Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Today’s systems are more distributed, dynamic, and complex than ever before – plus, users have more expectations. Also, the historical reliance on an operations team to monitor, triage, and/or resolve issues has become untenable as the number of services increased. This means that many of the tools that were well-suited before might no longer be adequate.

Thomas Stringer has a couple of great blog posts on how to understand your Azure monitoring costs and also on how to reduce your costs, see Azure Monitor Log Analytics too Expensive? Part 2 – Save Some Money | Thomas Stringer (trstringer.com). In the past I’ve blogged on How to calculate the Azure Monitor and Log Analytics costs associated with AVD (not an easy task!).

Selecting the best sentry alternatives for error monitoring is likely to be difficult. It might be difficult to sort between the features, benefits, and drawbacks of many software companies and sellers. Let's talk about how to make this process easier by looking at the eight best alternatives to Sentry. Sentry is open-source application performance and error-tracking tool that allows developers to track and fix errors in real-time.

2021 was the year of hybrid work. An interesting year full of hope and thoughtfulness, 2021 saw increased office-based collaborations complementing our diverse remote workforce. Through this, we sought to look within to sort our processes and deliver what it takes to ensure the best monitoring experience for our customers worldwide. Here is a quick recap of the APM features we rolled out last year and a brief note on our plans for 2022.

This is a multi-part series that covers monitoring Microsoft Azure Active Directory (AD). In this blog post, which is part 1 of the series, you will learn about and understand Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) and how it is different from an on-premises Active Directory (AD). As technology keeps evolving, companies increasingly look to technologies like Cloud Computing to expand, modernize and stay competitive, and in doing so companies can expose themselves to risks.

OpsRamp was one of only two vendors to be recognized in 451 Research’s Market Map for Application and Infrastructure Performance Monitoring (AIPM) in the categories of Infrastructure Monitoring, Event Correlation and Alerting. 451’s AIPM Market Map offers a holistic perspective on key emerging categories in the IT monitoring and observability space.

Now that we’ve said goodbye to 2021, we are on our way to completing 20 years of IT transformation. We are taking account of every milestone, every accolade, every cheer from our users, partners, and employees to show the world what turned out to be an eventful year.