Managing modern IT environments is becoming more complex and fragmented as organizations rely on a broader range of applications and services, including cloud, hybrid infrastructure, microservices, and legacy systems. This complexity and velocity surpass human capacity and old processes, making it challenging for IT teams to respond efficiently to incidents.

Ensuring continuous network connectivity keeps getting more critical—but costly outages keep happening. This post looks at a key culprit behind many network outages: network configuration errors. We outline the key requirements for streamlining and automating configuration management, and detail how DX NetOps can help.

Explore the best Kubernetes alternatives for 2024, from Docker Swarm to AWS ECS, and find the perfect fit for your container orchestration needs.

Learn how to optimize your database for high traffic, ensuring performance, scalability, and reliability under heavy load.

Managing log files effectively is crucial for ensuring a well-performing, reliable system. Logrotate, a popular log management tool, provides a flexible way to automatically rotate, compress, and remove old logs. Among its many configurations, two common approaches to trigger log rotation are size-based and time-based rotation. In this blog, we will explore the differences between these methods, compare their use cases, and help you decide which approach (or combination) suits your needs best.

Happy holidays! It’s that time of year when people brainstorm their New Year’s resolutions, and companies are laying out plans to hit the new year with a fresh cost management strategy in place. If you’re in the latter boat, check out these end-of-year wrap-ups that will help you start 2025 on the right foot, financially speaking. Enjoy!

How do you choose the perfect Patch Management software for your business? If this question has been keeping you up at night, you’re not alone—and for good reason. Choosing the right Patch Management tool isn’t just about keeping things updated; it can make or break your organization’s security strategy.

By the end of 2024, the world will have shipped a staggering 186.68 million laptops, according to Statista. With so many devices in circulation, the importance of maintaining an accurate and up-to-date laptop inventory has never been greater. Knowing what laptops your organization owns, where they are, and how they’re being used is crucial for ensuring smooth operations and minimizing risks. In this blog post, we’ll unpack everything you need to know about laptop inventory.

Distributed architectures with microservices, cloud-native components, and service meshes make traditional monitoring methods inadequate for system analysis. O11y (observability) implements advanced telemetry frameworks for deep system introspection through metrics, traces, and logs collection. This programmatic approach enables real-time debugging, performance optimization, and architectural decisions across distributed environments.

In the dynamic world of IT operations and software development, downtime or service disruptions can be costly. As businesses rely more on digital infrastructure, managing and responding to incidents effectively is no longer optional—it’s a critical necessity. However, many organizations struggle to differentiate between incident response and incident management, often using the terms interchangeably.