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Monitor user-facing bugs with LambdaTest's subscription in the Datadog Marketplace

As your products and client base scale, maintaining effective test suites and providing rapid response to user-facing issues becomes increasingly challenging. Without thorough testing, bugs are more likely to go undetected, which creates poor user experiences and slower release cycles. LambdaTest is a cloud-based platform that supports real-time and automated testing for over 3,000 browsers, real devices, and operating systems.

Changes are Observability's Biggest Blind Spot

Classically, the space of observability lies within layers of information on a dashboard. It operates by using the fundamental trio of data — metrics, logs and traces — from each layer of the environment to assess the health of an IT infrastructure. However, a time component is critical, making the stack observable at any point in time. Gathering reliable data and insights into your IT infrastructure remains the primary role of observability tools and services.

Tech Story: Papershift x Qovery Infrastructure Scaling Made Easy

A few days ago, I chatted with Florian Suchan (CTO and Co-Founder at Papershift) about their journey to easy infrastructure autoscaling. As you will see in the article, they tried a wide range of solutions before finding the right fit; if you feel you’re going through the same journey, this article is for you!

Business Activity Monitoring with Flat File Messages

Let us consider that you have implemented an integrated solution and are using Serverless360 Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) to help provide your support users and business users with visibility of what is happening in the business transaction. BAM provides you with distributed tracing to attain maximum visibility on the integration solution that the functional operations team needs.

Introducing Netdata Source Plugin for Grafana: Enhanced high-fidelity troubleshooting data source for the Open Source community!

The open-source community is about to benefit greatly from Netdata’s new Grafana data source plugin, which makes use of a powerful data collection engine. This new plugin maximizes the troubleshooting capabilities of Netdata in Grafana, making them more widely available. Some of the key capabilities provided to you with this plugin include the following.

Radware's NOC Management Takes Off With MoovingON.ai Platform

When Radware, a DDoS protection solutions provider, needed to upgrade their NOC operations, they tested out multiple solutions before choosing moovingon.ai. From increasing efficiency and visibility to improving ticket resolution times and runbook automation, moovingon.ai provided the NOC manager and team with everything they needed to run operations more smoothly and effectively.

SecurityDAM's NOC Management Takes Off With MoovingON.ai Platform

When SecurityDAM (acquired by Radware), a DDoS protection service provider, needed to upgrade their NOC operations, they tested out multiple solutions before choosing MoovingON.ai. From increasing efficiency and visibility to improving ticket resolution times and runbook automation, MoovingON.ai provided the NOC manager and team with everything they needed to run operations more smoothly and effectively.

DevOps 101: Unlocking the value of frequent deployments

In this DevOps 101 series, I introduce the concept of DevOps and talk about how you can include the database as a natural partner. In the previous post in the series, I discussed how automation introduces faster and more frequent deployments as a key benefit. We’re now going to take a deep dive into the value you can unlock through frequent deployments using database DevOps, along with how you get started doing them.

RIA Vendor Selection Matrix for AIOps 2022

In July, the research firm Research In Action (RIA), published the 2022 edition of their annual Vendor Selection Matrix™. Despite AIOps being a well established technology (Moogsoft has customers who have been reaping the benefits of AIOps for many years) selecting a vendor can still be quite difficult, given the plethora of vendors who quickly re-branded their solutions as AIOps. So a vendor selection guide is a valuable resource.