AWS currently offers eight main data storage services that cover different needs, from object storage to file and block storage. The most popular is Amazon S3, an object storage service. Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) and Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) follow. Both offer persistent, secure, and scalable storage. Yet, each has a distinct architecture and use cases. In this guide, we compare EBS vs EFS to help you decide which is better for your AWS data storage needs.

In an agile DevOps environment, developers move quickly and often, making small changes in ongoing sprints. Once applications go live, operations teams (and often times, developers themselves) take over performance management and issue resolution, while updates and improvements continue. Developers and DevOps teams need a continuous flow of information on how each iteration works, fails, or worse – introduces new problems.

We are pleased to announce a significant advancement in system monitoring: the launch of Netdata’s first-ever native Windows agent. This release represents a major step forward in our mission to provide comprehensive and efficient monitoring solutions across all platforms. With the introduction of the native Windows agent, we are extending our robust monitoring capabilities to Windows environments, enabling seamless and unified monitoring across diverse infrastructures.

LLMs like GPT-4, Claude, and Llama are behind popular tools like intelligent assistants, customer service chatbots, natural language query interfaces, and many more. These solutions are incredibly useful, but they are often constrained by the information they were trained on. This often means that LLM applications are limited to providing generic responses that lack proprietary or context-specific knowledge, reducing their usefulness in specialized settings.

As federal, state, and local government agencies work to modernize their digital infrastructure and applications, managing costs effectively remains a constant challenge. Federal directives like Cloud Smart indicate the need for public sector IT organizations to track and optimize their cloud spends. However, as an organization’s IT environment grows in complexity, it becomes difficult to correlate cost data and extract useful insights.

Have you seen the new Groups feature in CFEngine Enterprise Mission Portal? It was first released in 3.23.0 and it’s part of the 3.24 LTS series released earlier this year, let’s check it out. Groups in Mission Portal can be based on any host reported data. They can be dynamic (hosts can come and go from a group) or they can be static and tied to specific hosts by hostname, mac address, IP or CFEngine’s public key.

Transactional monitoring is vital for businesses to protect digital assets. Now, you may be asking, what is web transaction monitoring?

We've written several times about our data stack here incident, but never about our underlying data warehouse and the design principles behind it. This blog post will run through the high-level structure of our data warehouse and then will go in-depth into the underlying layers.

Choosing the right data visualization and analysis platform is essential for gaining valuable insights, and while Kibana is a popular choice in the industry, it may not meet the specific needs of every organization. Whether you are looking for more cost-effective solutions, advanced features, or better scalability, there are several strong alternatives worth considering. In this guide, we will dive into the top 10 Kibana alternatives for 2024, highlighting what each option offers.

Maintaining optimal temperatures in data centers has become increasingly important as power densities surge, global temperature climb, and energy consumption rises. These challenges make data center temperature monitoring more essential than ever.