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A CIO's Perspective on Intelligent Application and Service Monitoring - Wendy M. Pfeiffer, Nutanix

Wendy M. Pfeiffer, CIO of Nutanix, a Zenoss customer and technology partner, gives her perspective on intelligent application and service monitoring. During this interview, Pfeiffer shares the criteria for selecting Zenoss, advice for CIOs considering a monitoring solution, the benefits Nutanix has experienced, and how her organization measures success.

How to Streamline Infrastructure Monitoring with Sensu, InfluxDB, and Grafana

“To start, your monitoring stack should not cost you stacks,” Sensu Software Engineer Nikki Attea told the crowd at GrafanaCon L.A. “Avocado toast is really expensive. But the good news is your monitoring solution doesn’t have to be.” To prove it, Attea presented an easy developer-centric use case that leverages Sensu, a monitoring event pipeline which collects, processes, and roots different event types including discovery, availability, telemetry, and alerts.

Zenduty - Incident management for DevOps and SRE teams

Zenduty is an incident management solution that provides cross-channel (Email, Phone, SMS, Slack) alerts to your team whenever critical incidents occur. Zenduty features include flexible on-call scheduling, intelligent alert context, alert routing and response automation. Zenduty helps your team preempt, minimize and resolve downtime to ensure that your customers stay happy with your products and services.

Network traffic analysis: from packet analysis to flow analysis

Monitoring has always relied on both network administration and network traffic analysis. Both fields provide ways to obtain data that allows us to obtain information about the general state of the platform. It is easy to understand that when faced with, for example, an application performance problem, we want to be able to observe and evaluate the traffic generated, and this is just what network traffic analysis does.

Brace Yourself-768K Day Is Coming

All over the internet, there are ominous rumblings that “768K Day” is on its way—and it’s likely going to happen before May is over. And while some ISPs think this BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) milestone is being overhyped like Y2K and Cisco assures us the sky isn’t falling, that doesn’t mean we’ll all be left unscathed. If you’re an MSP who hasn’t heard about 768K Day yet, brace yourself—you could be in for a serious connectivity headache.

Evolving Digital Employee Experience - the Next Generation of Chatbots is Powered with Actionable Insight

It is difficult to overstate the importance and impact that Artificial Intelligence (AI) has had on the employee experience. This is crystal clear when you see how employees are interacting with their IT departments. Employees expect technology to just work. When there are technical problems the expectation is that fixing the issue will be fast and seamless. An increasingly important part of meeting this employee demand is the virtual agent, or chatbot.