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Software Deployment Best Practices for Modern Engineering Teams

Adopting best practices for software deployment is essential to maintaining a high standard of quality, minimizing downtime, and ensuring that your applications meet user expectations. Here are five best practices to help you deploy your software more securely and reliably.

Expand Your View of Observability

Observability is a buzzword that has gained a lot of traction in the IT industry lately. But what does it really mean, and how does it relate to the challenges that modern IT organizations face? At SolarWinds, we believe that the current analyst definitions of observability are too narrow and APM-focused. They focus too much on the cloud, neglecting critical on-premises assets and restricting where customers can deploy their observability solutions.

Observability Meets Security: Build a Baseline To Climb the PEAK

When we hunt in new environments and datasets, it is critical to build an understanding of what they contain, and how we can leverage them for future hunts. For this purpose, we recommend the PEAK Threat Hunting Framework's baseline hunting process.

Make Your End-to-end Tests More Stable with Playwright's User-first Selectors

When testing and monitoring websites end to end with Playwright, choosing the right locators is crucial. Proper locators help create tests that are less flaky and more reliable. Let's explore user-first locators and how to filter locators for more robust tests.

What's New at Kentik, Episode 8

Host Leon Adato takes you through the latest updates and features from Kentik. This month, we dive into monitoring analytics for content distribution networks (CDNs), explore the new Use Case Finder in Kentik's knowledgebase, and learn how to include custom fields in Data Explorer. Plus, Leon shares some light-hearted insights on why August is the perfect time to celebrate with Kentik's... uhh... craft brews? Don't forget to like and subscribe to keep up-to-date on everything new at Kentik!

SNMP Traps as Logs | LogicMonitor

In this short demo video, Michael Rodrigues, Senior Product Manager, will give you a tour of SNMP Traps as Logs, a new way to monitor SNMP traps with LogicMonitor. SNMP Traps as Logs enables real-time, event-driven notifications for critical networking issues within a user-friendly interface, unlocking instant insights. By ingesting SNMP traps as logs instead of EventSources, you can consolidate network troubleshooting efforts within a single pane of glass for a holistic Network Monitoring approach, eliminate monitoring gaps, improve reliability, and facilitate resource planning.

Why Full AI-Stack Visibility is Key to High-Performing GPUs and AI Models

The generative AI market is poised to explode. From AI-based co-pilots and assistants to new use cases across healthcare, marketing, sales, software development, and more, generative AI is unleashing a new wave of productivity, efficiency, and transformative employee and customer experiences.