HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) is the base of communication on the Web, allowing the transfer of hypermedia documents between web clients (browsers) and servers. This article will look at the inner workings of HTTP, explaining its client-server model, request and response formats, and its stateless nature.

Software development and delivery requires cross-team collaboration and cross-service orchestration—all while ensuring that organizational standards for quality, security, and compliance are consistently met. Without careful monitoring, you risk a lack of visibility into delivery workflows, making it difficult to evaluate how they impact release velocity and stability, developer experience, and application performance.

DISA STIGs are an important compliance standard. There’s a security technical implementation guide (STIG) for almost every kind of technology in an IT environment, and each STIG can include hundreds of individual settings, configurations, and recommendations for ensuring compliance and security.

Earlier this year we shared our vision for VMware Tanzu Platform, the evolution of the Tanzu portfolio. Today we are excited to officially announce that Tanzu Platform is now available!

The common thread among teams responsible for maintaining IT services is their reliance on a deep understanding of the IT environment. Teams need access to all types of critical data to keep systems running. While it seems straightforward, ITOps teams face many challenges in locating, accessing, and synthesizing enough data to fully understand an incident’s cause and establish a remediation plan.

At GrafanaCON last month, we announced Grafana Alloy, our open source distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector. Alloy is a telemetry collector that is 100% OTLP compatible and offers native pipelines for OpenTelemetry and Prometheus telemetry formats, supporting metrics, logs, traces, and profiles. Today, we are excited to share that Grafana Beyla is now available in Grafana Alloy as the default eBPF-based application auto-instrumentation solution.

SolarWinds has launched AI by Design, a dynamic framework for integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into our IT management solutions. AI by Design consists of four fundamental principles: Privacy and Security, Accountability and Fairness, Transparency and Trust, and Simplicity and Accessibility. In the second installment in our series exploring this exciting new paradigm, we’ll examine how SolarWinds places the safety of our customers’ data at the center of our strategy for ethical AI.

I was just asked how to troubleshoot an HTTP Error 500.19 - Internal Server Error when trying to launch an ASP.NET Core website on IIS. I have seen this error too many times for both ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core so decided to write a blog post about at least one, obvious, fix. The problem happens when deploying the ASP.NET or ASP.NET Core website to IIS and getting the following error message in the browser.

This is a guest post from Mri Pandit. With the rise in the quantity and the complexity of data organizations now need to handle, the nature of the data that you store is driving the reason for your database platform of choice. Sometimes you have a mix of data, where some is relational and some is heterogeneous, which cannot be contained in a relational format.

We're excited to kick off our first-ever Spotlight Week, a week-long celebration of innovation and progress at Spectate! Each day, we'll be shining a spotlight on new features, updates, and announcements that showcase our commitment to making monitoring and incident management easier and more efficient.