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DataDog vs Prometheus - Comprehensive Comparison Guide [Updated for 2024]

Both DataDog and Prometheus are application monitoring tools aimed to improve application performance. While Datadog is a cloud-based SaaS solution, meaning there's no need to install or maintain any infrastructure, Prometheus is an open-source tool that requires manual download and installation on your infrastructure. Let us compare DataDog and Prometheus to see which tool suits The biggest difference between Datadog and Prometheus is that while Prometheus is open-source, Datadog is proprietary.

Podcast - The Power of Observability and Automation of Citrix Technologies with eG Innovations

The Citrix Ready team recently recorded a podcast with eG Innovations for their Tech Fusion podcast series. Hosted by Neil C. Hughes from The Tech Blog Writer, Wendy Howard from eG Innovations’ pre-sales, and Manjunatha Gali from Citrix Ready discussed how eG Enterprise enhances and goes beyond native Citrix monitoring tools with its unique observability and automation features. You can listen to the podcast: They covered a wide range of topics, including.

Self Hosted Retrace - For your Data Governance, Centralised Control needs

Our customers can now get a self hosted Retrace, where their own data will never leave the Azure cloud environment. Stackify by Netreo will deploy and manage the Retrace platform that includes infrastructure components and software. Customer will get the access to the Retrace within their corporate domain, rather than public internet.

Will Broadcom's plans for VMware affect you?

It is an unsettling time for many of our partners and customers, particularly those leveraging VMware technologies such as VDI and server virtualization, with uncertainty of Broadcom’s plans after their recent acquisition of VMware and likely changes to licensing costs, SKUs, product availability and so on.

OpenTelemetry Nestjs Tracing Implementation Guide [2024 Updated]

Nestjs is a Nodejs framework for building scalable server-side applications with typescript. It makes use of frameworks like Express and Fastify to enable rapid development. It has gained wide popularity in recent times, and many applications are making use of the Nestjs framework. Using OpenTelemetry client libraries, you can monitor your Nestjs application. Monitoring your Nestjs application is critical for performance management.

Top 14 ELK alternatives [open source included] in 2024

ELK is the acronym Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana, and combined together, it is one of the most popular log analytics tools. Elastic changed the license of Elasticsearch and Kibana from the fully open Apache 2 license to a proprietary dual license. The ELK stack is also hard to manage at scale. In this article, we will discuss 14 ELK alternatives that you can consider using.

A Lightweight Open Source ELK alternative

ELK is the acronym Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana, and combined, it is one of the most popular log analytics tools. Elastic changed the license of Elasticsearch and Kibana from the fully open Apache 2 license to a proprietary dual license. The ELK stack is also hard to manage at scale. SigNoz can be used as a lightweight alternative to the ELK stack.

Cisco AppDynamics for SAP in Manufacturing: an analysis of challenges and solutions

In this Cisco Cloud Observability video, Matt Schuetze delves into the complex challenges that define today's manufacturing business landscape—and how Cisco AppDynamics can integrate with SAP environments to address them. The video offers an essential understanding of the manufacturing industry’s challenges and the role SAP plays in it. Matt explains Cisco AppDynamics’ unique capability to link business process steps and flows to the underlying ABAP code and HANA database calls, providing a direct connection to user experience within the SAP environment.