Many companies today try to feed business metrics into APM or IT monitoring systems. Splunk, Datadog and others track your business in real time, based on log or application data – something that would seem to make sense. In practice, however, it fails to produce accurate and effective monitoring or reduce time to detection of revenue-impactful issues. Why? Because monitoring machines and monitoring business KPIs are completely different tasks.

IBM Cloud Log Analysis with LogDNA enables you to quickly find the source of issues and gain deeper insight into application and cloud environment data. IBM Cloud logging begins with log aggregation from application and services within IBM Cloud. IBM partners with LogDNA to bring collection, log tailing and blazing fast log search. LogDNA supports integrations to many cloud-native runtimes and environments.

It’s no secret that machine learning (ML) has experienced tremendous growth and adoption over the last few years. And why not? This exciting technology has enabled us to utilize the power of machines for a wide variety of applications and industries. From image processing to predicting to medical diagnosis, ML has begun to reshape the way we live.

Every successful company plans for sustainability and growth. Forecasting the growth path helps companies set their short- and long-term business objectives and make important decisions to help them reach their goals. Short-term forecasts are important in quarterly and annual budget planning and for ensuring that daily business operations help achieve long-term goals.

In the beginning, there was a developer using Graphite, and he found its user interface lacking. Then he discovered the Kibana project, liked its UI, and forked it. Grafana was born in 2013. “I started Grafana to do something similar as Kibana, but focused on time series metrics. My goal was to make time series data accessible for a wider audience, to make it easier to build dashboards, to make graphs and dashboards more interactive,” says Torkel Ödegaard.

Here’s the latest news on Magecart and other website attacks! We’ve trawled the web for the latest news of data breaches, including updates on previous attacks with insights from our own Security Researcher.

Ah, August and September — two months that are part of an eleven way tie for first place in our favorite month of the year rankings (sorry, February). We’re currently heads down working on our APM functionality.

No one likes a slow website. Every IT pro needs to constantly check website speed to keep up with the demands of today’s uber-connected world. Fast websites aren’t just about laptops or desktops anymore. Website users connect from a variety of devices like cell phones and smart TVs. This post will discuss website speed testing, including how often you should test your speed, why one speed test probably won’t cut it, and some tips and tricks related to website speed and performance.

With over 58K stars on GitHub and over 2,200 contributors across the globe, Kubernetes is the de facto standard for container orchestration. While solving some of the key challenges involved in running distributed microservices, it has also introduced some new ones. Not surprisingly, when asked, engineers list monitoring as one of the main obstacles for adopting Kubernetes. After all, monitoring distributed environments has never been easy and Kubernetes adds additional complexity.