Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Learn about what makes a great incident management tool and about 5 alternatives to the market leader, PagerDuty.

In the ever-evolving landscape of technology, where systems and applications play a pivotal role in our daily lives, ensuring their reliability has become a critical concern for organizations. Unforeseen incidents and downtime can lead to significant financial losses, damage to reputation, and decreased customer satisfaction. In the realm of incident management and site reliability engineering (SRE), understanding and leveraging key reliability metrics is essential.

The growing popularity of FinOps is creating an opportunity for you to level up your entire approach to IT financial and cost management by embracing FinOps as a foundational discipline that you apply to your entire technology estate. It’s not just about saving money — it’s about making smarter, data-driven decisions that fuel growth and innovation.

DevOps emphasizes continuous improvement, rapid delivery, and cost optimization. It does this by recommending several engineering best practices you can implement in your IT environments. DevOps also emphasizes automation to improve efficiency and engineering velocity in software delivery. In this guide, we will cover the importance of DevOps monitoring. This will include what to monitor and a list of some of the best monitoring tools for DevOps teams.

Splunk Observability Cloud includes powerful features which automatically identify patterns within your data to surface trends. The resulting insights tell you why some customers aren’t getting an optimal experience from your application, and how you can improve it. Unlocking these features requires attributes to be included with your application traces. But how do you know which attributes are the most valuable for your application and business?

Among the arsenal of tools available for monitoring and managing an organisation’s mission critical applications and service, New Relic is a popular choice for many users. In our article, we will delve into the world of New Relic Dashboards, shedding light on the best use cases that demonstrate their visualisation capabilities.

Navigating the cloud computing landscape often involves a delicate balancing act between leveraging available resources and managing costs. Amazon Web Services (AWS), a leader in cloud services, offers an enticing proposition through its Free Tier, especially with services like Amazon EC2 and RDS. These offerings present a unique opportunity for IT professionals to push the boundaries of cloud computing, but they also pose the challenges of staying within budgetary constraints.

While many segments of the IT market move quickly, the observability space seems to move at lightning speed. Fueled by open source innovation, observability toolsets and best practices constantly evolve. Sometimes, it can be tough to keep up — and even tougher to know where your own observability strategy stands. That’s the exact challenge we aim to address with our new Observability Journey Maturity Model.