Nearly 20 million new ChromeOS devices were shipped globally in 2022 according to IDC figures, with the large US education sector being by far the prime market for the platform. That’s a lot of endpoints to monitor and troubleshoot and Goliath Technologies has stepped up to this challenge, leveraging their exclusive access to some of Google’s API’s to build a platform to discover, check, and diagnose devices running the OS.

Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. (FIS) is an American multinational corporation which offers a wide range of financial products and services. FIS is most known for its development of Financial Technology, or FinTech. FIS has a portfolio of products for the financial services sector, including both retail and investment banking. FIS global customers connect to services from FIS’s Little Rock, AR datacenter.

Just how in demand is serverless computing, really? Popularized by Amazon in 2014, serverless computing had already clinched the title of the highest-growth public cloud service as early as 2018. With its total market value shooting past the USD 9 billion mark in 2022 and projected to hit a jaw-dropping USD 90 billion by 2032, it’s safe to say this relative newcomer is doing quite alright for itself.

Arguably, OpenTelemetry exists to (greatly) increase usage of tracing and metrics among developers. That said, logging will continue to play a critical role in providing flexible, application-specific, event-driven data. Further, OpenTelemetry has the potential to bring added value to existing application logging flows.

InfluxDB 3.0 (previously known as InfluxDB IOx) is a (cloud) scalable database that offers high performance for both data loading and querying, and focuses on time series use cases. This article describes the system architecture of the database. Figure 1 shows the architecture of InfluxDB 3.0 that includes four major components and two main storages.

Centralized Observability may not be a buzzword but its practicality and importance can’t be denied. Let’s see why is that. As DevOps and IT teams recognize the importance of Observability, it becomes a critical component to monitor the stack and ensure data reliability. That being said, enterprises are rapidly embracing modern data stacks to harness the power of data. Therefore, a host of platforms require data observability as a tool for reliable and trustworthy data management.

Want to monitor all of your application's services? Our Standalone Agent allows you to monitor processes our standard integrations don't monitor by default, helping you effortlessly expand your monitoring capabilities. To help simplify the process of configuring our standalone agent, we're excited to announce the launch of our Standalone Agent's Docker image, available on Docker Hub under the name appsignal/agent.

Deciding what to migrate, what to modernize, and what to retain on-premises is part of enterprise IT infrastructure management. When a refresh cycle is up in your data center, there are two very different types of competing motions you need to evaluate. While they may appear to be independent, they’re also kind of not, so it can be tricky to decide which one to execute—or even to execute both—and to do so smoothly.

Insightful proof-of-concepts with a tool can be difficult to undertake due to the demands on valuable resources: time, energy, and people. With a task as grand as observability, how could one truly test if Honeycomb and OpenTelemetry are right for their organization and meet their requirements? For this thought experiment, here’s a comprehensive description of the ideal product evaluation over the course of four weeks, given unlimited resources.

Welcome, IT pros and network admins! Get ready to unravel the mysteries of packet duplication and equip yourself with the knowledge to identify and conquer it like a true tech-savvy champion. In the fast-paced digital landscape of modern businesses, every second counts. Imagine sending vital information across the vast network of the online world, only to discover that it's been duplicated along the way.