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Root Cause Analysis and the Road to Automated Remediation

No one wants to get paged in the middle of the night for an issue or failure within their infrastructure. When this does happen, IT operations engineers need to be able to quickly and confidently identify where the fire is and how to put it out to minimize negative impact. The root cause analysis (RCA) feature within LogicMonitor’s new AIOps Early Warning System makes this easier than ever.

Pro Tips: Dashboard Navigation Using Links

Great dashboards answer a limited set of related questions. If you try to answer too many questions in a single dashboard, it can become overly complex. As a consequence, a single dashboard often can’t tell the whole story. So you end up navigating between several, and it can be quite inefficient to search for a particular dashboard every time you need it. Luckily, there are some hacks for navigating between dashboards.

Complex Hybrid Cloud Environments: Tools You Need to Gain Visibility Into Services, Infrastructure and Applications

Today's customers demand high-performing, low-latency applications. If your business is running applications on a hybrid cloud with Amazon Web Services (AWS), you need a powerful suite of monitoring tools to ensure optimal performance.

How to Maintain Uptime During the Holidays

It’s that time of year again. Forget turkey, cranberries and pesky in-laws: it’s time to get your shopping on. For IT organizations at retailers and e-commerce companies, it’s an exciting time and also one where every detail matters. So far, predictions are robust for sales, with eMarketer forecasting that this will be the first-ever trillion-dollar holiday season in the United States. U.S.

Heightened visibility & deeper control with a monitoring control plane

Until a few years ago, if you did any kind of searching for control planes, you would have found results related to traditional networking concepts. With the advent of cloud computing — including hybrid cloud, multi-cloud, and cloud-native — we’re seeing a lot of tools starting to adopt a “control plane for 'X'” terminology. We’ve heard this term applied to — among other things — Kubernetes. More on that later.

AWS re:Invent 2019 - API Gateway HTTP Proxy

API Gateway is a serverless service by AWS to expose cloud services through private or public HTTPs endpoints. It is used by many serverless teams to connect frontend applications to backend systems in a secure, scalable and seamless way. API Gateway integrates with Lambda, DynamoDB, S3 and a variety of other AWS services. The main issue with API Gateway, so far, was its cost. At $3.50 per million requests, it can be more expensive than Lambda itself.