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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.

Keep control of your Organization's Usage with our New Organization Usage page. #Blackfire

Predicting the traffic of our #applications is as challenging as forecasting the weather. Whether it’s a sudden spike in your apps’ traffic, a set of bugs pushed in #production, or even a full-on #cyberattack, unexpected surges can bring significant consequences. We may have the facts to anticipate a solid estimate, but we can’t plan for the anomalies. This is a concern shared by many #blackfire Monitoring customers. And it’s directly linked to ensuring you have the right amount of traces to maintain your applications’ continuous instrumentation—while controlling costs.

What makes Resolve the leader in intelligent IT process automation? | Resolve

IT is complicated. The good news is that it no longer has to be. In this video, Resolve CEO Vijay Kurkal explains the advantages that Resolve's automation solutions can bring to IT organizations, from streamlining large amounts of service desk requests and to auto-remediating incidents, with seamless integrations across multi-system siloes.

We're making our on-call calculator free

We've all done it: "that'll be simple, I'll just write a quick script and..." In the case of calculating on-call pay, we really have done it before: our team have built the on-call pay scripts for several companies, and each attempt was a painful, error prone process. While we believe everyone on-call should be paid for their inconvenience, relying on someones side-project or back-of-napkin maths to calculate pay leads to mistakes, frustration, and wasted time.

What is a Security Operation Center and how do SOC teams work?

With the growing complexity of IT environments, it is essential to have robust security processes that can safeguard IT environments from cyber threats. In this blog, we will explore how security operation centers (SOCs), help you monitor, identify and prevent cyber threats to safeguard your IT environments. This blog covers the following pointers.

Authors' Cut-No More Pipeline Blues: Accelerate CI/CD with Observability

It’s no secret that CI/CD pipelines make the lives of engineering and operations easier by accelerating the feedback loop for higher quality code and apps. They build code, run tests, and safely deploy new versions of your application. But just like any aspect of development, poor integration, invisible bottlenecks, and bugs can plague your pipelines. And debugging them? Well, it’s complicated.

The Right Car (Or Cloud Service) For Your Family (Or Work) Adventures

Managing gas bills has a lot in common with managing cloud spend. In the summer, our gas bill increased with our summer adventures. Sitting home with the kids out of school and the warm summer months was not an option. Likewise, while discounts on gas certainly help, in reality they do not put much of a dent in the overall bill. The cheapest gallon of gas is still the one not used. If you’re a modern cloud-native business, you can’t just stop using the cloud.

Real World Insights - My Take on the Observability Maturity Model

A prelude to our upcoming six-part Observability Maturity Model Fundamentals blog series. By Lodewijk Bogaards At StackState, we have spent eight years in the monitoring and observability spaces. During this time, we have spoken with countless DevOps engineers, architects, SREs, heads of IT operations and CTOs, and we have heard the same struggles over and over.

JFrog Joins Rust Foundation as Platinum Member

The technology ecosystem is continually evolving but one truth remains, if there is a new and emerging coding language that captures the heart and minds of developers JFrog will be there. JFrog provides a DevOps Platform to store and secure its artifacts while engaging with the community and foundations that support developers using that language. We have a long history of working with Java, Python, C/C++ and more recently Go, Swift and Rust.