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ScienceLogic Named a Leader in AIOps: Paving the Way for Autonomous IT Operations

The challenges plaguing IT operations are not new. The exponential growth of hybrid and multi-cloud environments, increasing data volume, complexity, and accelerating pace of change have made traditional approaches to IT operations unsustainable.

Monitoring & Debugging a Checkout Flow in Flask & React

When your checkout flow breaks, customers disappear faster than most ‘cutting-edge’ JS metaframeworks. Thankfully, setting up observability for your critical paths—like a customer checkout—is painless with Sentry. Let's walk through how we instrumented, monitored, and fixed a major issue, with minimal effort.

Mission-Critical Visibility: How Observability Empowers the DoD

Tech is entering another wave of innovation with AI. With accelerated innovation comes increased complexity in already disparate environments. For Defense, those complexities are compounded by the need to maintain and operate mission critical infrastructure with highly sensitive data in air-gapped environments, often running on custom digital systems and applications. Accelerating the speed of innovation with leading technology is key for the military to maintain its competitive edge.

Targeted snoozes with full history

No one likes to admit it but we all hit snooze on the morning alarm every now and then. The same goes for Oh Dear alerts - sometimes you know that link deep in the docs will get fixed eventually but right now you're busy working on something else. Getting reminded every hour isn’t always helpful. Since April 2020, Oh Dear has allowed you to temporarily silence alerts for any check.

Getting Started With AWS Dashboards

Being the most popular cloud solution provider, AWS needs no introduction. With its powerful and numerous services and solutions, many companies of all sizes and shapes run their applications and/or infrastructure on AWS. With AWS being integrated with other internal services as well as external solutions hosting the business apps, it is crucial to be aware of what's happening across the landscape and beyond, to ensure business continuity. The AWS plugin for SquaredUp helps you achieve exactly that.

What Is a Logging Formatter and Why Use One?

Logs play a crucial role in DevOps and software development, especially when troubleshooting issues. However, raw, unformatted logs can quickly become overwhelming and difficult to navigate. This is where logging formatters help by turning messy log entries into clear, structured data, making it easier to pinpoint problems. In this guide, we’ll cover everything you need to know about logging formatters—how they work, why they matter, and tips for implementing them effectively in your workflow.

A simple new way to visualize Prometheus

Even if you don’t work with Prometheus day-to-day, you most likely have heard of it. After Kubernetes was donated to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), Prometheus became the second project to be incubated soon after. That was back in 2016 and it is still one of the most active CNCF projects. Why is it so popular? It’s the de facto monitoring tool for containerized workloads running on-prem and in the cloud – that is, it’s the monitoring tool for Kubernetes.

Windows 365 vs. Azure Virtual Desktop: Which is Right for Your Business?

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, organizations have shifted their workforce to remote and hybrid operations. This transition has birthed a new demand for cloud-based desktop solutions to let employees access their desktops from anywhere. The demand for these solutions spotlights services like Windows 365 vs. Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD). These two services move desktop environments to the cloud, facilitating collaboration between teams.

How to Make the Most of Your Auvik Demo

A live demo is one of the easiest ways to see if Auvik fits your network management needs. In just one session, a product expert walks you through core workflows, highlights features that matter to your team, and answers your toughest questions — no setup required. If you’re thinking about switching network monitoring solutions, a demo can be more helpful than a trial.