It’s been a big month of great product updates in January, including the launch of the OpsRamp Winter Release, the ability to deliver collaboration across service delivery and IT operations teams with our certified ServiceNow integration and silver membership in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). In this month’s OpsComm, we’ll take you through some of the exciting news and updates at OpsRamp. To see all of the recent OpsRamp coverage, check out our newsroom.

If your Healthchecks account is growing and is getting a little hard to manage, Healthchecks.io has a new feature for you: Projects. Use Projects to organize your monitoring dashboards, to have finer-grained team and API access controls, and to simplify your check-integration mapping.

The biggest challenge when a user complains of slow application is diagnosing why it’s slow: Is it due to a code-level issue or a database issue? Should we call the DBA or the application manager? Performance problems with the database can cause up to 70% of all application performance issues in production, according to consensus among database practitioners and experts.

What can you monitor with LogicMonitor? There are only two limitations. As a Sales Engineer, I'm often asked questions like "Do you monitor (insert specific technology resource here)?". Equally often, I'm asked whether and how easily LogicMonitor's core abilities can be extended to gather metrics from any resources that may be specific to the customer.

Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. This week, we look at the rise of augmented analytics and how it tackles the ever growing need for intelligent, data-driven insights.

January brought us many new things for 2019. There’s more to come in our 10th year.

Garbage collection is a key component of many modern programming languages, including C#. It’s even hard to imagine what programming would look like in C#, and other modern languages like Java, Ruby, and many others, without this tool.

The OpsRamp winter release delivers greater service-centricity and context for hybrid infrastructure management with intelligent incident management and cloud native monitoring. The January 2019 release features innovations such as a new UI for service maps, enhanced AIOps capabilities and cloud native monitoring features.

OpsRamp, the service-centric AIOps software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for the hybrid enterprise, today announced new topology maps, enhanced artificial intelligence for IT operatzions (AIOps) features and new monitoring capabilities for cloud native workloads.

If you use PHP or you find yourself “adopting” a PHP app (like I did a few years ago), you must know how to debug PHP. In this detailed guide to PHP debugging, you’ll see some debugging techniques that apply to almost any programming language. But don’t worry. I’ll get into the specifics that apply to PHP, from the basics all the way to fully integrated debugging techniques. Let’s start with a basic technique in PHP debugging: outputting and logging values.