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Extend Your Operational Analytics Beyond IT and Improve Your Business Outcomes

Operational analytics is of vital importance to IT organizations today. With complex hybrid infrastructures and dynamic workloads commonplace in many businesses, the ability to monitor important metrics like application performance requires a level of automation and analysis that can quickly turn data into useful information for your IT team.

How to Monitor Apache Web Server

In order to effectively manage and monitor your infrastructure, a web admin needs clear and transparent information about the types of activity going on within their servers. Server logs provide a documented footprint of all traffic and errors that occur within an environment. Apache has two main log files, Error Logs, and Access Logs.

Apache Error Log & Apache Access Log: Complete Guide to Analyzing and Troubleshooting Apache

+ Bonus: 20 Apache errors – a free checklist Apache error logs and Apache access logs contain valuable data. In this article, we explain how the log files generated by the Apache web server are an important factor in keeping your web sites and apps running 24/7. We show you how to effectively use Apache logs to monitor and troubleshoot Apache log files, to protect and fix your web server. Want to get Apache/Tomcat/Log4J insights right away?

Who Will Win and Who Will Die: 'Game of Throne' Fans Use Data Analysis to Predict What Happens Next

In the era of Peak TV, there is probably no more emblematic version of worthy binge watching than “Game of Thrones”. At the cusp of the series’ eighth and final season, the internet is buzzing with some painstaking analysis – using algorithms, AI, and big data sets, to find hidden Easter eggs. The numbers capture the mind-boggling detail author George R. R. Martin weaved into his novels and how easy it is to get lost in a fictional world as intricate as our own.

5 Critical Shortcomings of Traditional BI Tools

Business Intelligence (BI) tools have taken the business world by storm. According to new research, over 80% of executives believe that tools such as advanced visualization, dashboards, and reporting are critical tools when it comes to parsing data. However, many end users aren’t bringing in those dashboards because they really use them, rather they are hoping to get a sense of security (incorrectly) that they will know everything about their business.

Where to Find IIS Log Files

Microsoft Windows Internet Information Services (IIS) log files provide valuable information about the use and state of applications running on the web. However, it’s not always easy to find where those files are to determine important aspects of app usage like when requests for servers were made, by whom, and other user traffic concerns.

Software visibility is the key to innovation

Software is eating the world. How we spend time, what we eat, who we meet, how we communicate, where we travel... is defined by the code. Increasingly, software is calling the shots and telling humans what to do. With deep learning, this trend is just going to accelerate. The most powerful companies that used to rule the world with professional, skilled executives are becoming incumbents getting disrupted.