Cribl Search is agnostic, allowing administrators to now query Snowflake datasets as they can dozens of other Lakes, Stores, Systems & Platforms. The data that IT and security teams rely on to monitor network operations continues to grow at a 28% CAGR, and it’s stressing many organizations’ ability to analyze all this data effectively. In fact, in some cases, less than 2% of it ever gets looked at.

“How is my app performing?” is one of the most common, yet hardest questions to answer. There are myriad ways to measure this, like error rate, average response time, and so on. Enter the Application Performance Index (aka Apdex), a single metric that attempts to answer, “Are my application’s users happy?” Apdex is an open standard that was formalized in 2005 by the Apdex Alliance.

GCP Cost Reporting is one of several tools provided by Google Cloud Console. The more you know about them, the more you’ll understand your Google Cloud bill. In addition, knowing the drivers behind your costs will help you reduce waste and maximize your GCP spend. This quick guide to GCP reporting tools will guide you on how to do it. We’ll also share how to get more detailed cost intelligence such as Cost per Customer or Cost per Feature on top of basics such as total and average costs.

Most enjoy the peace of mind cloud backups offer for all the damage the costs can do to their wallets. Microsoft Azure offers Azure Backup service to safely backup your data on Microsoft Azure cloud, allowing you to store Azure VMs and even on-premise machines and workloads. But Azure prices can be confusing, and Azure Backup is no different. To best understand how much you’re paying and why you’re paying that much, read on! Source: Azure.

The infrastructure must be “invisible” to the user, but visible to IT strategists to ensure the performance and service levels required by the business, where observability (as part of SRE or site reliability engineering) is essential to understand the internal state of a system based on its external results. For effective observability, there are four key pillars: metrics, events, logs, and traces, which are summarized in the acronym MELT.

ServiceNow is a popular IT service management platform that helps organizations track and manage enterprise-level IT processes, such as on-prem infrastructure management, customer support, and incident response. By using ServiceNow’s configuration management database (CMDB), organizations can easily centralize and manage information about all the IT objects they own in order to track and maintain them more efficiently.

As codebases mature, they grow in complexity. As time goes on, higher complexity increases the cost of changing and scaling a system. Scalability is an essential feature of enterprise software. End-to-end integration testing is not a very scalable process, especially when you are dealing with multiple systems.

Weigh up three popular ways to protect your data in transit—host level encryption (TLS/SSH), MACsec, and IPsec—to fortify your network security. Encryption in transit refers to protecting data while it moves from one place to another, in contrast to “encryption at rest” which is used to protect data where it is stored. In this blog we’ll look at a few common options for encryption in transit, and the pros and cons of each from a network perspective.

Stand-up meetings are a cornerstone for any engineering team. When done right, they can make a huge difference in keeping everyone on the same page, fostering collaboration, and building a strong team culture. However, getting them right can be a bit tricky. Drawing from our own experience of running engineering stand-ups at Zenduty, and insights from some of the best engineering managers in my network, I'd love to share some tips and insights on how to make your stand-ups effective.

Drowning in data from complex environments? Ditch the reactive approach. Artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) empowers proactive management with comprehensive observability. According to Gartner, IT spending will continue to mount sky-high despite the global economic instability; the IT expenditure is predicted to surge by 8.6% in 2024. Manual monitoring often fails to keep up with the complexity of modern IT environments, leaving critical issues undetected.