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Analyze your tracing data any way you want with Sumo search query language

It’s been almost a year since I shared some thoughts about distributed tracing adoption strategies on this blog. We have discussed how different approaches between log vendors and application performance management (APM) vendors exist in the market and how important that is to allow users to analyze the data, including custom telemetry, the way they want.

The Cost of Racing Toward Success

LogDNA recently celebrated 5 years since our launch in Y Combinator and during this half-a-decade we’ve learned several lessons about balancing cost and scalability. As a founder, here are the top 3 things I wish someone had told me as we were racing towards success. The appeal of building a cloud-native application for a startup is a no brainer—it’s agile, scalable, and can be managed by a distributed team. Not to mention, it’s the cheapest way to get off the ground.

ManageEngine makes the cut again for unified endpoint management

There’s no doubt in my mind that Gartner Midmarket Context: Magic Quadrant report is the most important of all Magic Quadrants up to this point. With COVID-19 forcing a large amount of the workforce worldwide to move from their offices to work-from-home environments, unified endpoint management and security has been essential in enabling businesses to continue to operate securely. At ManageEngine, we are constantly evolving our solutions to meet these dynamic market needs.

How to View Office 365 Service Health in CloudReady?

In today’s modern IT world, enterprises are looking to not only streamline their global monitoring operations but also facilitate access to reporting capabilities that provide insight into usage, uptime, and availability of SaaS services. Covid disrupted the work culture and our daily lives. With so many of us working from home, IT leaders and executives are now more than ever interested in ensuring that the cloud services their team relies on are available.

Monitor Juniper network devices with Datadog

Juniper Networks provides a range of IT network and security devices, including routers, switches, access points, and firewalls. As you scale your on-prem infrastructure with potentially thousands of devices distributed across multiple locations, getting visibility into your entire network can easily become a pain point.

Accelerate your logs investigations with Watchdog Insights

If you’re investigating an incident, every minute means degraded performance or even downtime for customers. The causes of an issue often come from parts of your systems and applications that you would not think to check, and the sooner you can bring these to light, the better.

How Grafana and Prometheus work together

Let us get an insight on how Grafana and Prometheus work together for monitoring metrics. Application monitoring is a crucial feature for any successful software offering. Application monitoring in its simplest form refers to collecting metrics on an application and using those metrics to gain an insight to improve the performance and efficiency of the application. Think of it as a cycle. Grafana and Prometheus are probably the most prominent tools in the application monitoring and analytics space.

How hard is it to run your own Graphite?

How hard is it to run your own Graphite? Here’s one story of what someone had to go through! In this article, I want to share my story about what I went through to run my own Graphite and give some advice on how much you should be prepared both mentally and technically... ESPECIALLY if you are not a Graphite expert.

How to monitor AWS Lambda

How do we get started on monitoring AWS Lambda? Let me first introduce you to the term serverless computing. It doesn't matter if you have been in the tech industry only a few months, or you started writing code when Pascal was still considered cutting edge, you probably would have heard the term serverless computing thrown around in recent times. But what exactly is serverless computing?

Icinga for Windows: Management Console Preview (Experimental Feature)

Today we are very excited to share with you our new experimental feature for Icinga for Windows: The Management Console Our goal with this feature is to make the entire configuration and management of the Icinga Agent as well as the installation, distribution and automation as easy as possible - for all Icinga for Windows components. Let us know what you think about this feature!