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Stop Playing IT Whack-a-Mole: The Smarter Way to Prevent Outages Before They Happen

The challenges facing IT operations teams today are bigger than ever before. Hybrid cloud adoption, sprawling infrastructure, the explosive growth of telemetry data, and the accelerating pace of digital business have pushed traditional monitoring approaches to their breaking point. Yet for many organizations, the operational model remains stubbornly reactive: a never-ending game of IT whack-a-mole, where teams are trapped responding to incidents instead of preventing them.

Bring third-party incidents into Better Stack

Incidents in cloud and SaaS tools block users just as hard as faults in your own code. The fix comes faster when the same on-call queue covers both. IsDown now plugs straight into Better Stack through a native API connection. Every outage that IsDown detects shows up as an incident in Better Stack, follows your existing escalation rules, and clears automatically once the vendor recovers.

Cribl Edge: Unify Telemetry Collection | Lightboard Demo

Cribl Edge is a vendor-neutral, intelligent agent designed for the variety and scale of today’s modern architectures. With a unified telemetry collection system, you can have hundreds of thousands of agents at your fingertips to automatically discover and collect data from your Windows, Linux, and Kubernetes environments. Featuring a rich UI, centralized fleet management, and seamless upgrades, it’s time to transform your agent management.

Getting started with Jenkins dashboards

Jenkins is an open-source automation server widely used for continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), enabling developers to automate the building, testing, and deployment of software projects. Jenkins requires a good layer of visualization as it provides real-time visibility into pipeline performance, build statuses, test results, and deployment progress.

Observe VMWare vCenter Cluster and Cloud with Confidence: Achieve Full Stack Observability with DX Operational Observability (DX O2)

As enterprises continue their cloud and container journeys as part of modernization efforts, they are realizing “hybrid reality” is here to stay. For many, moving all services to clouds or containers is not a viable option. As a result, at least some services will be required to remain on premises. This presents unique challenges and ongoing complexity for monitoring and observability.

How Quick User Tests Help Us Make Better UI Decisions in Icinga Web

Designing user interfaces for Icinga Web is always a bit of a balancing act. Once we’ve worked through all the technical and conceptual details of a new feature, it can be tough to step back and see things from a fresh user’s point of view. We as developers know too much — and that makes it hard to guess how others will understand what we’ve built.