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ServiceNow acquires next-gen observability leader Lightstep

I’m excited to announce that ServiceNow has signed an agreement to acquire next-generation observability leader Lightstep. Combining Lightstep’s innovative observability capabilities with ServiceNow’s unmatched Now Platform will help customers better manage software complexity, reliability, and performance while enabling the enterprise workflows that deliver great experiences.

Better Tools = Better Monitoring

Everyone loves tools. Whether you’re a weekend craftsman, an aspiring chef, or a serious IT professional, the tools you use can make your tasks much easier. Monitoring tools in IT are mainstays when it comes to keeping an eye on network infrastructure and enforcing company security policies. But just like anything in life, not all monitoring tools are built equally—in fact, many can harm your ability to respond to emerging issues within your network.

Best practices for modern frontend monitoring

Single-page applications (SPAs) provide some significant benefits over multiple-page apps. For JavaScript developers using frameworks like React or Vue, they offer flexibility in moving application logic to the frontend, reducing the need for complex backend operations. For users, SPAs can provide a smooth experience with a highly interactive UI and fewer page loads. But, with increased sophistication, there are some tradeoffs.

Monitor kube-state-metrics v2.0 with Datadog

In order to manage complex containerized applications, modern devops teams need to have deep visibility into the status of their Kubernetes resources. By listening directly to the Kubernetes API, the open source kube-state-metrics service generates key metrics about your Kubernetes objects, including pods, nodes, and deployments, which are essential for understanding the status and performance of your clusters.

Your thing is Discovery, Discovery: AWS

We will use the powerful Discovery tool to simply configure an AWS (Amazon Web Services) environment, going through all the steps to create a task with the wizard. We will see all agents created thanks to this discovery task, as well as its modules. To finish off, we will focus on Discovery Cloud general view, where we will see expense analysis graphs and a map wth the number of instances per region.

Webinar: Boost up your serverless applications with Amazon EventBridge

EventBridge makes it easy to build event-driven architectures using data from your own applications, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications, and AWS services. In this webinar, AWS Solution Architect Sarah Fallah-Adl, and Lumigo's, Lead Solution Engineer, Timi Petrov, present how to remove the friction of writing "point-to-point" integrations with Amazon EventBridge. They will then share best practices for working with EventBridge and serverless apps.

Digital Experience Monitoring Benefits for IT Featuring Forrester

End-User Experience Management (EUEM) is evolving post-Covid-19. Businesses are now moving towards phase 4 of the Covid-19 timeline. This includes understanding remote worker behavior and preparing for the new normal. Technology and IT leaders are increasingly using data to measure the employee experience. According to Forrester, 64% of technology leaders will invest in data and analytics technology to improve remote worker experience. Employees will adopt a hybrid work approach and businesses will want to employ broader employee engagement analysis and understand why a problem is happening at remote locations. Engagement and productivity insights will be delivered via synthetic and real user monitoring for Microsoft 365, Office 365, Teams, and SaaS applications.