics with the new Grafana Cloud integration

We are happy to announce that the RabbitMQ integration is available for Grafana Cloud, our composable observability platform bringing together metrics, logs, and traces with Grafana. RabbitMQ is one of the most popular open source message brokers, used worldwide at both small startups and large enterprises. It is easy to deploy on premises and in the cloud, and supports multiple messaging protocols.

Google Cloud, Vodafone and Datadog SRE Panel Webinar

Since originating at Google, site reliability engineering (SRE) has enabled countless teams to effectively manage large-scale systems, improve the stability of complex services, and automate operational tasks using software. In this SRE panel, Yuri Grinshteyn (Customer Reliability Engineer, Google) will speak about the core principles of SRE and how the culture is practiced at Google. He will be joined by Llywelyn Griffith-Swain (SRE Manager, Vodafone), who will share Vodafone’s story of adopting SRE, lessons learned, and their best practices for maintaining the cultural shift across teams.

Observability From the Application to the Edge

Observability is a buzzword right now. Rightly so, as many companies are greatly concerned about what’s happening with their systems. Every company has become a software company and if they aren’t, they are being disrupted by one. IT leaders have more weight on their shoulders than ever before and it’s because digitization is rapidly changing the way people consume nearly everything.