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Exoprise
We help you find and fix issues with your cloud apps fast. Exoprise is the leading solution provider for monitoring SaaS services like Microsoft 365, Box, Dropbox, Salesforce.com and more.
Sematext
Monitoring, log management, transaction tracing, and real user monitoring. Finally together!
NiCE IT Mgmt
From databases to servers, communication systems, operating systems and custom applications, NiCE provides the right application monitoring solutions and services.
Monitive
Monitive is an uptime monitoring service, where users sign up and input their website address, which we check every minute, from a random location around the world, and instantly notify them when their site is down.
EventSentry
EventSentry is an award-winning Hybrid SIEM which features real-time log, system health and network monitoring to proactively monitor networks and preemptively respond to threats.
ManageEngine
ManageEngine crafts comprehensive IT management software with a focus on making your job easier. Our 90+ products and free tools cover everything your IT needs, at prices you can afford.
Raygun
Raygun is a Software Intelligence Platform that gives companies visibility into software problems. Errors, crashes and slow loading pages and scripts affecting end users are automatically detected, enabling teams to build excellent user experiences.
Upgrades That Increase Long-Term Home Value
Homeownership is one of the most significant financial investments many individuals make in their lifetime. In an ever-changing real estate market, understanding how to enhance your property's value can lead to impressive financial returns. Whether planning to sell in the near future or looking at your home as a long-term investment, specific upgrades can pay off handsomely.
Redgate: New Tools for Query Tuning in Redgate Monitor: AI and Beyond
Query tuning is essential for database performance, and Redgate Monitor is evolving to make it easier than ever. In this session, Grant Fritchey will walk you through our first AI-driven capability for query analysis, improved insights into stored procedures, and new visibility into aborted queries and wait statistics - alongside other recent enhancements. We'll also share what's on the horizon - ensuring your monitoring tools continue to meet your evolving demands.
Stop the guesswork: Troubleshoot with confidence with process monitoring
If your organization runs on tech, everyday issues can be expected. This includes application downtime, erratic connectivity, and failures in remote access, database reachability, site-to-site VPNs, and web-based services. But how do you know if an issue is caused by: Sysadmins usually learn the root cause of an issue after a ticket comes in from the team or customer.
Vendor lock-in: not even once
Vendor lock-in remains one of the most significant concerns when choosing a cloud platform. When your data becomes trapped in proprietary formats or services, migration costs skyrocket and your flexibility disappears. This challenge affects organizations of all sizes, from startups planning for growth to enterprises managing complex compliance requirements.
AI Isn't Here to Replace Your Dashboard... Yet
Non-deterministic UIs are the future and will replace your dashboards, but they’re not here yet. So until then, we’re stuck with conversational interfaces. In an effort to try and describe what I consider the future of UIs to look like, I wrote about how you (and I) have been designing dashboards wrong. The core insight was that we've been designing for static representations of data that sit on a TV in the office, when the actual use case is someone at a desk using them to debug an issue.
Architecture for the agentic era: How AI will reshape data, security, and observability
As AI agents move from copilots to autonomous systems, they’re generating and consuming data at unprecedented scale. The result is a new kind of infrastructure pressure — one that’s quietly reshaping how organizations think about data, cost, and control. Across IT, Security, and Observability, leaders are realizing a hard truth: too much data is too costly.
Searching Certificate Transparency Logs (Part 2)
In the last post we discussed why we’re building our own Certificate Transparency (CT) search tool. There’s good background on the CT ecosystem in that post, so check it out if you haven’t. This post assumes a certain understanding of terminology covered previously. Now that we know where the CT logs live, and the different kinds of logs, we need to start reading them.
Critical Vulnerabilities in Linux and VMware Tools: What You Need to Know #patch
CVE 2025-11561 affects Red Hat Linux and other distributions, requiring configuration of the Kross local authentication plugin for mitigation. Linux updates differ by vendor, with some delays in addressing vulnerabilities. A VMware tools vulnerability is actively exploited, prompting a recommendation to upgrade to a supported Linux version. Additionally, CVE 2025-58438 presents a traversal vulnerability in Python libraries on both Windows and Linux, resolved by upgrading to version 5.5.0.1.
Reliability is trust in your systems and your team
Reliable systems mean you can trust your systems, but also your team.
Lightweight Open-Source APM with OTel Demo (Grafana OpenTelemetry Community Call)
We’re back with the second Grafana OpenTelemetry Community Call! Join us as we continue exploring how to get observability into your apps and infrastructure with Grafana, powered by OpenTelemetry. In this session, we’ll walk through the basics of application monitoring using the OpenTelemetry Demo — a realistic example of a distributed system built on a fully open-source stack: Prometheus, Jaeger, and OpenSearch, with dashboards powered by Grafana.