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EAM: A cost-effective alternative to APM

As with all our Application Performance Management (APM) blogs, we'd like to first append this with a few caveats. Firstly, we’re big fans of APM. For too long enterprise monitoring efforts have focused too heavily on infrastructure - and it was APM that first flipped this paradigm on its head. Secondly, we are by no means an APM tool – and whilst we’ll go into our differences later - we simply share the vision that applications should be put at the heart of your IT monitoring strategy.
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The Evolution of the Monitoring Industry and Why Customers Should Run the Show

Recently, OpsMatters marketing consultant & copywriter Lauren Detweiler sat down (virtually, of course!) with Lucian Daniliuc, founder & CEO of uptime monitoring service Monitive, to chat about the monitoring industry, the process of rewriting an application from scratch, and why customers matter to the process so much.

2nd year in a row: Gartner recognizes ManageEngine in its Magic Quadrant for Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics

OpManager’s network monitoring capabilities have been serving the network administration industry for more than a decade. What started as a basic network monitoring tool has grown tremendously in terms of both features and operations, placing OpManager among the top network monitoring tools in the network administration domain.

A Comparison of VMware and Docker

Servers are expensive. And in single-application installations, most servers spend the majority of their time waiting. Making the most of these expensive assets led to virtualization, and making the most of virtualization has led to multiple options for virtualizing applications. VMware and Docker offer competing methods for virtualizing applications. Both technologies work to make the most of limited hardware resources, but they do so in significantly different ways.

LogicMonitor Recognized in the 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics for the First Time

We’re excited to share that Gartner, Inc. has positioned LogicMonitor in the 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics* (NPMD) for the first time in the quadrant’s history.

ContainerD meets Sysdig

Containers are fast becoming the defacto standard as a building block for creating and deploying applications. Containerization allows development teams to have consistent environments, cost optimizations, isolation, and versatility, in general. The open-source Containerd project is a critical component for the modern cloud-native containerized landscape, providing a runtime that is widely used in millions of applications every day.

Who Can Benefit From Unified Monitoring

Unified monitoring is for any organization that uses IT operations extensively in their business. Many times, the organizations who need unified monitoring have experienced outage and availability issues, have in-house solutions that struggle to scale or don’t meet regulatory requirements, lack of visibility into their infrastructure, or don’t have the ability to do reporting (for example: SLA compliance reports).

Business Process 2.2.0

Gut Ding will Weile haben. Or, Rome wasn’t built in a day. Though, I like the German version more because it’s not that quite a stretch. Well, what this is all about you ask? It’s been the first quarter of 2017 when the first version of the Icinga Business Process Module had the chance to impress its audience. It’s gone rather quiet since then. But don’t worry, just two years later there is the solution to the so-called order it imposed on us: Chaos.

AWS Costs: Surprise, Surprise? It Shouldn't Be!

A recent article by The Information: As AWS Use Soars, Companies Surprised by Cloud Bills was very interesting and worth a read. The authors examined the AWS spending patterns of five large companies to demonstrate that all were way over budget as it related to AWS spend. They reference Pinterest “spending roughly $190 million on AWS last year, $20 million more than it had initially expected... and Adobe’s bill rose 64%, while Capital One’s jumped 73%; Pinterest’s rose 41%...