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How Basware took their customer service to a new level

Basware is known for delivering leading edge financial software that cuts costs, increases efficiencies, and reduces risks to an enterprise’s global operations. They help customers simplify operations and spend smarter by automating procurement and finance processes. What makes their offerings world-class is both the capabilities they provide and the way they provide them.

Splunk Stream 7.2 - Integration with Amazon VPC Traffic Mirroring

Recently, our good friends at Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched an awesome new product, VPC Traffic Mirroring. Here at Splunk, we are excited about this new capability as it allows our Splunk Stream platform to ingest this data, and send it on to any Splunk instance, in the cloud or on premises. Leveraging this capability allows Splunk users to collect specific network data from their AWS environment, and use it to fulfill security, IT Ops, or business-focused use cases.

A Quick Start on Java Garbage Collection: What it is, and How it works

In this tutorial, we will talk about how different Java Garbage Collectors work and what you can expect from them. This will give us the necessary background to start tuning the garbage collection algorithm of your choice. Before going into Java Garbage Collection tuning we need to understand two things. First of all, how garbage collection works in theory and how it works in the system we are going to tune.

LogicMonitor Acquires Unomaly to Enhance Observability, Help IT Pinpoint Log Issues Faster and Drive Intelligent Action

Happy New Year! We’re starting 2020 by sharing some exciting news. Today we announced that LogicMonitor has acquired Unomaly, an AIOps-centric logs analytics company headquartered in Stockholm! Unomaly’s technology focuses on the automatic detection of log anomalies to support fast, accurate root cause analysis in complex IT environments.

How to Migrate Your Configuration Database

Grafana by default uses sqlite3 as a local database to hold the configuration information (such as users, dashboards, alerts, etc.). But did you know you can also use other databases for this purpose? Many large customers prefer to use either Postgresql or MySQL/MariaDB, and we recently had a request from a company wanting some help to migrate their configuration data from Postgresql to MySQL. This is not a common request, so we didn’t have any pre-existing tooling to do it.

Fighting Packet Loss with Curl

One class of support requests I get at Healthchecks.io is about occasional failed HTTP requests to ping endpoints (hc-ping.com and hchk.io). Following an investigation, the conclusion often is that the failed requests are caused by a packet loss somewhere along the path from the client to the server. The problem starts and ends seemingly at random, presumably as network operators fix failing equipment or change the routing rules.

Significance of AI & ML in Network Performance Monitoring

If you’re a tech geek you must have come across disrupting technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Big Data, and IoT. These are the key buzz words since many years. With this blog we plan on kickstarting 2020 with the most sought-after question amongst IT administrators & DevOps team, “How will AI & ML benefit us?”, “What’s the role of AI in Networks?” & more. Well, let’s get started!

How to Show a Top Level Status of your Services using our API Endpoint

Embed your status page status anywhere using our API endpoint. Get the list of components and their statuses, uptime and average response time with human descriptions and indicators, and includes a top-level status to programmatically embed it anywhere. Data shows metrics for the past 24 hours. Use the status page URL to retrieve its data.

How enterprise dev teams use GitLab and Mattermost ChatOps to accelerate development

There has never been more pressure on development teams to build software faster and more efficiently. The rise in popularity of DevOps has largely been the result of its promise to speed up dev cycles, increase agility, and help teams resolve issues more quickly. And while the availability and sophistication of DevOps tools have improved greatly in the last few years, simply choosing the latest and greatest tools is no guarantee of a smooth, problem-free development lifecycle.