Datadog and Splunk are leading monitoring and observability platforms that offer comprehensive solutions for modern IT environments. Both tools share a wide range of features, making it challenging to choose between them. This article compares Datadog and Splunk on crucial aspects like application performance monitoring (APM), log management, search capabilities, and more to help determine which platform best fits your organization.

Managed service providers (MSPs) are currently facing a critical challenge: efficiently managing and monitoring a diverse array of endpoints for multiple clients. At the core of effective network management is the seamless tracking of customer endpoints. The availability of device templates at the administrative level within Site24x7 is an advantage for many MSPs.

As developers (and as front end developers in particular), we usually talk about web performance in the context of measuring what happens when we start to see things appear in a browser window, and when we can consume content or interact with the page.

We’re happy to announce VictoriaMetrics Cloud, a hosted monitoring platform and managed service for metrics that allows organizations to monitor and store large amounts of time-series data, without having to run the underlying infrastructure. At a time when almost every enterprise relies on complex data to run, VictoriaMetrics Cloud delivers the power of the popular VictoriaMetrics open-source time series solution, which has reached 750 million downloads, with enterprise features.

FSIs face rising compliance demands, squeezing budgets and cybersecurity risks. Open-source tech and careful vendor selection can mitigate these challenges. As explored in our two most recent blogs, changing compliance regulations and policies by specific regions and countries are having a significant impact on financial services institutions (FSIs).

In the world of container orchestration, Kubernetes has emerged as the go-to platform for managing and scaling applications. One of the key features that make Kubernetes so powerful is its ability to intelligently schedule pods across nodes in a cluster. Node affinity is a crucial concept in this scheduling process, allowing developers to influence where pods are placed based on node characteristics.

Pricing matters. Charge too little and you won’t earn enough revenue to stay afloat. Charge too much and you could lose thousands in potential business. You don’t want to price out some customers. So what can you do? This is where tiered pricing comes into play. The SaaS pricing approach can be helpful for companies looking to meet the needs and budgets of their different customer personas.