Both CNAME and ALIAS records share a common purpose: They map one or multiple domain names (such as those for different departments or regions) to a main target domain. However, their specific uses and functionality differ in various network scenarios. Network administrators need to understand these distinctions to leverage each record type effectively for robust network services. This blog will help you understand the differences between CNAME and ALIAS records and their applications.

Looking to optimize your VMware monitoring while keeping costs under control? The NiCE VMware Management Pack for Microsoft SCOM delivers enterprise-grade performance, unmatched scalability, and comprehensive monitoring capabilities. Designed for modern IT environments, this solution includes a rich array of pre-configured metrics and reports, empowering organizations to gain deeper insights into their VMware infrastructure.

Both CNAME and ALIAS records share a common purpose: They map one or multiple domain names (such as those for different departments or regions) to a main target domain. However, their specific uses and functionality differ in various network scenarios. Network administrators need to understand these distinctions to leverage each record type effectively for robust network services. This blog will help you understand the differences between CNAME and ALIAS records and their applications.

Today’s fast-paced development environments require new approaches to testing. Enter continuous performance testing. Unlike traditional performance testing, automated continuous performance testing is part of every build, monitoring the application continuously under increased load. With continuous performance tests, organizations with lots of users can expect to improve the customer experience, prevent major outages, and find and resolve issues faster.

Having previously compared the top 5 Datadog alternatives and the top 5 alternatives to Honeybadger, this time we'll compare Sentry against five competing application performance monitoring (APM) tools, so that you can find the best choice for you. We'll compare Sentry to AppSignal first, then Honeybadger, Datadog, New Relic, and Scout.

We're excited to announce a significant enhancement to Karpenter, an intelligent Kubernetes autoscaling solution that automatically optimizes your infrastructure costs and performance. Since integrating Karpenter six months ago, it has helped our users automatically provision the right AWS instances for their workloads.

In today’s multi-cloud landscape, maintaining smooth and reliable connectivity requires complete visibility into cloud networks. With Kentik, network and cloud engineers gain the tools to monitor, visualize, and optimize Azure traffic flows, from ExpressRoute circuits to application performance, ensuring efficient and proactive operations.

In this blog post, we’ll explore how to build a data pipeline using Kafka, Faust, and InfluxDB to effectively ingest, transform, and store data. We’ll start with an overview of Kafka, a high-performance messaging platform, and Faust, a Python library designed for stream processing, now maintained by the community as Faust-streaming.