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Getting Started with Spring Boot Actuator

Any production application needs to be monitored for its uptime. Let’s say you’ve developed a stock market statistics application, for example, using Spring Boot for your client. This application has to be up all the time while the stock market is open. If it’s down at a crucial time, it could mean huge losses for relevant stakeholders.

Quick Search for People in Alloy Navigator Mobile App

Being mobile is in large part about communication. Our app for mobile access to Alloy Navigator™ ITSM platform gives IT people the freedom to communicate with customers and teammates, notify stakeholders, submit approval requests, assign work, and escalate incidents from anywhere, anytime. All those communication tasks typically involve choosing the right person from a list.

3, 2, 1 Liftoff! Launching Your ITSM Implementation

We have service desk liftoff! Well...almost. Completing an IT service management (ITSM) evaluation is no easy feat, but selecting a new solution doesn’t mean it’s time to take your foot off the pedal. Transitioning to a new solution shouldn't be a burden or take away from your day-to-day responsibilities. Developing a strategic approach to tackle your ITSM implementation can help expedite your time to value and maximize your resources.

9 Best Network Discovery Tools

Your organization’s network is large, complicated, and constantly expanding. While you might think you have a handle on it, manually monitoring your network can lead to inaccuracies due to outdated data, undetected devices, and other common visibility issues. A network device discovery tool can help you find devices on a network to manage your device’s health, troubleshoot performance problems, and prepare for your network’s future.

Top Observability Strategies for Distributed Systems

In a distributed IT environment, there are a lot of moving parts, and all of them need to be monitored to ensure everything is working as it should. The rise of more complex infrastructures interweaving the cloud, on-premises, and hybrid architectures makes this a challenge. To make sure you have adequate visibility, you need an IT observability strategy.

Improve Monitoring and Observability With The Catchpoint and Sumo Logic Integration

Sumo Logic is a cloud-based log management and analytics service that leverages machine-generated big data to deliver real-time IT insights. We’re excited to share that you can now easily integrate Catchpoint and Sumo Logic, giving you a number of fantastic benefits. The integration involves pushing data from Catchpoint to Sumo Logic using Webhooks and then query the data to build visualizations. Why do we use Webhooks?

Kafka Migration and Lessons Learned

Over the last few months, Honeycomb’s platform team migrated to a new iteration of our ingest pipeline for customer events. Our migration to this newer architecture did not go too smoothly, as can be attested by our status page since February. There were also many near-incidents where we got paged and reacted quickly enough to avoid major issues. We’ve decided to write a full overview of all the challenges we had encountered, which you can can download.

Have your say on the state of database monitoring in 2021

Since 2018, over 2,400 SQL Server professionals have provided valuable insights into how they monitor and manage their estates, and what challenges they’re facing, through the only industry-wide survey of its kind. The results of the annual survey have not only benefited the community but also helped us better understand how we could shape our own product development to deliver more value where organizations need it.