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AWS vs GCP: Which Cloud Service Logs Can Provide the Most Valuable Data to Improve Your Business

The infrastructure and services running on public cloud computing services like Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) produce massive volumes of logs every day. An organization’s log data provides details about their entire IT environment in real-time, or at any point in time in history.

Devops Best Practices for Observability

Imagine one night you receive a notification from your team member that a critical production problem has caused chaos in your application. There is a sudden drop in sales as customers are unable to access the application and reporting issues relating to the same. Now, when you reach the office to fix the issue, you demand the team to run through all the files.

Six key capabilities of an AIOps platform

Unplanned downtime can cost large enterprises almost $1.5 million per hour, according to a recent survey by Enterprise Management Associates. AIOps offers a solution. With an effective AIOps platform in place, you can decrease the frequency and cost of outages by 30% and reduce their duration to under an hour. AIOps platforms apply AI and machine learning to complex IT data to enhance and automate IT operations.

You can now manage notification preferences via our API

Our service can detect various problems with your website: whenever it is down, or a broken link is detected, your cron job isn't running on time, and much much more. Whenever we see a problem we can notify you via email, Slack, webhooks, and various other channels. Up until now, you could configure these notification channels in our UI, but now you can do this via our API as wel.

Myth #1 of Apache Spark Optimization: Observability & Monitoring

In this blog series we’ll be examining the Five Myths of Apache Spark Optimization. (Stay tuned for the entire series!) The first myth examines a common assumption of many Spark users: Observing and monitoring your Spark environment means you’ll be able to find the wasteful apps and tune them.

Strategic Digital Employee Experience Management

With Nexthink Workplace Experience (built on the Nexthink Infinity platform) we introduced a next-generation DEX score (V3) along with an all-new product – Nexthink Experience Central – to deliver the strategic guidance Senior IT Leaders require to successfully enable and advance their company’s DEX strategy.

Basic Cyber Hygiene: New Definition and Best Practices for the Current World

With the latest changes in regulations and laws, and with cyberattacks becoming more sophisticated, costly and frequent, it’s unavoidable: You must rethink basic cyber hygiene for your organization. Today, effective cyber hygiene requires you to plan and carry out regular and consistent actions to not only meet current challenges but also to keep pace with a threat landscape that is always evolving.

The Top Three Technology Decisions Teams Make When Building a Platform

Creating a platform? You're in the right spot. Our mission at Cycle started with a clear purpose: to create the best platform for building platforms. Here's the thing, there's really no easy way to build a platform. It requires making a lot of tough technology decisions that can affect success, growth, and upkeep for years to come. There are however some ways to make things simpler. Here are the three technology decisions I've seen make the biggest impact and how to navigate them.