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How to Set Up Availability Monitoring in SolarWinds Digital Experience Monitoring

Learn how to set up availability monitoring in SolarWinds Observability Platform’s Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM). This tutorial walks you through configuring synthetic probes, setting up website monitoring, adjusting test intervals, and enabling SSL certificate monitoring. Follow along to ensure your website stays available and catch issues before your users do!

How the OpenTelemetry Collector Powers Data Tracing

OpenTelemetry, OTel, is an incredible open-source observability framework that helps you collect, process, and export trace data. It's super valuable for engineers who want to understand their systems better. At the heart of this framework lies the OpenTelemetry Collector, a pivotal component that turns raw traces into useful metrics. Let’s explore the importance of the OpenTelemetry Collector and show you how it makes it easier for engineers to make sense of data.

Grafana Cloud updates: The Explore apps suite for queryless data analysis, Adaptive Logs for cost optimization, and more

We consistently roll out helpful updates and fun features in Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform powered by the open source Grafana LGTM Stack (Loki for logs, Grafana for visualization, Tempo for traces, and Mimir for metrics). And this month, on the heels of ObservabilityCON 2024 — our flagship observability event — we have no shortage of updates to share.

The OTTL Cookbook: Common Solutions to Data Transformation Problems

As our software complexity increases, so does our telemetry—and as our telemetry increases, it needs more and more tweaking en route to its final destination. You’ve likely needed to change an attribute, parse a log body, or touch up a metric before it landed in your backend of choice. At Honeycomb, we think the OpenTelemetry Collector is the perfect tool to handle data transformation in flight. The Collector can receive data, process it, and then export it wherever it needs to go.

How to Optimize NOC Efficiency with Operational Reports

In the fast-paced era of modern communications, staying on top of network operations is critical to ensuring optimal performance and minimizing downtimes. While networks become increasingly complex, just keeping the lights on and reacting to issues as they arise is no longer enough. Today’s network management demands not only real-time monitoring but also the ability to derive insights from comprehensive reports to provide an accurate picture of health, performance, and configuration.

Selector Network Management and Analytics

In this video, we introduce Selector, an AOPS platform designed to monitor network and infrastructure devices, identify faults, and provide advanced analytics. The platform supports multivendor telemetry and integrates with collaboration tools like Slack and Teams, as well as ticketing systems. You'll see how Selector helps manage network devices, with an overview of the dashboard and alerts system.

The Journey to Autonomic IT: Mastering the Transition to Machine-Assisted IT

By now, you should be no stranger to Autonomic IT. The full realization of AIOps, combining AI, data, and automation to deliver a self-healing and self-optimizing IT infrastructure that operates autonomously, continuously monitoring and optimizing technology investments, and freeing up IT resources for innovation is on the horizon. In our first blog, we discussed Phase 1 of the Autonomic IT journey: Siloed IT.

[Live workshop] Fix Your Frontend: JavaScript Edition

Join the team behind our JavaScript SDKs for a live session as they share practical tips to make debugging more tolerable. We’ll walk through everything from setting up and configuring Sentry to trace errors and identifying slow code. Whether you’re new to Sentry or a long-time user, there will be something for you. This session will cover: Setting up and configuring Sentry for frontend projects How to trace frontend errors back to backend issues Analyzing web vitals to identify performance bottlenecks Using session replay for better user insights.