The role of IT administration has become increasingly crucial for the smooth operation of modern enterprises in the current digital-first climate. With the evolution of technology, the emergence of Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) has opened new avenues for innovation and efficiency. This blog aims to delve into the synergistic relationship between IT administrators and Generative AI, focusing on two critical areas: IT Asset Management (ITAM) and IT Operations Management (ITOM).

DataDog and Grafana are leading tools in the monitoring and data visualization space. While they share some common ground, their approaches and strengths differ significantly. This comprehensive guide will help you choose the right tool for your specific needs in 2024.

Grafana is a resilient open-source dashboard and visualization platform celebrated for its ability to help users grasp complex data. The alerting system is an essential element enhancing its capabilities. By notifying users of data shifts or irregularities, the alerting system significantly improves the user experience. This guide covers the basics of Grafana alerts, emphasizing their importance and offering practical tips for seamless setup.

In the evolving world of technology, organizations are continuously working to increase their system stability, deliver software faster, and help their programmers work better. Different disciplines, each with its own distinct set of roles and responsibilities, have arisen to accomplish these goals.

Digital transformation is happening at a rapid pace. Customers demand always-on, always-mobile, instantly available experiences, while businesses look to modernize for increased productivity, responsiveness, and profitability. Amid this constant change and increasing pressure to achieve more with limited resources, IT teams struggle to keep pace, weighed down by legacy tools and operational processes that no longer scale.

Editor’s Note: This is the second installment of a series of blog posts previewing our State of Observability 2024 survey report. In the first episode of this blog series, we looked at where IT organizations are in their observability journeys and found, rather surprisingly, that most enterprise IT organizations and MSPs were just getting started in observability. Yet 96% of respondents told us their observability solution was delivering the value they expected.

OpenSearch has grown to be one of the most widely used open-source search engine projects. The high flexibility of the solution enables it to be the perfect option for a broad range of use cases, such as log and event data analysis, application monitoring and metrics analysis, and security information and event management (SIEM).

Writing optimal code is crucial for developers, and human collaboration is key to achieving this. Code review tools are essential for maintaining the integrity of well-built products, which are vital for software development. We are a team of developers that love building tools that optimize our worlds. As engineers, designers and product managers, we identified many challenges in standard Git workflows that inhibited us from working more effectively together.

Domain Name System (DNS) is an important part of the internet that changes human-readable domain names into machine-readable IP addresses. This article will explain the parts of DNS, including its pieces, query types, and the lookup process. We will also talk about DNS caching and how it makes the DNS resolution process faster.