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Your incident declaration form is (probably) too long: The power of concise reporting

It’s 10am, your coffee is ready and piping hot, and you have just been paged. Looks like is down, and customers are starting to notice. With no time to lose, you open up your organization’s incident declaration form and you spend the next thirty minutes filling out the fifteen required fields, while the incident grows bigger and more complex, messages are rolling in, and your coffee grows cold.

Jaeger vs Zipkin: The Complete Comparison Guide

To monitor and troubleshoot the performance of microservice-based applications, Jaeger and Zipkin are examples of the most commonly used open-source distributed tracing systems. They both supply users with insight into the flow of requests through various components of a system, which can be utilized to find latency bottlenecks, errors, and performance problems in the system.

The Benefits of Cloud Computing for Small Businesses: Cost Savings, Flexibility, and Security

At one time, tech advancements were a major drain on small businesses. Housing your software and digital assets in-house once created a financial nightmare many emerging companies couldn't handle. On top of that, threats to security and a complete lack of flexibility made establishing a foothold challenging. That was especially true when going up against established industry heavy hitters.

10 Tips and Tricks for SharePoint Online Administration

SharePoint Online, a cornerstone of modern enterprise collaboration and content management, offers administrators a range of tools and features to optimize and secure their digital workspace. This article delves into several advanced tips and techniques, offering in-depth insights for SharePoint Online administrators to elevate their site management and user engagement strategies.

What's the Difference between AIOps and Observability?

In the ever-evolving world of IT, keeping an eye on application, service and system performance and addressing issues in real-time is crucial both to an organization’s customer experience, as well as its overall success. Two terms and approaches that have gained significant attention in recent years are AIOps and observability. While they both relate to improving IT monitoring and management, they serve distinct roles in enhancing operational efficiency.

One spot for FinOps: Introducing Cost Intelligence and Billing Engine

Wherever you are on your cloud journey, you’re likely under pressure to cut or at least control your cloud spend. You may be undertaking “quick fix” cost cutting tactics such as turning off resources or moving workloads to cheaper services. But, as you may be finding out, tactical, reactive cost management activities generally only work for the short term and do not solve systemic inefficiencies that only increase over time if not addressed.

Using Amazon SageMaker orb to orchestrate model deployment across environments

This tutorial guides you on how to use the Amazon SageMaker Orb to orchestrate model deployment to endpoints across different environments. It also shows how to use the CircleCI platform to monitor and manage promotions and rollbacks. It will use an example project repository to walk you through every step, from training a new model package version to deploying your model across multiple environments.

Monitoring Microsoft SQL Server login audit events in Graylog

One of the most important events you should be monitoring on your network is failed and successful logon events. What comes to most people’s minds when they think of authentication auditing is OS level login events, but you should be logging all authentication events regardless of application or platform. Not only should we monitor these events across our network, but we should also normalize this data so that we can correlate events between these platforms.