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An organized inventory for monitoring using ManageEngine OpManager is essential for resolving network issues and optimizing performance. Configuring and updating monitoring settings is easier and more efficient when devices and interfaces are organized into subgroups and supergroups. For instance, say you’re monitoring 500 or more devices.

PostgreSQL is a popular open-source relational database management system (RDBMS) known for its flexibility, scalability, and extensibility, offering a wide range of features. However, for large, enterprise-level projects, PostgreSQL’s capabilities may not be sufficient, leading developers to explore alternative systems. One such solution is Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres, a PostgreSQL-based database enhanced with commercial features designed to meet the demands of larger projects.

Developer productivity is ultimately a measure of the efficiency and effectiveness with which software developers produce high-quality code and complete projects. Where this becomes a bit more complicated is in the relationships between those efforts and the measurements that reflect them.

The primary objective of an IT incident response plan is to clarify roles and responsibilities, communication protocols, escalation scenarios, and technical steps to minimize further damage and safeguard business operations. The plan formally defines guidelines, procedures, and activities for identifying, evaluating, containing, resolving, and preventing IT incidents. Whether they cause intermittent errors or global service crashes, IT incidents can severely disrupt service quality and cause outages.

Application performance is critical for a seamless user experience, but all too often, developers find themselves struggling to pinpoint slowdowns. Understanding the root cause is the first step to diagnosing and solving performance issues. In this article, we’ll explore six common root causes of application performance slowdowns and share actionable advice on how to fix them. We will also show how platforms like Sentry can help uncover, trace, and debug these issues faster.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is a powerful, comprehensive cloud platform that supports a wide range of enterprise workloads. Whether you're running complex databases, applications, or large-scale analytics, OCI offers the infrastructure to handle it all. But as with any robust cloud environment, effective monitoring is crucial to ensure performance, security, and cost-efficiency.

In today's data-driven world, businesses need to collect, process, and analyze large volumes of data in real-time to make informed decisions. Amazon Kinesis, a powerful streaming platform, helps companies build scalable and resilient data pipelines. However, ensuring that the pipeline functions efficiently requires robust monitoring practices.

Earlier this year, we introduced relational fields. Relational fields enable you to query spans based on their relationship to one other within a trace, rather than only in isolation. We’ve now expanded this feature and introduced four new prefixes: child., none., any2., and any3.. Previously, you could use root., parent., and any. to query on the root span of your target span’s trace, the parent span of your target span, and any other span in the same trace as your target span.

As 2024 peeks into 2025, cloud-driven businesses are poised for yet another year of record cloud spending. After exceeding $675B this year, cloud spenders are expected to shell out more than $820B in 2025 (Gartner). But as any good unit economist knows, it’s not just that cloud costs are growing, it’s that they’re growing inefficiently — taking too big a bite out of companies’ profits.

We at Icinga / NETWAYS (yes, that’s the order) held an internal event recently. It’s name was Knowledge Days and I got to to talk about how I review code. Now, I will share my knowledge with you! Though, this is specifically how I personally perform reviews. This is by no means the definitive way of doing it! Find your own, I can only share my experience. So without further ado…