Welcome to the second chapter of the handbook on Anomaly Detection for Time Series Data! This series of blog posts aims to provide an in-depth look into the fundamentals of anomaly detection and root cause analysis. It will also address the challenges posed by the time-series characteristics of the data and demystify technical jargon by breaking it down into easily understandable language. This blog post (Chapter 2) is focused on different types of anomalies.

If there’s anything I’ve learned, monitoring data is the lifeblood of the business and a superpower for any IT practitioner. Monitoring allows organizations to react to changes, identify and recover, and understand the true health of the business.

Microsoft's release of Windows 10 modernized how IT teams approach device management. Windows 10 is not a strict evolution of Windows 7 and 8. It’s an evolution of Windows Phone 8 and 10, where an MDM API was available to manage all aspects of a device, such as DLP, restrictions, software distribution and so on.

In in order to achieve DevOps success, you must measure how well your DevOps initiatives work. Tracking the right DevOps metrics will help you evaluate the effectiveness of your DevOps practices. In this article, I’ll explain many DevOps metrics, including their significance, the key metrics for various goals, and — best of all — tips for improving the score of each DevOps metric discussed here.

ITSM, which stands for IT service management, is a strategy for delivering IT services and support to an organization, its employees, customers and business partners. ITSM focuses on understanding end users’ expectations and improving the quality of both IT services and their delivery. In the early days of computers, employees relied on the company IT department for help whenever a computer issue arose.

Modern distributed applications are composed of potentially hundreds of disparate services, all containing code from different internal development teams as well as from third-party libraries and frameworks with limited external visibility. Instrumenting your code is essential for ensuring the operational excellence of all these different services. However, keeping your instrumentation up to date can be challenging when new issues arise outside the scope of your existing logs.

Missed the last Netdata updates? Here is what is new.

Recently, Elastic Universal ProfilingTM became generally available. It is the part of our Observability solution that allows users to do whole system, continuous profiling in production environments. If you're not familiar with continuous profiling, you are probably wondering what Universal Profiling is and why you should care. That's what we will address in this post.

Website monitoring has grown in importance over the past decade for individuals and businesses all around the globe – and for different purposes. It became even more important in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. As travel, events, and offices around the globe shut down rapidly, people relied on different tools and features to be kept up to speed regarding the ongoing situation.

System outages: they are an inevitable problem that every single IT team will encounter at some point. Whether they come about due to technical issues, act-of-god natural disasters, or simply random human error, system outages happen to the best of us. Though the cause of system outages is not always in your control, you can control your team’s processes for response and resolution.