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Kubernetes Monitoring - Why It Matters

Kubernetes was designed by Google in 2014 and has been maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation since 2015. It has become the de facto standard for running containers in production at scale, including in cloud environments such as AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. Kubernetes is a modern framework for managing and scaling containerized applications. There have been over 2.8 million contributions to Kubernetes made by companies.

Observability: What Is It and What Tools Should You Be Using?

Much has been said and written recently about observability, but it's more than just another buzzword. Often, the term is used interchangeably (and incorrectly) with “visibility” to describe viewing one's data. However, observability goes a step beyond, allowing you to gain insights from various logs, metrics and traces. While many software vendors are using the term, there are different viewpoints on the actual definition. So, what exactly is observability?

Monitoring EKS With Zenoss Service Impact

Udaybhasker Challa, Monitoring Engineer at Guardian Life Insurance reviews how Guardian's Kubernetes/EKS environments are being monitored by Zenoss. This will include discussion on pods, containers and autoscaling node alerts, and will show the relationship of cluster components through Zenoss Service Impact.

Unsolicited Opinions About the Latest Forrester Wave on AIOps, Part 2 - A Closer Look Into the Evolution of AIOps

Leading industry analyst firm Forrester recently published research titled The Forrester Wave™: Artificial Intelligence For IT Operations, Q4 2022. This is Forrester's summary of the report: You can find my original post regarding this Wave here: "Unsolicited Opinions About The Latest Forrester Wave on AIOps, Part 1." In this post, I’ll provide context on some of the events that led up to this Forrester Wave. These are my observations and opinions, not Forrester’s.

Unsolicited Opinions About the Latest Forrester Wave on AIOps, Part 1

Leading industry analyst firm Forrester just published The Forrester Wave™: Artificial Intelligence For IT Operations, Q4 2022. If you're not familiar with Forrester Waves, they're similar to Gartner Magic Quadrants. However, one advantage of a Wave versus a Magic Quadrant is the Wave provides clients a way to customize the evaluation to suit their use cases.

The Enemy of Efficiency is the Lack of Automation

The Parkview Health team understands that the key to providing value to the business is through intelligent automation. Intelligent monitoring and AIOps capabilities can be combined to derive the much-needed context, an ingredient that has proven to be paramount in enabling intelligent automation to immediately address a broad range of IT issues. Innovative organizations, like Parkview Health, are focusing their monitoring and analytics approach to develop this elusive context are rapidly becoming able to.

Rackspace IT Tool Consolidation with Zenoss

Like most growing enterprises, Rackspace accumulated over 20 point IT monitoring tools through company acquisitions and one-off use cases. This can lead to operational inefficiencies and excess licensing costs. As part of Rackspace's best practices, they assessed the use of these tools' capabilities and decided to get rid of the tool bloat. For over 15 years Zenoss has remained a central part of Rackspace's IT monitoring strategy due to our scaling capabilities and 400+ integrations.